Hometown Sounds

The Reintroduction of Mumu Fresh is upon us! If you aren’t in the know, Mumu Fresh is the nickname of ever-fashionable R&B singer Maimouna Youssef, whose new mixtape drops on Wednesday May 14th with a blowout headlining show at the Howard Theatre. Yesterday our buds at WAMU’s Bandwidth premiered a new song from the mixtape, “Student Loans”, a redo of Rihanna’s hit “Pour It Up”. The reimagined covers theme continues with her new music video for “We’re Already Royal”, from Lorde’s megahit “Royals”, featuring some gorgeous African costumes.

Grammy nominated singer Maimouna Youssef, known to her many devoted fans as Mumu Fresh, recently returned from a promotional concert tour of Nigeria. It’s been nearly two years since the release of her debut full length album The Blooming, and we are more than ready for more. Meet Me In Brazil, an Oddisee-produced highlight on the album, received the spicy music video treatment last year, featuring actor Lamman Rucker.

DC music video of the day! Maimouna Youssef‘s smooth & sweet vocals first gained wide acclaim as a guest vocalist on The Roots’s song Don’t Feel Right from their 2006 album Game Theory, receiving a Grammy nomination in 2007. Now she’s a well known performer in the area, and last year released her debut album The Blooming. Check out the first video from that album, I Got A Man.