Today January 7th 2023 is Vybz Kartel’s birthday.
Happy Earth Strong Addi! Born Adidja Azim Palmer 47 years ago, the incarcerated Jamaican dancehall superstar has been now behind bars for more than 11 years, but keeps being relevant in dancehall music and close to his fans hearts.
While newer and younger dancehall acts appeared on the scene, some destined to stay while others will be just remembered for a hot single or two, the Gaza General, the Dancehall Hero, the World Boss cemented his career with more than two decades of music and songs.
How Vybz Kartel managed to remain at the top of the dancehall game even if behind bars has been a super topic for over a decade, but with thousands of songs out, more than a dozen albums and EPs, seven of which have entered the Billboard Reggae Albums chart since he was arrested in 2011, his book The Voice Of The Jamaican Ghetto, the Street Vybz red rum now called Gaza Rum, the condoms, the Cake Soap, and hundreds of certified hits, Vybz Kartel has become a global icon even more since his incarceration.
It is not a mystery that Vybz Kartel paved the way and shaped the Jamaican dancehall music scene for more than two decades, making dancehall and Jamaica more international, more relevant, as he is not known just in Jamaica, but very much all over the world with New York, London, Africa and Europe following.
Kartel with his voice, his lyrics and his melodies has helped many people to get through hard times. Could it be by making the listeners laughing, dancing, or singing along to a song Addi entertained the people and catered for them truthfully and that’s why his influence is great because he makes, relates and understands Dancehall, since he is a vital part of the fabric!
Vybz Kartel’s popularity in 2022 grew internationally as the United States came in as the top country to stream Vybz Katel’s music, that totalized 66.9 million views, as for data provided by the streaming giant platform Youtube. Jamaica was second place with 59.5 million views, followed by, surprise, India with 33.8 million views, the United Kingdom with 26.5 million views and Kenya with 19 million views.
If you are curious to know which Vybz Kartel song have been the most played and viewed on YouTube in 2022 here a quick tip : Vybz Kartel most played tunes of 2022 are “With You”, “African Summer,” “Fever,” “Summer Time”, “Ride It” with Shaneil Muir, “Girl Next Door”, and forever a fan favorite “Any Weather”.
Vybz Kartel “Any Weather” Official Music Video
Adidja Palmer has been behind bars since the end of September 2011, but he has continued to maintain his innocence all these years and remains optimistic that the UK Privy Council may soon rule in his favor on his final appeal keeping is social medias channel active and alive, and hinting as his freedom as to manifest it and with so many well wisher and people having him in their minds, the wish may become soon a reality! Just imagine World Boss out a road!
For his birthday Addi has been mentioned by several prominent dancehall stars like Popcaan, that was one of the first to wish the Gaza General an happy earth strong, followed by Spice, and many others including many many fans from all over the world, and overall his baby mother Shorty Tanesha Palmer, that wished her baby daddy Vybz Kartel Happy B-Day via her social account on Instagram.
The post, which consisted of a photo of Vybz Kartel, their three children, and herself, was captioned with the words, “😮happy birthday to my baby daddy 🥳more blessings 🥳🙏🏼💋@vybzkartel.”
to which Vybz Kartel replied “@shortbossmuzik Thanks me baby mada.♥️♥️♥️ Love you endless Ntn nuh change. 🥰.”
There have been a lot of gossips about a possible Kartel and Shorty fall out in the latest weeks, since photos of Kartel’s new girlfriend waiting for him at Kartel’s house surrounded by heavy security were shared by Kartel on the Gram.
This brief exchange between Shorty & Kartel should clean all the rumors, some also put out by Shelly-Ann Curran , that weighed in on the matter and brought up allegations of Shorty cheating on Vybz Kartel with Popcaan into the explosive mix, but Shorty immediately called her out for gossiping and telling lies about her. Incident closed and some shit is so fictional it does not make sense. Shorty and Poppy never linked.
