… AND JAYSO SINGS

 From L-R (Sarkodie and JaySo)

 A couple of weeks ago, the second single of ‘The Mind Game’ (TMG) album, a collaborative work between rapper-producer JaySo and Sarkodie was released.  The two rap heavyweights solicited the vocals of the afro pop diva Efya on this new single “I’m In Love With Your Girlfriend’.

The song opens with JaySo disclosing to his girlfriend how much he appreciates her efforts at loving him, though he ‘can’t force himself to love you’. Unfortunately, his love interest is rather in his girl’s girlfriend as he sings ‘but your girlfriend, she makes my heart skip a beat, she just the one for me/ No other girl make me feel the way I do. That’s the way she makes me feel’.

Efya, in her emotion-stirring, stylish singing tells her ‘rival’ to look elsewhere for another guy for ‘he can’t force himself to love you/so find another guy who’ll go insane for you’. For ‘no other girl can make him feel the way I make him feel’.

Sarkodie used his verse to advice the ‘drama queen’ to move on, pin-pointing the loving gestures she had employed to win the guy’s heart-like buying him a pair of jeans on Val’s day and getting jealous seeing him kiss his girlfriend. In the end he admonishes her to shun those jealousy woes and move on because the guy belongs to someone else.

One remarkable feature about the song has to do with JaySo’s singing, which any first time listener might erroneously attribute to an artiste who has dabbled in singing all his life. It was simply beautiful, unforced, firm and transparent.

JaySo on singing strait

JaySo’s reputation lies with rapping. A true hip hop head. However, in recent times, he has drifted a bit towards singing. His first attempt at singing (publicly, though some of his close pals say he has been singing for eons) was evidenced after providing the hook to Sarkodie and Sway DaSafo’s “Lay Away’, a track he produced. JaySo was heard singing though in an auto-tuned voice.

Next was “Music’,a collaboration between him and fellow Skillions Record mate Adina Thembi. His vocal work could best be described as averagely ‘dope’. Other songs he has been on include Paapa's Carpe Diem and Solar, Rumor's Let Me know,So long and Lil' Shaker's First Love

However, on this new single ‘I’m In Love With Your Girlfriend’, he sounds matured, confident, stunning and classy. His singing, undoubtedly has improved exponentially. So infectiously gorgeous and ear-pleasing is his singing that a listener may be deluded into thinking, singing a cushy that anybody could indulge in.

So far, two lead singles-Pizza n Burger (which is a typical hip hop song) and I’m In Love With Your Girlfriend (which leans towards R&B with a dose of hip hop) have successfully provided another impetus to why lovers of music must pay attention to the TMG album when it drops.

For now, all we can do is enjoy them, especially ‘I’m In Love With Your Girlfriend’ whiles waiting on the third single. Perhaps JaySo may do a twi rap or sing a highlife tune.

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