{"id":5748,"date":"2023-03-31T15:01:11","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T15:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=5748"},"modified":"2023-03-31T15:01:26","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T15:01:26","slug":"rapping-with-wingy-danejah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=5748","title":{"rendered":"Rapping with Wingy Danejah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While he was raised on a diet of dancehall music in Jamaica, Wingy Danejah also had an appreciation for hip hop. On <strong><em>\u2018Get to Know You\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, he combines both genres with Latin singer Angie Rose and American rapper Kieran the Light.<\/p>\n<p>Produced by Ayekplaydat, the song has a 1980s dancehall\/hip hop feel, but the message is straight gospel, a sound the Florida-based artist has embraced since the early 1990s.\u00a0 \u201cMy music is different. I do a lot of singjaying, I don\u2019t want it to be too hardcore. I use real-life situations when I am writing to impact lives,\u201d Wingy Danejah explained.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u2018Get to Know You\u2019<\/em><\/strong> was released in late 2022. It capped a successful year for Wingy Danejah who scored hit singles with <strong><em>\u2018Birthday\u2019<\/em><\/strong> (Remix) with American singer V Rose and \u2018Hallelujah\u2019, a collaboration with George Nooks.<\/p>\n<p>While he has achieved much in the US, Wingy Danejah admits similar recognition is not forthcoming in his homeland.\u00a0 \u201cMy own people don\u2019t even support me, especially in Jamaica. When you talk about reggae-gospel on a Jamaican level, I feel I should be in the Top Five. But yet you don\u2019t hear my music in Jamaica, you don\u2019t see me on any shows in Jamaica, but why is that?\u201d he asked. \u201cThere is a lot I want to say but God is using me as that cornerstone that the builders refuse and making me one of the head cornerstones for the Kingdom.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While he was raised on a diet of dancehall music in Jamaica, Wingy Danejah also had an appreciation for hip hop. On \u2018Get to Know You\u2019, he combines both genres with Latin singer Angie Rose and American rapper Kieran the Light. Produced by Ayekplaydat, the song has a 1980s dancehall\/hip hop feel, but the message [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5748","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\/5748","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=5748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5749,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5748\/revisions\/5749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}