Busy Signal’s new single “Artiste” is creating waves in dancehall, but not everyone is impressed by it.
In the single released in December, Busy Signal take shots at certain members of dancehall.
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“From wah day lizard wah tun artiste, roach wah tun artiste, ants wah tun artiste wah diss?” Busy Signal deejay.
Coincidentally, popular producer Patrick ‘Roach’ Samuels found the lyrics offensive, labeling the Turf Music star an hypocrite.
This is what Reoach said:
“Mi nuh know wey Busy a deal wid, mi feel a mi Busy a talk, but Busy used to select sound and be a conductor suh a turn him turn artiste wi nuh know bout no ants nor lizard wey duh music, but everybody know Roach, suh a me him a talk and a try distract the people by speaking of lizard and ants.”
“If a man feel sey him have a song wey can tek dancehall to another level he must have the chance. Nobody don’t know where the next big star is coming from. DJ Liquid was a deejay first, but food haffi eat so he became a selector. Some a di youth dem just decide to go both ways so that they can survive because music don’t have a 9-5 system for them to live off until they get the big break.”
Busy Signal manager Shane Brown has since stepped forward to address the controversy surrounding the single.
“The music business wants a facelift and cleanse, a lot of people are not as bold as Busy to make that cleanse,” Shane Brown said. “We are not saying that some dancers and so forth can’t become artistes but some people are just hypocritical and won’t say it as it is. Some people have talent but it’s not everybody that has the talent to be an artiste. There is a subliminal message in the song because Busy was a conductor but he had to harness his talent. Some people are just too shallow and don’t understand the subliminal message.”
“The point is that Busy Signal had to prove himself five, six, seven years, to be on top of his craft. But now with technology, everybody use a computer and become an artiste; that’s why, the song says all lizard turn artiste,” Brown said.
Listen to Busy Signal single “Artiste” below and sound off in comments.
