Marion Hall Claims Patra Stole Lady Saw’s Song, Changed Title To ‘Romantic Call’

During her rebuke of Shenseea and Spice in a three-hour long sermon last Sunday, Minister Marion Hall, at one point, turned the heat on Queen of the Pack Patra, whom she claimed pirated lyrics from her and used them to voice one of her biggest hits, Romantic Call.

According to her, Patra was an example of a lost soul, who has failed miserably to make a comeback into music, despite multiple attempts.

“There was a woman by the name of Lady Patra.  She said she was Queen of the Pack.  She stole a song from mi.  I wrote the song when I was in Canada: ‘I’m on a long distance call, im talking to my baby down a yard’,  and she stole it.  I almost slap har over one night at Sting for it,” the former Queen of the Dancehall who bore the name Lady Saw, said.

“But I leave har alone.  When I look at her now…I see Chevelle praying for that woman all the time – and when I look, is like she’s lost.  She’s so lost, trying to come back so many times.  Come back to what Patra?  Go to God!  There is nothing for you to come back to.  You go gain di world and lose yuh soul?” she questioned.

This is the second time Hall has spoken publicly about Patra’s alleged siphoning off her lyrics.  She had first spoken publicly about it in an interview with Imperial Hip Hop in 2014.

“I was cool with her until she stole my song.  It was originally Long Distance Call.  I wrote that song in Canada.  We used to hang by Castro Brown studio.   My first studio was New Name music.  Castro Born was the producer.  All of us females used to hang there.  There was a mango tree there and I used to sit under it with my book.  So I went to Canada; it was my first trip; I was dating somebody and so we were on the phone you know, and that was how the song came about,” she had said at the time.

“When I went back to Jamaica, she heard me singing the song.  And she didn’t trouble that song till long after, because recorded it for Diamond Rush  Productions.  And she went away, came back to Jamaica and did it with Yo-Yo… I almost slapped her for that but I let it slide,” she added.

According to her, when she asked Patra, the Westmoreland native gave her some weak excuses.  She had also said she was not yet famous, and knew nothing about copyright laws so the matter died there and then.

After using Patra as an example of a lost sheep, she continued to warn Spice and Shenseea to break up their fallow grounds, arguing too that the Dolly singer was still far from real stardom.

“Shenseea , I love you yuh si.  You are so beautiful; so innocent and beautiful.  It didn’t take that to get you where you are now because you’re still nowhere.  You’re still nowhere darling, nowhere.  You have good talent, but you don’t have good writers.  The writers ain’t writing the songs that you need…,” she said.

“Look at Bob Marley.  I prayed that I had sung some songs like those.  Is like those songs last.   People not giving you right songs, your melodies and your hooks.   And Spice, yuh stuck in di old way… You need flavour.  People need to tell you the truth, yeh!  Dat is why you have to be stripping.  That is why you have to be out there with your whole body out like that .  True talent don’t need dat!  Look back at Lauryn Hill, yes.  Even the young girl H.E.R.  Look!

She added: “I didn’t do it right.  I saw the men degrading women and I decided to come through… and I didn’t have to tell anybody if my body pretty. I don’t have to go out and say dat!   Salvation is free honey. You don’t have to sell yuh soul.”

Hall also condemned the Run Run singer’s Satanic scenes in Run Run and the sapphic scenes in her music video with Megan Thee Stallion, pointing out that Shenseea looked like she was under slave labour in the video, while being, as she described it, “slammed” about by the American rapper.

Seemingly alluding to Spice’s self-confirmed cosmetic surgery, Hall said the Grammy-nominated artist was no longer attractive.

“Shenseea, yuh born look good.  You didn’t need anything else.  Gracie yuh did look good… Yuh no look good again!  Yuh mess up yuh self!  Yuh falla-fashin.  I don’t care if yuh like mi or not.  The devil is a liar and di devil is lying to you… ,” she said.

“Lady Saw bring bed down a Sumfest, you gone bring bed now?  It played out…  Spice yuh played out.   Old Lady Saw ting done wid.  Tell dem di truth and I don’t care if it hurt,” she said referencing Spice’s stage performances.