Popcaan, Mr Lexx’s ‘Rise Dutty Bungle’ Renditions Excite A’Mari
Thirty-three years after Major Mackerel released his monster hit Dutty Bungle, effectively embedding the term in the Jamaican lexicon, A’mari DJ Mona Lisa might just be following in his footsteps with the release of her infectious, though bizarre single, (Rise) Dutty Bungle.
Even though scores of people have been posting videos on social media, of themselves singing or miming A’mari’s song just for comic relief, the fact that the Unruly Boss Popcaan has also caught the “Rise Dutty Bungle” fever, many people believe that the song, which has been described by The Star as an “opera-infused, theatrical drama”, has “arrived”.
A’Mari’s song may not have risen to the magnitude of Major Mackerel’s single, which has remained in huge demand over three decades, by sound systems who use its dubplates, to decimate their opponents in clashes, but at the moment Jamaicans, including Popcaan and Mr. Lexx, have found humour in singing it.
A’Mari reposted a video of Popcaan singing Dutty Bungle whilst lying in bed, while he was recently quarantined in the UK.
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She tagged Popcaan and captioned the post “Big up” and later posted another meme of the Numbers Don’t Lie artiste, which said people were “Ready for an Amari featuring Popcaan remix”.
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She later posted Mr. Lexx’s hilarious version, of what he called “Amari’s super mega hit song”, which had people in stitches.
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The responses to the second meme of Popcaan were wide and varied, with some persons dismissing Amari, while others declared that she ought not to be underestimated.
Dutty Bungle is supposedly a diss song aimed at Chat and Laugh’s DJ Lava, whose name A’mari calls out at the beginning of the song.
A’mari might be unwittingly using simplicity and repetition to make her songs or parts of her songs get stuck in people’s heads, based on the sheer number of people who concurred that her songs were etched in their memory.
Interestingly, on IG some persons had queried the meaning of the slang “dutty bungle”. Major Mackerel had pointed out in his song that Dutty Bungles were “dibbi-dibbi” (purposeless) people, “badmind”, “envious”, “grudgeful”, “crab in a barrel” people.
In an interview a few weeks ago, A’mari told The Star that her song was aimed at “a blogger” who used his show to criticise her, along with his female fans.
“This person went online and body-shamed me, telling people that A’mari is ugly, A’mari arms are floppy and he wouldn’t want to be with me. It was really hurtful,” she said.
In rebuking their actions, she said she wrote Dutty Bungle in response to the women who tried to tear her down on the show, by talking about her having 13 children and criticizing her body and her wigs.
“I am saying to those women, rise from putting down a fellow Jamaican who is on a health journey and who just lost 100 pounds. My mother died in her sleep, she had sleep apnea and was overweight just like me. I prefer floppy hands to dying in my sleep,” she had told The Star.