Below, we’ve featured a few of these recent snippets: Gaza’ paraphernalia outside high schools in Kingston, dancehall giants Mavado and Vybz Kartel have been hammered by the local media – with everything from editorials, articles, weekly columns and letters to the editors slamming the artistes for their roles in the ongoing feud. In recent times, and particularly since it was announced that vendors were found selling ‘Gully vs. In addition, he is working on Gentleman's new album. In coming weeks, he said, "We will be touching the road and campaigning fully." And, a medley video for the beat will be released by year end.īut Corleon is still working with the male artistes, as he recently released the Pulse rhythm, which features artistes like Capleton, Munga, Flexxx, Savage, Professor, Mr Vegas, Elephant Man, Wayne Marshall, Vybz Kartel and others. To help promote the beat, he says the female artistes have been promoting their songs on the rhythm at weekly events like Weddy Weddy, and they also made an appearance on Hype TV's Up and Live. It is going to benefit the women and show their versatility," Corleon said. I'm giving the women an opportunity to shine. It is getting a lot of response all over the world. "It's is one of the most played rhythms on the radio now. Other producers might wanna do something like this or add more females to their rhythm," she told THE STAR, while noting that she recently shot the video for her song I Want You.Īnd so far, Corleon says the rhythm has been doing well. It will show other producers that it can be a hit with only women on the rhythm. "I think it is great because the females in the business really need that right now. Ishawna, whose song on the Feminine rhythm is called Good Love, says she is really pleased with what Corleon is trying to do for the females in dancehall. That rhythm featured women like Lady Saw, Macka Diamond, Tifa, Timberlee, Natalie Storm, D'Angel, Stacious, Ms Ting, Ce'Cile, Lady G, Queen Paula and Spice. He, however, acknowledged that this was not the first as Ward 21 did an all-female rhythm, Dem Gal Sittin, early last year.
That's why I did this to strengthen the women in the industry," he told THE STAR, while noting that every song on the one-drop rhythm is different. "I decided to do it because there are a lot of women in the industry with talent and they don't get the exposure and the opportunity to work with a lot of producers. The rhythm, which was released recently, features artistes like Tifa, Kris Kelli, Ce'Cile, Deneque, Stacious, Cherine Anderson and Ishawna.Ĭorleon said he decided to do a rhythm with only women because he realised that there are usually few or no women on most rhythms. It has been done before but Don Corleon plans to bring the women in dancehall to the forefront this Christmas with his all-female Feminine rhythm.