You don’t qualify to date Marcy Chin if you spend US$2,000 on her and expect to win her over in a few weeks.
On her most recent track “When Mi Ah,” which encourages people to exercise judgment with their intimate partners, the unadorned performer has struck a chord with the struggling-adjacent man. Her rationale?
Produce bruk man sugar, Complete a concern and what-not-dawgy, Nuh like contraception, mah love f**k natural, Mi nuh waan yer inna my womb.
The video’s stirring online discussions are similar to her declaration that threesomes are a wealthy man’s activity on “Gimmie More.” The horror stories of people being wronged by a guy they helped climb the socio-economic ladder serve as inspiration for her defiant aversion to dating the “trying” individuals.
“When you are done getting your money up, you can talk to me, then you qualify – then I’ll add to that,” Chin told DancehallMag. However, I and you both go through a conflict.
It’s a matter typically raised in today’s dating environment, with the downsides of snagging a wealthy person not as discussed. For the Downsound Records signee, it’s a matter of choosing the lesser of two evils.
“Every man a crosses, right through… Man a nuh prize – period. When we pair up with people, it’s about forward motion, improving. You want to work with a man who has the necessary knowledge to know how to deal with women and have the necessary funds. When a person approaches you and asks you to do something plain, costing a few US$1,000, he is supposed to bat an eye when he spends that amount…
I’m not saying that once you reach a certain level, you won’t encounter issues. When you’re both alright, it’s more worthwhile, in my opinion, because having money is better to battle and weep with than not having it.
In other words, your personal ties “haffi mek feel,” as Chin reiterates throughout “When Mi Ah.”
The track, which was sat on the “Scuba Dive” riddim, is a lullaby of Scoobay memories thanks to Kunley Da Kulprit, who has collaborated with her for years. True to their Timbaland-Missy Elliott vibe, Kunley cooked up a vibrating beat (for Billionaire Bootcamp Records), watermarked with lively “na-na-na” vocals, a quad entendre for lady parts, rejecting access and child-like taunting. Then, in all her cool, rap-flow glory, the “Chin City” president delights ears with melodically and lyrically diverse bars.
The track’s history dates back to Christmas Day in 2023, when she teased it on social media after receiving the instrumental and recording it that day. People ate up Marcy Chin, as is common.
I was aware that I wanted to start this year really strong. To have it come from a no-brainer song was amazing, and I don’t think I should have thought twice about it because it’s just the best thing in the world right now.
The song could also serve as a theme for a safe sex campaign if it’s an aside from the indigent. According to Chin, Chin said this was done with caution because of the physical and spiritual ties that come with having sex and how it affects one’s overall health.
The icing on the cake is the clean, reworked version of the song, which toasts to Chin’s creative genius. She chose to use an entirely new track that promotes financial literacy, breaking with the conventional method of editing explicit music by swapping out some words.
“I never actually thought about it, I just wrote a whole new thing,” she said.” I intentionally avoided cutting out the words because I detest a clean translation. I don’t like to be censored, at all, so I’d rather talk about something else. This raw version is what it is, I’m not fixing that. Let’s talk about money because, ultimately, we all require it.
“A lot of us don’t know anything about money management or are financially illiterate, especially in the dancehall community. A lot of us make nuff money, we nuh come from money, so as we mek the money, it gone and we gone right back to zero. This serves as a reminder that they must “make sense of it.”
The reworked version also suits her younger fan base, though she isn’t stifling her art to be anyone’s role model.
She said, “My personal philosophy about creating art is that you have to do it for yourself first. When you lose that, then you lose the whole essence of everything. You lose yourself, and now it focuses on everyone else, and when it focuses on everyone else, you get stuck… I have to stay true to that. Let me figure out the logistics later because kids will always have their own needs.
Nonetheless, both versions have attracted viral dance challenges by choreographers like Nico Ovadose and Jazz Highflames.
Although “When Mi Ah” is currently her second most recently streamed track on Spotify with 29,000 plus listens (followed by the 2013 international “Mek It Bunx Up” hit with DeeWunn, which received 57 million streams), Chin is already in the pipeline, bringing the next wave of music.
What I try to do is make sure there is nothing in its way for it to go further, because I want to see it go more viral but I can’t afford to sit and think about it when I have other things to do.