Beenie Man Weighs In On Bounty Killer, Mr. Vegas’ Feud

King of the Dancehall Beenie Man has weighed in on the ongoing and deep-rooted feud between Bounty Killer and Mr. Vegas, which seems to have peaked for yet another round.

“Mi nuh like dis war wid [Mr.] Vegas and Bounty Killer because it nuh mek no sense,” Beenie Man told host Jaii Fraiis on the ‘Let’s Be Honest’ podcast, which aired on February 10.

“Vegas a 40-odd, Bounty Killer a 50 enuh. Weh unu a go wid dat?” 

Mr. Vegas, 48, and Bounty Killer, 50, have been dishing out diss tracks and trading insults on Instagram over the last two weeks.

Beenie Man, 50, had been quizzed about the state of Dancehall and leaned on the feud in support of his point that until the genre achieves unity, it will continue to languish beneath a lack of all-around support from the government and the general public.

He explained that unity in Dancehall had always been important to him, and revealed that he had been actively involved in its pursuit, stemming all the way back to the well-documented feud between the Vybz Kartel-led Gaza and the Mavado-led Gully.

Beenie expressed that though he had been instrumental in bringing the two sides to a temporary truce for some public good – a feat he seems interested in replicating this time between Vegas and Killer – he received no credit for it. 

“Vybz Kartel dem – when dem neva waa organize and link up wid Mavado, mi guh check him,” Beenie said.

He continued: “Mi seh ‘Yow, dung a Tivoli, you and Movado need fi get together. Him [Vybz Kartel] come pon TV and seh a fi him idea.”

For all his peacemaking efforts, Beenie Man is no stranger to feuds. In fact, he and Bounty Killer are responsible for one of Dancehall’s most famous one. From clashing at Sting in 1993 to heated diss tracks and exchanges throughout the 2000s, both men benefitted from the conflict, but also came away with their own regrets.

For Beenie Man, that dispute between him and Bounty Killer was the factor most responsible for an unintended detour he took in his career.

In an interview last year with Ramona Samuels of Riddim FM, he explained: “When mi just buss, mi never wanna be a gun artist because mi grow in so much violence, so I sang about girls. My first number one song was ‘Matie’. It’s really the war between me and Bounty that put me in that gunman vibes, cause mi neva wanna sing about that life, a when the clash start I do dat, cause I never wanna sing that life when living that life.”

In the end, the hatchet was buried, and both men went on to make history together, reeling out individual hits, and making giant leaps for the genre. Their Verzuz performance in May 2020 was one such. 

Fast forward to the present, and Bounty Killer seems keen on reminding the public why he has been aptly named the ‘Warlord.’ His feud with Vegas has danced between being minor tit-for-tats, to damaging accusations.

Recently, Bounty Killer fired the first lyrical shot with Watch Yuh Mouth, prompting Mr. Vegas’ All Out response. 

The Head High singer then followed up his diss track with Run Up – a brazen declaration of victory none of the Bounty Killer fans who heard it are willing to accept.

Following the release of Bounty Killer’s ‘Drag Queen (Bup Bup Bup)’, his response to ‘Run Up,’ Mr. Vegas’ declaration that he will not retreat, nor will he surrender, may be setting the stage for this conflict to persist even longer.

Vegas has seemingly reacted to Beenie’s comments on the ‘Let’s Be Honest’ podcast, writing in an Instagram post on Saturday, “@kingbeenieman leave the war alone, KING.”