you cannot compare kartel to prince.
if you have proven success, proven hits, proven album sales & many people see the worldwide potential in your talent, changing your name to get out of a contract 'could' work as a negotiation tactic with the label you are signed too. Without having a Hit, a record on the Radio, and/or serious momentum behind you, attempting a name change will leave you signed to a contract with a company that controls your destiny.

GREENSLEEVES F'N S**KS DATS WHY DEM ALL BACK OUT OF DEH DEALS! WHY WOULD YU WORK FOR A COMPANY DAT DOESN'T RELEASE UR ALBUM WHEN YOU WANT IT TO BE!

I DON'T BLAIME THESE ARTISTS!

I believe an artist has a right or a say in any matter pertaining to their music career. I think there should be some compromise drawn between the two parties. I believe the artist comes first before anything because their it's their material.

I REALLY DON'T FEEL SORRY FOR THESE ARTIST THAT CONTINUE TO MAINTAIN THIS KIND OF ATTITUDE...WHEN THE POT CAAN COOK...AND CAR CAAN DRIVE..THEY WILL REALIZE HOW DRY THEIR GRASS IS,BESIDES SMOKIN' IT,THIS IS NOT THE SIXTIES WHERE PEOPLE HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO LISTEN WHAT TRUE ARTIST HAD TO OFFER THEN,IT'S FAILING OUR COUNTRY PLUS THE INDUSTRY,I PLAYED A VERY POPULAR SOUND SYSTEM BACK IN DA DAY...TODAY THE BIZ IS GETTIN' DUTTY.PLEASE GUYS TRY AND CLEAN UP YOUR ACT....BAD PUBLICITY IS NOT GOOD IN MOST CASES...ALSO CUT OUT THE WORD A MOUTH THING...IF ANYONE CHOOSE TO USE YOU FOR ANY REASON SIGN CONTRACTS (CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME)BLESS!

Dem love badmouth di artist dem.. if di f**king lawyer dem neva two faced an really a work fi label dem an stop frig man outta dem hard earn money we dem need fi feed dem pickney maybe it wouldn't look like di man dem no wa honor dem contract!

Singing is a very good way of spreading the information,so we lead many people with singing.this means we should be leading by example, Dance hall music is good music lets not make it dirty in this way,please lets keep it clean men.I also like dance hall myself(Mr Means)

YES YES YES, THEY PROMOTE WHORES (PLEASE GO TO jIGGY FRIDAYS IN THE BRONX)OR MYSPACE.COM/JIGGYFRIDAYS. THEY PROMOTE VIOLENCE (REFERING TO THE SHOOTING AT CLUB AMAZURA IN QUEENS WHERE MY FRIENDS RELATIVE WAS SHOT OUTSIDE), AND THEY PROMOTE STUPIDITY (WHAT JAMAICANS SEEM TO BE FULL OF THESE DAY)

WE THE IDIOT CONSUMERS FEED OFF THESE CREATURES AS SOMEONE TO VILLIFY AND LOOK UP TO.

WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO OUR CULTURE WHY BAD BOIS DRIVE AROUND IN VEHICLES THEY CAN'T SPELL THE NAME OF WHILE THEIR KIDS GO HUNGRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

its actually the mangers/labels that running the muzik to the ground. both fantom and vibez problems began w/ their management companies misrepresenting them and that forced the djs to to seperate themselves from this "damagement" Dancehall comes from the ghetto and when they try to "nice it up" too much it will suffer. Shabba, Yellow, Bounty, have always been "slack" and thats what the people dem love, dont try to change its core.

James W. Mhone, this is your direct quote:

"Dance hall music is good music lets not make it dirty in this way,please lets keep it clean men"

Have you been asleep for the last 5 years. Recently we have fallen in the abyss with "Dutty Whine". I saw with my own eyes nine year old children and younger doing this dance at a party til they had to shut it down when one of them got on their knees.

