Bugle, Jahvillani Put Their Spin On Professor Nuts’ 32 Year Old Song ‘Woman Deh Yah’

In what music producer Joey Lyric describes as “an ode to the great Professor Nuts”, Portlander Bugle and his St. Ann compatriot Jahvillani, have teamed up for Baay Woman deh Yah, their own interpolation of Nuts’ comedic 1988 Dancehall track, Woman Deh Ya.

Produced by Lyrics Rhoom Entertainment, the song and its accompanying animated music video were released several weeks ago, and brought back memories of Professor Nuts’ 34 year old song, voiced six years before Jahvilani, now 28, was born.   

It begins with the Wileside president confirming to Bugle the address of the scheduled pool party they had planned while advising him that it was all women who were in attendance, not “bare guns” and certainly no (other) men except for the producer, so they would have the women all to themselves.

Jahvillani also shows the Toxicity artist during a video call a vast array of sexy women lounging around in the background.

This scenario was unlike the case of Professor Nuts in Woman Deh Yah, where, in dramatic fashion he reveals he goes to a dance in Manchester, only to find to his dismay, that the venue was full of men and totally devoid of women, something he could not tolerate.

In a bid to correct this travesty of “pure man deh ya” Nuts reveals how he jumps in his Honda, and drives all the way to Edgewater in Portmore to assemble women to attend the event and “nice it up”. 

In his hilarious, captivating fashion, Nuts describes how he first wakes up Angela and Sharon, who round up their other friends, whom he described with adjectives back then, which made the song unfit for radio airplay, but a big hit in dances and with sound systems.

Among the long list of women were big b*tty Sophia, lenky titty Arlene, maaga foot Anita, parrot mouth joyce, chatty-chatty Lena, nyammy-nyammy Marcia, lazy body Maria, beggy-beggy Peggy and  tegge-reg Melody.  

After rounding up the women in the community, Professor Nuts heads back to Manchester where the women flood the dance, the men instantly all the men feel better, all begin rejoicing and dancing with the woman and start spending their money to buy liquor, making the event a success for the promoter.

In Baay Woman Deh Yah, Bugle begins the first verse by indicating that he and producer Joey Lyric were going to link Jahvillani to go to the pool party, and that he was pleased to find out that it would “baay woman” at the event and not “bare man, as he had originally thought, as Jahvillani reassures him that it was all women, not men or guns.

“A nuh one bag a man; dat a bad business,” Jahvillani declares then adds: “any bwoy weh nuh waa no gyal guh suh”.

Bugle even goes on to point out that as a Rastaman he was a “righteous smaddy”.

“Marijuana me bun, me naw pop molly/Man a senior suh di girl dem call me Zaddy” he declares.

Producer Joey Lyric told DancehallMag that the Baay Woman Deh Ya project pays homage to Professor Nuts, whom he describes as “arguably the greatest storyteller in our music”, and “brought together, two Artistes from extremely opposite ends of the creative spectrum”.

“Bugle came up with the idea to pay homage to him on the Track and Jahvillani just jumped in the studio after Bugle was through laying down his part and did his own ‘contemporary’ thing on the Record,” he explained.

“I built the Riddim for a totally different project though. Bugle heard it and decided he had to ‘get a piece’ of the riddim. I then sent the Riddim to Jahvillani and decided that I would have both of them do a collaboration.  I figured it would be a great move on my part and a feather in my hat because such a collab would be greatly unexpected,” the Kingston native added. 

The producer who says he is inspired by Dave “Rude Bwoy” Kelly and Stephen Di Genius” McGregor, majored in Psychology at the University of the West Indies (UWI) and quitting after the first year, said he also started his record label this year after playing the role of ghost-writer for artistes for years.   

“I was ghost-writing and I started producing this year. I have a plethora of songs I’ve produced and currently working on,” he stated.

Joey Lyric also has another song on the same beat as Baay Woman deh Yah, titled Wheel and Twist, by singjay Vahndal, which has been making the rounds.

He is currently working on a series of songs featuring some of the biggest veterans in Dancehall, as well as Bugle and a 2015 Reggae  Grammy nominee, but remains tight-lipped on who the artists are.

“They are not yet completed so I don’t want to speak on them yet,” he explained.