Introducing Rytrust Vyrous and His New Single Freedom of Speech

There’s a fresh new artiste emerging from the lush countryside of Trelawny, Jamaica, spitting fire with some uncompromising lyrics that makes you want to stop, listen and take note!

He is Richard Grant, he goes by the moniker, Rytrust Vyrous and his lyrics are as righteously venomous as his stage name indicates. With his newly released single, “Freedom of Speech”, Vyrous is sending a clear message of his lyrical potency and setting the stage for the emerging dancehall/reggae artiste and his revolutionary lyrical onslaught on corruption from all angles, burning the righteous fire on unrighteousness without compromise.

Rytrust Vyrous Release New Track “FREEDOM OF SPEECH” feat. Tafari Watkis

“Freedom of Speech” features US based reggae artist, Tafari Watkis and comes with a  musical message in a social commentary format that gets straight to the point without beating around the bush;

“Trample di dragon and di beast
Den mi dash a fire pon corruptive police yow
Di constitutional rights dem guh breach
Political leaders sell wi out and mi seet now
Wi nuh got nuh more freedom of speech
When wi talk up di government send police yow
Dem a chat bout go up inna di jeep
Suh right now every Truth ah reveal”

WHO IS RYTRUST VYROUS

iVYBZ TV INTERVIEW & REASONING SESSION

In a recent interview and reasoning session with iVYBZ TV, Rytrust Vyrous, who is currently being managed by FAIM, shared some interesting facts with hosts Njaii and Tafari about himself, his music and the energy that drives him to create his infectious and high quality message music with substance and longevity to help in elevating the mind of those who tune in to his musical vibration.

iVYBZ TV (Njaii): Who is Rytrust Vyrous and what made you decided to go into music?

RV: Well, yuh dun know, Rytrust Vyrous is hailing from outta Southern Trelawny, Albert Town area, Cotton Tree to be exact. Music is a ting weh enlighten di soul, is a ting weh mi love…not fi di money or fame…suh enuh…wi do music fi uplift wiself and uplift others enuh…bringing di message to others across the nation same way…yuh know wah ah mean…suh, why not use something like dis weh wi can use and bring message to people and mek people can change dem life and duh better wid dem self? Suh basically…yeah…unuh ah mean.

iVYBZ TV (Njaii): The fact that you see music as a tool or an instrument that can be used to carry a message, what really inspires you to bring life to the type of songs that you choose to write?

RV: Well, when yuh look pon life and see how di whole country and di whole world a run and what a gwaan inna earth right yah now, the only ting we can do as entertainers is bring soul food to di people…brain food to di people weh can teach di people how fi actually survive and how fi actually be good inna earth right now because if yuh look pon wah gwaan, people a dead like every day….yuh know wah ah mean…suh yuh haffi have somebody weh a try fi mek a change and as a young yute mi wah fi be one a dat person weh a try fi mek a change suh dats why mi choose to write dis kinda music.

IVYBZ TV (Njaii): Suh the inspiration lies behind the livity and wat a gwaan right now inna society?

RV: Yes….indeed.

Positively Contributing to the Music Industry

iVYBZ TV (Njaii): There’s a lot of Jamaican artistes prior to and upon emerging, claim to write music wid longevity base on weh dem see a gwaan roun dem and dat dem write uplifting music in accordance wid dem experience and environment but in the long run start to produce music without longevity, yuh nuh. Dem start out saying they want to contribute positively to music industry from the position where they’re at but once they get to that point of popularity the essence of their music change, leaving one to wonder where is the type of music they’d promised to give the people. So how do you plan fi maintain your longevity in the sense that yuh going to consciously output good uplifting music pon a high frequency, mostly or if not all of the time?

RV: Well, first and foremost…because…ah mean…towards my name, Rytrust Vyrous, mi haffi keep di ting righteous enuh…mi nah guh try fi sway from wah mi a duh…and mi nah guh try fi guh inna wat others a duh because at the end of di day I’m a leader not a follower…yuh know wah mean..suh, mi a keep on duh wah mi a duh and mi nah watch nobody wid weh dem a duh…mi just a duh wah mi a do, u know wah ah mean, suh yea.

iVYBZ TV (Tafari): It’s very important to be focus, enuh, cause there’s a whole lot of distraction around, that can…enuh…sway you from yuh direction, so sometime you haffi be careful wid how much yuh absorb when yuh a try fi paint yuh picture, yuh know ah mean? So wid dat said…how you think being in Jamaica influence your music…like…you only look to Jamaica when writing music or you write your music base upon what a gwaan inna di world?

