UP-AND-COMING rapper/deejay Dyce said he is hoping to get his big break with his latest single Like You, featuring Turbulence.

Released in June, the track was produced on his Dyce Records label. A video was also premiered two weeks ago on Hype TV.

“The single has been receiving good airplay overseas. Lots of people don’t know it’s a Jamaican rapping like an American. When you got a gift, you got a gift, so I’m using it to my best,” he told the Jamaica Observer.

“I’m also working on my five-track EP (Extended Play) project. It is yet to be titled.”

The 32-year-old, whose given name is David Horace Sommerville, said he developed a passion for music as a youngster growing up in his community of Tower Hill in Olympic Gardens, St Andrew.

“I choose music because it’s something I love and enjoy doing. It’s a way for me expressing myself, and in the past, I used to save up my money to go and voice rap music at King Jammy’s Studio,” he said.

The Edith Dalton James High School past student said what makes him different from other artistes is that he is more of a story-teller like American rapper Tupac Shakur.

“I got the name Dyce from the dictionary and my aunt told me to spell it with a Y because that makes it more unpredictable,” he said.

His other songs, all collabs, include a remix of Shine Eye Gal, which features Gupie; Baby Girl, featuring Anjelle; and Gi It Weh, featuring Oneika.

— Donisha Williams