BY KRISTA HENRY, Staff Reporter
Twin of Twins performing at Bling Dawg Summer Jam at Somerset Falls, Portland on Saturday. - NATHANIEL STEWART
NEW TENSIONS AND a case of who-dun-it arose out of the disruption of Bling Dawg Summer Jam on Saturday.
THE STAR reported yesterday that the crowd which turned up for the event rioted after what was reported to be a verbal attack by Twin of Twins on Beenie Man. However, the parties involved in the melee each have a different story to tell.
According to the show's promoter Bling Dawg, "The show was really good up until that point, then the Twins came on. The Twins weren't booked for the show. They came around 3:30-4:00 a.m., after dem I was suppose to perform. Kartel, Bounty Killer, me, Wayne Marshall neva get to go on. It just happened in a split second," Bling Dawg said.
Bling Dawg claims he was completely unaware of the still ongoing verbal exchange between the two artistes. He says "I don't know what the problem is between Twins and Beenie Man. I was totally unaware of the situation, I knew they had one, but I thought it was over. The people in the crowd wasn't responding and the Twins neva want to leave. Then one of dem tell the crowd a derogatory word, someting bout dem madda. As an artist you have to be professional, you can't fine 4000-5000 people. People just start fling bottle. By the time I reached out there it got out of hand. Bounty came on to try to calm the people but dem neva listen. Dem neva throw bottle after him though," Bling Dawg said.
WHO TO BLAME?
However, Bling Dawg was cautious in placing blame on any one party. He states "I'm really sorry about it, for six years the show's been keeping and this is first time this has happened, people don't expect it. I really don't want to blame anyone. If Twins came off stage it might neva have happened. The crowd can't be blamed also, is not all of dem throw a bottle. Some troublemaker throw it. The artist should have been wiser, if you do something it looks bad on all of us. They should have had more control than the crowd. Two wrongs can't make a right," he said.
Sharon Williams, who is in charge of booking for Solid Agency, the agency with whom Bounty Killer is associated and who was at the event gives a different account of what happened. She claims "We were running the stage for Bling. Just before Bling was to go on with the Alliance, Twins came and they weren't slated. They came on and did some songs, the crowd was responding. Then they said they had a song and it was dissing Beenie. They started and wouldn't stop. There was like three minutes of booing and the crowd started throwing stones. In my opinion they lost their mind, they traced the people about what dem can do wid dem mother. I was in awe I couldn't even stop them. The things that came out of their mouth and the bottles came, almost everyone had a magna bottle in dem hand. We got off stage and then Bounty asked for the mic saying 'Portland people calm down'. Then Bling came up as well and talked and it got calm. A stage man threw a bottle into the crowd and the second round began. Bling pushed the man off stage. The Twins shoulda stop, they were going good, but the crowd neva want hear them dis Beenie Man. Bounty was angry with them cause Twins was disrespectful to Bling".
However, the controversy gets deeper as the Twins tell a different tale. They claim "we do a tune, Dread Gone Mad based on the behaviour of a particular popular artiste, Beenie Man. Its about him disrespecting artists such as Cham, Richie and so many others. If you're as you claim so influential then you should not move so childish. You lose focus of your career. We neva do nutting to Beenie Man, so why him attack we? We neva answer him in a disrespectful way".
They continue "we weren't booked but we go to the show to show solidarity. We don't know why him neva book us in the first place. Risto Benji came on before us and did a song bout Fallen Angel. Everyone was in agreement and the crowd liked it. When we went on stage we neva do a disrespect thing, we didn't approach and seh Beenie fi dead. We said he's a legend. We did four songs before that song. We went into the chorus, fine, the crowd was loving it".
According to them the real war began when an argument erupted in the crowd. The Twins state "this boisterous woman, we know her and we forgive her, but she start talk bout dis and dat and madda. Three quarter of the crowd was in agreement wid us less than a quarter wasn't. It was confusing. A yute, we dont know its a fan of ours, go over to the woman and start a tussle. Den the boos start get louder. The people dem a seh we seh 'fk dem madda' but that was wrong. What we seh is 'some a unnu who a boo, man a fk yuh. Unnu a bman'. We walked off before the bottles start throw".
They continue "it was an orchestrated boo, if it was a ting where disrespecting Beenie was the cause then dem woulda boo Risto. Some of dem that boo nuh rate Beenie like we. I see Bling throw salt in the wound by saying we mash up him show. That's hypocrisy on his part. Him a seh is a buy out ting, buy out into Beenie and Killer war, but a defend we a defend weself. Him bigger than that. We apologise that is we were the artists that were on when it happened. Sorry to the sponsors. When Bling seh him want to hold it next year, support him. Cause we will neva be on another Bling Dawg show again. We don't appreciate what him do. Who mash up Bling Dawg show may not have actually been there" the Twins say.
However Bling Dawg says he is much more cautious as to who will be on his next show. "Next time I just have to be careful the type of artistes I let on stage. I have to start looking from the standpoint of the promoter and not as an artist. Remember seh is not a fren ting," he said.
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