By Will McGuirk

Always great to see someone do it their way and it hasn’t taken that long for Haviah Mighty to go from playing the Diezel Room here in Oshawa to winning the 2019 Polaris Music Prize, the first Hip Hop artist and first Black woman. It was for her album ‘13th Floor.,’ an apt title for someone who has created her own stepping off point. Along the way a relationship was struck up with Devonteé Woe, another cool kat doing things his way and doing well doing it. From Durham to LA, could be a song.

Haviah Mighty has a new single, ‘Antisocial’ out and we reached out to Devonteé via Instagram for some insight.

“I sent her a beat pack last December 2019 and over the year she built me the records on the beat and she sent me the final. She’s a beast,” he says.

In a press release Haviah says ““I remember listening to the beat months ago, feeling really energized by the hard cuts and bouncy percussion. That energy within was bottled up as I sat on my bed, hanging out alone, socially distancing - something I spent a lot of time doing around the time I wrote this song. As I got comfortable and familiar with being alone, I focused on self-help and self-care. As someone who generally only felt comfortable on the go in the messy hustle and bustle that is life, this time of slowing down to better get to know myself was important.”

The track features Old Man Saxon, of Denver CO.