‘Prime Time’ elated over year’s acceptance of music

“I cannot stop expressing the feeling of acceptance when you see a complete stranger singing along to your song and DJs that you don’t even know playing your music on the radio.”

These words came from Devonte Peters, one member of the duo “Prime Time” in an interview with SEARCHLIGHT.{{more}}

Both Peters and Utamu Rose, who are no strangers to music, said that they knew that they wanted to be a duo when they were members of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Community College’s Performing Arts Society.

Their musical career together took flight two years ago when Peters presented Rose with a beat which he fell in love with and decided to start writing.

Since then they have managed to produce about ten songs, two of which have already been released.

In 2015, the duo said that they worked along with Phillip “Wetty Beatz” Bastian who produced their first song “Up It Up”.

They gave credit to Wetty Beatz for giving them the opportunity to work with him even when they were “nobodies”.

This year, they released their new song “I Doh Fete Wid You” which was produced by Elrico “Pixel” Hunte.

Rose admitted that it was the most frightening experience putting out their song for people to criticize, but expressed his satisfaction with the response of immediate friends and family who supported and encouraged them.

Both Peters and Rose expressed their love for soca and explained why they choose to produce only soca music.

“Soca is our culture. I’m from a soca nation, soca is our thing. Let’s just be honest… soca is fun,” said Peters.

Rose told SEARCHLIGHT, “Soca is the music of the people. It is part of our culture and it’s something that people could relate to.”

“You’re going to get a quicker listenership if you ask a Vincentian to listen to your soca song than if you ask them to listen to your rap song, because rap is not a part of our culture,” he added.

A recent live performance by Prime Time with the Kinetics Band at the carnival mass bands launch was noted as their most memorable achievement as a duo.

They claimed that this particular experience gave them headlight into what they wanted to do in the future, which involves contesting national competitions. However, they made it clear that their aim right now is to establish their name.

“When we enter in a competition we want to enter to win. If you’re going into a competition I think that your goal should be to win. Right now we want to solidify our place as new artistes before we step into the competition arena,” said Rose.

“We’re about producing good music. We are about producing clean music,” Peters added.

The future of Prime Time also involves the continuous development of culture and the art of soca.

“Prime Time is a brand and we’re about more than ourselves. We are about developing the nation, developing the soca and the youths.

They also hope to make it regionally.

“We want to break into the airwaves of other countries. We’re just taking it in stages,” Peters said.(CA)