Dovey Magnum Apologizes To Fans After Losing Her Cool Over Perceived Snub From Spice

There was a brouhaha over the weekend between Dovey Magnum and Spice in the wake of rap megastar Nicki Minaj releasing a new remix of Skeng’s Likkle Miss on Thursday, October 6 dubbed the ‘Fine Nine Remix’.

The ensemble was a major Caribbean linkup featuring Spice, Pamputtae, Lisa Mercedez, Dovey Magnum, London Hill, Lady Leshurr, Destra Garcia, and Patrice Roberts. The new release still includes original vocals from Skeng on the DropTop and Ditruth Records-produced beat.

However, the drama started when Spice failed to acknowledge Dovey Magnum on her retweet of the song. 

“@nickiminaj thank you for what you did for our culture. You created history with this one. Legendary things! Never have any of us on #fine9 been #1 on hip hop charts, #1 in all genres. The fact that I got to personally talk with you throughout this project and witness for myself how meticulous you were with each of our verses to ensure that we all shined and how passionate you were with it, is just mind blowing for me…” she wrote. 

Spice went on to tag all the other artists on the song except Dovey Magnum. 

Slightly miffed at what she thought was a mark of disrespect, Dovey took to Twitter and ranted: “mi no need nuh @ from she …the most important person in all this already do that @ting”.

Fans weighed in on the spat. 

One said: “Twitter is twitting”, while another wrote: ‘tbh woman power she could have @ her but anyway rich people business not minez’.

One more chimed in:  But unuh nuh fren suh wah she ah @ yu fah? yu see how unu love bbc contention! All when likkle winnings come unu way unu dwell pon negativity smh’.

Another couldn’t understand the animosity writing: “didnt have to say anything because unu anno friend so why spice woulda really @ yu she done say everybody do good on d song so that includes you so wah di big beef fah.’

However, on Sunday, in an interview with DancehallMag, she had calmed down considerably, and explained her version of events. 

She said that the alleged beef with other artists has its genesis in a series of tweets when her page was hacked earlier this year, with disrespectful tweets sent out about Jada Kingdom, Skeng, and even about Dovey’s own son. Several screenshots of the disrespectful tweets emerged over the weekend. 

“I don’t have any problem with anyone, I love Skeng, I have no problem with Spice, she is a mother, I am a mother, she has to feed her family, we are both Jamaican queens. I am just so grateful right now, I am claiming my grace,” she said. 

Dovey explained that those tweets did not come from her. 

“My page was hacked. Why didn’t they post those tweets when I apologized about the stuff that had been said, a lot of stuff was said not just about Skeng? Why would I call Skeng a cokehead when dem even call me a cokehead too…it was just a whole bunch of negative stuff even about my son, the hackers even said stuff about my son being handicapped…my son has an autoimmune disorder…why would I say disrespectful stuff about my own son? My account was hacked,” she told Dancehall Mag. 

She eventually regained control of her page months ago and even sent out an apology to everyone who may have been offended. 

“I made new email addresses. I started a new Instagram page, I just got verified, I fixed up my Tik Tok after I lost it for one day, I had to go through Palm Flow Records to help me get back on Tik Tok, it was just a lot of things going on with the hacking,” she said. 

Dovey Magnum said she is ready to move on from the incident and is more focused on accentuating the positive as she moves on from this hiccup.  

“Even if I had old beef with anyone, I am here in Jamaica to work and collect what God have in store for me. If anybody feisty with me, me feisty back with them and mi gone. That anno problem, there you go, ah dat mi de pon,” she said. Mi done answer dem already,” she said. 

She explained why she went ballistic in relation to Spice’s perceived slight. 

“Me and Spice anno friend, mi never expect her to tag me, I have no beef with her, it is what it is. But I lost my cool and for that I apologise to my fans and my management. I shouldn’t have posted that, I should have been the bigger person,” she said.

“But everybody ah fight me, Foota Hype ah fight me and tear me down about my verse, I woke up and saw people online ah ask me about the @ ting with Spice and mi lose mi cool, but because mi go answer, it look like me ah the bad person. They’re trying to pin me as the black sheep, but mi nah pay no attention to them, mi not looking at dem,” Dovey said.

Dovey had high praises for Nicki Minaj who conceptualized a project that has created a major platform for women of Caribbean heritage. 

“Mi love the project, mi love how all the Caribbean queens dem sound, all of the verses are well done, and I admire the fine attention to detail that Nicki applied to the project to make all of us sound great, that’s why the song went to #1 on hip hop charts. Mi love Skeng, mi love the support from the industry, this is a historic thing for all the women in the industry, mi de ya ah give God thanks for the opportunity,” she said.