Music News - Diaz Grimm releases new single Foreigners
07 July 2017 - 0 Comments
The latest song from Diaz Grimm has landed,
joining his impressive and ever expanding catalogue, but also serving a tidy
summation of the artist’s career to date.
The journey of Foreignerscan trace its start way back in 2000, with an 11-year-old Diaz taping Eminem's Real Slim Shady from the radio onto cassette. Falling in love with the track
and experiencing the standard play-rewind-repeat familiar to all music fans, it
became the first ever rap song he learned the words to.
Not long after at age 15, Diaz downloaded How We Do by The Game and 50
Cent. After accidentally receiving the instrumental version, it inspired
him to write a verse for the very first time.
Fast-forward several years, an EP, and two albums later, to Songhubs 2017 where
Diaz collaborated with the man responsible for both of these iconic tracks,
Mike Elizondo.
“When Mike and I first
stepped into the studio I asked if we could start the day by playing ‘How We
Do’ at full volume. After the early 2000’s style rap set the scene, head
bopping around the studio we came out of the day with a track laden with odes
to that era of hip hop” – Diaz
Written entirely within the APRA Songhubs 2017 programme, Foreigners also
features an outstanding verse from Grimm’s long time collaborator and fellow
Waikato based rapper Raiza Biza, as well as Wellington’s soul songstress Iva
Lamkum adding her effortless vocals.
With the current political atmosphere, the feeling of being foreign is a hot
button topic globally, bringing people together just as much as it appears to
be dividing them. Calling out this climate, Foreigners is a confident
announcement to the world: Aotearoa is in the building.
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