Shatta Wale, Skillibeng ‘Blow Up’ In Mega Dancehall Collab: Listen

Ghana’s ‘Dancehall King’ Shatta Wale and Jamaica’s ‘Fresh Prince’ Skillibeng finally slake the brewing suspense of their fans today, releasing the GoldUpMusic produced single, Blow Up.

Although a music video with these two titans would have been sure-fire, the ‘historic collaboration’ made the headlines in several newspaper clippings via an official lyric video courtesy of Shifty Design JA. The visual production is a creative patchwork of photos and videos of Shatta and Skilli with snippets of the track’s lyrics popping up on the screen, providing a pretty engaging display.

Shatta and Skillibeng both have certainly made a name for themselves in their districts but in the single, particularly for Shatta, it finds him feeling unaccomplished yet optimistic and destined to be even greater – he’s about to Blow Up!

The Ghanaian singer is consumed with big dreams and ambitions, aiming to “chop chop chop dem up like Pablo … Di money haffi mek like Narcos,” this year. He already told his mother to expect big things, “Did tell Mama this year mi ago serve di dinna,” and his thugz and girls can rest assured, they’re going to blow up too.

Skillibeng adds his out-of-this world-lyrical flow and his thought-provoking rhymes, “Di universe in a mi veins so mi grade some liquor, plus a spliff inna mi brain.” All the jesting aside, the young deejay is serious about his paper and threatens anyone who tries to take it, “Ova 30 odd shot in a di K, so unnu dare, pu–y u will drop in a di main – Shatta Wale have Africa a way. JA a mi place, couple comma pon wi name.”

The new track was composed by Zack Ariyah and mixed & mastered by Jordan Schultz.

Shatta recently teamed up with another Jamaican act recently, releasing a collab with Dancehall diva, Lisa Hyper on the track Inna Di Night on March 3. Prior, he has also teamed up with the likes Shenseea (The Way I Move), Alkaline (ATM remix + Wah Pun) and Vybz Kartel (Mansa Musa + Free Up Di Gaza).

Skillibeng seems to be a big hit with the Afrobeat heavyweights, along with this new track with Shatta, last week Burna Boy celebrated his Grammy-award victory by singing the Dancehall star’s hit single Crocodile Teeth.