EPS 133 Afrobeats
Taj Williams (00:31)
you
DW (00:39)
Welcome back to the Ultimate Playlist podcast full of choice tracks. I'm Detrick.
Damon (00:45)
Amen.
Taj Williams (00:46)
And I'm Taj.
DW (00:50)
Yeah, that track never gets old. All right. So welcome back to Choice Tracks. You're just your local Neverhood podcast that likes to talk about music and the different ways we can talk about music. And in this particular section, what we're gonna be talking about is genres. And in this episode, there's one specific genre that I really wanted these guys to hear. And it's not because I just wanted to be weird with it, but it's just because
Taj Williams (00:53)
I know.
DW (01:19)
We really need to get into the groove of things, right? We need to have a nice little set of groove that gets into the podcast and mainly to the playlist, right? And in this particular situation, the genre in which I chose actually goes back into the 60s and 70s. So it's been around for a very long time. It just recently got popular in the United States, say about the early 2020s or so. But, you know, right now it's definitely been one of those dominant tracks.
And it's kind of fell back from another group or another genre, subgenre of the music. But it's definitely still a whole string today. And anytime these sounds come on, everybody gets to moving the groove because it's all about the beat within itself. And if you don't know what I'm talking about, I'm talking about Afrobeat.
Taj Williams (02:07)
with an S or without S.
DW (02:09)
with an S in this particular situation. Reason why is because the original or the orientation of Afrobeats actually came from Afrobeat, which was traced back into the 60s and 70s in Nigeria. So there was an individual by the name of Fela Kute. Fela Kute blended traditional styles of African rhythms with jazz, funk, a little bit of the afterlife of what was going to happen.
life but like disco like what was going on around at the time and basically came up with his own groove and in such doing his own groove other individuals started imitating that groove and then dust was born a whole genre of music mainly Nigerian music but then it brushed off into other tribes as well and other other what do you call that every city within itself other regions yes so
Taj Williams (03:00)
Regents.
DW (03:05)
Sometimes it had a political tone to it, talking about injustice and corruption. Sometimes it was literally just the stage show performances and the different dance routines that went along with the music, which is actually carried over into 2020 and above. There's all different types of dances and mainly took off in TikTok.
So when TikTok started branching out, becoming its own thing, a lot of these dances were done on TikTok. So it taught the masses how to do the actual dance, right? And that really came back from Afrobeatz within itself. it really hit, global recordings went out in the 1970s and it branched out from there. And then in the early 2000s, actually 2011, there was an individual that coined the term Afro.
Beats. it was a DJ that was putting in mix and put an S on the end and then the actual remixes of particular earlier songs came into play and then that's how the Afro Beats section came in right. So Afro Beats has been around for a very long time and shout out to all the DJs in the world that are kicking out music because without the DJ a lot of these different genres or sub genres that we have would not actually be in play. So moving along so y can stop hearing me talk.
Taj Williams (04:12)
Cool, okay.
I'm
DW (04:28)
My pick was actually voted one of the most popular tracks to come out of the Afrobeat genre. It's coming from an artist who's been around for a good minute and his remix was Selena Gomez, literally took it over the top and sprang out to the masses. It was number one for like 27 weeks. And for those who don't know, I'm talking about Rima and I decided to go mainstream and I picked the song Calm Down.
Yes, that was released in February of 2022 from his album, Brave and Roses. That definitely is the mainstay track that came from that album. He had a couple of songs that really took off, like Soundgazem and FYN. But really, Me, Mine, and Me was one of those songs that really of caved off from there. But Calm Down was by Bart None, hands down.
the top track that came out of this particular album. And it literally took over the airwaves, so to speak, right? Not only for the rhythmic kind of solstice of the song, but also because the way in which it came across, it really hit the tone of what AfroBeats was starting from, which was the originality of just simplistic notes and movement and just created a whole atmosphere.
that a lot of people were looking for when it came to music. what do y 'all think about Rima? What do y 'all think about Calm Down?
Taj Williams (06:19)
I love this song like I've loved this song since I've heard it like I didn't really know the artists. I could probably guess the title, but like this is an amazing song. It's I mean. I'm not sure if I had heard the person with just him or the version with Selena Gomez more, but I like them both. They're both really good. But him on his own, like it's still a banger of a hit like Selena didn't.
