Bounty Killer

Bounty Killer has issued a cease and desist order to members of the entertainment fraternity who are recording their songs in Patois on Hip Hop and Trap beats and erroneously labeling it as 'Trap Dancehall.'

According to the Bounty Killer, these types of music are simply Trap fusions, which are American sounds, and should not be dislocated with the Dancehall genre of music, which is an authentic Jamaican sound. Members of the 6IX from Montego Bay including its frontman Squash as well as Ocho Rios' Jahvillani, are some of the main artistes who take been voicing on these beats.

"Goose egg name Trap Dancehall. Trap music is trap music and Dancehall is Dancehall. So you can't take ii genre and make one. Weh proper name and then? You can't have Reggae Soca? You hear dem did try 'soggae' like dem did want mix Soca wid Reggae; you can't do dat. You lot couldn't accept Rap-Trap. And then how you lot accept Dancehall Trap. That is similar stealing people'due south music to make 1. No. And Jamaica have such artistic music? Why are we gonna thief people music?" he argued.

The veteran deejay said while he appreciates the fact that Trap music has become very pop amongst Jamaican youngsters, the fact that the American beats are in no mode contradistinct or injected with authentic Dancehall sounds is a clear indication that they are in no mode even remotely Dancehall.

"Dancehall a Dancehall; Trap a Trap. And then those young artiste who are coming doing the Trap thing; it'south OK; it'southward the new tendency; it'due south the hip music for the kids and tings have to evolve, merely you cannot take it and arrive Dancehall; it's not. It was Trap and you lot take it. How it turn Dancehall? Yuh no do nuttn else only teck information technology and sing pon it now," he said.

"It's not even like they are making the Trap music different; you know, like you woulda take two a di kick and put a different vibes to information technology, like when dem make ova di Afrobeat here; you know dem put likkle Reggae vibes to it, only yuh tin can hear di Afro instruments. They are not doing that with trap; they are playing the same groove, am tempo and just considering we are singing patois pon it we say a dancehall trap," Bounty said.

The Poor People Governor as well sought to schoolhouse the errant music producers who are mislabelling the Trap songs and causing much of the defoliation on the role of language in the development of the genre.

"Nooo, is not the linguistic communication make the genre; information technology is the groove and the shell and the tempo and the sound that create the music. So not because wi sing patois on a riddim it turn Dancehall. And dat is what most a di producers doing, giving the youths dem some pop music, trap music R&B style riddims. And just because wi a chat like Jamaican pon information technology dem seh a Dancehall. No. The music represents itself. Patois no mek nuttn Dancehall. Then Trap a Trap and Dancehall a Dancehall," he said.