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WORD IS BORN. Just last Saturday, I single-handedly orchestrated, directed a 14-hour work day to story-drive Gambian Gateway - my first song, and at that, a collaborative with Hot-B Da Sufi, Egalitarian, Muhabits and producer Oumar Traore (Tra) of Xalam Studios. They, as my new favorite inspirator Krish Dhanam would have it, are enhancers, that promoted and allowed for my creative vision to turn tangible. Visual, at least. :)

T-MINUS TODAY [BUT REALLY TWO DAYS AGO]. December 10th is very special to me. Incredibly so. Today, I turn nineteen. Yes - it’s my birthday. Today, I leave The Gambia (for good!). And today, I premiere the Gambian Gateway music story video on GRTS, The Gambia’s one and only national television station. Featured on Africawn Mix and I’m stirring the pot. 

[After the fact] Premiered on GRTS (December 10th) right around 6pm and replaying Thursday, December 15th on the same channel at the same time.

Special thanks to Nday of GRTS of Africawn Mix for hosting me and Muhammed Bittaye (Muhabits) for everything and more! 

GAMBIAN GATEWAY (FT. HOT-B, EGALITARIAN, MUHABITS) 
XYZAY (PROD. BY TRA) INSPIRED BY K’NAAN’S STRUGGLIN’ 

IT’S SMALL, HOT, AND DRY. Welcome to The Gambia, the smiling coast of West Africa. This petite country is merely greater than half the size of New Jersey and triple digit degrees find both pre and post dominant exposures. Besides my fractionally blackened skin and signing and quitting of Samsung Gambia (I’ll get into this one later but soon, I promise), and teaching and documenting, I’ve invested serious time and think all for this coming Saturday. 

COMPLEXITY + SIMPLICITY = CREATIVITY. Jeff Kurtz can vouch for me when I exclaim that my quantitative abilities are eccentric but an equation I’ve been studying lately, rather determinatively, is - what is creativity? And creativity, it seems, comes down to one simple process and identity; the taking of anything, no matter how infinitely intricate, and finding and providing lee and way in projecting and sharing that in the simplest fashion possible. Only then is creativity realized and achieved. 

Listen: http://soundcloud.com/thexyzay/gambian-gateway

P.S. More to come: music video story in the works. 

P.P.S. Can you coordinate the XY? (See pic)