 over there with the flag yeah you know i mean i'm a chuban jamaican you know i mean pro jamaican so please why are you in the state though? well i'm not in the states right now i'm actually in jamaica you know i've actually left the states from in february i think before the pandemic you know i mean i'm in jamaica right now kings they left from kenya to jamaica bless up yeah me africa ago you've left africa and you went all the way to jamaica to the world man it'll be to be with us the island boy hey to the world yeah you don't know hey please do introduce yourself tamale to our people okay well my name is germy and james you know tamale has the megal name so i use tamale as a stage name also you know so it's germy and tamale james green name from birth you know i mean and tamale as an artist you know i mean i'm from i'm from the place called south side a place in kingstone central kingstone called south side it's basically the art of the slum the art of the garrison you know i mean ghetto yeah so that's where i'm from you know i mean and i'm proud to say i'm from the slum tell me about it tell me about you making music tell me about what inspires you is because they say um i want to say rasta rasta makes very conscious music they they talk about things that actually happen in on the ground and things like that and i imagine you have seen a couple of things that you may have expressed through music have you yes man i would love you know i mean what what basically inspires tamale is my surrounding you know i mean you know what the negative and the positive i just analyze from that and bill and that you know i mean i try to empower empower other ghetto youths like me you know i mean inspire them showing them that something good can arise from the ghetto you know i mean just negative you know i mean so and another thing that inspires tamale as a youth as a youth growing up at a tender age i used to have a neighbor who used to have a sound system named mr. nevry you know so that neighbor used used to constantly banging that sound system in my ears actually every weekend you know i mean so that's one of the major thing that inspires tamale to become an artist okay so i should just look for my small small neighbors and start playing loud music and inspire them also yeah maybe you can be inspire someone i i really hope that we value you in kenya i don't know it's something about artists from jamaica we love all of you and i know you have some type of relationship with conscience maybe you could tell me about that uh well the relation that i um that i had with conscience it's from school days and i mean really was was schoolmate used to go to the same high school which is excersis school so it's from that time i knew conscience so um after leaving high school as two musicians who love the music from a tender age so after leaving high school we decided to pursue the career in the music you know i mean so that's when both of us linked back after leaving high school and started to do music you know i mean do you guys make pleasure have you ever been to Nairobi no never been to Nairobi you know and so you just want to go to Trinidad's that's part of my dream to you know come to Nairobi Africa in general you know i mean yeah just the experience the mother land and you know i mean me these beautiful people yeah i mean so it's part of my dream to come to Africa you know i mean if you something from Jamaica to Nairobi or just Kenya in general what would it be what would that one thing that you'd carry from home simply Jamaican if there's one thing i would carry from home to Nairobi uh huh ah well don't tell me a key well i would like to bring the music you know i mean which is the more important thing to me right now so i like to bring my music the people them doorstep in Nairobi you know i mean yeah so that's part of my dream i would like to bring my music to Nairobi at at you guys doorstep you know i mean so they don't really have to search search around everywhere to find tamale music you know i mean so yeah very smart answer i was a Nairobi it would be my music you're very free that was a very smart answer good job tamale you your music has been growing exponentially like i'm sure people all over the okay i don't know how far your reach has gone to but you have made it to be an international artist how does that make you feel it's a very overwhelming feeling you know i mean and it actually um opened my eyes and showed me what tamale um of our tamale music reach because i've got funds all over east africa kenya all over germany uk you know i'm reaching out to tamale and say hey i'm a big fan of tamale from out of the slum days and you know that was from in 2010 at that time when out of the slum did release you know i mean so i got funds all over the world reaching out to tamale you say hey i'm a big fan from that time from 2010 until now you know i mean so i really appreciate that support from the funds all over the world you know i mean yeah even i'm a jomican i know it's a little small that on the map you know so it's a pleasure it's a real overwhelming feeling to know that tamale getting the support you know i mean from people all over the world you know so it's very amazing including us we love you tamale like for real it's true yeah that thing i mean yeah i know the african's got that special love for jomican music and all of that so you know yeah i actually i'll go more for african's too you know tell me what you're working on now i'm sure you're doing something in studio okay i guess covid-19 has said things but you look like you're still making music so is there something special you're working on right now yes man well never stop making music you know i mean what are the crises are what are the circumstances just continue working um stay focused and don't try to be distracted by nothing at all whatsoever you know i mean so tamale always making music right now i have a new song called barn star you know i mean produced by raya records and another one name it's actually a collaboration with vision lineage and taji with a song called glory produced by no-landing music from kanekikot in the states you know i mean so there's a whole lot more you know i mean a new song named firm you can look out for that video coming soon yeah so tamale keep working you know i mean never stop working i know that when you were younger after your neighbor influenced you exponentially i know you went to perform in various platforms weren't you scared being so young you know and and am i switched to my native tongue i was going to ask you weren't shy you weren't scared of the stage you just went to perform like why how would you get the courage well to tell you the truth i mean i actually grew up as a shy person you know i mean but when it come on to my music when it come on to my music and be in front of an audience to perform it's just a different a total different side of tamale you know i mean so when it come on to that time to perform my music and showcase my talent i never shy you know i mean i never feel no type of way like i'm scared to perform you know no it's like people build my courage you know i mean it's like yeah the more people in front of me is like they build my courage you know i mean perform to the best of my ability you know i mean so i've only seen you perform on videos so i really hope i get the honor to see you perform live one time in my life i really hope so i like your energy very very much yes sure sure you know i mean tamale energy is really positive you know so i keep it positive and collective you know we are just going to give you some time because he's so amazing he's going to perform for us a couple of songs but we're gonna give it a break and then have some more music from the DJ and then we'll come back to you is that okay tamale just give you some time to prepare and look all fresh and clean yes man i can't wait man it's it's just to perform for you know my africans you know i mean i'm here we are going to perform you know show my ability