Agent Sasco Schools Daughter LC On Dancehall Icon Professor Nuts
The legacy of the art form known as Dancehall is safe thanks to stalwarts like Agent Sasco. The Dancehall Defender emcee recently showed that he’s successfully passed his love for the genre to the next generation.
The RIAA Gold-selling lyricist posted a video on Instagram yesterday of his youngest daughter LC vibing to a Professor Nuts video, a moment also shared on the 10-year-old singer’s account. “So @professornuts is one of my dad’s favorite artistes from he was a boy and guess what…?” she captioned the post of her reciting Nuts’ 1987 Reggae Ram Jam performance line for line.
Her proud papa has long held the dancehall icon as one of his heroes, and was sure to tag him in his own response. “@thelcshow discovered @professornuts This is like I’ve traveled back in time to when I discovered him… swap the phone for a cassette tape… This was me at 6 yrs old. “Mi never carry nutten fi yuh!,” Agent Sasco wrote, quoting the comical icon.
The Loco deejay’s celebrity friends lit up the comments with awe and approval of the youngster’s performance. LC already has a string of singles and her own popular IGTV show, and Kemar Highcon, Beenie Man, Stephen ‘Di Genius’ McGregor, Omi, Runkus, Romain Virgo and Wayne Marshall all sent her positive emojis and praise.
Bounty Killer who collaborated with the budding talent on a moving track called Freedom last year playfully styled her as a “Young little old lady”.
Perhaps the most telling comment came from Spragga Benz who knows first hand the power of Sasco’s pen. In the ’90s, the Oh Yeah deejay performed a song composed by a teenage Sasco who was then only an ambitious sixth-former.
“Oh lord it’s gonna be trouble when she start writing,” Spragga Benz said.
Though Sasco also cites Papa San and Lt. Stitchie as musical influences, his penchant for storytelling and rhythmic skill primarily pulls from the living legend himself, Professor Nuts.
“I was fascinated with the storytelling and how real it was”, Sasco told the STAR of his idol back in 2017. “It’s the kind of composition where it just feel like somebody just pon di ends a relate a story to you, it never felt like a song. So the communication was very authentic and true to the culture, and true to how we relate to one another. It was amazing to me how a man able fi tell a story and it sound like a man just a reason – and it rhyming and everything.”
A full-circle moment also came that year when he and Professor Nuts collaborated on Ruguh Ruguh, a call and response track with plenty of witty wordplay on the Skyscraper Riddim. “Nuff ah dem nuh understand di rules tell dem Google dat/ Dem fi know seh ah di Professor run di school to dat”, Sasco rhymed on the pulsing Richie Stephens produced beat.
Sasco also famously won his first deejay competition at age seven performing Nuts’ Tan So Back during a primary school contest. It’s clear there’s no limits in his bloodline, especially during childhood years, and he and LC also recently released their musical take on Alvin Day’s bestseller, If Caterpillars Can Fly, So Can I, just in time for Child Month.
“Today is National Children’s Day and I will celebrate the day in a very special way! A song featuring my own child!!! @thelcshow,” Sasco shared excitedly of their father-daughter team up back in May. LC was hailed for her slick vocal abilities on the upful tune and in turn lauded her dad for his tireless role on her road to greatness. “Thank you daddy for letting me fly on this one,” she said on Instagram.