DW (06:38)
Thank you.
Taj Williams (06:47)
you know, make it popular. Like it just added on top of it because without her, it's still a banger of a hit. yeah, and it would just be as chart popping. I think what's interesting is I do get the African beat in it a lot, but it kind of borderlines. It's it's interesting. And I'm not sure how to properly describe it, but like there are some Latin notes in it.
DW (06:54)
Right?
Yep.
Taj Williams (07:17)
even though it's more Afrikan. But yeah, I still like it for Tafro beats. But that's why I think it's almost like worldwide. You can kind of nail it down, but it still speaks to everyone. Everybody can get behind this and dance. So yeah.
DW (07:37)
You touched right on a good point because you know Afrobeats has a little bit of Mugrengue a little bit of Reggae tone I was brushed out from there. You know, there are there definitely different note structures You know, it's recorded in what? B major? want to say that there's different note structures and from there like the whole tone could carry across different nationalities could carry across
Taj Williams (07:47)
Hmm.
DW (08:04)
different regions and that's what makes it such a global hit. It's the fact that you can listen to it in pretty much any country and get a vibe from it.
Taj Williams (08:14)
Yeah, exactly.
DW (08:18)
I like your explanation.
Taj Williams (08:18)
What you think Damon? Were you trying waltz to it?
Damon (08:22)
I've heard that song actually a lot on the radio the past couple of years or so. So I think that Dietrich picked the most known Afrobeat song out of all the so I was like, damn it, because I didn't know any Afrobeat music or at least I didn't think I did. I knew this song and it does seem like they do a lot of like the artists that are considered like an Afrobeat artist.
Taj Williams (08:35)
you
DW (08:37)
I'm gonna sit.
Hmm.
Damon (08:51)
I guess I don't know if they've always been an Afro beats artist, but like they they are considered that now or they have like a lot of musicians have different like genres that they can be placed in. So but yeah, that's definitely a great pick. And when you hear it, so I'm listening to him like, man, this is the one I've heard on the radio a lot. So he must.
be speaking clearly or whatever. It's like, he's like, he still sounds like all the other Afro beats music that I'm listening to, where it's like a different language and then some English. And it's kind of fun. It's very much so like party music or like calm music. I didn't know what everybody was saying, unless I looked at the lyrics as I was going through. But but yeah, no, it definitely was pretty cool.
DW (09:36)
Okay.
Taj Williams (09:42)
Yeah. And he pulled off the one thing you should never really tell a woman, which is calm down. Like, and made a song out like anybody else. You go up and say that you're going to slapped. But you just got to sing it. Yeah. Right. No, but.
Damon (09:50)
I see, yeah.
Seems to know how to say that though.
DW (09:54)
Thank
Yeah.
Yeah, ma
Damon (10:01)
I don't think I could do that. I don't think you could do that either, Tash.
DW (10:05)
can see that happening. believe it. Calm down. Before I even get the second one out. Yeah. Drink on my face. What the arc going back and forth. Yeah. I'm cool. I'm cool. I don't need to slide with that.
Taj Williams (10:09)
Yeah. So. Before we move on, I did want to mention two more things, so one is that the music video is really cool, like it's a real like Ron Calm where like he sees a girl at a party and then he has his.
Damon (10:16)
Yeah, the big hand slap.
you
Taj Williams (10:35)
But these take away the other girls so can go up and talk to her and then that they kind of sneak out of the party. So that's really cool. But yeah, so. Yeah, exactly. The other thing I was asked on this is. And maybe it's a weird thing to bring up, but like, is this one of the first like post covid songs? Maybe not, but like the weird thing is it has the word lockdown in there and it's like
DW (10:44)
Wingman or four?
Taj Williams (11:05)
It does kind of seem like that weird, like a song that could have been affected by COVID. Like this is the start of songs post -COVID, you know?
DW (11:16)
Definitely because it was released. It was recorded in 21. It was released in February at 22. So that's literally around that time where we're close to start getting vaccines and the whole nine. But not everybody is getting them type of situation. So, you know, this is definitely one of those that, yes, it was born out of that situation. And it really, I think it really took off.
Taj Williams (11:24)
Okay, gotcha.
