No Label 2 Jay Critch Did It Again Remix
For elder millennials like me, Sean Paul will forever concord a special identify in our hearts (anxiety?).
The Jamaican reggae/dancehall artist'south sophomore album Dutty Rock dropped my senior year of high school, and its infectious hits "Get Busy," "Similar Mucilage," "Gimme the Light," and "Baby Boy"—the latter with a little-known creative person named Beyoncé—provided the soundtrack to firm parties, leap interruption, prom, and our concluding summer before college. While my clubbing days are mostly behind me, Paul, who will turn fifty in January, is showing few signs of slowing down.
We're huddled together in a van exterior his Manhattan hotel, and Paul, despite coming off back-to-dorsum club shows in Brooklyn, is talking excitedly about Scorcha, his eighth studio anthology out May 27. The LP boasts plenty of the tricky, trip the light fantastic toe-inducing tracks he's known for—"How We Exercise Information technology" (feat. Pia Mia) and "Calling On Me" (feat. Tove Lo) are simply two examples—alongside slower, more ruminative ballads. For Paul, it marks a step forward in his development as an artist, with lyrics tackling weighty bug like family and infidelity.
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One of the start things you discover upon coming together Paul is the giant crystal pendant. When I ask him about it, his eyes light upward. As the story goes, he was in the eye of a backstage interview prior to a 2005 evidence in Sweden when of a sudden, he felt a tap on his shoulder. Information technology was none other than Lee "Scratch" Perry, the legendary reggae producer, sporting a wizard hat. Perry proceeded to identify the hat on Paul'south head and proclaimed, "Sean Paul is the new reggae Merlin!" Then, he shoved a crystal in his hand. Paul now wears it around his neck as a practiced-luck charm, rubbing it occasionally over the grade of our interview.
What practise you feel sets Scorcha apart from your previous albums?
I make political party music—something where people tin can forget nigh their problems and throw yourself into the political party on a weekend—but this album shows a lot more than growth likewise. I've been a thoughtful person for many years, and it'due south not been reflected in my music, so at that place are some songs like "Good Day" and "Calling on Me"—that'south a song about existence at that place for each other, about family. "Borrowed Time" is a party track, but in that location'due south something deeper in there. It's talking about adulterous. I came to the realization in that song that information technology's not satisfying, that shit.
So that'southward a biographical song about cheating?
I guess over years and years, yes. But there's also stuff put in at that place.
The vanquish on "Earthquake" is very tricky.
"Earthquake" is dope. I e'er want to proceed that. I entered the music industry as Mr. Party Guy, and I freakin' love information technology. It does well on stage when you lot perform stuff similar that, so that'due south a banger. The anthology was recorded a trivial bit before, during, and after the pandemic.
Information technology's a proficient time for information technology given that it'southward coming out in late May and a lot of people seem to be gear up to become out and dance again.
It feels expert. I told myself when [the pandemic] started that it'd be two years that I'd programme for, and then when the ii years crept up, I was scared, like "Practise I really want to go back on the route?" I live in Jamaica—in Kingston—and for v months, I didn't do null. I just stayed in my house. My mom was like, "You're not fifty-fifty going to go to the supermarket?" Nothing. I was smoking on the back porch looking out and thinking, "What the hell is this world coming to?" I have asthma, so it was actually scary. As time went on and I did more enquiry, I felt a little more than comfortable. Then I'd get up every day, do swim grooming at ix a.1000., and so become to the studio past xi a.m.
Sean Paul performs during iHeartRadio KISS 108's Jingle Brawl 2022 at TD Garden on December. 12, 2021, in Boston.
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You come up from a prolific family of swimmers—and were a talented h2o polo thespian, right?
