Dumi RIGHT, first known for being half of the early nineties rap duo Zimbabwe Legit and more recently active with his group OUO, is about to drop his solo album ‘Connect the dots’ this spring. The first single ‘Are you ready for this’, produced by Young Cee, was launched a few days ago. The video was shot in Washington (USA) and Harare (Zimbabwe).<\/p>\n
Dumi explains to us about the process of recording the song and video: “The whole way the track came about is crazy. I met Outspoken at a party that Magee (Nomadic Wax, ed.) was hosting at his crib in the US some years back. It was a classic moment because he was there with his crew and band; Wageble from Senegal was there as well as Omar from Syria and so I walked in to an international cipher in progress. We all vibed and freestyled for close to an hour before actually being introduced formally to each other.<\/p>\n
Fast forward to when I began work on my solo album, I really wanted to get Outspoken on a track. He was back in Zimbabwe and so we exchanged thoughts and I told him the concept and hook over email and sent him the beat, etc. I actually wrote 2 hooks, the one on the track and a different one. When I heard what he did with this one, “Somebody, anybody are you ready for this…” it was a lock. Anyway he laced his fiery verse and sent over the audio files and a ref and all that.<\/p>\n
Then I got my homeboy MC Pep (from O.U.O) on it. Heads might not know but Pep is the Original Zimbabwe Hip Hop pioneer and one of the first people I ever heard rap on national radio in Zimbabwe. He actually brought me onto the scene and I wrote my first actual song with him at his crib back in the day. So once all the verses were laced I sent it to the super engineer St Mic to EQ and mix. Oh yeah, Young Cee from Connecticut did the sick track we rocked over.<\/p>\n