'Get Up' On Tamika Love Jones & Rayshun LaMarr Covering Amel Larrieux


Amel Larrieux is in my top 10 all-time faves so I'm a bit biased when I hear different incarnations of her work being done by other artists. In my opinion, she is a hard act to follow. But, coming across this video of a recent performance by Tamika Love Jones and Rayshun LaMarr at Washington DC's Ben's Next Door, performing Amel's hit "Get Up," I can honestly say that they set the bar high on how one should do a cover song. Slowing the track down a nod or two and injecting it with a higher dosage of funk and swerve, the two singers harmonize and crank the song to a level that truly personalizes and makes it their own. Even through the awful sound moments where the person recording is evidently too close to the speakers, Tamika and Rayshun shine vocally and lead me to hope that this tune winds up on a mixtape in the near future.

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