Asian Doll’s New Video: Jada Kingdom Should’ve Wanted ‘None Of This Sh*t’

Fans of Dancehall artist Jada Kingdom who were expecting a full-scale collaboration between the Heavy singer and rapper Asian Doll, might have been a tad disappointed after the American released the official video for her Nunnadet Sh*t track which effectively reduced the Jamaican to a mere prop.

And if her fans who were expecting Kingdom to have a verse on a possible remix, had any inclination that she would have been barely featured, they would have, perhaps, told her, like the song’s hook, to “have none a dat shit”.

More than a month ago, both Jada Kingdom and Asian Doll who also goes by the name, Asian Da Brat, had posted a series of photographs of themselves on the set of what turned out to be the Nunnadet Sh-t music video, clad in barely-there Barb Wire comic cosplay.

At the time Jada’s fans cheered her on in apparent anticipation that there would be a big project forthcoming from the two, in which Kingdom would have benefited from being a key feature.  They predicted it would have been a stellar musical combination between the So Icy Princess and Kingdom, who has been described as having “the rawness of Lady Saw with a soft melodic lovers rock edge, lead by a rounded cruise controlled voice”.

But lo and behold, Miss Kingdom was, like all the other women in the video, relegated to a backup dancer, jiggling and jumping wildly and waving plastic rifles and pistols, sometimes in the direction of each other, as her friend Asian Doll took centerstage and spewed verses from the song.

The five-minute video, which was premiered two weeks ago on YouTube, was done in the form of a mini-movie and lists Asian Doll, Jada Kingdom, and British rapper Ivorian Doll as playing starring roles.

However, just three stereotypical words: “A who dat?”, is Jada’s awkwardly-delivered line in the video.  Furthermore, the simple line is translated to English and superimposed in yellow script on the screen, “And who is she supposed to be?”

Some of Jada’s fans seem not to be too disappointed though, maybe because in early February the 22-year-old had said, during an Instagram Live session, that she would probably not be able to release new music this year, as she did not have a proper team in place.

“I’m really sorry guys but it’s deeper than just me,” she revealed. “I don’t think you guys really understand when I say, ‘Yow, I don’t have a team’… The EP done, everything ready, but is a lot of politics a gwaan.”

She explained her situation further, “Me feel kinda off-balanced. When mi just start mi career mi feel like mi did know weh mi did a go… Since recently, mi nah go lie to unno, I don’t know where I’m going. Mi feel like everything just shaky, nothing nuh clear, everything a fall a part and right now mi a try figure out mi team and set di ting di right way so right now mi just a lay low likkle bit and just a put een more work. You’d be surprised how much songs mi have siddung pon but mi still a put een more work cause dem must release one day.”

In another Instagram Live earlier this year, Kingdom, who had relocated to Georgia in search of mainstream success with her producer boyfriend Verse Simmonds, said she felt more at home in the US than in Jamaica.  The Love Situations singer added that she did not know when she would return to the island.

The official music video for Nunnadet Sh*t has chalked up more than 700,000 views, while the audio has racked up more than seven million.

One foreign national, Jaylaa3, even pointed out that she understood what Jada had said without the need for the subtitle. “I like how I understood what tha Jamaican girl said, where my Jamaicans at?” she wrote.

While the song has been described as “fire” by most commenters, the video has been a source of contention.

One follower Ashley Dison said the video was released too late. “She released the video too late. Idk why artist don’t drop music videos while the songs are trending,” she wrote.

Others like Master Wong mocked the video for some of its amateurish content. “I can’t stop laughing at the plastic guns!  All these fake ass rapper never ever shot a gun, probably piss their pants if they actually held a real gun,” he wrote, while another follower noted: “That lil meeting skit at the beginning would’ve gotten them dead.  Tryna hit a lick in an outfit like that? Y’all wouldve been on the news, Dead the next morning”.

There was also a mini-debate over gun lyrics being spewed by Asian, versus sexually explicit lyrics for which most female rappers are known, with one woman noting: “I like how she can rap gangsta shyt and not talk about her body”.

She was countered by others, among them Lauren Jackson who retorted: “I love Asian & this song, so don’t get me wrong, but if you’re concerned about women rapping about their bodies, it doesn’t concern you when they rap about guns & killing people? Lol”

The song also earned Asian a host of new fans including Si Del who noted: “I’ve never heard of this girl before! This video popped up on my feed. The intro was elementary but once the beat dropped I was all game. “n-ggas want war just say that!” Shawty I loveeee it! She just earned a new fan. I’m all about that street sh-t!”