| E No Easy | |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | P-Square featuring J. Martins |
| Album: | Danger |
| Released: | 2009 |
| Recorded: | 2009 |
| Genre: | Afrobeats |
| Producer: | J. Martins |
| Prev Title: | Danger |
| Prev Year: | 2009 |
| Next Title: | Gimme Dat |
| Next Year: | 2009 |
"E No Easy" is a 2009 song by P-Square featuring J. Martins. It was revived as a bilingual French/English song "Positif", by Matt Houston featuring P-Square in 2012, becoming a hit in France.
"E No Easy" is a successful song by P-Square featuring J. Martins that was a hit locally in Nigeria. The song was written by the three singers Peter and Paul Okoye (actually the members of P-Square) and by J. Martins. It is taken from P-Square's album Danger.
A French version using the music of "E No Easy" and retitled "Positif" became a big hit in France. And after success of the French adaptation, "E No Easy" was also released finding some additional success in France in 2012.
In 2011, French-Algerian rapper El Matador had also included a mix of "E No Easy" credited to "El Matador feat P-Square" in his mixtape release Escale sur la lune.[1] adding French rap verses, raï influences and additional Spanish lyrics to the track.
| Positif | |
| Cover: | Positif-by-matt-houston-p-square.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Matt Houston featuring P-Square |
| Album: | Racines |
| Released: | 23 April 2012 |
| Recorded: | April 2012 in Studio Video Clip, Paris, France |
| Genre: | R&B, hip hop, reggae |
| Length: | 3:49 |
| Label: | On the Track |
| Prev Title: | Booty |
| Prev Year: | 2011 |
"Positif" is a 2012 bilingual song in French and English by Matt Houston featuring Nigerian brother duo P-Square. It is a remake of the earlier hit by P-Square with French lyrics added by Matthieu Gore (real name of Matt Houston) The song is taken from Houston's forthcoming album Racines as a first pre-release on 23 April 2012 from the album due in June 2012.
Houston sings the introductory French part while P-Square brother Peter and Paul are doing the backing vocals. The English parts are done by the Okoye brothers.
As a promotion, Matt Houston also released a "making of" video of his collaboration with Peter and Paul Okoye in the Video Clip Studios where the French hit was cut.[2] It was the third of a series of "Welcome To My World" video episodes.[3]
The official music video was uploaded on Matt Houston's VEVO channel on 4 May 2012.The single featured at #47 in its first week of release and climbed up to #6 on the SNEP French Singles Chart.
The release included the following track list:
Based on the success of "Positif", the English original "E No Easy" gained attention and popularity in France also entering the French SNEP charts reaching #141 on chart dated 26 May 2012.