In his latest release, Dear Dancehall, Byron Messia addressed the controversy surrounding his previous remarks about the genre.
The Jamaican-born St. Kittian artist gets straight to the matter in the new track, released on November 9 by Tru-believas Entertainment, by including the contentious ‘The FIX Podcast’ clip where he declared himself a rapper, not a Dancehall artist.
“A nuh dancehall me do still enuh, a rap me do enuh. Mi always consider myself as a rapper still. Me a nuh dancehall artist, me a rapper. The sound a wah make me a rapper,” Messia said in the song’s intro, which captured his previous statements in the now-deleted podcast.
To clear the air, he then sings, “Dear Dancehall, mi neva mean fi offend nobody, so what the fv*k dem ah talk bout sorry and a talk bout mi nuh rate nobody when mi have a song with Govi (Govana) and Vali (Valiant).”
“Dear Dancehall, you nuh see ah wrong news dem ah carry … cuz dem ah get mi heart dark like Alice / Been a pree fi be a rapper since me drop ah grade 9. If mi tief style then a mussi Rod Wave style,” he continued.
Messia asserts he’s a Dancehall artist living a “rapper lifestyle.” “Mi ah Dancehall artist yes, but mi ah live a rapper lifestyle … Watch di cars we a damn drive and mi have the matic pon standby for the haters who want mi damn die,” he spits.
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