{"id":118255,"date":"2023-01-18T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/?p=118255"},"modified":"2023-01-13T17:06:48","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T15:06:48","slug":"waahli-men-sou-yo-soap-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/waahli-men-sou-yo-soap-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Waahli takes us to Havana in his mini-film, “Men Sou Yo”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Riding the momentum of his latest album Soap Box<\/em>, the Canadian rapper Waahli releases a new video that brings to life the atmosphere of his concert in Cuba with the track “Men Sou Yo”. Premiere and interview.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Last October, Waahli finally released Soap Box<\/em>, his second album made during pandemic. “There were so many ups and downs, but in the middle there was <\/em>Soap Box,” says the artist who has so-far brought us feel-good tracks including “Bliy\u00e9-Sa” or the more political and dramatic ones like “Rad”. Eclectic and entertaining, Soap Box is an all-around album: “it includes Caribbean rap or bluesy swing, nostalgic and celebratory pieces, all sung in English, French and Haitian Creole.<\/em>” While finishing the album, Waahli accepted an invitation to the Havana World Music Festival to shoot the video for “Men Sou Yo,” a highly symbolic song of 2018, and his first in Haitian Creole. “This song is about my diasporic journey,<\/em>” he says. “I’m proud of my history and the things we’ve accomplished, like being the first black republic in the Americas to gain independence in 1804.<\/em>” Shooting this video on Cuban soil reinforces its meaning, as it is also a “tribute to the important presence of this Haitian community that migrated to eastern Cuba during the slave revolution.<\/em>“<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Directed by Montrealer Bruno Destombes, the video transports us to different moments of the journey; a magical moment on stage against the backdrop of a power outage, a gentle awakening in a hotel room, a sunny trip in a vintage cab, a relaxing moment with friends on the bus or a freestyle backstage\u2026 Everything follows in a coherent manner in a dynamic style. “By choosing to treat this song and capturing it in different forms,<\/em>” the director explains, “live at the festival, in rehearsal in the studio and in the way of a more classic music video, we let ourselves be carried and we find ourselves in different contexts where the music is the main character<\/em>.” With Waahli’s Creole rap as a common thread, we savor different slices of life of this fine team in a mini-film that is sufficiently rhythmic to “keep the spectator on the alert until the end<\/em>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soap Box<\/em> available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Waahli – Men Sou Yo (Official Short Film) ft. Sam I Am<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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