Miu Haiti wrote “In ‘Em Face” as a “reminder for anyone who listens to it and for myself to celebrate tour victories shamelessly. Whatever you accomplish, you deserve it, show it off.” And in the course of the music video and in the lyrics of the song she discusses the various way people will try to take, downplay or deny your personal power and trivialize who you are and what you’ve done and dismiss how often you have to be more capable, skilled and gifted in any endeavor to even get to the most meager status. With a jaunty and whimsical yet menacing piano figure and a steady yet low key relentless beat Haiti brings enough attitude to completely derail the train of disrespect with a powerfully irreverent spirit and says how it’s completely okay and even necessary to “rub it in ’em face,” using a touch of that Haitian patois to own a way of communicating that some people might want to use to denigrate your status as well. At the end of the video the old white man captain of the music industry gets a pie in the face and none of the frustration and anger he was anticipating but rather the ridicule he deserves for having the nerve to try to take advantage of another artist in whose league he is not. It’s beyond a hip-hop diss track, it’s a stylishly delivered take down of an entire way of operating whose time is and should be over. Watch the video for “In ‘Em Face” on YouTube and follow Miu Haiti at the links below.
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