Slight Motif Issue IV

Issue No.4

Jafaris

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Pollie

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Tolu Makay

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Editor's Corner Last year, we noticed there was a movement happening. New content creators were popping up daily and people were daring to create. Suddenly, there was a generation that wanted to be heard and an audience that would listen.

Though our plans during our inception was to work with fledgling acts who were still trying to establish their fan base, deep down we knew we would love the opportunity to work with acts that are considered leaders in the Irish urban scene. Step forward Jafaris. In this issue we get the opportunity to sit down with Jafaris to discuss this idea of artists transitioning back and forth from one genre to another while staying true to who they are as an artist.

Artists such as Drake and Burna Boy achieve this with such exemplary ease. Tolu Makay is our third “Spotlight” artist to feature in our magazine. Previous acts being Mercy Adrea and Debola Shomoye. The girl can sing. Tolu recently won the LIS music competition and details to us her journey so far and her plans for the future. The Social Constructs Podcast are the third podcasts to feature on Slight Motif. Seeing as they are very close friends, we ask them about each other and what they feel the others on the podcast bring to the table.

To sign off, I want to thank every single act we’ve worked with.

Thank you for your willingness to do whatever crazy concept we had for you, for your professionalism and the amazing content we hope you continue to make. I would like to thank each member of the Slight Motif team for their commitment, sacrifice, and hard work in getting this winter season completed. We’ve learnt a lot, cried a lot and hope to come back bigger. Summer season soon come. But what to do during the break.. “Merch March”?

Femi Falana Editor in Chief

Contents Cover Story

Jafaris "I can rap, cool. But I want to make things that people would remember"

Features

Tolu Makay "It is difficult to express it musically because you have to find the right key, you have to find a beat"

Slight Motif Casts: The Fresh Prince of Bel AIr

Playlist of the Month

By UNQ

Pollie's Pocket Photography

TSC Pod

"Another word I’d use describe him is laid-ba Waaay too laid back. L for him isn’t that deep

Confession Box

Reverend Slight has be busy.

The People Review: Black Panther

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Motif or Dead Motif series featuring Reckless Thought Pod

Sean X discusses his “various exes� and how things ended with them.

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King David gets interviewed and quizzed on biblical figures

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INTERVIEW AND WORDS BY: JOSEPH ADEGBEMI

This would then make him change his approach when making content and his lyricism would come from occasional lectures from his father. “My dad is very wise. It would be a lecture at the time, but it would resonate with me afterwards and I’d reference it in a song”. This led him into having the name “Profound” as he was thought to be lyrically conscious. “I was always talking about things that were beyond my years even things that I didn’t understand fully, I would just talk about it and people would be like “oh that’s so deep”, I thought I was the shit” Percy highlighted.

The change to Jafaris started from Profound being a popular name amongst YouTube and SoundCloud rappers at the time. “There was this one time, on YouTube, this guy hit us up like yo we have a label and we have an artist called profound and he’s already signed and stuff” Percy at the time wasn’t signed or established and therefore couldn’t be tied to this name. “They even wanted us to battle for it like it got deep so I said let me just have a name that I can fall back on if anything does happen”.

The name Jafaris came about by searching for names alphabetically on google. For some reason, he went straight to J and the name resonated with him after finding out it meant “a deeper need to inspire” which he felt tied in with what he was doing. The first time Percy performed with the alias “Jafaris” was on a song with Reuben James – JIGGA. “That’s where the switch started happening and once I linked up with diffusion lab, I changed entirely. Change of name, sound and quality of music just changed”

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"Working on this album has showed me that I don’t have to be anyone specific, I can be who I am when I want to be. That’s the whole freedom of music"

