Dexter Blake, owner of Linkage Radio in New York, made a formal complaint to the Broadcasting Commission of Jamaica this morning regarding the personal conduct of radio talk show host Kingsley ‘Ragashanti’ Stewart.

 

According to Blake, Ragashanti lambasted him for falsely advertising him for an event, Linkage Radio’s First Annual Award show, and during his tirade, called the show ‘bogus’. The statements were made during the personality’s popular ‘Ragashanti Live’, which is aired on Newstalk 93 FM between 9 a.m. and 12 p.m. The inaugural staging of the show is scheduled for New York on March 5, 2010.

Blake is irate that Ragashanti abused his privileged position as a radio talk show host to disrespect him a manner that was uncalled for.

“What he did yesterday morning was unprofessional and disrespectful,” Blake said. “And I am not the only one he has done it to, he did it to Horseman this morning calling him ‘dutty bwoy Horseman’ because Horseman owes him $80,000 for a show he did for him in September this year.”

Blake explained that he tried to contact Ragashanti on several occasions but failed because of certain exigent circumstances. First, Blake’s flight to Jamaica was delayed, then on his arrival, he tried to contact Ragashanti but the talk show host was preocciupied with his Mix Up and Blenda show on Christmas Day.

“I tried to give him the money over Sting, but he never showed up for that event even though he was advertised,” he said. “I planned to bring the money to Ragashanti at the radio station yesterday morning but I was so surprised at how he attacked me, I never bothered to, I was on my way from St. Elizabeth and I just turned back.”

He said he made a report to the Broadcasting Commission of Jamaica complaining about Ragashanti’s uncouth behavior.

“They told me that Ragashanti will have to apologise for his behavior, and if he doesn’t they will be forced to take further action against him,” Blake said.

ONE876 called the Broadcasting Commission to verify if the complaints had been made or not, and it was verified that a complaint had indeed been lodged.

In the meantime, Mr. Blake is incensed that Ragashanti could behave in such a manner.

“We have given him a free show, free air time on our Linkage Radio station in New York, and we have done this for two years now, and now he smears us on national radio. That is the heights of disrespect,” Blake said. “He is diminishing the Linkage radio name and dissing the listenership in New York by saying that the show is bogus.”

Well-known events promoter ‘Horseman’ said he was also peeved at Ragashanti’s behaviour and would be driving up to the Mona-based radio station to ensure that he is paid the monies owed to him.

“I am not hiding from anybody, I have nothing to say about Ragashanti, one day, he will put his foot in his mouth. His own behaviour will be his downfall. I will be parking up right beside his van, as him come out, him ah go see me, so him know say mi nah hide.”

Portmore Empire deejay Blak Ryno’s Thug Anthem (So Yardie Stay) has stormed into the RE TV Dancehall charts at #20, solidifying his status as the clear frontrunner in the Best New Artiste category. The deejay was in the streets campaigning last night and performed at Weddy Weddy and at Quad, getting major forwards for his songs, especially Mek Di Paper and Thug Anthem.

“Yea, the streets are really responding to me right now, the Empire is getting out there in a big way, I am getting crazy requests for shows all over the Caribbean and the US. The people love the music and I promise to continue making the hits,” Ryno explained.

He mentioned nothing of last night’s shooting incident at the Coppershot studios saying that he was an artiste and that is a ‘criminal matter that the authorities are dealing with’.

“Ah music me a pree, nothing else,” he said.

Last week, he performed at a Digicel stage show featuring the likes of Busy Signal, Lady Saw, Beenie Man and this weekend, he will be performing at the Canadian Link Up street dance in Cambridge on the outskirts of Montego Bay.

Early this morning, Bembe came to a premature end as Alliance selector Foota Hype plugged out Richie Feelings’ microphone and ended his set presumably because enough Mavado songs were not being played.

