Artist: TeaMarr feat. D Smoke
Song: “Kinda Love (Remix)”
Producer: N/A
Album: TBD
Director: James Bland
If you don’t know about TeaMarr, it’s time you get to know her. She’s signed to Issa Rae’s Raedio/Atlantic imprint and has been making some waves since the end of last year. For the remix of her single “Kinda Love,” D Smoke joins her for the track where a Build-A-Guy boyfriend shows up to her door in a box. This is what Tea had to say about how it all came together:
“I’m really big on things coming from me and having them reflect my ideas, my soul. My team doesn’t rush me — they know things take time before coming to me. But I’d always had the idea of ‘Kinda Love’ having to do with a factory, and the label was down with it immediately. I’m so used to being low budget and indie, so I didn’t know if it would happen, but the label made it happen with my vision, and he had the idea of continuing the workshop and seeing what it would be like to live with the man I made from scratch. That’s where the video came from — being put under pressure and whipping out whatever came to mind. It sounded outrageous, but people were like, ‘wait, this could work!'”