DW (11:45)
not just for the fact of coming from there, but at that time there weren't a lot of artists that were putting out music. So that really helped in the situation as well. know, but when we started trying to get back to some type of normal and then all of sudden this song drops and
Taj Williams (11:55)
Right.
DW (12:03)
is making people dance and you see the DJs that throw the dance parties on Instagram where everybody's in the room, not in the physical room, but in the online chat room and dancing away and having fun and everything. And this song just blew up from there with that shit. So yeah, I definitely feel that.
Taj Williams (12:15)
Yeah, yeah.
Right. And that, yeah, and I could totally see that, especially in an online chat room. You play this and you're like, all right, yeah, we're going to calm down. We'll get through this. We're all separate little square boxes on the screen, but we're going to calm down and enjoy ourselves. But yeah.
DW (12:37)
That's it. That's all you can do.
Damon (12:39)
Yeah, yeah, definitely great you see this like in a I feel like I'd see this in the movie like Fast and the Furious there in like the Chillout scene or something on the beach some shit
DW (12:48)
Towards the end. Right?
Taj Williams (12:49)
The barbecue scene, there's always a barbecue scene where they come over for. Yeah.
DW (12:54)
It's a barbecue scene and then turn around and somebody pulls up at the damn car riding off and was like, okay Yeah, this song was banging while you're in the brand new charger that you can't hear it play
Taj Williams (13:05)
you
Damon (13:06)
Yeah, yeah, exactly. You have your freaking earbuds in to hear it while you're driving.
DW (13:10)
Got to. Got to. Okay, who's next?
Any, any, any mo grab a tiger by his toe. You always let him go. Taj Taj what you got there for us?
Taj Williams (13:19)
Did
All right. You're leading the ship. You get to decide. What do I got? Well, I did the homework. I was trying to search around. I had a couple that popped up. But I was trying to find something that wasn't like a major collab. Like I found one that was like a powered
Power Down, was a Beyonce one that was really cool, but like it had like a bunch of artists on there. So it's like a major collaborative work. I ended up with this one, which is Necessary by Kiss Daniel and Philip Gies.
DW (14:01)
Alright.
Taj Williams (14:19)
Yeah, so this was released in 2018 off of his second album of No Bad Songs with a Z. So he was on a label and then he broke off and went on to his own independent label. And so he's a Nigerian singer. so when it supposedly went the album, No Bad Songs debuted.
DW (14:41)
Mm -hmm.
Taj Williams (14:48)
It started at number 55 on US iTunes charts, but became number one on the album charts within 24 hours of its release. like his his album blew up. And the cool thing is like the music video is him and both the two guys sitting around and different women coming up doing dance auditions for him. But they're all in different traditional garbs. So but yeah, and it's just a
And, you know, it's a good club song, you know, and it just, you know, just try to tell the plays that, you know, they're necessary, which they are. I don't know. I mean, yeah, it's kind of weird if you think too hard on it, but it's a it's a yeah, it's a club song.
Damon (15:30)
Just don't say it that way.
Hey ladies, you're necessary, you know what mean?
Taj Williams (15:47)
It's a winking song. Yeah. Try trying to throw a wink out there. There you go. There you go. Yeah.
Damon (15:50)
Yeah, that might work.
DW (15:52)
Yeah, definitely a peacock song. Yeah, definitely that. I like the pic. I actually love the pic. I love the pic because the pic...
Damon (15:57)
you
DW (16:05)
Two artists that are known for doing solos, at Collapse, or Bangers, you got Phil Keys, you got, you know, Kiss Daniel, like they actually go together peanut butter jelly style. And it just just fits, it rolls, their attitudes come off. I remember seeing the video, like their charisma comes off in the video.
Their swagger kind of comes off in it and it's like it makes you feel good You know saying you can you could dress up a little bit those of shades and some chains on and make you want to go out and just Have a good ass time. So that right there is the yeah
Taj Williams (16:49)
Thank you.
Damon (16:50)
Yeah, it was definitely necessary to play that one
DW (16:50)
Mm
Yes.
That's it.
Taj Williams (16:56)
Alright.
Damon (16:58)
I can't find the button. Whatever. Yeah. Thanks, Dietrich. Yeah, I thought it was similar to the other Afro Beats music that I was trying to listen to, you know, to get an idea of like what was good, what was mainstream. I got to say it's hard to find like what it's hard for me to tell what's mainstream over what isn't other than what you had picked, Dietrich.
