"E No Easy" is a 2009 song by

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featuring

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. It was revived as a bilingual French/English song "Positif", by

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featuring P-Square in 2012, becoming a hit in France.

"E No Easy"

"E No Easy" is a successful song by

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 ''

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''. 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''. adding French rap verses,

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influences and additional Spanish lyrics to the track.

"Positif"

"Positif" is a 2012 bilingual song in French and

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n brother duo

. 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. It was the third of a series of "Welcome To My World" video episodes.On the Track YouTube channel of Matt Houston
/ref> The official music video was uploaded on Matt Houston's

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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.

Charts

"Positif"

The release included the following track list: #"Positif" (featuring P-Square) – 3:49 #"Positif" (featuring P-Square) – 3:51 #"Positif" (Alex Rio Loco Remix) – 4:24 #"Oh Gosh" (Chiré Remix) – 2:47

"E No Easy"

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.

References

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