American Rapper and Actor Joey Badass covered Mos Def's "UMI Says" in an episode of Australian radio station Triple J's Like a Version series. The Brooklyn rapper delivered a silky performance of the iconic song, backed by a live band featuring rising Zimbabwe-born, Melbourne-based singer Kylie Tadiwa Chirunga popularly known as KYE.
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| KYE (Left) and Joey Badass |
"UMI Says" originally appeared on Mos Def's 1999 solo record Black On Both Sides,
Joey acknowledged in a post-performance interview that the song is "one of my favorite songs of all time."
“It’s such a spiritual connection that I have to this song,” he shared. “I feel like I could almost relate to what Mos Def is speaking on. As an artist, I can tell this was a song that wasn’t written. This was a song that truly just felt, you know what I’m saying? And that’s probably what I admired about it the most.”
Check out the performance below.
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