Dexta Daps collab with original ‘Gangalee’ Louie Culture on the way
Dexta Dap’s current banger, Call Me If, samples Louie Culture’s
1994 hit Gangalee. It therefore
comes as no surprise that the two have an upcoming single together.
The collaboration, titled Bill Now, was not planned. Daps had invited the veteran to a studio
session hoping to get his vocals on Call
Me If, but the two ended up creating
a new record instead.
“Dexta come up wid a tune and a
punchline, the same night we voice a different tune, bad bad combination,”
the dancehall toaster said during an online chat with DJ Kool Face. “We a
mek dah one yah (Call Me If)
gwaan run, we nah upset it cause it’s a big song weh we know it will do things.
We a mek that weh Dexta a do gwaan do weh it can do.”
Contrary to reports that floated around when Call Me If premiered in July, Louie
Culture confirmed that he gave Daps his blessings to sample his dancehall
classic.
“Dexta Daps link mi when him record the
tune…let’s get this clear, him wanted me and him to do the tune,” he
said. “When I listen di tune, mi seh ‘Dexta, right now dah tune yah 100
per cent, mi nuh need fi put my voice pon dis. Just gwaan a road go do yuh
ting’. Him seh, ‘mi need yuh man, if a even yuh voice man’ and mi seh, ‘no man,
gwaan do yuh ting’. Big respect to Dexta cause him really call mi fi mi and him
do it…and right now di tune a buss di place.”
The track has garnered millions of streams and
continues to spread its wings with several folks doing remixes courtesy of the
viral #CallMeIf challenge.