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February 16, 2006
Beenie on last Push to Complete 'Undisputed' for Virgin
By Claude Mills/YardFlex Reporter
Photo by: Carlington Wilmot
www.claudemills.com
Beenie Man has been busy putting the finishing touches on his 'Undisputed' abum, the penultimate record of his five-album deal with Virgin Records.
"Right now, I plan to book out Anchor fi all a week, and lick three riddim so me can finish the album, right now, mi need fi have some Shocking Vibes tune on the album, right now, is just Mafia House tune, and is fi dem fault still, dem have me a fly all over the place doing shows and mi never get to do no Shocking Vibes tune, so that's the next step," he told YardFlex.Com.
In June, the penultimate album of Beenie Man's five-album deal with Virgin Records, is scheduled to hit stores worldwide. It will be a straight dancehall album which will be dubbed Undisputed. Current hotshot dancehall producer Don Corleone is reportedly handling much of the production work on the 18 tracks. There is also a track produced by R. Kelly and Beenie Man.
There are indications that Beenie Man's association may come to a close after the album deal is completed.
"When de deal is over, me a sign wid a urban company. Me a sign Mafia House, a new label he has created, to Sony/Epic. My time with Virgin has been sweet, I have been able to go around the world, without Virgin, that would not have been possible, because of Virgin, mi tour the world twice, 13 years straight, mi a perform all over the world, from the top to the bottom," he said.
"Some artiste ah talk 'bout dem mash up a Africa, ah lie dem a tell, unless you get pon MTV Europe which is beamed over to Africa, or on Channel O, you nah get no play, nobody not going to know your tunes, some artiste claim dat dem big ah Africa, but ah mussi one small village dem mash up. My tune with Janet Jackson did big ah Africa, it sell 850,000 copies," he said.
Beenie Man, a Grammy winner and deejay of the year many times in Jamaica, has managed to remain on top of his game. Last November, after a one-year absence, he returned to the Billboard R&B Hip Hop Singles & Tracks chart with his collaboration with Trinidadian soca artiste KMC, titled 'Soul on Fire' debuting at number 84. This is the second single to chart on that listing which credits Beenie Man as featured artiste. In 2005, he was featured on rapper Guerilla Blacks' 'Compton' hit single.