Dancehall fans, music industry and former members of Adidja Vybz Kartel Palmer’s Portmore Empire are still in shock, following a statement of few days ago from the Empire’s founder, where he disbanded his music Empire.
Vybz Kartel’s statement from last week caught fans and former members of his Portmore Empire by surprise. Here some first comments from former members.
Portmore Empire’s artist Sheba, real name Tasheba Campbell, talking to the Jamaican Star, says she is in shock since she was not informed about Kartel’s decision of disbanding the Portmore Empire.
The artist joined the Gaza Empire in 2009 and during the years she released several hot songs with Kartel, including ‘You and Him Deh’, ‘Like Christmas’, and ‘Do Me Dat (A Whe Me Do You).’
“I was not personally informed about this. Mi just wake up and see a broadcast message about it and a wonder if a true, but since reporters are calling me, it look like a true, den,” Sheba said.
Sheba added that she had not heard yet Kartel’s side of the story, so she was not in a position to speak about the group being disbanded.
“Him nuh send no message wid him lawyer fi say nutten bout it, but a still music, me say. I want to thank him for a great run – it’s been three years. To be honest, this news kinda shock me – is a sudden surprise, it’s not something that was discussed with me,” she said.
“Mi go up a di studio one day and tell him say me can deejay and him say, “mek mi hear a song den”, and mi deejay fi him, and him say him like it, and that was it,” Sheba told reporters
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I was there from the beginning, and I got the chance to learn a lot of things while in the Portmore Empire that could help me out with my career today.
From they remanded him, some of the others should have been trying to work on their craft so even if he doesn’t come back very soon, they can still manage on their own.
“Empire taught me to fight fi what yuh believe in and him is a man weh him like fi see yuh a do things. So as a female, yuh haffi think like a man but act like a woman,”
remarked Lisa Hyper, former Gaza member recently labeled “female Vybz Kartel”..
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Doza Medicine, one of the original Portmore’s member himself said,
“I understand what Vybz Kartel is saying. He is away and can’t really push their careers the way he could have if he was out.
Vybz Kartel is a man like this … when it becomes too much for him, he will just let it go. I figure more or less that is what is happening.
But still, to be one of the original members, it’s good to know that the whole world was saying Gaza, something I help to build.”
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