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00:00 (upbeat music)
00:02 - Well, it's intermission time here at Kaiso House
00:15 at the Queen's Park Savannah.
00:16 It's the flagship Calypso tent of Tuko.
00:19 And we've had quite a number of performances
00:21 in the first half.
00:22 We've had some legends and some former Calypso monarchs.
00:26 Now let's take you center stage for those performances.
00:30 (upbeat music)
00:32 ♪ This is cutting time ♪
00:40 ♪ We present a new act ♪
00:42 ♪ The new generation ♪
00:45 ♪ It's time them old folks resent ♪
00:47 ♪ Their performance was bad ♪
00:49 ♪ So dig my quotation ♪
00:52 ♪ Now the time has come ♪
00:53 ♪ To turn your new page ♪
00:56 ♪ In the book of life ♪
00:57 ♪ To your core message ♪
00:59 ♪ But before you young people ♪
01:01 ♪ Take over display ♪
01:03 ♪ Take these tips and hear ♪
01:05 ♪ What I have to say ♪
01:07 ♪ Never play the part of creating monsters ♪
01:11 ♪ Tell them to leave that script on the shelf ♪
01:15 ♪ Don't feature yourselves in the role of horrors ♪
01:18 ♪ Don't let nobody use you to destroy your own self ♪
01:22 ♪ Brothers and sisters in this role of ♪
01:25 ♪ This role I say ♪
01:26 ♪ You must be aware of your role in life ♪
01:30 ♪ In this political world of confusion and strife ♪
01:34 ♪ You must be aware of your role in life ♪
01:39 (upbeat music)
01:42 ♪ This is a challenge world ♪
01:57 ♪ So the gap cannot be bridged ♪
01:59 ♪ Between the young and cool ♪
02:02 ♪ It is the era of the grassroots ♪
02:05 ♪ And the emphasis today lies completely on the youth ♪
02:09 ♪ The Prime Minister of England is an example ♪
02:13 ♪ We have plenty more youths who are capable ♪
02:16 ♪ So this time all world powers ♪
02:18 ♪ Should give the youths a chance ♪
02:20 ♪ Because it's they who would have ♪
02:23 ♪ This audience entranced ♪
02:26 ♪ Nothing wrong with a little more meat on the bone ♪
02:29 ♪ Nothing wrong with a little more meat ♪
02:31 ♪ Hey ♪
02:31 ♪ Nothing wrong with a little more meat on the bone ♪
02:34 ♪ Nothing wrong with a little more meat ♪
02:35 ♪ Hey ♪
02:36 ♪ Nothing wrong with a little more meat on the bone ♪
02:38 ♪ Nothing wrong with a little more meat ♪
02:40 ♪ Nothing wrong with a little bit more meat ♪
02:43 ♪ Nothing wrong with a little more meat ♪
02:46 ♪ Things may look shaky ♪
02:48 ♪ Man still ask me not to eat ♪
02:50 ♪ Oh yeah ♪
02:50 ♪ Just to put food on the table ♪
02:52 ♪ To make sure I get it straight, lad ♪
02:55 ♪ The price of goods outside cost me ♪
02:57 ♪ Take on a mind and ♪
03:00 ♪ Find a woman to satisfy me appetite ♪
03:03 ♪ So it packs a good for me ♪
03:06 ♪ I will eat the food ♪
03:08 ♪ And if there's trouble for me ♪
03:10 ♪ I will eat the food ♪
03:13 ♪ And if not, it go for me ♪
03:15 ♪ I'll eat the thing twice ♪
03:17 ♪ I know it's plenty gravy ♪
03:18 ♪ And of course the food looking nice ♪
03:21 ♪ Watch out with some men calling ♪
03:22 ♪ More meat than rice ♪
03:23 ♪ More meat than rice ♪
03:24 ♪ More meat than rice ♪
03:26 ♪ More meat than rice ♪
03:27 ♪ More meat than rice ♪
03:28 ♪ More meat than rice ♪
03:29 ♪ And everything looking nice ♪
03:31 ♪ I tell you more meat than rice ♪
03:34 ♪ More meat than rice ♪
03:36 ♪ More meat than rice ♪
03:38 ♪ And everything will be nice ♪
03:40 ♪ Once you put more meat on the plate ♪
03:45 ♪ I go pull my plate ♪
03:47 ♪ Once it looking good I must get a taste ♪
03:50 ♪ Once you put more meat on the plate ♪
03:54 ♪ Darling I can't wait ♪
03:56 ♪ Once it looking good I must get a taste ♪
03:59 ♪ Yo ♪
04:00 ♪ Five maximum ♪
04:02 ♪ Four people going ♪
04:03 ♪ If you like everything we one by one ♪
04:06 ♪ Two by two to two by two ♪
04:08 ♪ The more we have to the table they keep ♪
04:10 ♪ Taking away more and more ♪
04:12 ♪ 99% some for real ♪
04:15 ♪ And they say a little for sure ♪
04:17 ♪ 'Cause the 1% controlling ♪
04:19 ♪ 100% of the life's at the core ♪
04:21 ♪ Why ♪
04:22 ♪ It's not enough ♪
04:24 ♪ It's not enough ♪
04:25 ♪ It's not enough ♪
04:26 ♪ It's not enough ♪
04:27 ♪ It's not enough ♪
04:28 ♪ It's not enough ♪
04:28 ♪ It's not enough ♪
04:29 ♪ Every month ♪
04:31 ♪ It should take a four from my room and to town ♪
04:34 ♪ It's not enough ♪
04:35 ♪ You know I tell you it's almost two of us alone ♪
04:40 - All right, so I'm here with Co-manager,
04:42 I think that's his title now.
