“Sweet reggae music, can’t refuse it.” Those are words spoken by recording artist Tommie Tei at the beginning of his tune, Dynamite. The song, which was first shared as a stand alone single last summer, is now featured on the recently released rhythm-driven compilation with the same name.
Produced by British music creative Ede Conscious, Tommie Tei‘s Dynamite has been getting great reviews, so much so that it became necessary to do a video. As such, the official music video was shot, edited, and uploaded to Tommie Tei‘s YouTube channel last month.
When asked what inspired the captivating reggae song, Tommie Tei said the following: so Ede Conscious reach out to me and say Tommie Tei I have a project and I would like you to be on it, what do you think? And I said to him ye man no problem, willing fi work. And I said send me the beat, and den him send me the beat, and from me hear the beat is just one thing come to me mind is like it a give me a vibe weh just give me a different kind a energy, a vibe weh from me hear it me a say no man da riddim ya bad. You know. By saying that to myself, da riddim ya bad, is like the concept just come to me, and from the concept then me start pree the melody, and then the melody come, and then the lyrics just start flow after.
So ye man is just about Ede Conscious just reach out and yu know send me the riddim and from me hear the riddim da vibe ya just hit, just lick me and me just say no man me affi work pan this me affi find something fi dis. And me couldn’t think of nothing else no other melody no other concept. And yu know a just it that, so Dynamite! ye man.
Dynamite is currently streaming in over fifty countries. It, along with all the other songs on the Dynamite Riddim, is available on iTunes, Deezer, Tidal, Spotify, Amazon, Apple Music, etc.
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