Yeah. My mom and my pops used to teach pond in the summer. I swam, and I endeavor to exercise information technology when I have the time. I wanted to go to the Olympics. My coach, his name was Andrew Phillips, and he went to the '84 Olympics, then I wanted to get. He used to exist coached past my mom when he was younger. But that was my dream from 14, xv years old until about nineteen, and then I started to realize that my time wasn't getting any faster. I swam very practiced for a Jamaican—I was pinnacle three every time in my races—but doing stuff abroad, information technology showed me how far backside I actually was.
How did you transition from beingness in the puddle to making music for the guild?
It's funny. When you train in whatsoever kind of aerobic activity, yous hear music in your head. I'd hear songs in my head, and I've e'er loved music. At historic period 15, I thought I'd be a producer. I pressured my mom to buy me a broken keyboard that I saw, and she bought that for me in hopes that I would have pianoforte lessons. But I stopped going to piano lessons. I wanted to play what I heard in my head. At age 17, I started rhyming and decided that I wanted to be an artist instead. I wanted to be a conscious artist who made people think. My focus inverse in one case I did a party vocal—or a "girls' song," equally nosotros telephone call it—and it blew up. Information technology was called "Baby Girl." It's not on any anthology, but I was riffing on "99 Ruby Balloons."
I read that you went to a Jewish school in Jamaica. How did that happen, and what was it like?
Hillel Academy. It's funny. I would say it's an upscale school, and they didn't enforce Jewish laws, or you didn't accept to be a Jewish person to go to the schoolhouse—even though you did get off on Jewish holidays, and then everybody was like "Yom Kippur!" and everybody else was like, "That's not fair!" It was a existent melting pot for me. It was like "it'southward a small earth after all."
You've had some incredible collaborations. Do yous have favorites—and least favorites?
[Laughs] I won't mention the not-favorite ones, but I do take those. Some of my favorites… I would say Busta Rhymes, because I looked up to him, and to exist able to do two songs with him—"Gimme the Calorie-free" and "Brand It Handclapping (Remix)"—he had Jamaican roots, and I simply felt like I was entering into a bigger gild musically. Rihanna was another favorite. At the time, if I was doing a collab with anybody, I would always have to go to where they are, but with Rihanna, I met her on tour and she was like, "Yo, I love Kingston. I desire to get to Jamaica." So, she came, and the first place she wanted to go was the Bob Marley Museum. She went there and soaked it all in.
You lot got to give Rihanna a tour of Jamaica. That is awesome.
Yah monday. Beach, guild, studio. She stayed there for like five days. That was very memorable, because I never got to show anybody in the biz how we exercise it at home. That just felt special to me. That song ["Suspension It Off"] It went to No. 7 on the Billboard fifty-fifty though no label pushed it.
OK just what was the actual highlight of giving Rihanna a tour of Jamaica?
Smoking on the beach, mon! We take a cay chosen Lime Cay, and then my friend has a boat, and he took us out in that location. It was good! The waves were inclement, and you know I had to get the jet ski going.
One of your most memorable collaborations was "Baby Male child" with Beyoncé. I read that she was a big fan of yours and started attending a bunch of your shows at that time.
She had a few hits with Destiny's Child, and they would do the Caribbean, but nosotros didn't really hang out. I'd always admired her music and she's beautiful. So, when I heard Beyoncé was stepping out on her ain and wanted me to do a single, I was like "Hell fucking yeah." I idea it was going to be R&B, but information technology concluded up beingness dancehall, and so that made me go off. That was a bangin' rail, monday.
It as well made you the subject of a very big internet rumor that y'all and Beyoncé were seeing each other.
We had to have a speak about it.
Really?
Yeah. And so, we only performed the song three times together—ever.
That'south non a lot.
