Tower Of Babel

Beenie Man seems to have had a rough year in 2006. Yeah, I know he got married and he had a son, but apart from that, trouble seems to have set up like rain against Beenie in 2006. He is still doing well, mind you! His album is selling and he was booked solid for shows over the recent silly season, but he has been involved in more fighting and kas-kas than anybody else I know of! Check it out:

As is normal, he has been waging an ongoing feud with Bounty Killa, seemingly forever. This has escalated now, however, where he is at war with Bounty Killa and also the Alliance, a set of artistes who move closely with the Killa.

Early in the year, there were rumours of Beenie possibly ending his relationship with his recording label, because of differences he had with some representatives of Virgin Records.

In 2006, he also had a problem with Twin of Twinz. There was a lot of threats , etc. going on because Beenie felt that the Twin of Twinz had suggested on their CD that he was responsible for the death of Bogle.

This led to Beenie having a bit of a bustup with his band (Ruff Cut). He happened upon Ruff Cut working in studio with the Twin of Twinz and he went ballistc! He ended up proclaiming that he had fired Ruff Kut! I think his management sorted that out, however.

Next, he had a problem with Patrick Roberts of Shocking Vibes, who has been his manager for over twenty years! Apparently the two are now to part ways.

Finally he has now lost his chief songwriter! And don’t forget the little squabbles he gets into day by day, like when some thugs from New York were threatening Beenie or like the incident where he had a member of his entourage box Spice! (Her lyrics were really not too kosher though… )

The question on my mind is, can everybody else just be all messed up, or is it more likely that the problem lies with Beenie Man himself?!

To borrow a phrase from Yannick, “How come everybody ah move so bitter ‘gainst the ‘King‘?” People, it seems to me that Beenie has way more than his fair share of squabbles, disagreements, quarrels and fights, and I think that a major cause of this lies within Beenie Man himself. Perhaps he is exalting himself too much nowadays, thereby leading to all these issues with everyone around him.

Where will all this contentiousness end? With a bullet in his skull? With him finally pissing off his fans royally? With him becoming nothing more than a footnote in the annals of Jamaican Dancehall, like Shabba? Who knows? I think it would be wise for him to take a look within himself now though, while he still has it going on.

Anyway, lets see what 2007 will bring for the “King”.

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