04:43 Of course you know him as Chop Gordon,
04:45 Roderick Chop Gordon, former Calypso monarch.
04:48 We're here at Kaiso House.
04:50 I mean, it's such an interesting year for Calypso.
04:53 Tell us about that on your new role.
04:55 - Yeah, interesting in the sense of the title,
04:58 or the theme of the Calypso season, as Tuko has coined it,
05:03 the revolution of Calypso.
05:05 And that is particularly important
05:07 in the context of where we're coming from.
05:10 Calypso-ians, I think, in terms of the entertainment sector,
05:13 they would have been most affected coming out of COVID.
05:16 I mean, the so-called decently would have been able
05:18 to travel, but you know, Calypso,
05:20 being the least ascribed to,
05:22 gets the least play in terms of performances.
05:25 So this year is particularly important
05:27 in terms of trying our best to transform Calypso
05:30 by bringing a lot of production value.
05:32 You know, so in a nutshell,
05:35 the revolution and the concept behind revolution
05:37 is important because Calypso really has to try
05:40 and find its peace again.
05:42 Its place and its peace.
05:44 - And I saw that, you know,
05:45 we had lots of production tonight.
05:47 We even had some tributes.
05:49 I mean, this house, you know,
05:51 we had brother, he's done singing Sanchez,
05:53 those who have been left out.
05:54 - Explainer. - Explainer.
05:55 I mean- - We have Ruthman
05:56 on the wall, Shadow.
05:58 - You are taking on this heavy mantle,
06:00 and at the same time, we have legends
06:02 who are still living like brothers.
06:04 Valentino, Brown Boy. - You know that Brown Boy.
06:06 - Exactly. - Some still to come.
06:08 - Yes, yes, yes.
06:10 - Yeah, and it's important always
06:12 to focus on the transition
06:16 because, I mean, the concept or the idea
06:20 that Calypso is dying has to always be placed
06:23 in the context of where we're coming from
06:25 because it's important to rekindle that spirit.
06:27 And in an effort to rekindle that spirit,
06:29 we have to hold on to what some of the greats have done.
06:32 How they have done it.
06:33 Remember them.
06:34 Hold on to their memory and hold them up
06:38 and place them on a pedestal.
06:39 And that is part of the work of this tent in particular
06:43 because we have had a lot of greats pass on recently
06:46 and we still have some of them with us.
06:48 So it's important to honor their memory
06:49 and their legacy as much as possible
06:52 because they provide us with a context
06:54 in which to work with.
06:56 And that is the basis in which we can move forward.
07:00 - So we have a lot more performances
07:01 to show you from Kaiser House.
07:03 They say it's the greatest Calypso tent.
07:06 - It is!
07:06 Undoubtedly.
07:08 - Right.
07:09 - What's your take on it?
07:10 - Well, you see, I have to be unbiased.
07:12 I am a journalist.
07:13 - You don't have to be.
07:14 - I am unbiased and we have more right after this.
07:17 Coming up for you.
07:18 (laughing)
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07:37 - Welcome to Kaiser House.
07:40 If you tell James to climb the wall
07:44 and he slip and he had a fall,
07:46 everybody go say, "You have goat mouth."
07:50 Sing it.
07:50 ♪ Goat mouth ♪
07:53 ♪ Don't pick me lines, Madam Mildred ♪
07:55 ♪ In three weeks time me line triggered ♪
07:57 ♪ Everybody go say, "You have goat mouth" ♪
08:01 Sing it.
