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A big chunk of the rap community in the Greater Accra region is likely to be at the Republic Bar Osu in Accra on Sunday, August 4 to support colleague Yaa Pono at the launch of the video for his new Tare Tare single. Real name Solomon Adu Antwi, Yaa Pono has been a prominent fixture on the rap scene here since the release of his first mixtape album titled Double Up in 2006. He has a reputation as a formidable freestyle rapper. Recorded by engineer Eddy Kay, the Tare Tare song itself shows off Yaa Pono as an extremely eloquent young man with a clever ability to kick up absorbing grooves to go with his expansive Twi and English vocabulary. Tare Tare will be included in a 14-track album to be called Sea Blue I which Yaa Pono says �will come like a thief in the night after the video launch.� The young man who grew up in Tema Community Seven states that everything he does is about excitement and that is why with the able support of the Uptown Energy posse, he has managed to become an attention-grabbing rapper on the scene. His other tracks known to fans include Killa Fylla, Oh Joe, Good Morning, London and Shopping Mall. Some of his lyrics had been regarded as controversial at some times but the artiste says everything he does is in line with the Yaa Pono attitude. �That attitude is the force that makes Yaa Pono not care too much about the lyrics he brings out so long as he thinks they are right,� he says. Freestyle may be the prowess people attribute to Yaa Pono but he operates well in carefully structured situations as well. To him, what matters is for people to feel the street in whichever song he tackles. Lots of things are said and done in the street which may not necessarily be prudent to include in songs for consumption by everyone but then, it is Yaa Pono who has learnt over the years to cleverly colour his words with arresting proverbs. Though Sea Blue I is not out yet, Yaa Pono enthusiastically describes it as the best collection he has put together so far in his rap career. Apart from Eddy Kay, Kilo and Cash2 & Dr Ray also recorded some of the tracks on Sea Blue I. Artistes featured on the album include Lady J, Shuga Kwame, Nayomie and Lady Murphy from Liberia.