News: Look out! D Vybe is taking Hold!

Somebody say ting for d road …The words seem to be hanging from the lips of Soca listeners everywhere this Carnival season.

Funnily enough, it's been hanging around in the mind of the tune's writer, Patrick "Mista Vybe" Gordon, for over a year

" A friend of mine in St. Lucia plays with a very popular band there and he sent me a message to check out a video tape of his band backing an artist from St. Lucia called Ninja Kat. In the middle of his performance he did this ad-lib that went 'Ting, ting, ta-ting-ting-ting...' the exact beginning of 'Ting 4 D Road'. As soon as I heard that the basic idea for the song came to me and I told my friend from the band in St. Lucia 'tell Ninja Kat I said thanks for the tune!' After that I spent a while finding a way to use the word 'ting' in a witty manner to keep the song fun. It occurred to me that in addition to the fact that 'ting' was what Trinis use as the sound of the iron in a rhythm section and also that we use the phrase 'and ting' a lot. So I just combined it all together to make one big carnival song. Then I went to the producer Julian "Julio" Nelson and he saw where I wanted the music to go and took it there for me," explained the multi-faceted performer.

Mista Vybe has a good outlook for the year.

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