The lyrical rapper has recently dabbled into new styles and melodies but the one that caught our attention was the two Afro beat songs he has been involved in. Jafaris was featured on the Prod. Solo project—Trust it alongside Timmy Rose of T.E.D on a song called Durag, where he performs an Afrobeat verse. He also has another song with Solo, the Astronaut—Runaway. The switch up was encouraged by Prod. Solo. “He sent me a beat and the beat was Afrobeats and I was like ‘yo I’m not even an Afrobeat’s artist’. He was like ‘nah I’m trying something new. Let’s see what your voice sounds like’ Jafaris took a liking to the instrumental sent to him and did the verse regardless. It got good feedback and listeners loved his involvement which made him, who was initially not a fan of Afro beat, listen to artists such as Mr Eazi, Kranium and Runtown and grew a liking to it. “Coming from the rap thing and going into like this whole singing thing, I’m really paying attention to certain melodies and that’s kinda why afrobeats is more cultural and resonates with me in a weird way” he continues, “In terms of trying different stuff, I’m just trying to stretch myself as an artist. In terms of versatility, I can rap, cool, but I want to make things that people would remember. I could spit for days but people will stop tuning in at some point because they want to hear melodies. Melodies is what sticks to people and I’m going to try and develop that a little more.”

Jafaris admits that there is a risk of jumping into certain styles. “I soak up things that I hear. I’m too influenced. Sometimes it sounds like I’m a whole different person”. When jumping from sound to sound, there’s a thin line between curating an artist’s own sound and sounding like another artist.

“If people can say “he sounds like this person or he sounds like that person’ that’s a problem.” Jafaris aims to take all his influences and establish his own sound. “Working on this album has showed me that I don’t have to be anyone specific, I can be who I am when I want to be. That’s the whole freedom of music. Today I could feel like making trap, tomorrow I could feel like making a mainstream song, next day I could make some D’Angelo vibe” Jafaris teased an album he will be releasing later in October.

On the topic of transitions and changing styles, we discussed how he felt about his influencers as they change style throughout the years. A very familiar artist would be Kanye West. We talked about the album Yeezus and how it was a complete 180 from the Kanye West the fans were used to. “That’s the weird thing, that album I felt wouldn’t be understood in the moment but a year or so later, people would look back like “woah” it was ahead of its time. That’s the kind of music I think people fail to make because we are afraid we will be ridiculed in the moment. That’s why he’s such an icon.”

Looking on to the future, Jafaris wishes to explore versatility more and more, he mentions that it is very prominent in his new album; “I feel like people will hear profound, they are going to hear Jafaris, they’re going to hear a guy that hasn’t even come out yet”. It’s not established yet, but track to track, album to album, he aims to create his own unique sound that listeners would always be able to bring back to him wherever it is heard. “I don’t have a specific identity, I don’t have a specific thing like “oh that’s Jafaris!” or you could look up on YouTube on soundcloud and search Jafaris type beats. I guess with this album that’s what I’m trying to create but still keeping the versatility”.

The album is set to be released hopefully around October with a name chosen and set. “Nah..not yet” Jafaris sniggered when asked what the name of the album would be. A response I expected but thought I’d try my luck. Whatever the name, sound and style that will be coming with this album or in the future, we will surely be on the lookout.

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The People Review

BLACK PANTHER Following the huge success and anticipation around the first marvel superhero movie with an all black cast, The Black Panther. The Slight Motif crew hit twitter to see what people thought about the movie.

“I'm not sure which I found more funny, the movie itself or the responses of the 16 other black people I went to see it with. The movie itself was both

“It was good because it showed black people in a different light. Brought so many cultures together and made it work to

gripping and hilarious but my favourite thing about it was that for the first time it gave my friends and I something that was especially for us, something that's rare living in the west of Ireland. 9/10 (the only reason it's not 10 is because we missed the start because obviously we were late lol)“ -@aislingisok

“Initial hype faded, it was a good movie. Probably one of the best marvel have made. But the same ferocity we saw from t challa in civil war was lacking in this movie. I understand this was character development but I needed hands to be thrown more viciously. Also his

demonstrate th strength of Afric and the beauty of it.

Portrayed black Women in a way that isn’t bitter or angry. 9/10” -@RejiYates

supporting cast seemed much more impactful.

Killmongers dad for example had the best performance in the movie.

The score is amazing and the choreography is good.

Overall 7.9/10 Tl: dr Thirst for revenge Tchalla> Kumbaya , we are the world T challa.”

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“Well first of all after hearing all the hype about it on social Media I had very very high expectations.

