After dropping a few hot joints alongside the likes of Jesse Royal and Sizzla on XTM Nation productions like the “Long Days, Short Nights” Riddim, Kayla Bliss steps up today with a brand new one-away single called “Red Hott.” The rhythm track, an update of Alton Ellis’s classic “Can I Change My Mind” featuring Sly Dunbar on drums and Donald Dennis on bass, bubbles like soup on a fire while Kayla sings about why she, Kareem “Reemus” Burrell, and the whole XTM Family are “Red Hott.” Even when the Brooklyn-based singer is making moves with one of Jamaica’s most respected production teams she always makes sure her “nails well done and my hair intact”—oh yeah, and she always burns “the stinkest of hash.” What better way to mark the late great Phillip “Fatis” Burrell’s birthday than to continue his musical legacy.

Words by Rob Kenner

Kayla Bliss – Red Hott
Label – XTM.Nation
Producer – Kareem Burrell
Drums – Sly Dunbar
Bass – Donald Dennis
Keyboard – Lamar ‘RIff Raff’ Brown & Donald Dennis
Guitar – Mitchum Khan Chin