DW (17:00)
I'm gonna have to this.
Taj Williams (17:02)
That's okay.
DW (17:24)
Gotcha.
Damon (17:28)
You know, calm down is like it's a huge song. So it's being played a lot on the radio. I think it's maybe the sound of the beat in the background fits more of the mainstream of what people want to hear on the radio. I don't know. I'm not saying that there isn't other stuff that's on the radio being played to kids. I just don't know much about Afrobeat. But Afrobeat.
versus Afro Beats is completely different too. And I found that out because I picked a song that wasn't Afro Beats. Yeah. So I had fun. Yeah, it was very good. Yeah. I mean, I had fun watching the video and listening to the big kind of big band. There's like men and women and they're all playing instruments and singing.
DW (18:02)
Good, good song though. Good, good song.
Damon (18:17)
No, just fun. Like a lot of and there's a lot of collaborations like some of these bands I've never heard of are playing with like Coldplay and stuff. So it's kind of crazy that they're getting that exposure and people like me, guess maybe I feel like I should know more of those bands, but you have to really kind of go searching for them.
especially by genre, I don't think Afrobeatz is like foreign to everybody, but it's newer. It seems like it's newer because all the artists are young. Like there's not one like older artist that's an Afrobeatz musician.
DW (18:53)
There's a couple. But those are more like foundation layers. And so they don't get the big push over here as they do in the home country. So in Nigeria, they're like A1 superstars. And that's the crazy thing about global music. You can literally have somebody that's considered a superstar everywhere else. But then when it comes to the USA, we're like, huh?
Damon (18:59)
All
Yeah.
DW (19:22)
And to give a good example of that, Bad Bunny. If you didn't know who Bad Bunny was, half the people, I would say a good quarter of the people did not know who Bad Bunny was until they saw him on Cardi B's track. I like it like that. And that was one of those, it's like, okay, you got these other artists, J. Calvin, know, a lot of these artists that are out here, know, Tim's.
Damon (19:22)
All
Okay.
DW (19:49)
you have so many artists that are out that are within this genre that unless you get put on by the bassist you go over there and it's like you're looking at a superstar you're looking at somebody that technically can't be touched type situation and over here we're just kind of like just now starting to get into the groove of otherworldly music and it feels good that it's branching out
But it's also kind of crazy the fact that there's so many other artists out here that we just don't know. And I would like to explore those artists with y 'all.
Taj Williams (20:23)
Right.
Wait, so is major laser one or not quite? Never.
Damon (20:27)
All right.
An Afrobeats artist?
DW (20:36)
He crossed over to Afrobeats. Major Lazer was more Rasta style mixed in with club style mixed in with electronic and then kind of rolled with it from there. But he crossed over to Afrobeats. He's got Afrobeats mixtape. Actually, it's fire.
Taj Williams (20:38)
That's what I thought. Okay.
Damon (20:39)
really?
Taj Williams (20:54)
That's what I Right. Yeah. So, okay.
Damon (21:01)
I'm gonna have to find that and play it on the way to work. I need to get pumped up on the way to work. Okay.
Taj Williams (21:04)
you
DW (21:07)
Yeah, I'll send you a couple of tracks man Yeah, one leg up we'll go with yeah, they had to get you in the woods like okay. Okay. I see I see
Damon (21:18)
Get my coffee going. Some major laser. Yeah, that was, was, ahead, Tosh.
Taj Williams (21:23)
So what?
No, I was gonna ask what did you end up picking, there a
Damon (21:30)
and I didn't pick anything by kids Daniel. So because he stole my artist. Yeah, I didn't know anything about these artists. And it's cool. But I feel like I just got opened up to another thing that I'm like, wow, it's another thing. Yet another thing I don't know. Like a little hermit here. But yeah, I'm.
Taj Williams (21:31)
Yeah.
Yeah.
Damon (21:57)
pretty excited to hear a lot of this music and to see the new artists that I guess I knew some of their stuff and yeah Afrobeats is like I guess I don't see they're probably playing at like South by Southwest other places I guess they maybe have been at ACL but like I said like I think they're also fitting other genres too so
DW (22:27)
Mm -hmm.
