Ghetto Palms 79: Jovi Rockwell / 2000Tone / Exclusives!
- story Eddie "Stats" Houghton
- photo Alex Boerner (F51 Outtake)
2000Tone rides again. My favorite uptown rebel Jovi Rockwell has been getting back to her roots (foundation chat plus rockstar attitude) on new tracks like “Killin Dem” and “Can’t Stop” from the Major Lazer project. Also, she dropped her new Psychotherapy mixtape today so it seemed like the time to unleash some 2000Tone mixes I’ve been holding back for her major label moment—the moment I’ve been waiting for ever since her Gen F back in F51. This blend contains slept on joints from her backchat catalog along with my own dreamed-up refixes of two rough tracks from her never-released album project for Epic—dubbed over the Romantics and some Angolan kuBass percussion pirated off the web, respectively.
Jovi Rockwell, “Killin Dem” MP3
After Jovi Rockwell’s smash “Rizzla” melded pop, patois and a sample that sounded like international intrigue, the Kingston native started moving in a more utilitarian mainstream-sounding direction, almost like Rihanna’s early career when she dropped “Pon de Replay” then was suddenly sampling Soft Cell songs. Difference being, Rockwell’s versatility allows her to do songs like her new one, “Killin Dem,” which sounds like something we want to choreograph to: much sass on beats recalling Just Blaze with buoyant synth futurism. Also, um, Jovi can sing.
Download: Jovi Rockwell, “Killin Dem” (via Mad Decent)
Freeload: Jovi Rockwell, “Tonight”
- story THE FADER
As much as we love Rihanna, we admit we were sad when she ditched the pop dancehall of her first album for the more lucrative electro waters. Luckily, Kingston native and F51 star Jovi Rockwell fills our hooky-dancehall yearning with super sweet Caribbean tracks like her latest candied booty-call track “Tonight.” And if you’re not up on it yet, hit up her myspace and familiarize yourself with last year’s major bump-in-the-trunk jammer “Rizzla.”
Download: Jovi Rockwell, “Tonight”