08:02 ♪ Goat mouth ♪
08:05 ♪ But don't ever believe it's always so ♪
08:09 ♪ Top guns in the background pulling a string ♪
08:14 ♪ Look around, there's evidence to show ♪
08:18 ♪ They say, "Thief and all the spikes of the ting" ♪
08:23 ♪ A man get touch, easy, easy ♪
08:25 ♪ And Messi would get a penalty ♪
08:28 ♪ The ting flicks ♪
08:30 ♪ The whole ting flicks ♪
08:32 ♪ For months they say, "This is one cup" ♪
08:34 ♪ And they want to see Messi leave on top ♪
08:37 ♪ Ting flicks ♪
08:39 ♪ The whole ting flicks ♪
08:41 ♪ You don't have to be a prophet ♪
08:43 ♪ Or live in the twilight zone ♪
08:46 ♪ Something's already cast in stone ♪
08:50 ♪ So you could boil it, steam it, swizzle it, soak it ♪
08:52 ♪ Saute it and then mix ♪
08:54 ♪ Take it from me ♪
08:55 ♪ Ting flicks ♪
08:57 ♪ The whole ting flicks ♪
09:02 ♪ Guys, so ♪
09:04 ♪ We have a new police commissioner, you know that ♪
09:08 ♪ If you say Gary won't prevail ♪
09:10 ♪ And the application come to fail ♪
09:13 ♪ Everybody go say, "You have goat mouth" ♪
09:16 ♪ Sing it ♪
09:17 ♪ Goat mouth ♪
09:19 ♪ And we PM would be insane ♪
09:21 ♪ If he make that mistake again ♪
09:24 ♪ Everybody go say, "You have goat mouth" ♪
09:28 ♪ Goat mouth ♪
09:31 ♪ But I believe that Gary applied for fun ♪
09:35 ♪ And just want a chance to add to the names ♪
09:39 ♪ Because we all know he have a party to run ♪
09:44 ♪ So all could come to Gary playing games ♪
09:49 ♪ Police, PSA, fire, prison ♪
09:51 ♪ All them march for the same reason ♪
09:54 ♪ The ting flicks ♪
09:56 ♪ The whole ting flicks ♪
09:58 ♪ If you see them march and them go mad wild ♪
10:00 ♪ All of them sign on the dotted line, you know that ♪
10:03 ♪ The ting flicks ♪
10:05 ♪ The whole ting flicks ♪
10:10 ♪ Bam, bam, ba-dee ♪
10:14 ♪ Ba-dee ♪
10:18 ♪ I sat down and I start to study ♪
10:21 ♪ My mind drifted away ♪
10:24 ♪ Thinking about the Calypso legends ♪
10:27 ♪ Who are not here today ♪
10:30 ♪ So many great men and women ♪
10:33 ♪ Who left their musical mark ♪
10:36 ♪ And through their contributions in our life ♪
10:39 ♪ Delivered a spark ♪
10:42 ♪ I know if these greats was still around ♪
10:47 ♪ They will still enchant us with beautiful songs ♪
10:53 ♪ I thought about the Grandmaster ♪
10:56 ♪ The ultimate road match king ♪
10:59 ♪ And what it would be like if Kitsch was here to sing ♪
11:04 ♪ If Kitsch was here ♪
11:06 ♪ He will cause real trouble in Arima ♪
11:09 ♪ He will say ♪
11:10 ♪ He will do the ting that the doctor ordered ♪
11:14 ♪ And if Kitsch was here ♪
11:18 ♪ He will have me drilling my rhino-rama ♪
11:20 ♪ He and Sugar Bum-Bum or Trico-Tingo ♪
11:23 ♪ Lead to the beast melody ♪
11:26 ♪ Then he will say London is the place for me ♪
11:31 ♪ I climb the Mount Olga to make love in the cemetery ♪
11:38 ♪ Immortal music ♪
11:41 ♪ Immortal sounds ♪
11:44 ♪ The music of Lord Kitsch and I will always live on ♪
11:49 ♪ Ba-ba-dee ♪
11:55 ♪ Ooh, my young ♪
12:00 ♪ I've been starving through this desert ♪
12:07 ♪ I've been starving through this desert ♪
12:12 ♪ For two years ♪
12:14 ♪ For two years ♪
12:16 ♪ I've been searching like a hermit ♪
12:20 ♪ Saying prayers ♪
12:22 ♪ Saying prayers ♪
12:24 ♪ Conscious like Moses ♪
12:27 ♪ Lost and hungry ♪
12:28 ♪ Been rocked by disease ♪
12:31 ♪ Frozen country ♪
12:32 ♪ Me body aching ♪
12:34 ♪ Me bones stay breaking ♪
12:36 ♪ Me two knees shaking ♪
12:39 ♪ All I have is ♪
12:40 ♪ This can't be a marriage ♪
12:43 ♪ Oh, this is ♪
12:44 ♪ Lord, I need a recharge ♪
12:47 ♪ Oh, this is ♪
12:48 ♪ Been running on empty ♪
12:50 ♪ So long I've been thirsty ♪
12:52 ♪ The vaccines can cure me ♪
12:54 ♪ Let me say ♪
12:55 ♪ Once he read him with me ♪
12:58 ♪ Oh, this is ♪
12:59 ♪ No problem can fret me ♪
13:02 ♪ Oh, this is ♪
13:03 Can't wait any longer, got to quench this hunger.
