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Somebody say "Ting 4 D road". The words seem to be hanging from the lips of Soca listeners almost everywhere this Carnival season.

Funny 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, Mista Vybe said.

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