Mina Rose premieres video for "Lemons & Limes"
South London's Mina Rose has premiered the striking video for her acclaimed debut single Lemons & Limes, which is out now. Watch it below!
I'm seriously drawn into this colourful yet cutting compound of trip-hop, dub, hip-hop and
vivid contemporary pop. Whilst wider influences range from Outkast and
Gorillaz to Gil Scott Heron, Lemon & Limes was particularly
inspired by reggae legend Smiley Culture, observing this lack of change
in the relationships between the police and the youth. Speaking about the single Mina said,
Lemons and Limes is about feeling that we are moving away from the inclusion that Smiley Culture was talking about in tracks like 'Cockney Translation. I feel that there are forgotten people and creations that have come from the heart of London that people are now unaware of which can remind us of the beauty of a multicultural society.
Diversity, community and creativity are central to everything Mina Rose does - from the culture-clash of sounds suggested through her early music to the South London block where Mina was first exposed to the possibilities of a life lived differently (whether through the neighbours, a father and uncle who occasionally produced House, a step-dad who played in local Ska bands, or the Roma ancestry on her mother's side, which includes the famous 'Queen of Kent Gypsies' Urania Boswell Lee). Juggling her studies in Visual Arts & Design with teaching herself to make music online, Mina Rose began to translate her own experiences of London's melting pot into writing songs which are as rooted in the paradoxes of present day city-living as they are conscious of history and hierarchy.
Mina Rose is also features on Tricky's latest single, Running Wild, and you can stream this somber track below!