Exactly. Information technology was huge. It was ix weeks at No. 1, all over MTV and BET, magazines, everywhere. I had some people who were working with me for years and they were like "Dominate—I'chiliad now a fan of yours." I was similar "At present?!" Simply we had just three performances, and one was at Reggae Sumfest. At the time, we were both on the Rock the Mic Tour. This was 2003. She wasn't on it every solar day, simply she would come up on certain dates and practise the song ["Crazy in Honey"] with Jay. One solar day, we left to do the video and then played Sumfest. That was the beginning time. The second time was in 50.A., and a strange thing happened—and I call back that's what started the rumors. Foreign things started to happen at the performances, which was weird. We went to L.A. and I did my show and then she was performing, and they told me to stick around because we'll practise "Baby Male child." Nosotros do it and I run out there and the crowd goes wild, but subsequently a while it seems similar I lost their energy. And it's weird considering I was going wild out at that place. When the song finished, I came backstage and my own band was all pissed off, similar "Human being, that'due south fucked up. You heard yourself? Nosotros couldn't hear you in the crowd. Your mic was off." I was like, "How the fuck did that happen?"
Do y'all think that was sabotage?
I didn't think then then. But then when the matter happened in Scotland, that's when we had the talk, because the rumors got really crazy. I landed in Scotland and it was this MTV consequence, and in that location were paparazzi everywhere. We ended up doing the rehearsal and everything was skilful, and the performance was going to be where I come from under the phase, and then we both walk to a large center matter in the eye of the stadium which was surrounded by fire. That all happens, and then information technology reaches my part—"Yous're a summit, top, daughter"—and the rails keeps going, "Baby male child, you stay…" "Baby boy, you stay…" Merely repeating. I was like, "What's going on here!?" She was pissed and was like "I need to speak to you." Then, we become back and talk and she'southward like "What's all these rumors about?" and I'm like "Yo, I'm not saying shit," and she's similar "These rumors fuck with my career. I just want you to know that." I was like "They don't fuck with mine. So, mind: I met Jay before yous and we was friends, so me and him should talk. If he feels a way almost that, then we should talk, because it's not coming from me."
And so… do yous think it was Jay fucking with the audio?
It couldn't be because he wasn't even in that location. But people started to say this shit. And there was one more operation nosotros were supposed to do at the VMAs, and she said to me "We're gonna accept rehearsal, so wait out." The day before the VMAs happens, at that place'south this printing twenty-four hour period where you lot speak to every radio station, and I'm hearing somebody rehearsing "Baby Boy." So, I'chiliad like "What's going on?" We went to the label and they were similar "Yo…they're not gonna do the song with you." And so, I'm sitting there in the oversupply with my present wife and Paris Hilton is sitting in front end of me. Beyoncé is coming down the stairs singing the song and Paris Hilton turns to me and goes "Why aren't yous up there?" It was embarrassing and weird. Then, the next 24-hour interval, I was supposed to perform in Washington, D.C., and do the song with her for her male parent. I went there, did my show, so waited around for a while. And I got pissed off. They were like "There are 3,000 influential people waiting out in that location for you to practice it." And I was like, "At that place were fifty one thousand thousand people watching the VMAs. I'm not doing it." And I left. That was the terminal time we did the prove, and by that time I was proverb publicly that there was nothing going on. It vicious on me. Nobody was asking them about it. But you lot know what? It was a big, fat, sexy song.
That was a pretty sexy music video—which may have helped fuel those rumors.
That was a piece of it, likewise. People in Jamaica were like "How come you're non in any scene with her? You're supposed to exist grinding on her and shit." That was an upshot y'all reminded me of. I got there and thought we were going to be dancing, and the director called a meeting—which I never had before—and he told me exactly how things were going to become, and he said "You're not going to be in whatever scene with her," and I get,"OK." He goes "Yous're in a dream world and she's thinking about yous every night." Only…sexy video, sexy song, and a lot of sexy rumors.
Do you think these were Jay-Z's machinations though? Because the rumor at the time was that Jay-Z personally got you cut from the VMAs.
I mean… he's an icon. Even at that time, Roc-A-Wear was already worth $80 million. He was a very intuitive person, and then he would accept never been like, "I got to fight this like that." Y'all know?
