CARISA LEE

Re­porter

carisa.lee@cnc3.co.tt

Mi­cal Te­ja’s 2024 So­ca hit DNA seems to be the song of choice by many for this year’s Car­ni­val.

“DNA by Mi­cal Te­ja be­cause it’s every­where and it’s a nice song,” said Mari­ah Mathu­ra as Guardian Me­dia polled peo­ple in down­town Port-of-Spain yes­ter­day.

“I like DNA by Mi­cal Te­ja. It’s a re­al­ly good song and I love the vibe of it,” Elan Said­wan said.

And to some peo­ple, the song is a strong con­tender to win the Road March ti­tle for 2024.

“DNA just runs in my DNA ... and I still think even though it’s been around for a lit­tle while. Road March here we come!” an­oth­er woman said.

Sher­win Jack­son said he likes Te­ja’s next 2024 con­tri­bu­tion Run­away.

“It have a nice vibes to it plus I need a lil run­away,” he said.

The Young Kings 2024 win­ner said he ap­pre­ci­ates the love and sup­port.

In a What­sApp mes­sage to Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day, Mi­cal Te­ja, re­al name Mi­cal Williams, whose mu­sic video has 2.1 mil­lion views on YouTube said, “I feel hap­py that peo­ple are lov­ing DNA. To me, it speaks to how pa­tri­ot­ic we are as peo­ple and that re­gard­less of the neg­a­tive we over­come it with love and hap­pi­ness.”

Dee­jays (DJ’s) who work at ra­dio sta­tions un­der the Guardian Me­dia um­brel­la said that DNA seems to be the song for the sea­son. How­ev­er, some said oth­er tunes may give Te­ja a run for his mon­ey.

Rossan­no “Dr Ross” Chaits­ingh of Vibe CT 105 said Na­dia Bat­son’s Mar­ket and Olatun­ji’s In­ven­tor are al­so hits at the par­ties.

“It look­ing like we have a sur­prise in the Road March this year,” Dr Ross de­clared.

DJ and an­nounc­er at Slam 100.5FM Kris Kennedy, who is al­so a so­ca artiste, be­lieves Bun­ji Gar­lin’s Car­ni­val Con­tract is slow­ly creep­ing up and can be a con­tender for Road March.

An­oth­er SLAM DJ, Ewart Mundy al­so known as DJ Wat­ty said peo­ple are re­quest­ing it more at events but he said apart from road march con­tenders there are songs peo­ple are en­joy­ing at par­ties.

“The Ola In­ven­tor, the Wad­dicks Beat Rum Bad, Kris Kennedy Par­ty Bud­get,” he used as songs grab­bing at­ten­tion.

Anx­i­ety by Patrice Roberts and GBM Nu­tron’s and Farmer Nap­py’s In the Cen­tre were al­so men­tioned as par­ty favourites by the DJs.

Vis­it­ing DJ Rashad Ed­win, from Queens, New York, said Trin­bag­o­ni­ans there were en­joy­ing the Ex­press Yuh­self Rid­dim by Travis World Mu­sic.