When I went to watch it I did enjoy the movie but I didn’t fully agree on the whole it represents African culture statement that has been made . Like we can say in some aspects it does like the fact that they spoke in different African language throughout the movie and the different accents which shows the world that not all African/black people are the same but we have a variety of cultures and languages and backgrounds . But to me it felt like the hype about it representing complete

can culture didn’t match up It does in-fact lets the world that we are not inferior to the white man and that Africa is not all poor like the media plays it out to be and that’s what I really enjoyed and liked about it . And I totally respect that it’s a big deal to people the African/black community but the hype was just a little bit too much lol . I also felt like it was a bit predictable through out the movie I like me a movie that has me thinking through out and has me on the edge lol . I rate it a 6/10 ��” -@Michele_Nyaks

“Great film. Great representation. Great results. Casting was on point.

Acting was amazing.

Hollywood finally realising an all black cast can have international success will only see more of the same opportunities happen for black actors in the future. it's a cultural turning point. once again. 9/10” “Very good movie, some scenes were just

-@BeatsByEbss

outstanding “Well upon watching it three times I thoroughly enjoyed the movie, although the con of watching it three times

I noticed things I wasn't fond of, like black panther's new costume design, Klau's death and Killmongers drive to do what he did.

That aside an amazing movie, great script, amazing humour but wouldn't watch it a 4th time. 7.5/10” -iLucidDreamer

with the visuals but the fight scenes could’ve been better imo...overall 7/10” -@Taleof2Citiez

The People Review “My opinion on Black Panther is that it redefines the definition of flawless.

The concepts it covers of naturalism i.e. a plant indigenous to Wakanda instead of a laboratory-made super weapon foregrounds the sense of realism and celebration of African cultures, as well as international relations, and uses the Western viewpoint of countries in Africa as "shitholes" to make the audience laugh and realise that this simply isn't true. The long-shots of African nature were beautiful and need to be seen more.

The technology in the movie was fun as well and was very creative and compared African ideas of technology to Western. Although the Antagonist was an AfricanAmerican, the movie evoked ideas of "old vs new", something that colonies caused, and addressed the conflict, sending out a message of unity, especially in the last 5 minutes of the film. This film was by far a 10/10 and has

revolutionised Hollywood for the better.

A small criticism is the failure to represent North African people as a South African antagonist was present, but as a North African, seeing the embrace of the continent and the cultural similarities, despite a potential division by melanin, is an experience that I myself will never forget. I definitely want to see the film again. 100/10 if I could but for now, 10/10” -@Kenzatbh

“Black Panther was more than just another Marvel movie, this was a productionthat in my opinion could go down as something

big for black history.

A mainly all black cast, not being used for stereotypes or comedic relief but instead showing the diversity, rich culture and ability not just black people but Africa has it’s different light from Trump calling Africa a shit hole.

Yes Wakanda is a fictional place but the strength, beauty, culture and general dopeness is something that isn’t made up. 9/10” -@SarahXosa “personally, it took a while for me to get into the movie. my favorites part was definitely the writing even though

“Thoroughly enjoyed it, I completely understan the hype and praise coming from black peo it’s something new, something we’ve not witnessed or use to and opinion that generates

a lot of hyp

If we already had a blac panther and this was sa the 4th or 5th predominantly black ca marvel movie the hype would not be as much. give it an 8/10 whispers preferred civil war” - @SirJordann

cinematography and wardrobe was incredible. overall it’s really well done and it’s doing so much for black people as a whole 8.5/10” -@haxlucinate

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TSC PODCAST

The Social Constructs

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Dublin’s urban podcast scene is ever growing, and ‘The Social Constructs’ (TSC) podcast is becoming a key name on the list of very talented podcast platforms. TSC made their debut late last year and have caught the attention of many listeners on all their various media platforms, especially Twitter. The increasing popularity is of no surprise, and can be attributed to the quality content they produce. The Afro-Irish trio create an interestingly informative environment while at the same time providing endless moments of banter.

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We recently caught up with the TSC crew to work on a feature and what caught our immediate attention was the unrivalled chemistry between the three of them. We were taken aback by how they effortlessly and continuously created intriguing conversations, most of them based on previous encounters they’d experienced together. TSC have a lot of stories to tell and every moment with them felt like one of their podcast episodes.

Bisi, Deji and Moyo are great friends outside the podcast. Seeing as they know so much about each other we got each of them to tells us about the other.

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Bio By: Deji

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DEJI

How would you describe Deji?

