![]() So let’s just debunk that right here bro.” ![]() That’s what makes you unstoppable… that’s why he is bigger than people. It’s the songs that you’re making it’s the records. And I’m not saying that’s what he (Beenie) is saying, but dem type of comments kind of lead to that speculation of ‘hmm wonder why Sean got bigger over all the fact that Sean bonafide had three number one records on Billboard. He added: “It’s upsetting when I hear people talk about it. What are you talking about? So why does that stop any a Jamaican artist because of your skin color, your blackness. “There’s tons of black R&B and rappers like Biggie Smalls: big, fat ugly black guy – f–king multi-millionaire. So there’s no segment for the browner guys to be better, off is what I’m trying to explain too. “So, no matter whether you’re brown, Asian, red, green, f–king purple or anything, as long as you’re doing dancehall or reggae bro and you drop into a US radio station or a U.S record, company you’re ‘black music’. All that is stupidness bro.”Īccording to Harding, skin colour is “not a factor for Jamaican music”, which is still classified as “Urban”, which is code for black music, plus Sean in his ascension to global stardom had scored hits such as Get Busy, Temperature and Baby Boy with Beyonce, as well as other huge collabs with megastars. There’s nothing that says oh well you’re a brown and so you’re going to get more of the push. There are black people signed to the label they have black artistes, black rappers. Working with the Urban Music departments and there are black people they’re from down south from the states. What difference it meck? There’s no brown person thing in a record label that makes the brown people better or the light-skinned people the better. What are you talking about?” he added.Ĭontinued Harding: “They have R&B artists and rappers signed to the label that are black like f–king tar. They’re not in this air of shadisms like Jamaicans, bro. I know where this is leading to this question of: ‘oh cause Sean was the brown uptown guy and that’s why he got the f–king break’ which is nonsense, because record companies don’t work that way. Record companies in New York don’t work that way. “I don’t know what else to put it down to. “I think that’s what was taking place with him at the time, that that hampered his progress… and just managerial choices – doing the song with Janet Jackson and he decided to sing instead of deejay, weird things like that which he was doing…,” he explained. Harding doubled down on the fact that record labels primary focus is on song quality and sales potential, and not the skin colour of the artist, pointing out that Beenie’s troubles at the time, were totally the fault of his management, as several other very poor decisions were made by them. I mean he made me just as much as I helped that record in his career,” he said. “Yo big up to Beenie and all love to Beenie Man. While lauding Beenie’s Billboard success with Who Am I, Harding also said the song served to cement his place in Dancehall as a revered producer. So yeah, a victim of circumstance perhaps with that,” the 2Hard producer added. ![]() “I think by the time he got like King of the Dancehall, one of those records that he did, by that time MTV and BET were snubbing him and he was getting a lot a pressure from International rights activists to change his stance on the LGBTQ community. And then he had to, you know, apology letter… was it GLAAD – the gay community that was trying to lock down his shows? And all those things start to happen for Beenie Man,” Harding stated. I don’t know what else to tell you. What else would I be able to say about it? Beenie Man got himself embroiled in controversy, with the gay bashing lyrics and all that. “I can just put it down to better management. Harding, however, said that the way the two artists’ careers turned out all boiled down to proper management on Sean Paul’s part, and a lack thereof, in the case of Beenie. Muscle had explained that he had heard Beenie in an interview pointing out that “after the “strength of Who Am I, it seemed like he was supposed to really get that international super break but then it’s like after a while Sean Paul got to break.” Harding, who produced Beenie Man’s biggest solo hit Who Am I, on his Playground riddin, declared Beenie the greatest Dancehall artist of all time but came out in full defense of Sean Paul during an Entertainment Report Podcast interview, in which host Muscle asked if there were any reasons “why Sean Paul got to break over Beenie Man at that time.” Sean Paul’s former manager Jeremy Harding has rubbished suggestions that the We Be Burnin artist was able to surge ahead of Beenie Man internationally in the 2000s because foreign record labels favored him due to his lighter skin color. The content originally appeared on: Dance Hall Mag ![]()
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