Sean Paul has called out artists including Drake, Justin Bieber, Major Lazer, and Kanye West for appropriating dancehall without crediting its roots, in a new interview with the Guardian. Paul, who says he’s a Drake fan, also questions the rapper’s use of patois. He adds that it’s galling to see the dancehall’s massive influence when many Jamaican artists can’t get U.S. visas.
Paul says:
It is a sore point when people like Drake or Bieber or other artists come and do dancehall-orientated music but don’t credit where dancehall came from and they don’t necessarily understand it. A lot of people get upset, they get sour. And I know artists back in Jamaica that don’t like Major Lazer because they think they do the same thing that Drake and Kanye did – they take and take and don’t credit.
Talking about his new album, he adds:
Dancehall is back but this time it’s also infused with Afrobeat, with hip-hop, with trap, and that’s fine with me. Sure, I would like what we do in Jamaica, that authentic dancehall, to be on top, but it simply isn’t. So I want this album to bridge that gap.
via Jazz Monroe
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