Louie Culture Talks ‘Call Me If’ Remix With Dexta Daps And Tory Lanez
Dancehall star Dexta Daps has recruited veteran Reggae singer Louie Culture and Canadian rapper Tory Lanez for a remix of his massive hit Call Me If.
The original Gangalee singer flew to Miami, Florida with Billboard-charting producer- manager Rohan ‘Jahsnowcone’ Fuller to shoot a video for the project a few weeks ago, and the visuals for the remix will be released soon.
“It was a great vibes, like a movie. They shot the video at a big soundstage, is a major ting gwaan, the people ah go love this one,” Louie Culture told DancehallMag.
Tory Lanez, whose father hails from Barbados, is no stranger to Dancehall samples. His hit single LUV, borrows heavily from Tanto Metro and Devonte’s classic Everyone Falls In Love.
Louie is pleased that a new generation of dancehall-reggae artists have chosen to sample his monster Gangalee hit in the year 2020, 26 years after it first dominated dancehalls in the 1990s. Dancehall artists such as Bugle and Nesbeth have covered Gangalee in the past.
“It is great when a young artiste samples your work. Dexta contacted me and said he wanted to sample the song, Gangalee. He recorded it and said he wanted me to come voice my part. I left Portland and went to the studio, but when I heard the song, it was perfect. I told him he didn’t need Louie voice, this song gone already. Mi tell him green light, this gone,” Louie Culture said in an earlier interview.
But when Dexta Daps called the second time and said they needed him for the remix, Louie Culture couldn’t say no.
“Dexta called and he said that this time mi caan tell him no, so mi just say ‘yes’ and go deal with it and do my part,” Louie Culture said.
The Story Behind Gangalee
Gangalee is an old Jamaican rural term for an unruly, uncontrollable, bad person, and can also mean rebel or freedom-fighter.
When Culture’s Gangalee came out in 1994 on the Corduroy riddim it was a force of nature, topping ethnic reggae charts all over the world, and it made the deejay a household name.
“I had done a version with John John but he sat on it too long so I did another version for Wee Pow and that took off. Couple months later I saw an album from VP Records called Gangalee with songs from Bobby Digital, John John and Scorpio. All now mi no get no money for it, ah that mi ah deal mi a deal with right now with my publishers,” Louie said.
Louie Culture’s Gangalee is a statement of personal freedom: No man can decide my destiny/Only I can decide my own fi me/Why? ‘Cause I’m a ol’ Gangalee/I waan be free from all chains, and all bondages and ropes/Free from all bars, and all borders and dope/Free to praise the Lord, because mi nah praise di Pope/So mine how yu a wash yu face wid Babylon soap.
He said that Gangalee is still arguably his biggest song to date.
“The biggest forward I got for Gangalee was in Half Way Tree where I did if a capella and again at Reggae Bash where I received a four corner forward . Gangalee was my biggest hit, that was the one that made me a household name. Other artistes do it over and it and it hit again, is a big tune,” he said.
Louie Culture will be teaming up with Jahsnowcone Fuller to do a 14 track album, Jah Is With Me.
“We ah go shoot some videos for the singles from the album starting the end of this month, the vibes nice,” Culture said.