Dancehall artiste Valiant says he doesn’t must report any extra songs about “obeah” as a result of he has now gone company.

City Islandz reported in April that Valiant inked his first main company Model Ambassador take care of telecom large Digicel in a deal brokered by his new administration, Romeich Leisure. The deal is an indication that company Jamaica is able to begin working with hardcore dancehall artists once more. Apart from, the “Dunce Cheque” deejay is likely one of the hottest younger artists on the music scene domestically.

Regardless of nabbing a profitable company deal, Valiant has been on the receiving finish of mounting criticism over his lyrical content material, despite the fact that his songs are massively fashionable. Among the many criticism levied towards him are songs about witchcraft and songs about chopping. A minimum of now we all know that there might be no extra songs concerning the darkish arts.

The deejay hopped into the feedback of an article shared by the Star on Instagram this week, the place he responded to a fan who wrote, “Mommy wants to inform him to cease sing bout obeah.” The article itself was a optimistic story concerning the artist’s shut relationship together with his mom, whom he calls his finest pal. Maybe that was what compelled Valiant to reply, writing, “went company no must” whereas tagging the commenter.

Valiant, whose given identify is Raheem Bowes, is now being managed by Romeich Main, who manages artists like Ding Dong and beforehand Shenseea and Teejay. The deejay rose to stardom together with his breakout hit “Dunce Cheque,” which helped him see a meteoric rise in dancehall.

Since then, he has launched dozens of hits, together with “North Carolina”, “Siance”, “C.A.L (Minimize All Losses)”, “St. Mary”, “Velocity Off”, “Insomnia”, and “Narcissist” with Stalk Ashley. A number of of the named songs racked up thousands and thousands of views on YouTube and even made it to the platform’s high trending songs chart in Jamaica.

In an unique interview with City Islandz in November final 12 months, Valiant addresses criticism he obtained over the content material of his breakout hit, “Dunce Cheque,” the place some veteran dancehall artists scolded him about it.

“Properly Calling individuals dunce was used as a strategy to discourage or harm emotions of the youth so [I] considered a strategy to give youngsters confidence if they’re known as dunce,” the St. Mary artist stated. “I need them to know that they will brush off being known as dunce and make enjoyable of it as a result of it gained’t cease them from reaching their objectives.”

Within the meantime, Valiant bought a brand new music out with Vybz Kartel, “Keep Clear,” and one other music and music video he launched on Tuesday known as “1942.”

In a brand new interview with City Islandz, Vybz Kartel instructed us that he was drawn to working with Valiant due to his pure expertise however acknowledged that his perspective and work ethic will finally assist him etch his identify in dancehall’s historical past.

“Valiant is of course a proficient child, and he works very onerous too he kinda jogs my memory of myself once I simply got here out,” Kartel instructed us. “It’s the perspective and the work ethic that’ll finally give him the glory I feel he deserves. He’s nicely on his strategy to changing into a bonafide dancehall famous person.”