Are you familiar with the name Lucas DiPasquale? Lucas is a youngster from Canada and he took it to YouTube with his acoustic cover of a medley of Popcaan’s “Road Haffi Tek On”, “Party Shot” and” Only Man She Want”, which generated a big response raking up more than 100,000 hits, giving some fame to this youngster from Ontario.
“I really just did it to impress my friends,” DiPasquale recalls.
“They have Jamaican parents and have been trying get me into reggae and dancehall music for some time now.
And I have really come to like it and just wanted to show them how much they have rubbed off on me,” he continued.
This is not the first time that Lucas does a cover but it’s the first time he does it on reggae and dancehall, before he did with American rap and R&B acts.
He has more to come and he revelead his next project will be “It’s something from Popcaan and Vybz (Kartel). I hope it is as good as this one. I’m kinda nervous, so I’m trying to make it perfect before I release it.”
The acustic cover of Popcaan’s audio material caught Popcaan’s attention too.
“Popcaan reached out to me. Someone tweeted the video and sent it to him and he got back at me just saying ‘thanks, and no worries’. That was just great,” he says.
As many others obsessed with Poppi’s music and style DiPasquale says Poppi he’s favorite and why.
“I love all his music. It’s just happy and exciting; whether I am listening to Ravin or any Popcaan track I just feel happy… it’s a very rhythmic sound and I just love it. Not a lot of North American artists do that for me,” he states.
Although he has never visited Jamaica, through his friends DiPasquale has been drawn to the music of local acts Popcaan, Tommy Lee, the incarcerated Vybz Kartel, and Mavado.
Even with making the video, it was his friends who helped him understand the lyrics of the tracks which are recorded in the Jamaican dialect.
“It wasn’t really that hard, as it is very rhythmic and catchy, but my friends helped me out and even helped me pronounce some of the words,” he said.