RV: Well, not necessarily in Jamaica alone…because yuh know ah mean…it’s not just a Jamaican ting, it’s a wide ting across di world… yuh know ah mean…suh is not dat mi look definitely inna Jamaica, mi look right across di world… yuh know ah mean…suh…yeah definitely, definitely…ah mean, Jamaica is yes, close to me but at the end a di day, wi a see di news…we a see wah a gwaan over di world, suh yea…mi look right across it.

iVYBZ TV (Tafari): Do you think appealing to a wider audience will affect how yuh grow in di sense of the development of yuh music right now? Are you focusing on…like… just Jamaica in the sense of Jamaica and the Jamaican diaspora or is it a wider range you trying to appeal to…enuh…like you gearing towards a wider audience?

RV: No enuh…well…yuh si music, music is an international ting enuh and…when yuh a bring certain message, yuh bring it internationally yuh know ah mean…suh…Me is a Jamaican but at di end a di day mi nah try just fi be a Jamaican artiste mi a try fi be a international artiste fi reach people from different diaspora same way yuh know ah mean…all over…suh yea mi a try reach wider audience.

iVYBZ TV (Tafari): What’s the story, if any, behind your stage name and why did you choose to call yourself Rytrust Vyrous…enuh…how did this Rytrust Vyrous come about?

RV: Aahm…di name…ahrite…di name start out from Vyrous at first…it was just Vyrous…den Vyrous Di Gyalboss…and den wi decide seh wi a trod a different path suh…ah mean…at one point, aahm upon meeting my manager…aahm…wi decide seh…mi wah fi not only trod di righteous path but have something righteous about my name…yuh know ah mean. Suh…wid di Vyrous…we decide seh…being as we a guh di righteous way wi decided seh wi wah drop di righteous pon it and mek di righteous more…aahm…unique. Yuh know wah ah mean…suh of course, yuh nuh…we reach out to management wid di spelling and seh yeow wi like dis and we like how it sound. Suh wi seh ahrite we a put di two a dem together and combine it ‘cause at di end a di day, when yuh look pon virus…virus is like…it can be more dan one ting enuh cause it can be like a Trojan horse weh yuh know seh virus fight virus…yuh know wah ah mean…suh we decide seh ahright…Rytrust Vyrous. What betta way fi fight a virus than with a Rytrust Vyrous…yuh know ah mean…suh yeah…always leave dem singing wid some infectious lyrics.

iVYBZ TV (Njaii): How would you typically describe your style of music and the kind of energy you put in when creating a song; is the process the same, do you have a standard formula for every song or does it vary per song when creating your “righteously” infectious music to stimulate your audience so they want gravitate and latch in to your music?

RV: Well, aahm…to describe my music…basically…aahm…basically my music is message music…bringing forth the message, bringing forth the message in any way shape or form that I can bring it out musically…yuh knuh ah mean. Not really in di box but more like outside di box…yuh knuh ah mean…suh, yeah…mi just aahm…bring it forth, once it spreading the message to di people…yeah…that’s how I would actually describe my formula…my aahm style…yuh knuh ah mean…of music…yuh knuh ah mean.

And, when it come on to energy, each song come with different energy. Every song come with a different energy, each flow come with a different energy…yuh knuh ah mean…suh, while sometime yuh a guh get certain things because of, the energy of what’s going on…in your foresight then, for want of a better word, some songs will come differently…yuh knuh ah mean…suh yuh find seh mi haffi put a different energy, inna it…yuh knuh ah mean…suh yea…most definitely…yeah man…every song actually come bout different…yuh knuh ah mean…definitely…yeah man.

