📍UNDERRATED GEMS. 🎧🖤 Today’s underrated gem is Mez Mariyé (Hiruy Mezgebu Girmay) — Alive, released 6 years ago. A beautiful blend of pop and hip-hop with strong reggae-rooted influences.🖤 Mez Mariyé is an Ethiopian-Canadian rapper, singer, songwriter and filmmaker, raised in East Toronto. “Alive” became his breakthrough song internationally… but honestly, I still feel like this song deserves SO much more love. At its heart, “Alive” is about survival, freedom, hope, resistance, and staying spiritually alive when life gives you every reason not to. It touches on war, suffering, political and social systems, and all the things that can make people feel trapped but somehow, it always finds its way back to hope.It feels like a quiet reminder saying…”we’ve been through things, but you cannot break our spirit.” And I love how that message grows beyond the individual. It reaches family, friends, the future, the next generation a reminder to keep your spirit, your dreams, your identity and your roots alive. To find your passion while still knowing where you come from and carrying your history with you. And honestly, I think that’s one of the most beautiful things about this song. 🥹🖤 There’s something so warm and organic about the instrumentation too. Almost meditative. It gives Mez enough space to tell the story without the production ever competing with the message. His delivery feels conversational and reflective rather than overly dramatic, and that spaciousness makes every word feel like it has somewhere to land. It’s not just a song about being alive. It’s about keeping the parts of you that matter most alive. 🌿🖤 I think you guys will LOVE this one if you haven’t heard it yetttt 😭 Go give it a listen on YouTube and please come back and tell me what you think. 🎧🫶🏽 #music #fyp #explorepage #ethiopian_tik_tok #hiphop - @listenwithmaya