Jersey Club is one of the only genres that can take very famous songs that really shouldn’t be remixed anymore and make them into something simultaneously original and nostalgic. You recognize all the songs in a Jersey Club set, but it’s like you’ve heard them all for the first time.
In DJ Problem’s “Killing Me Softley,” the producer chops up Lauryn Hill’s voice, speeds up the iconic beat, and somehow makes one of the saddest songs into something nasty. Maybe it’s sacrilegious, but whatever, it’s still really catchy. Softly is misspelled, which may or may not be intentional, but it speaks to the relative quickness that Jersey Club remixes appear. Because there is a very shared sound and place for the genre, remixes seem to be much less about representing the individual DJ and more about serving the collective community.
Now any Jersey producer can have the Fugees in their set, all thanks to DJ Problem, who continuously delivers tracks that need to exist into the world.
• DJ Problem: https://soundcloud.com/itsdjproblembitch
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