There’s been a great deal of talk about up-and-coming women in Jamaican music-Shenseea and HoodCelebrityy, to name only a couple-but this five-song EP indicates that Koffee can, like many of the singjays who made their mark in the late 1990s and early 2000s ( Sizzla, Capleton, Buju Banton), navigate between dancehall and reggae with ease. Koffee, who initially drew attention with an acoustic tribute to Usain Bolt, has a crisp delivery that moves back and forth between rapid-fire ragga grit and one drop conscious reggae, a style referred to as the portmanteau “singjay” (combining “singer” and “deejay,” the Jamaican term for MC). It’s the perfect tune to “lick back”-to pull back and rewind to the start-as is the practice of the mobile discotheque soundsystems on the island, building the anticipation for the beat to drop. The opening strains of the ultra-infectious “Toast,” the first single from Jamaican teenage upstart Mikayla “ Koffee” Simpson, demand a repeat.
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