Dancehall artiste Tattwu Design has spent years honing his craft. This week, the Jamaican dancehall artiste had the satisfaction of seeing his new single, ‘Narcissism’, briefly knock Bob Marley off the top of Germany’s iTunes Reggae chart.
“It’s a great feeling. I am on cloud 9 right now, I have been doing this music for years, working on my craft, and when I started getting the reports of the chart activity, I was just overjoyed….this moment means a lot to me,” he said.
The single, distributed by VP Records, also reached No 43 on Germany’s all-genre iTunes chart. In the Cayman Islands, it entered the reggae chart at No 3 before climbing to No 1. It reached No 193 on the worldwide iTunes Top 200.
The chart success follows an unexpected revival for ‘Thank God’. Tattwu Design recorded the song in 2022 after an impromptu freestyle on TikTok Live.
“I started playing this riddim and it’s like the beat kept saying ‘Thank God, thank God, the wicked dem see mi alive …’ and the person who I went live with recommended that I record it, and I did it right there and then,” he recalled.
Four years later, TikTok users gave the track a second life, pairing it with dance clips captioned ‘2026 the wicked dem see mi alive’. Tattwu Design credits DJs and mixtape creators with backing the song and says he is grateful that it encouraged other artistes to explore faith, redemption and spiritual struggle in their own work.
His career dates back to an early break at Anchor Music Studio around 1998. Since then, he has shown collections at Caribbean Fashion Week and released singles including ‘Plan Up’ and ‘Ex Never Know’, alongside his 2022 EP Music Sarcasm.