Keep what clean???????? What planet are you from? i'm not mad at you but damn dude POW!!!!! Wake the &^@#*&% up baby!!!!!!!

someone once said the dancehall scene hez turned into a kindergarten...i respek that person...mi luv dancehall muzik but now mi hav become too selective bkoz mi juss cyaan tolerate the f'ken tings dis rude djz seh...iz that necessary, why not sing decent lyrics, no f'kin unda di tree like dis rude kartel sehz...respek 2 man lyk degree, vegas, luckie d, mr easy, tanto n devonte, n atha decent artists.....

mi nuh respek pple who nuh respektheir audiences.....thats why they sign f'ken contracts

zimbabwe massive

greensleeves is notorious for not releasing artists albums on time.i know for a fact.right now there's no major label(s) out there that understand dancehall music.most of them is looking for a gravy train to jump on.i've told many artists about this on numerous occasion,what we need is a label that understand dancehall music and this can only come from jamaica.a label for jamaicans by jamaicans.but b4 that can happen,artists need to come together.i like waht bounty is doing by jus signing only a distribution deal with v.p.records under his on record label.that will give artists more control of their music.blessed.

Sometimes as artistes we so badly want the international recognition that our management teams make poor decisions or do not understand clearly the legal ramifications of the contracts we sign. Only after being under the armpits of some of these recording companies do we start to smell that what initially seemed like a pretty rose garden is actually a stagnant pool with dead water lilies. If the legal loophole exists that can allow us to change names to get out from under their thumbs, then I don't agree with the term "unprofessional" in the caption of this article. The record companies try to screw the artiste legally so no problem if we use the law to do the same.

kartel or what ever you call your self
only 1 out of ten people like your songs
just check the sales of all your album. the company is losing money so they wont miss you
and orthers in your category

de, you said it best so i don't need to say anymore.

kartel a p**y him greedy nu bl***aate das why him run gu sighn fi get de people dem money and now him a back out if a me mi woulda just send out some man fi kill him and the label dem a damn teif to to why dont they just play fair they think about thier f***ng pockets and not the atiste the busness nee fi cleen up or blood aggu run hmmm

Yo dancehall a rebel music zeen, simple and str8 can't manners up dancehall. When foolishness gwan man haffi rebel str8

The uniqeness of our music is appreciated all over the world as we are a people who are not afraid to express ourselves and one of our major veheicles of cultural expression is our music how ever as time goes by and generations change peoples taste change with time and sorry to say the product which bob marley and peter tosh perfectd and called reggae is now corrupted by dancehall music which is a secture of the genre i think some dancehall ariste are selfish as they make a bad name for the industry thus dancehall should be separated from reggae

I THINK A FEW PEOPLE MISS THE POINT HERE....WHY SHOULD AN ARTIST,GET PAID FOR CERTAIN SHOWS AND JUST BECAUSE OF OTHER ILL REASONS THEY FAIL TO SHOW,WHEN T.O.K HAD THAT PROBLEM WITH A CERTAIN ARTIST DID ANYONE ATTACK T.O.K FOR WHAT WAS SAID IN REGUARDS TO THAT ARTIST?,WE SHOULDN'T STRAY FROM THE POINT HERE...I CAN'T SING OR DJ...BUT I CAN HANDLE THE TURNTABLES...THANKS TO ALL THE ARTIST AND PRODUCERS...WHO INVEST RIGHT ACROSS THE BOARD.THE FACT OF THE MATTER REMAINS TREAT THE BUSINESS LIKE BUSINESS.I UNDERSTAND EVERYONE WANTS TO BE IN CONTROL OF ALL TRANSACTION AND PAPER ACTION...EVERY BODY WANT PIMP SOMEBODY THESE DAYS,NO ARTIST WANTS TO BE PIMP,SO THERE MIGHT BE SOME FEAR OR FRUSTRATION ON THEIR PART,BUT STILL TAKE CARE OF BUSINESS....THERE IS TOO MUCH LINKS IN THE BIZ....AND WHEN THE LINK BUSS IT CAAN ALWAYS FIX(FRIEND AND COMPANY NUH WORK)

The record companys all try to use the artist. We as fans dont love the record companys we love the artist, and if the artist feel that they are bring rob them dem have the right to speak out. cause dem nah fool. so i dont care what happen to the record company long as the artist is pleased.

as you know most dancehall artist are illiterate cannot read properly, and dont understand what they are signing,we have to understand schooling is important.anyone ever hear beenieman or sean paul in interview.sean paul is more intellegent that is why he does better.
new jersey

Ignorance, that all it is.

The Labels are also wrong in some cases.

yuh can know the haters and the old dumb a*s dem. The b*tch DE a write bout all jamaicans full a stupidity, pu**y how you sound. Kartel yuh a di boss.