Beenie Man

thumb Moses Anthony Davis (born 22 August 1973),known professionally as Beenie Man, is a Jamaican dancehall DJ.His awards include DJ of the Year Award eight years in a row. His twelfth studio album Art and Life received a Grammy Award in 2001. Quotes “You have to be a leader; you can’t be a follower,” a “Where Dancehall is concerned you have to give people things they never hear about,” “Well, Island didn’t want to deal with this album.” “I’m like the king DJ in Jamaica, and the dance hall queens always come to my shows.” “What I really think about me performing on stage is that I really put all my heart in my performance. All my work is on the stage. Whenever I have a bad day and I want to have a good day, I just go on stage.” Beenie Man: The Dancehall Maestro Interview 1997 & 2020 Update;By M. PEGGY QUATTRO, retrieved on JUNE 11, 2020 No songs take the longest, the problem is the time. At the time my brother died and I went through a lot of things, and my sister died and I went through another lot of things. It took a period of time for me to get over that, you know - to get back in the studio. I start with the beat, then the concept come to me. The music come to me then the lyrics actually just start floatin' in my head. Because he's the baddest and most wickedest wrestler ever. And you know I'm a wrestling fan because I watched as I was a kid and I grew up. I know him personally, but I still would fight him though. I don't care. Beenie Man Interview Yeah man, we do that every year because I am an Ethiopian Orthodox. We celebrated in the African way. We have seven days of drumming, we have a feast, and we have fasting. Yeah, of course. We have been in war for what… 22 years? So all we have to do is purely laugh about it because we were never nasty. We have never had a fight. We have never had a fuss more than lyrical fights and lyrical arguments. It is just lyrical confrontation. Dancehall built hip-hop, man. Without dancehall, so there be no hip-hop, my lord. Some of the biggest hip-hop songs are taking from Jamaican songs. You know that and I know that too. For example, the first man who did hip-hop is Jamaican. Interview with Beenie Man;By Angus Taylor,retrieved on 09/17/2016 External links Category:living peopleCategory:Men