13:07 Just a drip of water.
13:09 (Drip by myself.)
13:11 I'm splashing the water.
13:13 Every son and daughter.
13:15 Caiso and soccer.
13:17 Oh bish, oh yes, yes.
13:19 Been through the Sahara, so now the Savannah.
13:23 Bout to cure this fever.
13:25 (Oh yes, yes. Oh yeah, oh yeah.)
13:28 Oh yeah. (Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah.)
13:32 Oh bish, oh yes, yes.
13:34 (Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yes, yes.)
13:41 I've been craving this excitement for two years.
13:46 (Oh yeah, oh yeah.)
13:47 For two years.
13:48 (Oh yeah, oh yeah.)
13:49 Like a nun inside a convent.
13:53 Saying prance.
13:54 (Oh yeah, oh yeah.)
13:55 Saying prance.
13:56 (Oh yeah, oh yeah.)
13:57 All through the pandemic.
14:00 (Lost and hungry.)
14:01 Locked in till I see sick.
14:04 (Provocative.)
14:05 A catch can be fever.
14:07 What's no pan or soaker.
14:09 Good to take the pressure.
14:12 (Follow say we.)
14:13 This can be a mirage.
14:15 (Oh yes, yes.)
14:16 Lord, I need a recharge.
14:19 So I'm here with Sister Ava.
14:21 She opened Caiso House this evening.
14:24 No stranger to Calypso and always bringing a powerful, a spiritual message.
14:29 Sister Ava, how are you this evening?
14:31 I am fine, thank you.
14:32 I just want to greet the viewers and greet you and everyone, you know, in the name of the Most High.
14:38 Tell us about this evening's performance.
14:40 Tell us about the season.
14:42 Tell us about your song.
14:43 Well, the song itself, it was inspired by, you know, people will say something positive always inspire them.
14:52 Well, this was something negative that inspired me to do this.
14:57 After a while with all the crime, I realized we had to, as artists, we have the control to bring that message and that message will stay.
15:08 So I decided to pen this song to bring the power of love, unity, harmony, because like I said, no politician could do it.
15:18 No religion could do it.
15:21 And religion is what divided us.
15:23 Politics divide us too.
15:25 But we together, we can come together and bring that power of love.
15:29 Once you bring the power of love, everything will fall into place.
15:33 So that's how the song came about.
15:35 The rest was magic.
15:36 The rest was just the power of the ancestors putting the words together.
15:40 Now we know Calypso can be a very competitive industry.
15:45 Is that on your mind at all when you're performing?
15:48 Or are you just doing this because of your love for it or you have that competitive side that we just have?
15:55 What is your perspective?
15:56 Well, actually, I am a Rhapsonian in the Calypso house.
16:01 Right.
16:02 So we have rules.
16:03 We don't compete.
16:05 Every time we stand on a stage, we have to bring our message.
16:09 Rhapso is the voice of the people in the heart of the struggle.
16:14 So we have to bring that message all the time.
16:17 People look out for that and it's not much of us.
16:21 So, you know, using the forum to come forward, you know, it's not much of a competition.
16:30 Yes, it's to bring the love, but more than that, it's to bring that message.
16:35 It's all about the message.
16:37 We're still at Calypso house chatting with Sister Ava and there is much more coming up on Carnival One Stop.
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17:09 Well, of course, they don't call it Queen's Park, Savannah, the Mecca of Carnival for nothing, right?
17:14 We were across at Calypso house, now we're here at Soca for Her.
17:17 There are lots of performances lined up on the cast, so don't go anywhere.
17:22 The performances start now.
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18:42 It's been so amazing to be back out and doing what we love to do.
18:46 But how do you do it all? You have all these sets, you have collaborations, you have your own events.
