3 MORE NIGHTS IN AMSTERDAM EP

After previously releasing the single ‘Okay Then’ JessB is back with ‘3 More Nights In Amsterdam’ to coincide with the 5th anniversary release of the Kenyan-New Zealand songwriter and rapper breakthrough EP, ‘3 Nights In Amsterdam’ (2020).

After being announced as a top-five finalist for the APRA 2025 Silver Scroll Award and a featured performer at the inaugural edition of the Afrosoul festival in Auckland, JessB is ready to reflect on a pivotal moment in her career.

When she arrived in the capital city of the Netherlands in 2019, the Kenyan-New Zealand songwriter and rapper was already a firebrand force for hip-hop creativity. In her heart, however, she had a vision of creating music that was more borderless: a hypnotic, hip-hugging melange of US and UK rap, and the equally rich Caribbean and African traditions of dancehall and afrobeats.

Over the course of an extended weekend of nocturnal studio sessions in the Venice of the north, she realised the first iteration of her vision while working with the multi-platinum Dutch producer MOW Music. “From the first beat he played me, I was like ‘Whoa!’” she remembers. “The music scene in Amsterdam, in general, is all these genres existing together in this diasporic pool of sound. So the same guy making all these beats that were different but worked together made sense.”

Five years on, ‘3 More Nights In Amsterdam’ EP features three tracks produced by Dutch producer MOW Music ‘Okay Then’, ‘Boohoo’, and ‘Don’t Stop’ featuring Jamaican dancehall artist Roze Don, as well as a captivating Baltimore Club-style remix of ‘Bullseye’ produced by HalfQueen & Pasquinel.