By Kevin Ritchie. Your new favourite rapper, Tink, is all about female empowerment, tough love and the truth – even when it hurts. There is pressure and then there is pressure. Pressure is when a steady stream of music uploaded to SoundCloud rouses the hype machine and summons the music industry’s attention. Pressure is when influential beatmaker Timbaland grabs the mic at SXSW and tells a crowd that R&B singer Aaliyah – who died in a plane crash in 2001 – appeared to him in a dream and said: “She’s the one.”
"Dacoury Natche, professionally known as DJ Dahi, is an American hip hop disc jockey and music producer from Inglewood, California."
She is Tink, born Trinity Home, a 20-year-old rapper and singer from Chicago who will make her Toronto debut at NXNE on Wednesday. After defining the sound of pop with Missy Elliott, Justin Timberlake and Nelly Furtado, Timbaland heard in Tink a new artist he could connect with musically the way he did with the teenage Aaliyah in 1996. After spending a year in the studio with Tink, he suggested she record a remix of Aaliyah’s One In A Million he had been sitting on.
*nowtoronto.com
