Trinidad...Stand Up!!! Empire State of Mind was originally written by Brooklyn natives Angela Hunte who grew up in Trinidad and Tobago and Janet Jnay Sewell-Ulepic who were feeling homesick while on an overseas trip in February 2009. The following month they submitted the song to Jay-Zs Roc Nation, whose reviews were a discouragement. Following an incident that Hunte and Sewell-Ulepic describe as an omen, they took the suggestion of an associate of EMI Music Publishing and resubmitted it to Jay-Z, who kept the sung New York hook, changed the verses, and recorded it as a single.
Posted on: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 12:07:20 +0000
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