Future Fambo is cracking the door open on a reunion with Beenie Man, and he’s doing it with Jamaican proverbs, scripture, and a few jokes about the man’s suits. The two dancehall figures have been publicly at war since May, when Fambo accused Beenie Man of assaulting him at an event, an allegation the veteran deejay flatly denied, calling it “false, malicious and defamatory” and threatening legal action.
The beef did not stop there. Fambo went on to publicly claim that his contributions to some of Beenie Man’s most beloved recordings, including Rum and Red Bull and Who Am I (Sim Simma), were never properly credited. That grievance, layered on top of the assault allegation, made the falling-out feel like something that would not heal quickly.
But Fambo is now pulling back from the hostility, at least in tone. “You’ll never hear derogatory things coming out of my mouth towards him. I may rib him a little, but me nah disrespect him,” he told THE WEEKEND STAR. He leaned on faith to explain the shift, saying that if God forgives, then people should be able to do the same.
He even invoked the old Jamaican proverb, “No mug no bruk, no cawfee no dash weh,” to suggest that nothing between them is permanently finished. And he was direct about the possibility of sharing a stage again. “If him start sing Rum and Red Bull, yes, I can join him on stage. I don’t have nothing against him,” he said.
That statement carries some weight given what happened at Boom Sundays, where Beenie Man reportedly walked off stage after Fambo joined him, handing the mic to selector Boom Boom before leaving the performance area entirely. That moment made it pretty clear the reconciliation is not mutual, at least not yet.
Beenie Man, for his part, has offered his own version of why the friendship broke down. He revisited an incident in which he claimed Fambo used drugs in the presence of his young daughter, something he said pushed him to distance himself from the entertainer. Fambo pushed back on that framing, pointing out the child was only eight months old at the time, and acknowledged he had battled a drug problem during that period, saying that chapter is now closed.
Fambo’s comments about forgiveness sit alongside some fairly pointed digs at Beenie Man’s image. He joked that the deejay needs to “reinvent his image” and took aim at his wardrobe choices. “The suit dem wey him a wear a night-time inna this summer heat yah, doesn’t make sense,” Fambo said, which is not exactly the language of someone ready to let everything go quietly.
He also noted that Beenie Man and his manager Steven Davis are cousins, making the two entertainers connected through family ties whether they like it or not. Just know God is love, and once Steven Davis talk to Moses Davis and dem rent a car from Avis, then we all good,” Fambo said.
The timing of all this is not accidental. Beenie Man’s Summer Sizzle is this Saturday at the Woodleigh Sports Complex in May Pen, Clarendon, and Fambo has made clear he wants to be on that bill. “I’m willing to perform at Summer Sizzle because the fans would love that,” he said. “While I won’t friend the man, I will show him love.”
Whether Beenie Man’s camp responds to that olive branch, or whether Fambo even makes it onto the Summer Sizzle lineup, is still very much an open question.
