Bounty Killer Says These Are The “Pure” Alliance Members
Bounty Killer’s Instagram post on Sunday in which he referred to his former Alliance Dancehall collective members, Wayne Marshall, Busy Signal, and Bling Dawg and himself as “pure”, has set some of his fans’ tongues wagging.
“The pure four,” he had posted beneath a group photograph of himself and the three men, which he described as “one of my favorite Alliance pic the king of Kingston and his king sons Holy Sunday.”
The quartet was hailed by most of Bounty’s fans, among them chucky_esyde, who dismissed the other former Alliance members as disloyal, and agreed that the ‘chosen three’ were indeed trustworthy and faithful to the Coppershot artiste, who was instrumental in giving them their big break in the music industry.
“@grunggaadzilla today we a talk bout them four loyal yute yah…we did a talk bout d 1 dem weh nuh loyal…love how u a show seh it pay fi be #real #loyal….see which part it get u,” he said.
Some of the One General’s other fans called for him to reunite with the other former Alliance members, which included Mavado, Vybz Kartel, Aidonia, and even selector Foota Hype who got extensive exposure early in their careers after the Warlord established the collective in 2003.
“Need fi unit n be at peace with each other… shout outta Brooklyn,” jahson4 said.
Other followers insisted that the former Alliance members were disloyal to Bounty and so could not be considered pure. One fan, buttonshirt, who questioned the absence of Vybz Kartel from the photograph remarked: “Up to the time where kartel at?”
He was promptly addressed by sexilexi_fun.size who noted: “He said pure. Dem Marshall, Busy and Bling Dawg) n dem daddy neva fall out yet or in any public issues”, while another fan added: “Him (Kartel) neva stay pure.”
The first key Alliance member to fall out of favour with Bounty Killer was Vybz Kartel who made his exit in 2006 following weeks of rumoured tension between himself and the Warlord. A part of this allegedly stemmed from Kartel’s continued association with Beenie Man, who was then Bounty’s arch-rival. Kartel though, had attributed his exit from the Alliance to his quest to be a more independent artist.
Aidonia was reportedly dismissed from the Alliance in 2007 after he recorded a song titled Addi a Mi Daddy, in which he hailed and exalted Kartel, something which he Warlord deemed a grave indictment.
According to The Star tabloid, Mavado and Bounty’s friendship had become strained following a shooting incident that occurred during the Living Dangerously artiste’s birthday party at the Quad nightclub in New Kingston in 2011, where a member of Mavado’s entourage was killed by the police. Mavado was reportedly dissatisfied with the Warlord’s response following the incident, which led to a drastic change in the relationship between them.
The relationship soured further after one of Mavado’s Gully Side members, Chase Cross, released a diss song aimed at Bounty Killer. Bounty was displeased that Mavado failed to scold Cross and the two severed ties as a result.
Foota Hype also fell out of favor with the Warlord in 2016, after he said during an interview on Jamaican entertainment show OnStage that although the Long Donkey Cod artiste was a giant in Dancehall, he was ‘not hot’, because he continued to voice over and over for the wrong producers.
An enraged Bounty Killer took umbrage to Foota’s statements and the two began trading insults on social media, with Foota even challenging Bounty to a duel and going as far as to remove the Seaview Gardens native’s music from his playlist.
Last June, the two men buried the hatchet after Foota sent happy 48th birthday greetings to Bounty and wished him long life and “prosperity and superb health with a lot of wealth”.