Ju­nior So­ca Monarch, Aaron Dun­can, be­lieves that while the So­ca genre is evolv­ing, its roots must nev­er be for­got­ten.

Speak­ing on the Morn­ing Brew on Thurs­day, Dun­can said: “There is a lot of change in So­ca mu­sic right now that we are all grate­ful for, but we must al­so not for­get the roots of So­ca mu­sic com­ing from Kaiso down to peo­ple like Ras Shorty I etcetera.”

The 15-year-old, who has been per­form­ing for the past 11 years said he nev­er ex­pect­ed the song to gain as much trac­tion as it did: “You nev­er ex­pect what would hap­pen with a song and so you just give it your best and you just drop it. The kind of at­ten­tion I got for 'Back to Ba­sic' was over­whelm­ing for me and every­body be­hind the song as well.”

As it stands at the mo­ment, his song has gath­ered al­most 500,000 views on Youtube. Col­lege Boy Jesse wrote the song pro­duced by Ad­vo­cate Pro­duc­tions.

The song was in­spired by his par­ents and what he deemed his “lit­tle knowl­edge of ole time so­ca mu­sic”.

The mu­sic video for his song was shot in a school and showed Dun­can danc­ing along with chil­dren his age or younger. This con­cept, he said: “ ac­tu­al­ly came from me. I want­ed to cre­ate a con­cept with back to ba­sics show­ing the school, show­ing all the chil­dren, show­ing what this song, old-time vibe, can do to peo­ple nowa­days.”

Asked by host Hema Ramkissoon about the in­flu­ences that af­fect to­day's mu­sic with sub­jects such as sex, Dun­can said: “Those things are not my beat. As a youth, it would be kin­da let peo­ple hear you singing about that, so I rather push pos­i­tive mu­sic. I rather push mu­sic that even though it say­ing good lyrics, pos­i­tive lyrics, you can still dance and get on the same way peo­ple would get on to that song.”