Skatta Burrell Tells Marion Hall: “Stop Praying About Nonsense”
Dancehall music producer Skatta Burrell says Marion Hall should refrain from chanting what he describes as ‘nonsensical prayers’, following her return to Instagram on the weekend.
Hall returned to IG several days ago, after a few months of absence, to announce her new single. On Sunday morning, she resumed her regular online sermon, where she prayed, asking God that “if there is anyone who come to obstruct, you will destruct…bind and confuse…”
But Skatta, after listening to the prayer which was re-shared on Instagram, was not impressed.
“Lady Saw!!!” he wrote, emphasizing her secular Dancehall stage name. “You’ve prayed an entire prayer and totally forgot to address Jamaica’s biggest problem. CRIME… seriously it’s time your prayer Worriors (sic) start showing some results and stop praying and cussing people and calling them devils.
“This country’s crime rate is out of control and if You all are such a believer in that Man upstairs You all need to tell Him to address this and stop praying about nonsense,” he ordered.
The former Queen of Dancehall, who converted to Christianity seven years ago, launched her ‘Holy Ghost Pentecostal Church of Jesus Christ’ online in March 2020 and has been preaching primarily to her over 600,000 Facebook followers.
Two months ago Skatta, who is Reggae Sumfest’s Marketing Strategist, revealed that he was at one point attempting to get Hall to perform on this year’s staging of the festival and was still open to doing so.
Skatta had said that he had ceased making attempts to woo Hall to perform at the iconic Reggae festival this July, after coming to the conclusion that she needed time to recalibrate, in the aftermath of her imbroglio with some of her female musical compatriots. Skatta had also said that there was still time yet to court the Room in My House artist and add her to the line-up, as the festival’s concert nights were two months away.
But Hall had responded on her Facebook page indicating that she was not averse to performing at the Reggae festival, but also pointed out that she was quite cognizant that Skatta, a self-proclaimed atheist, was trying to “draw her out”.
“My manager been talking about the gospel night. That’s the only night I will go on… “Skatta! How yuh stay suh?” she had declared, she said in rebuking the Coolie Dance producer.
““God know weh yuh up to… God put a tracker paa mi, caw him know weh yuh up to. It not gwine happen… Downsound been talking to my manager, about coming on the gospel night. But how dare you call mi out fi Dancehall night?” she asked of Skatta.