![]() Since winning the inaugural Contest, Dphrepaulezz has gone on to headline world tours, win three Grammy Awards, release a handful of albums and become a catalyst for creativity in his local Oakland community. "It was going to be like busking on the streets - on steroids," he laughs. And after winning, Dphrepaulezz slowly began to realize how it would change his life - that there would "be a huge spotlight put on" what he was doing, he says. ![]() I said ‘I'mma leave it right there because that was not me.Xavier Dphrepaulezz, who performs as Fantastic Negrito, has always wanted to "tell the stories that will make us think the ones that will make us grow." He entered the first-ever Tiny Desk Contest in 2015 with that dream and a video he shot in one take. “So, basically, it means God is king to me with the fourth note of the diatonic scale to such an extent that I exalt… I love when the spirit is moved. ‘So’ means ‘to such an extent.’ ‘La’ means to exalt,” she explained. ‘Me’ is ‘to me.’ ‘Co’ means ‘with.’ ‘Fa’ is the fourth note on the diatonic scale. ‘Ray’ is ‘king’ in Spanish and a ray of light. Her seamless explanation of the song’s meaning is what made this an inexplicably unreal moment that can never be duplicated. ![]() "My hand and my pen moving before I was and when I opened my eyes, it said ‘Jahraymecofasola,’ and I was like, ‘Hmm.’ I heard the music and I was writing and freestyling the whole thing and I was just like, ‘What’s another way to say, I love you?’ And I closed my eyes and I waited and my pen was moving.” ![]() ‘Jahraymecofasola’ is one of my favorites because of how it came about and how simply beautiful it is,“ she said. Jill Scott explains in this interview on BET.com: ![]()
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