{"id":876260,"date":"2026-10-09T11:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T11:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/876260\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T11:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T11:56:10","slug":"vermont-hip-hop-band-pens-tune-about-online-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/876260\/","title":{"rendered":"Vermont hip hop band pens tune about online relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"

When a friend’s online relationship proved to be one-sided, local musician, Jilib – the front man for the Vermont pop, dance and hip-hop band, A2VT – wrote a song about it. <\/p>\n

“It didn’t happen to me,” Jilib said of the sticky situation, “but I witnessed it happening to my friend. And the song<\/a> is about a real story that happened.”<\/p>\n

The Vermont-based, A2VT, writes danceable grooves and sings in up to eight unique languages.<\/p>\n

The new single, “Before The Night Is Over,” has an accompanying video, shot at various locations around downtown Burlington.<\/p>\n

Jilib said of the online relationship, “(My friend) was having a conversation with her for a very long time and he was really falling in love with her, but deep down she just wanted to be friends.”<\/p>\n

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The band has been making music in Vermont since 2012 – not long after fleeing from conflict in their home countries of Burundi, Somalia and Tanzania.<\/p>\n

The members recorded their first full-length album, “Africa, Vermont,” that year, and since then, have released multiple singles and videos. <\/p>\n

Last year, the band was named Best Hip Hop Group <\/a>by Seven Days in the news outlet’s “Seven Daisies” awards.<\/p>\n

Bandmembers Jilib, John Key, Janvier Maufume and King Bee 9 released “Before The Night Is Over,” in early October, and the video is on Youtube<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Find all of A2VT’s music on streaming platforms. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When a friend’s online relationship proved to be one-sided, local musician, Jilib – the front man for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":876261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":["post-876260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/876261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}