On the Unitas Sigma album, 15 Finnish artists cover rapper Cheek’s songs

On Friday is releasing a long-prepared surprise project, the first hints of which appeared on social media on Monday, December 1.

Unitas Sigma on the album called, a total of 15 Finnish artists rework the rapper Cheek, who ended his career in 2018, his real name Jare Tiihonensongs.

They are included Ibe (with a paragraph What’s left here), VJ and Sara Bee (The keys are in my pocket), Jami Faltin (On the wide), Etta (The reason for my smile), JVG and Pete Parkkonen (Bridges), M//O (Pants hanging), Ares (For those who feel bad), Melo (You scream), Lukas Leon (Jehu) as well as to live and Jenni Vartiainen (Let me go).

About the subject information began to trickle out on Monday morning, when one by one the artists posted videos on their social media accounts that hinted at a joint project.

The nature of the project soon began to be speculated on social media channels such as Tiktok and Jodel, with many linking it to Cheek due to, among other things, the Greek letter sigma used in the posts.

Cheek himself used the first and last letter of the Greek alphabet on the last record of his career Alpha Omega.

It was ten years this fall Alpha Omega from the release of the album, which, according to Sony Music, which is responsible for the release of the album, has been one of the key reasons for implementing the Unitas Sigma project right now.

Tiihonen commented respecting his career Unitas Sigma release of the album to HS by text message. He says he appreciates the gesture a lot and has liked all the new versions.

Tiihonen says that during the past year, he has received several inquiries asking for permission to sample his old songs. That’s why the idea of ​​an entire album focusing on new versions of his songs seemed good to Tiihonen.

“I’ve never stuck to the idea that the songs I’ve made are somehow the only real versions of them. They’re what came out of my pen in the year of publication of the songs in question. I’m taken if someone wants to version them in a different form and in their own way,” Tiihonen writes.

Tiihonen admits that he also got new ideas about several of his songs after hearing the new versions made of them.

“For example, when I heard that VJ and Sara Bee really work The keys are in my pocket -version, I was thinking that maybe it’s Orkish too [alkuperäinen versio] in the end, it’s not a duller song.”

The keys are in my pocket -one of the performers of the new version of the song Sara Bee, real name Sara Beldjerdtells HS that being on the record is the biggest thing in his career so far.

26-year-old Beldjerd released his first own song in 2022. Among his songs, for example For poetry has collected significant listening volumes on Spotify. During the last years of Cheek’s career as an artist, Beldjerd was a teenager.

“Cheek is a legendary artist, everyone has listened to him at some point. I especially remember Cheek’s music videos, which have a strong Yankee vibe.”

Beldjerd says that they left together the rapper VJ, real name Kieran Richardsonwith to make a consciously updated version The keys are in my pocket from the song. It came out in 2004, over 20 years ago.

“In the original song, the woman was the prey, but in our version, we started from the fact that I am the one boss“, Beldjerd says.

Beldjerd is excited to be a female rapper Unitas Sigma on the disc.

“When Cheek started, there were far fewer women as songwriters in rap parties, they were more often singers on songs. It’s great to be a female rapper on a clean rap record like this,” she says.