Damon (22:27)
And it does seem newer. It does seem like a newer thing. But yeah, so I was searching around. I was trying to pick a good artist and I saw I did notice there's a lot of men in Afrobeats, the Afrobeats world. Then I saw there's a lot of women, too. So but like the first thing that comes up when you like I just kind of do searches, right? Like I try to search musicians in that genre that are going to fit.
DW (22:40)
Yep.
Damon (22:53)
popularity. I want to see who's like the biggest name. do I know who that is? And I can like kind of relate to it. And if I had I was going through a lot of musicians, a lot of artists, so I probably would have come across Calm Down. I'm sure I would have picked that if that wasn't your pick just because I would have been excited that I knew something. But as I was going through and I was like, maybe I'll pick a female artist.
DW (23:12)
Mm
Damon (23:21)
on purpose because I want to see, you know, the difference and how they sound and stuff. Because a lot of the stuff that was coming up first was all male artists and you all have picked male artists. I'm not saying they did it on purpose or whatever, but it just seemed like that was kind of like majority. But now there's like a million artists out there that are men and women. But so, yeah, I was going through and I found an artist called
DW (23:43)
Okay.
Damon (23:51)
Named yummy a lot a or l a late. I don't know if i'm pronouncing it right. I probably could have Looked up the phonetic spelling for that before I tried to butcher her name, but yeah me, yeah, she's a pretty pretty cool musician, And she had she had a lot of stuff to choose from like I was trying to pick like her main songs but
Yeah, I went with one, I guess it just sounded good and I didn't know exactly what you're saying until I looked at the lyrics, but control.
Yeah, so this is like this is from 2000 and it looks like there's different like I don't know if she owns her production company or not, but FZ music group is the production company that did did this.
this album. So yeah, I thought I thought this was.
pretty fun, guess. And it had a good, sound as far as like the background beats. Her voice sounds good. One of the things I thought was really cool about, yeah, I mean, is that she actually, think it was like 2020 pandemic time. That's when there was, like you were saying, Deidre, lot of musicians and artists were trying to put something out, trying to.
Taj Williams (25:08)
Alright
Damon (25:34)
do something new, make people feel good about music and probably try to make some money. Cause they, you know, there's a big, big law in that economy for musicians for a long time. It feels like a long time, but they did, they did do a pretty good comeback. Now it's kind of hard for people to go see shows that are affordable, but you know, that's more of the, venues. So there's still a little bit of like stuff going on. I think that artists run into, but
They deserve their money. love going to live shows. Music is what keeps the world going. Right. But what I found was interesting. Yeah, she was she was basically a part of a a group. I've never heard of this or is like a function, the global goal. So it's a unite for our future alongside like Miley Cyrus, Coldplay, Usher.
DW (26:22)
No.
Damon (26:31)
Yeah, just big bands. So I that was pretty cool. And she was like making a name for herself globally, globally. And she also had won some other awards as well. So now I think she is she's definitely like turned out to be a really good pick, I think. And I probably couldn't have gone wrong with a lot of these artists, but I didn't know who any of them were. So.
That's kind of fun. That's kind of fun. Find a new genre and then listen into all the new stuff. So, what'd you all think of my pick? Did I pick something weird? Does it fit it? Well, what do you guys think?
DW (27:13)
Nah, you picked the bomb ass pic bro, that was fire. That was fire. Yes, no problem. Yeah, definitely up there when it comes to artists that have their own platform and know how to use it. Like there's so many artists that are out now that are just now getting their just do like Burner Boy, DeVito, Rima, Ria Starr, WizKid.
Taj Williams (27:16)
you
Damon (27:17)
Well, thanks, D.
You
DW (27:40)
Fireboy DML just just to name off a couple right? Remy, Yemi is right there. Yemi is right there. So you picked a fire track. I love control. I love her voice and how she rides the beat but still is on top of it. Doesn't let the beat take control of her. And like that was was a Vondi song.
So good people, good people. That would definitely be in my DJ mix. So now it's in the ultimate playlist list. So yeah, we definitely gonna pull that up.
Damon (28:12)
Thank you sir.
Nice.
Taj Williams (28:21)
Yeah, it no, I liked it too. Yeah, I appreciate. I appreciate the pick a lot. And yeah, it was I enjoyed that a lot. I mean, I did watch the video and you know, that was pretty cool. I yeah, she for sure. She seems like a total baller. I'm trying. I can't I'm trying to place her personality. It's not quite making the stallion, but it's not quite Lizzo. It's kind of like a
It's like a pink attitude almost.
