Mr Lexx Says His Sophomore Album ‘Like I Never Left’ Nearing Completion
Mr. Lexx says his sophomore album Like I Never Left , for which he is collaborating with Cristy Barber to produce, is nearing completion.
According to the Mountain View native, the tracks will maintain the 1990’s Dancehall beats which he is used to, but the album, will still be “different”.
“Shoutout to Cristy Barber. The last time we work on an album together, mi get bout 11 hit songs affa it, suh she has assisted me with it again and we doing good so far. Couple artiste deh pon it still. Wi naw mention till until we finally finish up everything. But its doing well. I’m almost finished and looking forward to that,” he told Zip FM in an interview.
“Yuh know mi stay inna mi 90s lane. Cause yuh done know – this is what my fans expect from me still. Suh mi naw guh try sound like di new yute dem… suh mi just stay inna di 90s lane. It’s kinda different though. Mi have foreign features and local features and yuh know how my suppm guh – twingy and twangy and dem sittn deh,” he added.
According to Lexx, he has no regrets about choosing music as a career, in spite of the challenges he may have faced over the years.
“The journey has been fun. It has been ups and downs and there was times when I was like ‘yow I’m fed up’… bit I would never change my career for anything. I enjoyed every moment, the ups the downs the sideways…,” the Full Hundred artist explained.
He also noted that he is also looking forward to his Full Hundred concert, which he will be staging at Sabina Park on November 5, pointing out that some of his compatriots who, along with him, ruled the 1990s and early 2000s, have already been booked, alongside Stone Love, Renaissance and Adonai sound systems.
“I just confirmed Sizzla, Spragga Benz, Wayne Wonder, Tanya Stephens and me of course. And mi waan put couple a di young yute dem pon it still. So wi still inna di process of doing dat still,” he explained.
Earlier this year, Lexx had said he would be working on his final album before retiring from Dancehall, which he was planning to exit on a high.
At the time he said that he was “planning to resign soon” and was going to release the album before venturing into television, as he had been doing music for almost 30 years and it was “time to try new things”.
Born Christopher Palmer, Mr. Lexx was once signed to VP Records under which his album titled Mr. Lex , was released back in 2000 where it spent five weeks on the Billboard Reggae Chart. That 20-track production featured his most popular singles, among them Get Wid It, Ring Mi Cellie, Full Hundred, Let Those Monkeys Out, Stress and Cook.
He also had other hit songs, during the 1990s to 2000s, among them Clothes A Nuh Yuh Problem, Halla Halla, War Start, and Video Light, as well as his feature on Wayne Wonder’s Anything Goes, with American hip-hop duo Capone-N-Noreaga.
Mr. Lexx entered Dancehall in the late 1990s, bearing the name Lexxus and later switched to the moniker Mr Lexx in the early 200os, after car-maker Toyota warned him in a six-page letter, about infringing on their brand, and claimed that because of his growing popularity, it conflicted with their Lexus brand.
A former student at the now-defunct Fox Drama School in Kingston, Mr Lexx was born and raised in the Mountain View. He first showcased his deejaying skills in 1992 at the popular Sunday night dances held in Kingston’s Harbour View area, which featured Super Dee sound system.
During that time, representatives from the New York-based label Natural Bridge Records who had seen his performance, took him to the Mixing Lab recording studios in Kingston, where the then 16-year-old recorded his first single, Own A Home, a song in praise of independent women.