Jamaican Brehs, do yall resent Sean Paul?

[UpAndComing]

They're not more well known than him, retard.

Another teenager with a temper tantrum

 

[ItsPeople]

back in the day the rap shows used to play shabba, mad cobra, buju, beanie, etc.

sean paul made dope music and blew up. if we're keeping it 100 there was some colorism there though.

Same way they elevated Bob when Peter was just as good.

 

[King Poetic]

Jamaicans are more mad at steven sigel going to Jamaica taking out Jamaicans like they was flies in marked for death

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

Sean Paul had thick bums of tings grinding on pee pees. That glorious moment where this ting randomly grind on the young marsupial's wee wee in high school, made me appreciate Dancehall

 

[Yayo Toure]

Nah.

Sean Paul took the culture to places it didn't reach before and opened doors for other people, all while giving back locally.

Super Cat and Shabba preceded Sean Paul and Sean Paul and Shaggy took it further as far as commercial impact. Is Sean Paul the most talented artist? No. Is he the best performer? Also no. But he took the music far and eventually someone will emerge to take it further.

 

[Yayo Toure]

sean paul hate never made sense since he was making hits over actual dancehall riddims in his prime

EXACTLY.

No hip hop beats.

After Sean Paul, many dancehall artists like Kartel, Ele, Movado had big US singles over dancehall riddims.

 

[invalid]

resentment towards others success seems to be a black american thing.

so of course, let's project that onto other black groups. they must surely feel the same way.

 

[sayyestothis]

He is by far the most well known dancehall artist globally. Did his run have yardbrehs mad back in the day/now? Was he considered a sellout?

Lol at ur statement. Breh never was king of dancehall brehhh

 

[StretfordRed]

If it hasn’t been said already, he was mostly on riddims/dubplates. So the songs he had were just the same as others back home, so his sound was still original.

 

[King Sun]

resentment towards others success seems to be a black american thing.

so of course, let's project that onto other black groups. they must surely feel the same way.

I was just in Jamaica in March and our tour guide was telling us how "badmind" people were to each other there. Resentment and jealousy is bound to occur in poor places especially when most the population is living in borderline poverty.

 

[Big Mountain Hélà]

You can respect him but you never trust a man with two first names.

Don’t google his real name

 

[SNG]

Sean Paul is not a favourite but he’s respected in Jamaica. He ain’t on no Kartel, Bounty, Buju and Beenie level though with Jamaicans.

He’s more like the fast food version of dancehall.

 

[ThrobbingHood]

My Jamaican friend’s mother said he stole Super Cat’s whole style. Outside of her, I’ve never heard or seen any other Jamaicans resent him.

 

[Plankton]

If not Sean Paul, must be Vybz Kartel especially now after being released from Jail?

Most non Caribbean people I've met think Bob Marley then Sean Paul when they think of Jamaican music.

My Jamaican friends would say they rather Elephant Man, Beanie Man, or Vybz Cartel

OP specified Dancehall and Bob was not dancehall


And globally Sean is bigger then Vybz and Beenie Man. Sean was on songs from major pop artists Beyonce and Sia. Beenie Man did songs with Don Omar and Mya. Sean has 48M monthly listeners on Spotify. Both Beenie Man & Vybz have over 3M. Sean Paul has 3 songs in the billions on Youtube. Beenie Vybz and Elephant Man don't have billion viewed music videos on Youtube.

off topic, Cutty Ranks also has a song in the billions with Dame Tu Cosita. Its over 5 billion views. And it's # 6 in the most viewed music videos of all time on Youtube. Thats crazy to think of how Cutty Ranks of all people could have such a title.

 

[Walt]