A Love Letter to Baile Funk | RAGGA NYC & Young Wavy Fox

Young Wavy Fox been apart of the family for a minute and I still think back to our Ki/ Ragga NYC interview hang in the BX at her studio in 2021. "I'm Garifuna, which from my research means “to trade in gold”, and my people are from Mali Empire, West Africa. We migrated to St Vincent in the 1600s. We settled in St. Vincent for a minute and then, you know, obviously the Europeans came in wanting to take over the land, so we had a 30 year war called the Black Caribou War or The 30 Year War. We basically fought the French and British so that we wouldn't be slaves... There are so many different accounts of Garifuna people on the internet that are false. It's wrong. It's written by white people that visit once, talk to a few idiots, think that they got the story and then spread lies. Just like the Haitians, we wasn't with that slave shit! But of course the tribes of Garifuna people who will tell you the strong history of resistance Western media purposely doesn’t interview. Thing is if people knew that niggas were fighting back, you wouldn't start your whole history off as “I was a slave…”. We were something way before that. Your people were something before that. Greatness to be specific. But if you don't hear those stories, of course you're going to start your history at what you were taught in American schools." - Young Wavy Fox from her Ragga Nyc interview (found on ragganyc.com/features). I’ve always been inspired by Young Wavy Fox’s passion for history, community, art and how they fuse into music. This mix is beautiful reflection of that passion. Thank you Young Wavy Fox for your continued sisterhood and contribution to the RAGGA NYC family soundscape over these 10 years!