Sound Shuffle 🎶

“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain” – Bob Marley

In the world of underground music, there are a lot of genres and types of music associated with those genres, that you can eventually run into. This blog is about exactly that: non-mainstream, or underground music. My blog will be specifically about the genres of rap and hip-hop music that most people haven’t heard about from all over the world. The goal of this blog is to get people broaden their music horizons. I will listen to different types of non-mainstream music and artist and give my opinion on these types of music and artist and whether I think they’re hot or not.

In this first blog, I’m writing about a well known Bahamian duo called “Twindem“. Since I am also from The Bahamas, Twindem, is definitely one of my favourite artist out right now. I grew up listening to Twindem when they were just simply known “Twin & Bwah”. Even though they’re very popular back at home, because it is such a small country it is a challenge to become “mainstream”, in a foreign country.

Twindem first started making music nine years ago in 2010 with a group Vocal Union Bahamas (VUB) and they still make music to this present day. Their most recent work dropped 8 days ago, Islandtine 2 , on the night of February 13th, 2019. Their first project was My Brother’s Keeper (MBK). “Music was something we liked doing at first, then we started trying to take it a little more seriously as time went by.”

With an increasing number of followers and likes Twindem has grown into one of the biggest Bahamian artist in recent times. From their first mixtape, My Brother’s Keeper, to their last Islandtine 2, their music is full of experiences, along with the good and bad times that they have gone through in their personal life. Growing up listening to Twindem, and being from the same place as them, made me look at their music differently. I began to understand where they were coming from on a personal level. I know Twindem from a number of reasons being, we went to the same highschool, and even the same barber. I have two solidified favorite songs by Twindem. The first song is Ocean Club. It comes off their 2016 project, “Remember The Twins”. I like this song so much, because it gives you that vibe where you can listen to it no matter what you’re doing. Ocean Club is an private estate in The Bahamas’ capital island, Nassau. The Ocean Club is a club primarily for the wealthy, and Twindem is saying in this song that they have dreams of being able to live in Ocean Club, basically saying they have dreams of being rich. It’s gives you something to look forward too, or a goal of some sort to achieve. The second song “Last Ride” that comes off their latest mixtape “Islandtine 2”. This song is a song about

Being the athlete I am, I’m always listening to music. Like said in my bio, I always have in headphones and whenever I’m listening to Twindem either is through their album or one of their songs comes on in shuffle, my mood always changes. Personally their music is HOT! They have a song for every mood. It gives you a glimpse of how the “island life” is. Twindem has music on almost every platforms like Apple Music, Spotify, Soundcloud, Youtube and even Facebook.