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WHat up Mi Gente! This is your girl PattyDukes bringing you up close and personal to all things Hip-Hop.  So on Jan 25th, I was invited on set to meet upcoming hip-hop group called The D.E.Y. They were shooting a video for Sean Sean Kingston's next single, "There's Nothin" feat. Elan of The D.E.Y and Juelz Santana.

The Music Video was being shot  out in in the Brooklyn Navy Yard piers.

It was a typical music video set, with the lights, cameras, the holding room, the kraft table, and dancers stretching on the sidelines.

I got a chance to to meet with the entire group but spoke more in depth with Yeyo of The D.E.Y (the light skinned one of the group, with the heavy puerto rican accent). I was kinda surprised when he knew who i was and had heard of my music. Even enjoys the track that Rephstar and I have together called "Fresh 2 Def" and asked when we were shooting our music video. He was really down to earth and humble.. i was taken a back. Not many people in the industry can keep a level head when things are going good.  I was happy to see these three latinos, representing for those around the way kids that love hip-hop but still have a latino identity. Not compromising anything, and performing/writing music in whatever language they feel. The blending of the three of them is what makes them unstoppable. Catering to the multidimensional latino. Yeyo is definately that sexy, deep guy from the island with the thick spanish accent. Divine is on the grind, the NYC latino hustla . Elan the singer and only female, has the chops to take the group to the next level, reminds me of a baby Mary J. Blige. It's dope to see them come up, and to know artist like me and rephstar are coming up right behind them. At the end of the day, we all reflect on each other. Epic gave them a deal, if Epic doesn't see spanish/english, urban sounds as a viable way to make money then we will never get a chance to do what we do on a commercial scale.  

So shout out to all the Latinos in Hip-Hop who are making moves, and paved the way. LIke the Beatnuts, Fat Joe, Big Pun, Crazy Legs, Pop Master Fabel, Dj Disco Wiz, Tony Touch, Nina Sky, Pitbull, Tego Calderon and now.... The D.E.Y.  

 

THE DEY's BIO: 

Though the trio of musicians who make up the DEY didn't grow up together, their interests, both personal and musical, were similar enough that when they eventually met they knew immediately that they should work together. MC Divine, who was born and spent much of his life in the South Bronx but moved to Puerto Rico in 1998, had first met singer Élan Luz Rivera (who grew up in New York and made her first appearance on Broadway by age 16, when she played Cookie in the musical The Capeman) at Miami's Soulfrito Festival in the early 2000s, where they were both performing, but it wasn't until 2005 that they were introduced again. By this time, Divine had already hooked up with Yeyo, a Puerto Rican MC who had made splashes in the island's underground hip-hop scene in 1999 when he released the politically charged "Viequez," and with whom he had connected instantly (the night they met they recorded a song that ended up on the radio). Calling themselves the DEY, the three went into Yeyo's Miami studio, where they began working on their own material, a combination of urban R&B, Latin, hip-hop, and pop meant to have cross-cultural (and language) appeal. Signed to Epic, they began recording the tracks that would end up on both their EP, The DEY Has Come (2007), and their debut full-length, but not before co-writing and performing in singer Paula DeAnda's song "Walk Away." -AMG

http://WWW.TheDEY.COM/

Check out Sean Kingston getting interviewed by the MTV News Reporter with the  British accent.... (no one knew what his name was, but recognized the accent!)

And here comes Juelz Santana... he came with his dipset crew. They all were wearing these bedazzled red leather belts... i thought that was kinda' weird. I've never heard of a bunch of guys wearing matching belts. I don't even know girls who do that. Anyways, the background was all black, i liked that Juelz came in and splashed some color on that  set.. Red.. he had the rockstar chic fashionable headwrap thing going on... seems like a must have now in the industry. For a second tho, it could be him giving props to the Bloods (a gang in nyc)..    who knows...  He did his thing tho. Its nice to see NYC artists getting in the mix.

REPHSTAR & PATTYDUKES Posing with Celebrity Make-Up Artist Ewan Walker... 

Peace, Love and Hip-Hop

pattydukes