18:50 Where do you get the time to do all of this?
18:52 Motivated by myself. You know, I have a daughter and I try to be her motivation and I try to be better than who I was every year.
19:03 You know, I stay hungry, I'm always working. Carnival is going on now and I'm recording for 2024, so I don't stop.
19:10 So of course you have a roadmatch contender this year, a collaboration with Marshall. How did that come about this year?
19:17 We had the song for a year and a half going into COVID and we decided that this year would be amazing.
19:24 You know, we have been, Banadier have been since 2006. So to come back and reunite in 2023 is amazing.
19:32 Because he has taught me so much, I've learned from him. I left and I went on my own and I'm able to stand up on my own two feet and reunite with my teacher. It's amazing.
19:44 And of course you've had some success even last year was one of your biggest years. We had Drink Water, you had a collaboration with Nicki Minaj.
19:51 Tell us about that. How did that impact your career?
19:55 First of all, Drink Water has been amazing. It's been global and it's an opportunity for soca music to be seen globally.
20:03 So I feel honored to know that I'm one of the soca artists to do that. But when I got the DM, I got a message from Nicki Minaj and I thought somebody was scamming my phone.
20:13 When I saw the message, she told me, "Hey, I need you to do a verse and you have three days." And I did it in a day.
20:19 I was so excited. I feel so honored. Just to even be on a record with Nicki Minaj is good.
20:27 We are here with the one and only Nyla. Hi, how are you? I'm great, thank you. You're having a fantastic season. Tell us about your music.
20:39 Indeed, it's been amazing since the first of January. Carnival started and it's just been a non-stop pace. I've done about five or six songs for the season.
20:52 They're all doing very well, especially my collaboration with Skinny Fabulous called "Come Home." That's one for the people.
21:00 I think we all love that one. How did that collaboration come about?
21:04 I was working on songs for my album and I started doing this song "Come Home" and I thought it was so eclectic.
21:11 But I didn't realize that I had the aggression to carry this song. I was thinking who could really bring that vibe.
21:18 Skinny and I had worked together before and I thought he would be perfect for it. We never released this song so I was like, "This is an opportunity to do our first collab."
21:27 I said yes and he fell in love and the rest is history.
21:31 How are you feeling about all of this road march? First Saturday since 10am.
21:36 I feel great. I feel honored. It was never my plan but I'm just happy people feel this song like that.
21:44 Their response has been overwhelmingly amazing. I want to say thank you to everybody. We're going for the road. Come on!
21:52 You're here with the one and only Skinny Fabulous. How does it feel to be back here for Carnival?
21:57 It's a good feeling. As you know, it's been two and a half years. In this capacity, it's very refreshing.
22:07 It's good to see that people are coming out and actually appreciating it. We just take it for granted that it will always be here.
22:14 I think this is one of the years that people legitimately have a solid appreciation for the culture.
22:21 You have a new album out, you have music out, you have a collaboration with Lila. We're getting great feedback.
22:28 What has been your response? How are you feeling?
22:31 In terms of the season and the songs, I was pleasantly surprised at the reception of the album.
22:40 We ended up placing or securing the number one spot on iTunes for some time.
22:45 That was quite an accomplishment that we didn't actually expect. We just wanted to put our body of work and put it out there.
22:52 And then for this collab to come home, obviously we never intended it to be a contender or even recorded it in any competitive spirit.
23:04 It was just homage to Carnival. It was just like our little love letter to the culture.
23:09 It resonated with people. We're now at a stage where Carnival and this song are merging together as one kind of energy.
23:20 You probably may have a road match kind of vibe with you because you had one some years ago and now we're hearing a buzz again this year.
23:28 What is it that you're feeling?
23:30 I strike it with the family and then I almost strike it with the culture.
23:37 And then we might strike it or almost strike it. It's always an honor to be a part of the conversation.
23:45 Because sometimes it's not about winning, it's about being in the conversation.
23:50 Thank you so much Skinny Fabulous. Talk of her, we'll be right back.
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26:55 We are at the 360 photo booth run by Roger Lewis. Look into my eyes. Everyone knows he must look into my eyes.
27:02 We run a 360 photo booth for him. He usually does images and we do a 360 photo booth at events. You can book him.
27:09 You can get the contact number from him if you want. No problem. And this is how it basically works.
27:15 Well I think I'm interested viewers. I'm going to check it out right now.
27:19 4, 3, 2, 1. Let's go.
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27:32 I hope I'm doing this correctly. I hope I'm doing this correctly.
27:40 This is how we wrap this week's episode of Carnival One Stop and we hope you join us next week for our season finale.
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