Don Yute collabs with Half Pint

Dancehall star Don Yute has teamed up with reggae legend Half Pint for the Afrobeats-inspired Beautiful Girls.

"I was in the studio and Half Pint was doing some dubplates and I had the rhythm and I just asked him if he could do a hook for me and he said yes; just like that," an ecstatic Don Yute said.

"We just started cooking it up on the spot. I already knew it was gonna be classic and different because with his legendary vocal skills and experience, he excelled on an up-tempo rhythm like this. That's something we're not used to seeing from Half Pint," he added.

Don Yute is best known for the Dave Kelly-produced hit Loving Excess with Wayne Wonder on the 'Pepperseed' rhythm in 1993 that is still popular more than 30 years later.

"Working with Mr Half Pint was easy, fun and a dream come through for me because he's one of the greats in reggae music. Everything just flowed, no hitch," Don Yute said.

The single, released on the Manatee Records-Golden Child Records imprints, has been racking up streams on Spotify in Europe and Boomplay in Africa, fast tracking plans to bankroll a music video for the project. The single is included in Don Yute's soon-to-be-released eight song EP titled Resurgence.