Blowin’ Up: Joy Denalane

Joy Denalane- Was auch Immer

Joy Denalane Ft. Lupe Fiasco-Change

Okay if yall don’t know about Joy Denalane peep some of the older posts on international hip hop. She got profiled on there. Let’s see, I found about Joy back in August ‘06′ on Okayplayer(props to Okayplayer) I heard some tracks off the then unfamiliar to me artist. I was like ‘damn, she can sing’ then I left it alone…fast forward about 6 months. One of my homegirls had posted something about Joy on her myspace page. I was like oh! Yeah, lemme check her out again. I ain’t gonna lie, I did a quick search, found the album Born and Raised and it changed my outlook!! I burned it to a CD and had the joint playing in my car straight for about 3 months, plus it was on my MP3 player. I took it another step further and downloaded her German live album ‘Mamani Live’ played that out as well! I don’t even speak German!!
Question here is of course Why hasn’t she blown up? Artists make there way across the Atlantic Ocean on numerous occasions. What’s up! Since copping Born and Raised, Mamani Live and paying for the original Mamani album(yes a German language CD, I dropped money on) I’ve been telling absolutely everybody about her. Like ‘Yo check this out’(pun intended) I let them hear the album and honestly everybody has said the same thing. ‘She’s nice, why isn’t she out over here?’
I know Q-tip explained it so eloquently saying ‘Rule # 4080…Record company people shady’ but are you serious, if you haven’t peeped the two videos yet, please do. I’m quite sure there are plans for her to make moves over here but when she does people are going to be a little disappointed as to why they are just hearing about her.
She can definitely do well over here, first because she can sing and second she’s ‘different’ her background will instantly draw people in. Most people don’t care where you’re from especially on the R&B tip as long as you can put out quality music. After finally coming down from European high consisting of Germany as well as France, one, there are artists, clothes, even food us Americans are missing out on and second, what we do over here is big and prevelant over there! You just don’t know how big hip hop/R&B/Soul/Reggae is until see it’s impact in a foreign country. I hope Joy Denalane’s music will reach the American people soon because she is too talented for our country to miss out on completely.