Jamaica Moana – Give Into My Fears
Today, on International Non-Binary Day, Sydney-based queer rap artist JAMAICA MOANA shares empowering new single, ‘GIVE INTO MY FEARS (ft. PA777IENCE & ZAY.R)’.
A track centered around powerful lyrics, paired with raw, minimalist beats, delivers a message of perseverance for QPOC artists from the West. This new single follows the announce of JAMAICA MOANA’s debut EP BUD & DENI, due Friday 1 August via Pointer Recordings. Jamaica will be launching BUD & DENI live at the Red Rattler on Saturday 6 September in Sydney.
‘I claim this song to be the lyrically best song I have ever created. I always wanted to do a track like this. If I was a QPOC artist from The West, I would utilise this as a template on how to never give up and persevere through it all! It gets better. From the fun and playfulness of ‘TUGGAWAR’, I knew the next track needed to be only 2 flows on the verses – the same for verse 2. The overarching message of this song is to obviously never give up. I had to touch base on this because there has been so many people, companies & brands who only care about me during the pride season and then flick me off, entailing the message of ‘give up while you can, you’re only hot during Pride!’. 6 years of this rhetoric can definitely lead you to having the inner conversation of why I’m doing this. My why is for me, my home & my family – no deep explanation because this is enough to forever carry me through.’
‘GIVE INTO MY FEARS’ is the final offering ahead of the release of Moana’s debut genre-bending EP, BUD & DENI. The new track following previous singles, ‘LIVIN’ OUT WEST’, ‘KEEP IT REAL’, and ‘TUGGAWAR’. Three dynamic tunes that reveal the multitudes that make up Jamaica Moana, and a promise of what’s to come in the EP.
“I knew this EP had to begin with loss and go from there. Bud & Deni are my parents. I grew up calling my father Bud (rhymes with good, short for buddha) and my mother Deni (short for Denise). They are the reason I was born, so my first-born EP is named after them,” said Jamaica of the six-track EP.
“This EP feels like the collection of my vast intersection of life through one formed story. I have many pieces of my life that individually are challenged by societal norms, but collectively accepted in the form of Jamaica Moana. For example, people still think living out west is a disadvantage but when it’s a part of my story, they like it. With this template, I’ve seen people who don’t understand QPOC, yet through my music – they somehow can understand me beyond our differences.
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