Grammy award winning reggae dancehall icon, Beenie Man has labelled all critics of him and Bounty Killer’s performance on Verzuz Tv as ‘Badminded people’.
It appears most Jamaican selecta’s and show promoters are dissappointed in Beenie Man and Bounty Killer for snubbing them to partake in Swizz Beatz and Timbaland’s globally accepted virtual entertainment show dubbed Verzuz tv, hit battle.
Colleague artiste, Tony Matterhorn among other artistes havea labelled Beenie and Bounty as ‘sell-out’ artistes who believes in the west more than their own culture. Without mentioning Tony in his speech, Beenie has responded to the criticisms saying that going on Verzuz Tv has helped ptoject Jamaica, the culture and himself, including Bounty.
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According to him, he’s happy most Jamaicans both home and away enjoyed the show and supported as they push the Jamaican agenda to the world. He quoted the critics as minority and badminded people.
Quote:
“People always upset about stupid things. It’s a platform that everybody wants to see you on where they watch the biggest artistes in the world clash. And now you have two Jamaicans on the same platform and people upset that it’s on a platform like this. Are they serious?”
“Do they know how much Jamaican artiste Swizz Beatz mek music for and how much time he has come to Jamaica, and how much Jamaica artiste Swizz Beatz bus in America, including myself?
Why that platform? Because we need to do this for the world. Not only Jamaican and not only our type. We need to do it for the white, Syrian, Indian, everybody who listen to dancehall music,”
“Nobaddy cuss when di music deh pon BET; nobaddy cuss when it deh pon di Canadian station. Now wi a guh do dis pon a international platform, yuh a guh year ‘why dat platform’? Dat does not make any sense. That’s definitely you, nuh waa see wi pon da platform deh. You shoulda ask seh why we, and not your artiste. Dat is di question weh dem waa
