"E No Easy" is a 2009 song by

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featuring J. Martins. 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. 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.

Charts

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.

"Positif"

"Positif" is a 2012 bilingual song in

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and

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featuring

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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

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French Singles Chart.

Charts

References

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