00:00It's an exclamation, literally.
00:21To be honest, yeah, it's not that word is not from any language.
00:25It's my language.
00:26I was freestyling and I came up with it and I thought it sounded great.
00:30But it's an exclamation.
00:32It's like when you say OMG or when you say, you know what I mean?
00:37Like when you say damn or when you say wow or something like that.
00:57It's so crazy because they probably don't understand what the Igbo means.
01:02It's a Southeastern Nigerian language called Igbo.
01:05It's the tribe I'm from and it means small love, literally.
01:09But it also means in context, when you see like
01:16a couple, like love between a couple and it like
01:20the way it just makes you feel like the way it just looks good on them.
01:23The love looks good on them.
01:25It's also called Love Wanted Tea.
01:30I would say Love Wanted Tea has a foundation in some highlight,
01:35but it's just that with me, my approach to it,
01:38it's basically guitar music that was created in like
01:42the earlier parts of the 20th century, like the 40s, 50s.
01:47And they fused jazz with Hawaii.
01:51It was like a mixture of Hawaiian jazz and
01:54a little bit of Spanish jazz.
01:56And they put African rhythms on it.
01:58And that became High Life.
01:59A young DJ from Mauritius Island, his name is DJ Yo.
02:03He remixed the acoustic version of the song.
02:06He put drums on it and uploaded it.
02:09It's so crazy because we didn't even know about the release.
02:12It was an illegal upload.
02:14We found out about it when it got to the top 50 of the global Shazam charts.
02:20So my team had to reach out and kind of reclaim the song and everything.
02:25And it's so crazy because the day we claimed the song,
02:27the next day it was number one on Shazam.
02:35Different people started making all types of challenges with that song.
02:39Some people were using it for memes, some people were using it to dance.
02:43Some people were using it for makeup, fashion, travel.
02:47People were using Love Wanted T for all sorts of things.
02:50People from different cultures.
02:53And it literally just went even more viral than the first time.
02:57It's crazy to see people from different parts of the world
03:01vibing to the song, even if they don't understand the meaning.
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