Deji is a dickhead. That’s the first word I’ll use to describe him. You know some people would normally have a logical way of thinking? The norm basically. Deji would just bring a far left. He’d take it so wild.

Unnecessarily. And you’re just like why?

Another word I’d use to describe him is laidback. Waaay too laid back. Life for him isn’t that deep, until he’s deep in them guts!!!

What do you think he brings to the Pod? Wildness. We’re always trying to have a logical conversation, but he always wants to play devil’s advocate and so sometimes the conversations can go off on such a tangent.

He just brings that wild factor.

If he could go on a free holiday where would it be?

It’d have to be a country with a sick accent that he’d try to mimic. He has this thing for trying to mimic accents and he’s shit at it.

He does the British one and he does it shit.

But I’d say Japan, because on the way here he said he’d like to visit Japan What race do you think Deji would marry?

Black. Most definitely back. As in Nigerian.

As in most definitely Yoruba. He doesn’t do anything outside of his people.

What are Deji’’s hobbies?

Blowing back out, chatting shit, telling people not to go to Uni. He loves doing that.

Telling people that Uni is a social construct even though he went to Uni, graduated and worked in his field for about 18 months.

Yeah Deji is an EP. That’s his favourite hobby, being an EP. When do you think Deji will get married?

In the next four years by God’s grace.

Bio By: Moyo

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TSC Podcast

Want to listen to some TSC? The social contructs' pocasts can be found on their soundclound page: https://soundcloud.com/social-construct/ Have a listen!

Will Smith

Jyellowl, Rapper

Uncle Phil

Deji, TSC Pod Aunt Viv

Jeffery

Jordan, 3 at the Back Podcast

oyinza, Stylist

Slight Motif Casts:

Ashley Banks

Carlton Banks

Moyo, TSC Pod

Hilary Banks

Bisi, TSC Pod

Couple Of Guys, Up To No Good

Oh Man Podcast

MsDebDeb, YouTuber

POLLIE Photographer Dublin, Ireland

Portfolio: www.dupontpauline22.wixsite.com/polliepocket

@Pollie_photography

Precious ANGELO BREWING Dublin, Ireland

I was shooting Super Silly and Precious got this moment when he got very focused and attentive to directions. That is the exact expression I was looking for.

I love how his face seems so relaxed and serious. There is something melancholic in this photo. Perhaps the 90’s vibe.

Tenerife Tenerife, Spain

I was driving near the Volcano on the Island of Tenerife, when I got trapped in the fog. I just stopped on the side to admire this amazing scene. I could not believe my eyes. The contrast between this white smoke and the dark tar was striking.Â

OYINZA Dublin, Ireland

I just could not resist taking few improvised photos of this amazing girl on Dublin Bus. Her style and attitude made it really interesting.Â

Chiang Mai Somewhere In Thailand

I was driving near the Volcano on the Island of Tenerife, when I got trapped in the fog. I just stopped on the side to admire this amazing scene. I could not believe my eyes. The contrast between this white smoke and the dark tar was striking.Â

Rockstar Streets of Barcelona

This man driving this bicycle like a rockstar. As he might be doing every evening. The young crowd behind admiring the show. This was an epic moment. A throwback to some old school album cover.

Young Monks Thailand

I'm in a temple's courtyard.

What are those laughs behind me? A small red bus, with inside young monks teasing each other to tears. I don't hesitate. Come as close as possible. Laugh with them and take the shot.

Slight Motif Presents

SPOTLIGHT

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lighted competition she pated in was Loud in silence 2016 16) which is organized by Treasure lled – a Gospel talent organization g to promote upcoming gospel “I’ve been doing competitions then, because I come from a really rea, no one knows me, Co. Offaly, Tullamore!” She describes all these titions as an avenue for her to find at she had a passion for, which is Tolu won the LIS competition that d became an Ambassador for e Unravelled.

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Part of the deal for winning the competition was a contract for the year ,enabling her to release her own single. Tolu did just that, by working with a keyboardist who helped her find a sound for the song. This was an eyeopener as she never realised she could write her own music.

Writing for herself enabled her to dabble into poetry and spoken word. Tolu was in a group with other creatives in Ireland, founded by a friend and familiar name in the Slight Motif cabinet, Shekinah Babalola. The idea was poetry would be written and recited by different members weekly in different locations and all would be documented. This went on but fizzled out after a while.

