NARIS­SA FRAS­ER

Free­lance Con­trib­u­tor

“Ah lookin’ all through d’ par­ty! Ah hope ah find you dey!”

These are un­doubt­ed­ly two of the most pop­u­lar lines for the 2026 Car­ni­val sea­son, cour­tesy of Full Blown’s hit song Re­spect­ful­ly Yours.

Cre­ative­ly us­ing an in­ter­po­la­tion of one of Crazy’s (Ed­win Ay­oung’s) mega hits, Kevon and Ko­ry Hart tell a fun sto­ry that is echo­ing across the Caribbean.

The track fea­tures live gui­tars and bass by Kyle Pe­ters and Joshua Richard­son, as well as per­cus­sion by Rhys Thomp­son and Mod­upe Onilu (Boom Boom Room TT).

The lyrics paint the pic­ture of search­ing for a par­tic­u­lar woman at a par­ty where the mu­sic is sweet.

“And when I hold on yuh body, I go­ing and sign my name like this is re­spect­ful­ly yours,” the broth­ers sing. While they ac­knowl­edge there are oth­er op­tions, they note, “Every­body say­ing some­thing but you talk­ing the loud­est … I on­ly want to fete with you.”

They told Guardian Me­dia the song’s jour­ney ac­tu­al­ly be­gan in 2024 when they per­formed at a show that al­so fea­tured Crazy. Kevon got the idea of sam­pling the leg­endary singer’s song Cold Sweat, lat­er opt­ing to do an in­ter­po­la­tion in­stead.

“(I) did a sketch of a beat and wrote and record­ed the ini­tial idea and sent it to Ko­ry,” Kevon re­called.

Ko­ry said from the time he heard the de­mo, he “un­der­stood the as­sign­ment.” It re­mind­ed him of Cruisin’ by Smokey Robin­son and My Girl by The Temp­ta­tions.

“The bassline and the chord pro­gres­sion helped set that mood. But to blend it with a more main­stream so­ca sound, I de­cid­ed to do my own ver­sion of that icon­ic Dr Cas­san­dra (by Mighty Gab­by) drum beat.”

It was those drums, he said, that served as the fi­nal puz­zle piece to the song. It was mixed and mas­tered by N.M.G. Mu­sic.

When they con­tact­ed Crazy for ap­proval of the in­ter­po­la­tion —re­spect­ful­ly, of course—he “read­i­ly gave his bless­ings and sup­port.”

“If you know Crazy, then you know he is al­ways very sup­port­ive of young tal­ent.”

But he in­formed them that song­writer Christo­pher Mor­ris owns the rights to the song, so they lat­er con­tact­ed him and made it of­fi­cial.

They said the song is “a vibe,” es­pe­cial­ly as both the young and the old en­joy it.

“It makes you feel good and we want­ed to re­cap­ture that with Re­spect­ful­ly Yours as well.”

Asked how they would de­scribe Crazy, they used the terms “leg­end” and “risk-tak­er,” adding that he walks his own path.

“... Which is ex­act­ly what we’re do­ing. We def­i­nite­ly want­ed to give him his flow­ers and pay trib­ute to him in some way with our song.”

The track held the num­ber-one spot on the top 100 most-lis­tened-to songs on Ap­ple Mu­sic in Trinidad and To­ba­go for sev­er­al weeks. It’s al­so trend­ing in Grena­da, Bar­ba­dos, Do­mini­ca and many oth­er Caribbean coun­tries. The mu­sic video, which Crazy is in, has al­so sur­passed 1.8 mil­lion views.

Kevon said the love it has got­ten so far ex­ceed­ed his ex­pec­ta­tions.

“Hear­ing peo­ple say they love it even more than Good Spir­its is wild to me. Lit­tle kids know the en­tire song word for word! It’s crazy. I def­i­nite­ly did not see that com­ing.”

The duo had an ex­treme­ly suc­cess­ful 2025 with the in­ter­na­tion­al suc­cess of their Big Links Rid­dim. But did they feel any pres­sure to de­liv­er an­oth­er hit af­ter such a ma­jor roll­out? The an­swer is no.

“Our job is pub­lic, but it’s still our job. Be­ing in the pub­lic eye means that peo­ple will al­ways say things and project their idea—good, bad or in­dif­fer­ent—but we have a clear vi­sion and per­spec­tive.”

They con­tin­ued, “So it’s nat­ur­al for peo­ple to say Full Blown should do this or do that, but for 15 years we’ve been zon­ing in on mas­ter­ing our own style. For us, it has nev­er been about book­ings, fame, recog­ni­tion, or su­per­star­dom. We’re sim­ply cre­at­ing things that we think should ex­ist and we live with the out­come.”

They al­so re­cent­ly re­leased One For The Team on Tano’s Block­buster Rid­dim, which is do­ing well.

They said their ap­proach to live per­for­mances is a bit dif­fer­ent to oth­ers. Their fo­cus is not on rags, flags and hands but on mak­ing au­di­ences feel some­thing.

“When it comes to our craft, our fo­cus is to cre­ate the sound­track to some­one’s life. We make mu­sic for Mon­day morn­ings and Fri­day nights. So while on stage, our aim is not to dis­tract with an­tics but rather to al­low peo­ple to im­merse them­selves in this thing we’ve cre­at­ed.”

They be­lieve that in be­ing them­selves, both on and off stage, they will con­tin­ue to build a sol­id fan­base that un­der­stands and ap­pre­ci­ates their ap­proach.

“We ac­cept, though, that we are new to the stage and it would take time for peo­ple to see and un­der­stand who we tru­ly are as per­form­ers,” they added.

Both broth­ers said they are hum­bled by and grate­ful for the “out­pour­ing of love” they’ve been ex­pe­ri­enc­ing.

“Keep lis­ten­ing, keep stream­ing, we have a lot more in store.”