I Want to Be
by Carimi · 2016 · kompa · 4:58 · Haitian Creole, French
“I Want to Be” comes from Carimi’s final year as a group, through a Tropic Music copy uploaded in May 2016. The English title presents desire as a phrase needing an answer: what does the singer want to become, or where do they hope to arrive? Across nearly five minutes, voices, keyboards, and tight kompa give that open question dance form. English fits the band’s New York diaspora life, where several languages and R&B influences always lived beside Haitian cadence.