BY MEL COOKE, Freelance Writer
Deejay Lady Saw gets a hug from nine-year-old Mumsie to go along with a trophy presented at Celebrity Walkout birthday party on Saturday. - NATHANIEL STEWART
LADY SAW'S 'CELEBRITY Walk-out' birthday party stormed into the early morning yesterday with the microphone being passed among Vybz Kartel, Sizzla, Bounty Killer and, briefly, Lady Saw at the Apart Sports Club in Nain, St. Elizabeth.
It was in extra time granted by the police, as after Mavado had opened the Alliance's fusillade, the substantial but not huge audience cheering his every "gangster for life," followed by Wayne Marshall who Forgot Them and Kartel and then Bounty Killer had taken the stage to roars, Lady Saw stepped on, the cowl of her outfit over her face, long hair peeping from underneath.
"De police a lock it off, so we a done it," she said before doing Backshot. And when Sizzla stepped up in the Frontline, the closing barrage was truly on.
There had been a rumble of discontent a little earlier when, after Danielle had amended her song to "ghetto fdem me like" and declared "me is a girl whe well want my pretty pink p. f. out y'nuh," a policeman had come on stage to speak to MC Candice Buchanan. It turned out that he was advising a driver to go to a vehicle (a Corolla) as an attempt at stealing it had been foiled.
Still, after Sample had been clapped off and Lutan Fyah had sent out Rich Little Ghetto Girl to Saw, Buchanan said she had been informed that if the show was not kept clean it would be locked off.
In the closing fury, the reminder was forgotten, selections from Stone Love, Danga Zone and Tony Matterhorn punctuating the performances.
The hardcore dancehall end came after Celebrity Walkout had strolled through the vintage of Ken Boothe, who shook, shimmered, skanked and sang in full white, as he had the audience Moving Away, John Holt giving "a love I can feel" so hard that a forward was required and Gregory Isaacs, who stomped back on stage to the mix of Live Wyya band chanting "ragamuffin" for his encore. The rap of Remy Ma did not hit home right off the mark but, her breasts bouncing in her low-cut outfit, she struck a chord with Lean Back. She delivered All Good and chortled "I need an anaconda, we can make a DVD," the audience cheering in appreciation for her set.
COLD RECEPTION
There were technical difficulties before Akon hit the stage, his disc jockey Benny D warming up the audience with selections from Sizzla and Richie Spice. When Akon came on he said: "This is the coldest I have ever seen Jamaica. What's up? Had too much to drink? I'll have you by the end of the night." And he did, playing the night's most extended set, saying "I've got the perfect song for this mood," asking for the lights to be cut and asking "How can we work it out?" to have the audience really going. There were more screams when the chain and shirt came off and pandemonium from the ladies when he came off the stage, over the VIP area fence and into the audience on the closing Lonely. "If you pull my pants off and pull them down I will be on TV. And you definitely will be on TV. And if you take away the mic I won't be able to sing," he said.
Bounty squeezed in a lyric about Beenie Man "no gal cyaan use food hol' Rodney Pryce/dem hol' de dread wid oxtail an' rice" and at the very end, the sky beginning to show hints of grey, nine-year-old Mumsie, who had rocked the audience much earlier, presented Lady Saw with an award "on behalf of myself and the St. Elizabeth audience."
There were cheers, Lady Saw kissed her and sent kisses to the audience.
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