Macka Diamond Says She Was ‘Blocked’ From Working With Vybz Kartel

Dancehall artist Macka Diamond says she has been left to wonder whether her arch-rival played a sinister role in her being ‘blocked’ from accessing and working with Vybz Kartel.   The artists were good friends as youths growing up in Portmore, St. Catherine, and collaborated on the single Look Big, several years before Kartel’s imprisonment in 2011.

Diamond was responding to a question from Onstage host Winford Williams on the programme which was aired last night on CVM Television and on YouTube, about whether she had any comments on the allegations made by the spiritual adviser RT Boss that she was ‘obeahed’ by Black Hypocrisy singer Spice.

“Mi a guh show yuh for example.   Me si big-big Vybz Kartel – me and Vybz grow up inna one community enuh.  Me used to be a top promoter inna Portmore weh mi put Vbz Kartel pon mi likkle party dem and him perform, before him buss,” she said of her history with Kartel.

“Kartel is a man who used to link mi and seh ‘Mumma, yuh naw counteract mi song?  Yuh naw do all these things… And when mi look all him get block from mi.  No care how much message mi sen to Kartel (saying) ‘mi waan duh song wid yuh’, ‘what’s up’ – mi neva get no answer.  Is like dis one bag a ignoring fi years and mi know seh me an him good; wi come from Portmore,” Macka revealed.

“Di last time, before mi move outta Portmore, Kartel was on mi phone wishing me well and wi a talk good.    An mi memba seh a di same people dem weh mi si Kartel a help, when Kartel sen one song come gi mi couple years ago, mi siddung beside dah ooman deh (Spice) and dah ooman deh a tell mi seh a wha kinda eediat song dat; Kartel caan write, an it nuh soun good and mi nuh fi dweet.   An mi a seh, suh how dem deh roun Kartel now?  People who a tell mi seh mi nuffi duh nuh song an him caan write an him nuh soun good, an a bare foolishness him write.   Suh mi a seh, something a gwan wid my life, yuh nuh,” she added.

The Cucumber singer who started deejaying at age 16, was a prominent Dancehall star in the 1980s and early 90s, before taking a hiatus.  She re-emerged on the Dancehall scene in 2003 with the single Tek Con, which was a counteraction to Kartel’s chauvinistic track Tek Buddy.

Three years later Macka Diamond was Kartel’s pick for his Look Big collaboration, a banter track which saw the Money Goddess going head to head with the Worl’ Boss in a song about the size of their private parts.

In 2006, the two were featured on a record released by Stainless Records, with one side featuring the track Who by Vybz Kartel and the other featuring Nah Taste by Macka Diamond.

Macka said after RT Boss’ revelation about witchcraft, she had to seek spiritual intervention from the church, because upon reflection, she realized that the period when her career lulled, coincided with the same period which RT spoke of the witchcraft being aimed at her, during which she went “through certain energy”.

“It was crazy.  I had to take to God for it.  I had to run in the church.  I had to say ‘Oh Lord, I need some prayers. I cried’.  I was like, ‘is this for real’?  Because you a wonder because so many things happen inna mi life during dat time, yuh haffi a seh ‘I wonder if dis real’.   A RT Boss seh it yuh nuh, so mi nuh know.  So people pon di net a talk bout Macka believe inna obeah an dis an dat.   It nuh have nuttn fi duh wid believe.   A RT come out come seh it; a nuh me,” Macka said.

“When mi look di likkle show dem weh mi fi get, mi naw get no show.  Everything jus look like it block and everybody just team up.  It was a whole devastating surrounding for me for quite a while.  And all mi madda weh nuh believe inna dem tings deh haffi a seh ‘dem duh yuh suppm’ man.  It was crazy,” she added.

She also took aim at her critics who have accused her of pretending about her recent godly ‘deliverance’, adding that she would be releasing her documentary to address the entire thing.

“Mi haffi duh mi documentary, because it is a whole lot.  A lot of people see mi pon the internet and a seh Macka a come out now and Macka a say dis because shi a try look a clout, but me haffi talk caw a long time me waan talk… Lady Saw feel a way, she duh fi har ting.  Mi haffi speak tuh,” she said.

The Pink Pearl singer said because she was drawing nearer to God, she was extending, as well as seeking forgiveness, for any transgression she had committed against Spice.

“Mi nuh hate nobaddy enuh, because right now mi guh a mi church.  I forgive dem.   Yuh si dat lady, if mi duh yuh something wrong mi sorry and anything RT say you do mi, I forgive you.  My hands are clean. I went to God and I am just dealing with God and I am gonna be closer to God in 2021,” she said.

“Dem always seh mouth worser da obeah too yuh nuh.  So psychologically if yuh listen to RT enuh, some  a weh him a seh nuh have nuttn fi  duh with dis obeah ting.   But di mouth weh dem put pon Macka Diamond career – ‘don’t do dis fi har’ and bantam mi ting, dat involve tuh,” she added.