{"id":10197,"date":"2019-10-01T15:33:20","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T22:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10197"},"modified":"2023-01-27T14:53:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T21:53:03","slug":"koffee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/10\/01\/koffee\/","title":{"rendered":"Koffee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/recommends\/listen\/orville-peck-the-masked-man-our-yee-haw-moment-deserves\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"from The New Yorker (opens in a new tab)\">from The New Yorker<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/contributors\/doreen-st-felix\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Doreen St. F\u00e9lix<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Original Koffee - Rapture (Remix) [Official Video] ft. Govana\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9cm8duEzi3A?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Songs of the summer should be crowned not in the giddiness of July but in the waning days of September, once the hot season has finished its business. A rearview perspective suggests that \u201cToast,\u201d by the nineteen-year-old \u201csingjay\u201d Koffee, and produced by Walshy Fire, of Major Lazer, and IzyBeats, ruled this season. It was a mellow, cheery reign. At parties, I would watch eyebrows slacken and shoulders relax as the opening notes bounced into the room. \u201cWe haffi give thanks like we really supposed to,\u201d Koffee advises nimbly; the song, about choosing optimism and practicing gratitude, is itself something to be thankful for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cToasting\u201d also refers to a kind of vocal work\u2014not quite singing, more like charismatic chanting over a beat, or \u201criddim\u201d\u2014that is deeply associated with mid-century Jamaican music. Koffee was born Mikayla Simpson and was raised in Spanish Town, outside of Kingston, Jamaica. She sang in the church choir, played guitar, and won a school talent show that she\u2019d entered somewhat unwittingly. In 2017, an acoustic-guitar performance of a song called \u201cLegend,\u201d which she had written in honor of the Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt, went viral after Bolt reposted the video on Instagram. Alongside artists like Protoje and Chronixx, Koffee has emerged as a modernizer of the roots-reggae philosophy practiced by artists such as Beres Hammond, Peter Tosh, and Bob Marley. On her EP \u201cRapture,\u201d her sound seamlessly blends reggae and dancehall, socially conscious messaging and free-spirit liveliness. On the track \u201cRaggamuffin,\u201d with liquid agility, she offers a critique of the Jamaican government. On \u201cThrone,\u201d she praises her own song-writing prowess: \u201cLyrics put your very welfare \/ Pon the death row, pon the wet floor.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cToast\u201d was an explosive d\u00e9but single. Earlier this year, Koffee won a prize for single of the year at the Jamaica Music Industry Association\u2019s annual awards ceremony and performed on \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live!\u201d; it\u2019s been rumored that she was courted by Rihanna to write on her upcoming reggae album. To understand both the history and the future of Jamaican music, listen to Koffee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/recommends\/listen\/orville-peck-the-masked-man-our-yee-haw-moment-deserves\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"click to continue reading at The New Yorker (opens in a new tab)\">click to continue reading at The New Yorker<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The New Yorker By\u00a0Doreen St. F\u00e9lix Songs of the summer should be crowned not in the giddiness of July but in the waning days of September, once the hot season has finished its business. A rearview perspective suggests that \u201cToast,\u201d by the nineteen-year-old \u201csingjay\u201d Koffee, and produced by Walshy Fire, of Major Lazer, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}