DW (28:55)
I like that. Put that color to it. Don't fuck with me, but you can still jam my music text out.
Taj Williams (28:59)
Yeah.
Yeah, exactly. Because yeah, I mean, because she she has the yeah, she has the attitude. She knows who she is. She's confident that she's worth her shit, but she's not like on the more crude. She's not on the crude side. She's more on the nicer side of the street. know? Yeah.
DW (29:25)
Mm -hmm.
Damon (29:27)
mean, she shows off her hair too. She's got tons of different hairstyles and she's always sporting different outfits. I mean, she's got to come from money or something. I don't know where she's coming from, but she's from Nigeria. So I guess a lot of the artists Nigerian, is that kind of like...
DW (29:33)
Hmm.
Taj Williams (29:38)
you
DW (29:39)
You can't fall behind. Yeah.
Yeah.
A lot of the big artists are in that particular.
genre are Nigerian. Now there's some that come from other other aspects of it but it started with Nigeria so they're kind of like the mainstay in the situation. Now with that being said like I said there's there's a bunch of artists out here that aren't from that particular part of the region but still get lumped in for whatever shape form or fashion but she is from that region and a lot of the big artists like Britta Boyd and and the other folks are as well so
Damon (30:22)
But now you can find that song on her album and press EMPR ESS and press as a 2020 album. And that's when that's like when she blew up and went to the global awards show. She also speaks like three languages. And I.
So we were kind of discussing this and I guess it's hard to tell but you had to like look at the lyrics and everything but English, French and Portuguese is like what she sings in her songs and I think that was a combo of all three in this one or at least a couple of them so that's kind of cool and it's really culturally advanced I guess. mean that makes for a nice concert. I think that a live show
DW (30:58)
Hmm.
Damon (31:16)
with any one of these bands would be like superb. And it would be a night out. You'd be going to a nice restaurant and enjoying the shit out of it. It'd be a good memory. So get out there and see some Afro Beats people.
Taj Williams (31:28)
sure. So I enjoyed it. So thank you very much that this is a great genre for a Stedric. So we appreciate it.
DW (31:39)
Yeah, next time around, I'm just gonna throw this out here. We're gonna go to it's a nice little step brother. Let's come up with a mix. You're gonna find a whole lot more songs over there. That John is gonna be on the piano.
Taj Williams (31:53)
okay. But that's a ways away, but sneak sneak peek sneak peek. Gotcha. Okay.
Damon (31:54)
Okay
DW (31:59)
Yes, way to go. Just giving y 'all a chance to catch up before we just go from there.
Damon (32:08)
Nice.
Taj Williams (32:08)
So, all right. Anything else you want to cover on the genre before we wrap up this episode?
DW (32:11)
Alright.
Thank you and appreciate y 'all for listening and appreciate these guys right here for going along this ride with me and Yeah, let's get down on dirty
Taj Williams (32:28)
Huh? Why, I enjoyed the ride, so. alright.
Damon (32:32)
Yeah, now I a vacation. I feel like I need to go on a cruise or something. I don't know.
DW (32:34)
Yes, yes, we need to go, we need to go, you know, to Africa and absorb the energy that's over there for sure.
Taj Williams (32:45)
Right? That wouldn't be bad.
Damon (32:46)
Well, that would be awesome. Choice tracks from Africa.
DW (32:50)
Man, that would be glad. Yes, sir.
Damon (32:53)
One of these days, one of these days.
DW (32:55)
Now within a couple of donations people, let's make that happen.
Taj Williams (32:58)
For sure, we'll fly in the cargo plane. We don't care if there's livestock in there.
Damon (33:02)
Yeah
DW (33:03)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll throw on kickstart hangs, you know, see where it comes from there. So
Damon (33:07)
That's all part of the experience. A Kickstarter. All right. Let's see what happens, guys.
Taj Williams (33:09)
you
DW (33:12)
Mm -hmm.
Taj Williams (33:13)
I
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I'm Damon.
DW (33:35)
And I'm Dietrich and we're going to peel the needle, but y 'all can't spin in those choice tracks made from Applebees. Just for you.