The greatest thing in the description though is about…aahm…bringing the message, suh once there’s message and there is always something to teach then, that’s definitely the way how mi wudda describe it…yuh knuh ah mean…just by the message yuh knuh ah mean…and yuh know every song come wid a different flow, a different flavor…a different style…yuh knuh ah mean…suh…the number one way of describing it would be message music; spreading the message through music…yuh knuh ah mean.

iVYBZ TV(Njaii): Would it also be safe to add that your songs come with a kind of story telling format?

RV: Oh yes man…yes man…most definitely…most definitely…any song weh mi duh mi always bring it off inna a story format because that’s how mi conceptualize mi songs like for instance, if mi get up and mi a guh do a song about a book den mi a guh tell yuh everything from the book from di start to di end, wah you can expect inna di book and everything…suh everything fi mi is all about story…story from start to finish, yuh knuh ah mean…sometimes it involves going into a second song like a part one and a part two enuh…but yea…definitely it’s a story-telling format for me…yea.

iVYBZ TV(Njaii): As it relates to the energy and being the righteous one, the Rytrust Vyrous, do you like put yourself in a certain meditative state when yuh a guh write a song? We know there are times when you may find yourself in a spot where you the music come and ting, but are there times when you go in a meditative state…yuh knuh…like wonder out inna Nature wid yuh book and yuh pencil and do yuh ting enuh…and that sort of energy help to also create like a special vibration inna yuh music?

RV: Yea most definitely…and ah wah tell yuh seh it play a keen role also because…ah mean…when yuh can go in to dat…when yuh can find dat moment…find that spot (in nature) yuh find seh yuh put more into the song and yuh more focus in writing that song…or creating that song…yuh knuh ah mean….suh yea most definitely. Sometime wi guh hill…sometime wi guh siddung pon a rock…sometime unda a tree same way… yuh knuh ah mean. Well a long time mi nuh get fi guh river but mi use to guh river guh chill and pen mi lyrics dem same way, suh yea most definitely…it’s always good to be in a surrounding weh yuh can feel di natural energy of Nature… yuh knuh ah mean…dat give me a different vibes and a different energy when writing, yuh knuh ah mean….definitely.

iVYBZ TV(Njaii): Would you agree that learning, studying and understanding music of the past or rather basically the history of music especially in your specialized genre, is important?

RV: Yes indeed! Indeed…indeed…inna anyting weh yuh a duh! Anyting at all weh yuh a duh, yuh have to study it…yuh have to know wah yuh a get into because if you don’t know den, is like walking through a short-cut weh yuh don’t understand and den now yuh probably drop inna wah hole…suh…di best ting is to know about it…ah mean…ah spend years studying music…suh…yea…yuh haffi know…it’s good to know.

Management and Label

iVYBZ TV (Njaii): If you could change anything about the music industry what would that be, specifically Reggae and Dancehall?

RV: I would put in place a system where every entertainer get a fair chance in the music industry. I would also put in place…how do you say… a strictly reggae and dancehall award event in which our own entertainers can be recognized for the work they put it in without having to wait on other countries to recognized them and also a better environment for shows and parties etc., but most important I would create a system in which all reggae and dancehall entertainers can register with so they can insure their craft, that way if something should happened to them they could get help.

Rytrust Vyrous’ “Freedom of Speech” featuring Tafari Watkis was released, was released on July 13 on the BLAAC LIONSS Productions label and produced by FAIM & House of Joy Creations.

Mixed by Carlos Smith and mastered by Keith Jones of CGS Productions, the track was released alongside an accompanying lyric video, premiered on YouTube on July 20 with befitting visuals indicating the artist’s lyrical prowess and musical potency. Check out the video below.

“Freedom of Speech” by Rytrust Vyrous featuring Tafari Watkis is a must have for your musical catalog if you truly love and enjoy spiritually revolutionary music dat a blaze di fya pon some sweet reggae beat. The song is available on all major platforms; stream, listen and download your copy now and make sure to check out this remarkable new and emerging artiste, Rytrust Vyrous and give a listening ear to his conscious and infectious lyrics that will have you humming to his very catchy songs.

Rytrust Vyrous (Recording Artiste)

With the vibration and energy that Rytrust Vyrous brings to the musical sphere, and if “Freedom of Speech” is any indication of what is to come from Vyrous, then we look forward to many more inspirational, vibrant and uplifting message music from the Rytrust one.

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