Reports reaching one876 is that Bembe ended at about 1:30 a.m. after a disgusted Richie Feelings packed up his CDs and left. Foota Hype then played a Mavado song, declaring ‘ah we run Kingston 8, no Kartel nuffi play in yah, we no business wid no media, we loaded!” and then passed the microphone to Boom Boom who declared: ’wah do some bwoy?’.

Earlier, patrons had had a good time at Bembe even though the crowd was smaller than usual. The weekly fete has been on the decline in recent weeks because of a combination of factors including pressure from the policemen enforcing the Night Noise Abatement act after constant complaints from residents of the area.

Vybz Kartel counteracted Mavado’s argument and levelled a few charges of his own as he dismantled his rival with a number of salient points during an ER interview earlier this week. He addressed the ‘bad mind’ references first.
“Ah we bring him to the world, ah we do five songs with the Barber, dem time de Killa no look pon him..ah we mek him feel like a star, and drive him up and down inna the Bimmer and mek people see him…him just bad mind Kartel ’cause dem see no matter what dem do in the Appliance, dem caan get out the Teacha, the Teacha is always striving,” he said.
During the interview he made several references to Mavado as ‘da dogface bwoy de’. He also denied that he had ever jerked chicken.
“Mi never trim nobody and we never jerk no chicken(laugh). Wi never come pon TV and tough up wi face and gwaan like wi a gangster, wi just know we ah authentic Jamaicans, and like all authentic Jamaicans, yu caan diss we so easy,” he said.
During the interview, Kartel showed his grasp of current world affairs when hailed Obama’s victory as a ‘striking contrast to Alliance defeat’.
“So me saying mi nuh muss know God, mi no say nothing no wrong, I know I am a sinner but when a man ah go tek up say him name Gully Gadd and Gully Gadd because yu a put yu name in the context of God. Tell the barber bwoy who say him intelligent and caan spell i-n-t-e-l-l-i-g-e-n-t, fi know say yu have to read before yu come a road come mek a total fool of yourself…if I walk out of here and die, I know I am going to hell but Jeffrey install the AC from last week,” he explained during one segment.
He asked Mavado if he had ‘ever done one passport yet? Buil’!”.
He also used the opportunity to promote his Vybz Rum and Daggering product lines. He promised that at Sting, he would ‘end a plan’ suggesting that the Sting organisers were in cahoots with Mavado.
Empire fans like Ricky from Grange Hill, Westmoreland have been celebrating the interview in no uncertain terms.
“Mi have the interview pon mi phone and mi walk around it and play it for all the Mavado fans mi know and laugh after dem, ah me say Empire to the world, Kartel ah di boss,” he told one876entertainment.com.

Former Portmore Empire member Deva Brat has voiced a diss song aimed at his former mentor and friend Vybz Kartel. The song calls Kartel a ‘Judas’ and makes references to Jeffrey Hype’s VK tattoo but it is clear that DB has lost a step or two during his incarceration and the song fails to deliver a knockout punch to the Teacha.

 
With Vybz Kartel’s help, Deva Brat vaulted into the spotlight and hit a number of major dancehall charts this year with Gussie Clarke before his incarceration on a double carnal abuse charge. The second charge was that he had sexually assaulted a 14 year-old girl in February of this year. The charges were eventually dropped on the first charge.
While in prison, the relationship between Deva Brat and Vybz Kartel after VK distanced himself from the abominable and disgusting allegations levelled against  Deva Brat. Deva Brat also began a media campaign claiming that he was the one who first came up with the name Portmore Empire and that Kartel had stolen the name and registered it.

Deejay Bugle is challenging the report carried earlier this week that he was booed during an RE High School tour event last Wednesday.

“That is not true, it never happened that way. Obviously, somebody nuh like and ah try fabricate something,” a disgruntled Bugle told 0ne876 editor Claude Mills last Friday.
Oneil of Voice Mail agreed with his friend’s assessment saying that he was not aware of any boos and he was onstage when it allegedly occurred. 