Who do you think was doing it then?
That'southward just how it is.
But a coincidence that you were cut out of a bunch of performances and separated during the music video shoot?
Information technology'south weird… maybe it had something to do with her management at the time, which we found out later has been a tumultuous relationship for the both of them.
And so… you didn't claw up with Beyoncé?
[Laughs] Nah! I wish I did! She'due south beautiful.
Very early on in your career you lot cameoed in Belly—an iconic hip-hop motion picture—and recorded "Top Shotter" with DMX for it. How did that happen?
DMX was the hugest creative person in the globe at the fourth dimension. I'll always respect that dude. R.I.P.
People forget that Hell Is Hot and Mankind of My Flesh came out the same year and both went direct to No. ane.
2 albums that sold over a one thousand thousand in 1 twelvemonth, and and so the post-obit year he had another album that sold over a million. He was in movies, everything. I'll always respect him for that considering he wasn't like, "Nah, I'1000 not doing the song. Who are these two kids?" He did information technology. Every year, in that location'southward at least i or ii stars that come out of Jamaica'southward dancehall system, and that twelvemonth information technology was me and Mr. Vegas. Hype Williams wanted to exercise it with 2 bigger artists, and Tony Kelly, the music producer, was like, "I think you lot should try these two hot kids." So, it was Tony Kelly's fault. Hype Williams loved information technology and then much that he wanted to shoot a music video. So, we started shooting this music video in Jamaica, but time ran out for what he thought he was going to achieve, so what ended up in the movie is part of the music video we shot. That ten seconds I'm in the moving picture really blew me up in hip-hop circles.
Sean Paul performs onstage during iHeartRadio KISS 108's Jingle Ball 2022 at TD Garden on Dec. 12, 2021, in Boston.
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How do you feel about the manner reggae has been treated? It's always been set up bated every bit its own genre and doesn't get much play on traditional radio or cleft the Hot 100 very often.
I have and then much to say on that. We don't accept the numbers. There are two.9 million people in Jamaica, so no matter how big nosotros tell you lot this or that person is, nobody is buying or streaming that shit. Dorsum when I was pond for Jamaica, I would get to events in Trinidad, Mexico, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, Orlando, and later nosotros'd finish the competition we'd go out for a few beers and I'd hear dancehall music in the clubs—but never on the radio, it being the son of reggae. Only it evolved.
These days, in that location are far more non-Jamaican artists doing dancehall music that become on the radio than Jamaican dancehall artists.
That's the nail on the caput right there. The music blew upward and I had 10 successful years of beingness played on the radio in America. After that, it became harder and harder. I thought "Oh, I've got to blend my music with this trip the light fantastic music now just to go heard?" And then "Bailando" was a huge song, and I was involved in that, so I'yard thinking "Why are these executives telling me 'We're not having fun trying to run your record in these places because people are proverb dancehall is over with?'" Then, I tried to do records with these other [pop artists], a lot of collabs. Then, I'm hearing Ed Sheeran, Rihanna, Drake, and Swae Lee on the radio, and I'm thinking, "This is all dancehall to me. Why are you categorizing me like that?" Information technology'due south been feeling that people are taking it abroad from us, because if you're getting on the radio and you're telling me dancehall'due south not getting on the radio anymore…don't tell me our stuff don't work.
As you get older, is it tough to even so be the dancehall guy? Does a part of you want to enter your "No Woman No Cry" phase?
[Laughs] There are times, for sure. Back in 2005, I was feeling that whole guitar vibe, so I did a vocal called "As Time Goes On." I was hoping that song would take off, but it didn't go anywhere except in France, so I sped things up with "Gimme the Light" afterwards that and and so "Temperature." There are times in the bear witness for things to wearisome down, because an hour and a half of smack, smack, smack tin can be a lot. My knees are talkin' to me now, though, like "Yo, bro!" So, perchance I do need to selection upwards a guitar shortly!
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