Growing up in Long Beach, Southern California, Muka listened mainly to hip hop. Being African American, she identified with that sound which made mega stars out of other \u2018Cali\u2019 acts who emerged from the \u2018hood\u2019, including rapper Snoop Dogg and producer Dr. Dre.<\/p>\n
A chance meeting with Jamaican deejay Dizzle JA resulted in \u2018Aye You\u2019,<\/em><\/strong> her first dancehall song.<\/p>\n \u201cI came across Dizzle JA at a pool party where I performed and instantly wanted to do a dancehall\/ hip hop song. I have limited knowledge on dancehall music, but I always admired dancehall music and Jamaican culture,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Produced by Copilot Records, \u2018Aye You\u2019 was released on August 1. While her knowledge of Jamaican culture was limited, Muka tuned in at times to Beenie Man, Buju Banton and Sean Paul.<\/p>\n Dizzle JA was also eager to step outside his comfort zone and record a song with the potential to reach the hip hop and dancehall communities.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s always good for dancehall artists to do collaborations with different genres, especially hip hop artists. This is also my first time doing a song with a female artist,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n From St. Thomas parish in eastern Jamaica, Dizzle JA was raised on dancehall music. For several years, he has been an integral part of the Los Angeles dancehall-reggae scene.<\/p>\n He has released a slew of albums including \u2018My Time Now\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, \u2018Benzion\u2019<\/em><\/strong> and \u2018Sex Tape\u2019<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Growing up in Long Beach, Southern California, Muka listened mainly to hip hop. Being African American, she identified with that sound which made mega stars out of other \u2018Cali\u2019 acts who emerged from the \u2018hood\u2019, including rapper Snoop Dogg and producer Dr. Dre. A chance meeting with Jamaican deejay Dizzle JA resulted in \u2018Aye You\u2019, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11166,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11165\/revisions\/11166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}