Stylex Defends The Culture Of ‘Bad Word’

Jamaican bad words are the most potent on the planet, often liberally applied in casual conversations, reggae and dancehall music for artistic effect and to convey raw emotion.

Stylex believes that Jamaican bad words have cultural significance and should not be labelled ‘bad’. Instead, Stylex reasons, these taboo words should be simply marked as ‘culture’.

“The Jamaican culture is international and we have the best bad words in the world, in fact, there is even a festival named after one of our bad words that is held every year in Europe. So this is just a song showing that in our culture, “badness” is just a social construct because these words come from hardship and is used to express intense emotions and maybe offend others, but it is still our culture,” he said.

The single, simply titled Bad Word, was released on the Chase Mills Records label in October.

“I am getting a lot of dub plate requests and clash-special requests for the song,” Stylex said, laughing. The song is already a viral sensation after the Fatty Boss did a viral video entitled ‘The Culture of Bad Word’ on TikTok that racked up over 54,000 shares and 72,000 likes.

Stylex burst onto the music scene in 2016 declaring an undiluted love for his ‘fatty’, a song that is a popular dancehall staple today.

The song, which initially went viral on social media, won Stylex instant notoriety and he rocked several top stage shows with his inimitable high-energy style of deejaying. He now resides in Canada where he has been popping up on major dancehall events in Toronto.

Stylex said that he has been working to strike up fresh partnerships with new entities in the business.

“I’m not even going to kill up myself to get a number one song. I’m just gonna feed the people Stylex, I have a lot of ideas, and producers have been reaching out to me, so look out for more Stylex in 2025,” he said.