Regardless, Tolu believes it is easier to perform Spoken word than actual music.

“I think personally for me, the way I write is just me writing my experience, I don’t know if it’s spoken word necessarily. It is a lot easier when you have something that you’ve experienced and you just write it all out and find a way to express it. It is difficult to express it musically because you have to find the right key, you have to find a beat, you have to find the right melody but once you find it, it’s like ‘ooh damn!’”.

When asked about plans for the future, there is a lot of directions Tolu believes she can take – both educational and musical “I don’t know what the future holds but I know that whatever it is I want to do, I just want to be able to express myself and be very confident in whatever it is that I am doing. I want to be able to help people as well”. Her passion to help people is believed to stem from her mother, Monisola Makanjuola, who started an organization called Monimak Global foundations. The aim of the organisation is to help the youth and the less advantaged and Tolu has been actively involved. “I help whenever I go back to Nigeria. It’s basically a foundation where you help the homeless. What my mum is focusing on right now is people that are in jail because of all the misconduct in Nigeria”..

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The organisation has been a catalyst and has fuelled Tolu’s passion for wanting to help others. Tolu gave various examples of situations in which Monimak Global foundation had assisted anybody in need such as those who couldn’t afford bail, people finding it difficult to return to their homes, help with orphans and those infected with leprosy.

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‘Every year , for the first day of the year we make food and bring it to people in secluded areas , mostly elders who suffer with leprosy.' We also bring food to jailhouses and orphanages. This year we bailed out a person who had served his time but had to pay a fee of 10,000 Naira to be released. Another had no transport fare, so we paid that.

Our aim is to get the youth involved, give them the opportunity and one day be able to provide scholarships.’

“I’m getting to know myself better, become a better person for myself and for the world” “I don’t think I will be venturing into an academic root in future. I’m getting tired of reading. I want to do something practical but I don’t want to have to read so much.

Trust me, the course I am doing right now requires a lot of reading.

I really don’t want to read again!”

Tolu talks more on the future and how she can implement all she has gathered from her time, all her experiences and even her talents towards helping those in need. She believes the route of poetry or music helps her help herself in order to help others. “I’m getting to know myself better become a better person for myself and for the world”.

She chose to study psychology so she can understand why people do what they do. “Me myself it’s difficult to know why I do what I do. When I’m older I have this vision that I’ll have my own separate office where I get people to literally come in and talk to me about their feelings. People seem to fear expressing themselves and I’m all for emotions”. Tolu feels by simply being herself, there can be many ways she could influence others and grow to become not a perfect person but an assertive person..’

The future definitely begins now for Tolu. She has laid down the building blocks and has a strong foundation to stand on. We will be watching the upcoming creative follow her ambitions and are very excited for whatever she has next.

Watch Tolu’s covers and performances all on her Youtube Page. (Link attached)

PLAYLIST PLAYLIST PLAYLIST PLAYLIST OF OF OF THE THE MONTH MONTH MONTH MONTH - UNQ

I picked out a few of my favorite love songs in anticipation for Valentine’s Day. Originally I was given the task to pick my top 10 ( honestly.. it was a struggle to just choose 10 songs lol ) but with being a r&b/soul fanatic and a sucker for love I was a bit overzealous and picked my top 20 instead.

I decided to mix between old school soulful love and some new contemporary r&b love songs and course I had to add in some of our very own Irish So if you love some good old authentic r&b and l , then I’m sure you’ll love this playlist.

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Kevin Ross

Lady

D’Angelo

I wanna be down

Brandy

When its magic

Elijah Blake

Dive

Tiffany Gouch

Love of my life

Erykah Badu ft Common

Weak

SWV

Grown and Sexy

Damien Marley

Hood Love

Jazmine Sullivan

Love dies

Jafaris

I don’t wanna

Aaliyah

Ocean

Odunsi

That One

Teedra Moses ft Anthony Hamilton

Mile High Club

Super silly

Nothing even matters

Lauryn Hill ft D’Angelo

Close to you

Dreezy ft T-pain

Fire we make

Alicia Keys ft MaxWell

Honey

Kehlani

Album Floetic My Song Drive Brown Sugar Brandy Audiology Dive

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