“Mi no know nothing of that, mi no get involved inna other people business, it never happened, when Bugle was performing, I never never see nothing like that,” Oneil concluded.

Bugle explained that not all students were enthusiastic about his refusal to sing a gun song as the rest of the artistes ‘vibed’ onstage, hence the perception that he was booed.
“The organizers played a riddim with pure gun songs on it, and the artiste ah sing other people song which is mostly gun song and the school ah get wild. We nah promote violence on the school tour, so a man fi use him conscience and know that it is not about forward and just low that, and do what you come fi do,” he said.
“So mi just wings back because mi never comfortable with pure gun songs, and the kids start call Bugle Bugle, and mi go up de and explain the reason mi no waan sing dem song de, and mi do Yes Man, and it never lock the place like the gun songs, if 1000 kids were there, 990 a sing and the rest boo, so how on earth anybody fi hear any boo.”

PJ Wright, organiser of the RE High School tour, also challenged the report in the media that Bugle was booed.

“If anything, it was just four persons booing or so, not enough to suggest that he did not perform well.”

Mi neva go but mi hear say Bounty Killer father funeral sell off. It was held at the Seventh Day Adventist church on Hagley Park Road. Bounty never perform no song, mi did half expect him fi do Lord is My Light, but the only performance was by a family member nobody never really know. Bounty did his best to console Mama Ivy and one of the father’s friends summed up his life with a nice eulogy and paid tribute to Mr. Pryce’s contributions at a school in Seaview Gardens. Mi hear say Nina British was there, Voice Mail, Nina British, Twins of Twins and the whole Alliance was in the building. No sign of Beenie Man or Merciless though, mi no know wha go down.

Vybz Kartel has straight up dissed the Alliance on a new rhythm by red-hot rookie producer Not Nice where he calls former friends Bling Dawg a homosexual and styles Wayne Marshall, an ‘eater’. On a slow one-drop riddim, he flips John Mayer’s Say What You Need to Say, in a hardcore rhyme-happy celebration of his street credibility. He disses almost all the members of the Alliance in quick succession. First he disses Flex, asking how man fi name Flex, with the punchline, ‘the ‘battybwoy neva hear Cobra say, ‘gal Flex, time to have sex’. He then moves on to his favourite target, Mavado boasting that ‘Grung Gadd nuh bad like mi god-daughter, kick him inna him face, mek him vomit out Milk pussy hair and Angel pad-water’.

He deejays: ‘mi never jerk chicken pon the plaza, but mi f–k yu madda over the Gaza’. He even changes Gully Gad name to Gully pad and jokes that he had sex with the white girl from Switzerland who killed his ‘rent-a-dread father’.

The disses fly fast and furious, coughing like bullets from the nozzle of an automatic gun. He deejays: “Marshall have Tami p-jaw ah ‘chew chew chew’ and a ‘chaw-chaw-chaw’, a shameless pun on Marshall’s signature ‘true, true, true’ slang.

He even uses the melody from one of Busy’s hit songs to deliver a stunningly personal diss.

When the Beretta beat inna dem effing ears

Mi shot Sharon, because she a f–ing gaze

Julian run away, him no effing brave

Mi dun put Busy inna him effing grave

In closing, he asks why Bitch Dawg does not have a yute when he is all of  36 years-old. He questions why Bling is always pumping iron in tights ‘up a Campion’. And then answers his own question, declaring: ’yu a battyman’. Kartel ends the song with the invitation: ‘say what yu feel fi say’.

You can listen to the track Below:

Flippa Mafia has had a hell of a year. He has two songs in the top 20 of the Jamaica Music Countdown charts,  including a number one with the wildly popular Dem Ya and Dem Yah. He has also been receiving international attention and critical raves for his role as Sylvester in “What Goes Around”. And now, he is about to deliver the icing on the cake as his highly anticipated Birthnite Flossment is coming up in Philadelphia.

“It’s going to be off the chain, I am the flossing king so mi ah go all out, the whole of Philadelphia is looking forward to him,” Flippa said.

