Five Takeaways From Dexta Daps’ New Album ‘VENT’

Dexta Daps officially debuted his new album VENT a few days ago on July 30. This is the Dancehall singer’s second studio album following his 2017 collection Intro, which included his infamous erotic Intro Short Film for his single Bring It To The Owna starring himself and Lady Ice that broke the Internet upon its release.

The new album is a multifaceted composition of a 16-track LP plus an original visual series highlighting several of the songs. The first, Episode 1, is entitled Heartless and features music videos for the singles Leave Her Alone and the flagship track Vent. Episode 2, Reconnected unleashes visuals for the tracks Twinkle and Call Me If. Episode 3, Commercial Break includes the tracks Obviously featuring Beenie Man and his previously released hit single Breaking News. Episode 4, Most Wanted also features the track with visuals for the single Most Wanted, along with War Season with Chronic Law and Blackk Man and a third track Lift My Hand.

Dexta Daps has established a pretty notable reputation for himself through his music, even creating a niche in the Dancehall arena that is certifiably his own, and that is the charms of a sex symbol and a gangster. As we splice through the entire album VENT, we found parallels, constants, and picked up on a few habits, among them, we found five takeaways.

He made a hit again.

Could he top his previous album or, more specifically, land another banger like Bring It To The Owner? Yes, he did, a couple of times actually.

Dexta’s Episode 2 collection Reconnected and its two featured tracks, Twinkle (track 4) and Call Me If (track 5), are two monster players on the album.

Twinkle is certainly a mood trigger; he even brought Lady Ice back as his star girl in the music video. Daps lays down his silky R&B style tones laced in raunchy details about all the things he does for her in the bedroom.

“Look like you need a new replacement / f**k just feel so good she wanna cry, she love the size, bout it she fantasize / me make she dash weh dildo,” he croons through the song setting off imaginations, especially since he’s actually missing from the music video.

Call Me If is also one of his saccharine sounding ballads on the album. Dexta ingeniously blends old Dancehall impressions into this soulful symphony, sampling Louie Culture’s 1994 hit single Ganga Lee to create a resounding chorus on the track.

Other top picks for bedroom slow jams to look out for on Dexta’s new collection are Ashes featuring Toronto rapper Friyie, F.U 4 Life, Nosey Neighbours featuring Ikaya, and Unpredictable.

Oh, he’s a stallion in bed for sure.

Dexta doesn’t miss out on any opportunity to flex his bedroom skills in his songs. It is the premise of Twinkle and Call Me If, where he encourages these unfulfilled females to leave their men so that he can show them a good time.

He does this as well in Obviously featuring Beenie Man, Ashes with Friyie, and F.U 4 Life. In Nosey Neighbors with Ikaya, she confirms his stallion appeal, “what a boy can f**k, yuh — ah di right fit,” she praises Dexta.

In his single with Spice, A Plus they throw their desires back and forth, while he wants to slow things down and make love, she rather he gets on with it, and in doing so also talks up his bedroom talents.

Mi would a hide and f#%k Dexta right now 🏃🏾‍♀️. A just the truth🙄 @dextadaps ALBUM CALLED VENT OUT NOW GO STREAM IT . MY Collaboration is called A-PLUS fi the gal dem wid di good A-plus ole Bye pic.twitter.com/va1UY79ktr

— Spice 👸🏾🇯🇲 (@spiceofficial) July 31, 2020

He uses a lot of aphorisms.

You can take a Jamaican out of Jamaica, but you can’t take the Jamaican out of him. Anyone that grew up in Jamaica, no matter which class of society, would have heard a couple of Jamaican proverbs in their lifetime.

Its clear Dexta has had his fair share of hearing them, so much so that aphorisms are riddled all the way through his album. He even mentions his mother’s counsel in the single Vent, “Mi mother did warn me, boy pickney nuh sleep with Barbie.”

In Twinkle, we hear him using the popular but rendered grass quote, “Nuh grass nuh greener pon di other side.” In Breaking News, he says, “Be careful where you drop yuh seed because you cant expect flowers fi a bloom weh yuh water weed.”

He continues making up his own quotes, like in Leave Her Alone, he drops “I rather be a quitter than fall short,” but what good song writer doesn’t know how to play on words.

Either he’s been cheated on a lot or just obsessed with cheating narratives.

In Episode 1 Heartless of his visual series, Dexta features Vent and Leave Her Alone, which both tell a tale about cheating. Leave Her Alone finds a betrayed Dex blowing up his fiancé’s spot at the alter, exposing her for all her lies in the music video. He sings, “Fell for you like the rain, I thought I could give you my name,” but discovered all she truly wanted him for was the fame.

In Vent, the music video catches her right in the act as she’s being picked up by another man. “I believed in you. I trusted you with everything but now I’ve got to move on, you’ve been fooling me for too long,” he sings.

In Undefeated with Tarrus Riley, Dexta croons his lyrics with a broken heart, singing how he loves her and hate her at the same time. Also, in Unpredictable he talks about his love interest cheating again but admits he did too.

When your man is acting up, call Dexta.

He simply can’t say it enough, in fact, the tracks to listen to are Twinkle, Call Me If, Obviously, Ashes and F.U 4 Life. Just ask Spice in A Plus and Ikaya in Nosey Neighbor, they can tell you Dexta is the guy to call when your man is acting up.

While we see him talking up his stallion appeal in Twinkle, he also defines a scenario where he’s on the phone talking to his love interest about cheating. She has a man but wants to leave him, “She say the f**k too good we cant be friends,” Dex sings.

Call Me If, speaks for itself. “Call me if di likkle man nah fk you good, better you fk somebody else,” are his lyrics while he choruses, “she say she would like to be free.”

Then in Obviously with Beenie, they take turns to convince their beau to leave her man. Beenie says, “A idiot yuh deh wid, so come give me di psy please / You have the Doctor suh run weh disease.” Then Dexta adds, “Make him find out say yuh lef him when yuh pack up and gone. Come climb up pon me *** gal you psy keep you warm.”

Ashes with Friyie, his lover begs him to come over in the middle of the night, “She bun di boy to ashes, say she nah give him no crs.” Then in F.U 4 Life, Dexta talks about an affair that’s been going on for a long time, similar to the title’s meaning ‘Fk You For Life.’ She’s fed up with her man, “More time she feel like she’d a buss a likkle quickie, she nuh want nuh man weh a tell her say him busy. She say she cant be round di boy another minute, say she fed up and she a give me a visit tonight,” he sings in another plot of unfaithfulness.

Stream Dexta Daps’ full 16-track album VENT below.