Staff writer - Kerran Monroe
So if you know anything about Dancehall you would know that we are now in the season for war. Yeah I know, ‘tis the season to be jolly, sha la la la la, but in Jamaica, it is time fi people dead.
Not literally of course, because we in no way support any form of violence against any person of group of persons. So the war we refer to is a lyrical war, and the death is a lyrical death, of course.
So to all the people that crave this type of entertainment, just pause for a moment, and give some thanks to the man from Mars, Tony Mentally Ill Matterhorn, for, as we say in Jamaica, stirring up the ants nest with his Dancehall Duppy song where he implored the artists to stop throwing corns in the hog pen and just go in the hog pen and point out the hog.
So now we have a bag a people a war, this includes Matterhorn and almost the entire dancehall fraternity, because in the subsequent Dancehall Duppy songs, Matterhorn dash dutty wata pon Beenie Man and Bounty Killer, calling them old, also, him splash up, Khago, Twin of Twins and many others. However, the main people he seems to be in contention with at the moment are the twins.
Also involved in a lyrical confrontation are, Beenie Man and Bounty Killer or the grandpas, according to Matterhorn. This confrontation apparently started after Bounty Killer tweeted about the Doctor’s failing or failed marriage to D’Angel. They say it’s a friendly clash though but they are saying some really nasty things.
Dancehall Star Kiprich
The lyrical confrontation which confuses me though is the one including Kiprich. I mean this man is just throwing corns all over the place, but the line that Jam-tertainment found funny in his most recent clash song is where he says “Tony Matterhorn tell me waa gwaan me come from farin com si you a dash corn’ then he went on in the song to ask Tony Matterhorn if he is just ‘throwing corn’ simply because he (Matterhorn) does not want the Christmas to ‘ketch him (Matterhorn) lukewarm’.
Now anybody keeping up with the latest on the Dancehall scene would probably ask Kiprich the same question, he asked Matterhorn in his song. Kippo no offense still but from yo likl clash weh yo do a Sting 2010 wid General B and the Monster Shock crew and win we no really hear nuttin from yo eno Kippo.
Di only ting we hear from yo is your failed attempt at trying to get recognition from Vybz Kartel with your song about bleaching. So really now, who is at risk of the Christmas a ketch dem lukewarm. And by the way you are doing the same as Matterhorn in that song. Yo jus a call up people name.
On the flip side though, I must say I that Mavado, who took on the moniker ‘Gangster for life’, is ironically not involved in any lyrical confrontation with anyone. He has taken a mature stance recently, by staying out of confrontations with other artists and I must say it is working for him.
Even during the whole Gully/Alliance drama recently, he remained mature and calm throughout the entire thing. And I have to say nuff respect for that.
All in all though the war season is looking up, so let’s sit back and see what the Sting promoters plan to do about it. We are all anxious to know which clash will take center stage, if there is any clash at all at Sting this year and which clash will not see the wee hours of the morning at Sting 2011.