Flippa’s Dem Yah and Dem Yah single hit #1 on the Jamaica Music Countdown charts and is in the top five of the Stampede Street Charts,

Reggae singer Stevie Face is being sued. He says that on October 22nd he received a letter from a law firm representing, Arrows Recording Company Ltd., instructing him to pay the sum of $314,019.50 to them on behalf of their client or face a lawsuit.

 The artist claims that he is not indebted to Arrows Recording Company Ltd. He said in a release that he believes that it is a malicious move.

 ”I think this is a very malicious move by my former label, which is intended to stop my progress. If what they are claiming is true why they didn’t do this before, why are they trying this when I am making a come back with my career? I will definitely fight this to the end and I am awaiting my day in court”. 

Stevie Face’s Tell It Like It Is single, produced by Computer Paul, is presently doing well and is on all the major reggae charts in Jamaica.

The breakdown of the money also includes a $104,000 figure for a mortgage payment and outstanding US$1,000 fees for shows that the singer did while being managed by Arrows.

“They are just trying to get back at me because I walked away and left them. The thing is happening right now and now all of a sudden, mi owe dem $314,000, why they didn’t do this six months ago when nobody was calling my name? I didn’t earn a dollar, I didn’t do any show in New York while they were managing me. They are doing this to pressure me,” he told a reporter when contacted this morning.

It was a non-stop party in Highgate Square in St. Mary, Sunday night as the Guinness Sounds of Greatness Competition caused a traffic jam and standing room only for the first semi-final play-off. The estimated 3000 patrons were witnesses to the most exciting clash of the competition so far – Black Kat and Bodyguard. At the end of the night Bodyguard advanced to the finals but not before a fierce sound-off with Black Kat.

The Challenge
Going the three rounds – the juggling, tune for tune and the dub for dub – was a familiar set for the two sounds systems as they both won their respective matches in the quarterfinal round. After some prizes and cash giveaways to patrons the coin toss resulted in a Black Kat lead-off by front man Pink Panther. His set was good but not good enough to outdo the pint-size commander of the guards, Junior Vybz, who confidently took the lead. However, the Tune for Tune round did not produce the same fortune as they were penalised for playing dubs  in the set. The results of that round turned the tables, leaving the Dub for Dub round open and the competition was anybody’s at this point.

The boos had it
Though, judges Kingsley ‘Ragashanti’ Stewart and Irie FM’s Big A were on hand for the crowning it was really the crowd reaction that would be the decider and the St. Mary crowd was not shy about letting their feelings known. There was no sound that was consistent and when they faltered the crowd booed them.
“That kept it exciting and interesting for all, the crowd really forced them to bring their A game,” commented Gareth Geddes, Guinness brand manager.

 The round started with Bodyguard leading in the boos, a fact that Pink Panther used in his jive talk. But that changed when the crowd grew tired of Black Kat’s same-ness of sound and weak gimmicks by the front man. Not to be outdone, Junior Vybz and his troop pulled out an unexpected dub in the form of a news cast titled :Crime Time News, anchored by Michael Sharp, who led with the story of “A Black Kat , who was found suffering from Dub plate wounds..”. The crowd erupted with cheers, the track was ‘pulled up’ and the repeat was the defining moment for Bodyguard. Though the competition could have ended there they satisfied the requirement of the round by each playing 15 dubs. 

Before declaring the winner Big A cautioned both sounds about playing the dub too long, “after you get a reaction, the man dem fi realize that you don’t hafi play out di whole thing.” That being said Ragashanti joined him in declaring Bodyguard as the first finalist in the historic competition.

The after-party, for which Bodyguard played, started after MC Elva reminded the crowd that “Guinness and Dancehall go hand in hand.”

One spot remains and the next clash in Alexander, St. Ann this Saturday will reveal the final contestant when Pieces and Rebel T burn the turntables for a shot a the quarter million dollars prize money.