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Sean paul we be burnin riddim11/29/2023 ![]() His song “Gimme The Light” was the biggest hit of his early career which led to a deal with Atlantic Records. His former A&R at VP Records, Murray Elias, revealed that the label pushed to maintain Sean Paul’s authenticity. However, marketing a Jamaican artist was difficult because the American market did not understand dancehall music. Sean Paul said he started making music for the girls, and his career took off in the diaspora and led to his first album ‘Stage One’ being released. “He was like ‘bro, nobody don’t believe you, you know that right? You’re not gonna be the person to preach…why don’t you sing about what you are?” Sean Paul echoed Harding’s comment. I asked him, have you ever made a party song, like a girl’s record? Because knowing his background to try and sing cultural records about what’s wrong in the ghetto, for example, it was like ‘Nah not from you,'” Harding said. “He started off making what we like to call cultural records,” the veteran producer said. It was a case of the ‘right message from the wrong messenger’ Sean Paul says, as his career received pushback from the uptowners who couldn’t take him seriously and the downtowners who felt he wasn’t an authentic messenger.ĭespite fears from those around him that he was “making a mistake” with his life by making dancehall music, the artist says he persisted for six years going to the studio before he finally met producer Jeremy Harding that helped to guide him to making marketable music. Born in a struggling uptown family where his father served time in jail for drug smuggling, Sean Paul was constantly placed in a box of what his community wanted him- to be a national water polo athlete like his father and leave the grimy dancehall music that spoke about suffering alone. Sean Paul’s 20-year career has not always been peaches and cream. “ Get Busy” was one of Sean Paul’s biggest songs of his career, and for the first time in a new interview with Vice, the dancehall legend shares how the song not only changed his career into an upward spiral to global fame but also cemented his career as a dancehall artist. Sean Paul and veteran producer Lenky shares some back story on the origins of the classic club banger “Get Busy.”
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