Dovey Magnum Says Corona Was The Jamaican Artist Of 2020

Jamaican media entities have been publishing their 2020 entertainment newsmakers, and some camps are not pleased.

The Jamaica Observer named Buju Banton as its artiste of the year in a December 25th article, while The Gleaner‘s recently published year-end review gave Shenseea and Govana the title.  Dancehall singjay Dovey Magnum, however, says “Miss Rona” was the artiste of 2020.

“We already survived f–king corona, that’s the breakthrough a di year, that’s the artiste of the bloodcl–t year, corona.”

The Respectfully artiste was speaking on Instagram Live yesterday, and made the statement after stumbling across a post made today by a popular fan page of dancehall artiste Alkaline.

The page told The Jamaica Observer to “suck unuh madda” while adding, “Nah tek back da chat deh eeda. Been a joke paper.”

But the joke may very well be on the page as it is The Gleaner’s 2020 review which was just published, suggesting the operator of the page either waited two weeks to blast the paper, or the frustration was directed to the wrong media house. The Gleaner also published an article that looked at 20 songs that best describe 2020, for which Alkaline’s music didn’t make the list.

In an Instagram story, the page said Alkaline’s Ocean Wave should have made the list instead of A’mari’s Neko.

While Magnum found humor in the page’s response (and sent congratulations to Shenseea), she said industry-assigned titles shouldn’t matter.

“It nuh matter,” she said. “Mi nuh watch dem sometimes cause if unno really check the levels, from my bills pay and mi alright, a dah level deh unno haffi look pon life and just continue do music and do unno ting.”

She added that artistes shouldn’t feel robbed or unappreciated as every man has his day.

“When mi first get my hit song (Bawl Out), just like weh yuh see a gwaan right now fi other artistes as breakthrough artiste or young artiste, I was that so everybody have dem seasons and dem time,” she said. “I remember everything, top artiste a di year, breakthrough artiste, song a di year, all a dem tings deh wid Bawl Out so it’s just a cycle so if another artiste come from outta nowhere or somebody else come so and grab a hit song…it’s gonna be like that so people cya really watch di stigma a dem ting deh. A dem ting deh mash up music and mash up di friendship with people… Di whole a we a great artiste inna we own different way. Some people just haffi get outta dem f–king horse sh-t.”

Magnum is avoiding the fuss by focusing on her career. The artiste said she’ll be doing some major reshuffling of her brand in light of the past year stalling her plans.

“When mi done do weh mi a do, trust me, unno a go proud a me,” she said. “Me a go protect my clout…just everything a switch up; mi music, all a dat… Y’all see how mi put on so much weight? The revenge body is coming… When mi go suh go work pon my revenge body, mi a work pon mi revenge hair, revenge skin, revenge body overall.”