Ghetto Splash 2023 w/Beenie Man, Bounty Killa, Cham, Kiprich, Nadg.

@LeoOReggio

Highlights from my video recording of Ghetto Splash 2023 held at the Waterhouse mini stadium in Drewsland, Kingston, Jamaica. The stadium is located very near to the famous Black Scorpio recording studio and it is the home ground of one the more popular Jamaica Premier League football teams.

Moses Anthony Davis (born on 22 August 1973), is an internationally acclaimed Jamaican dancehall artist professionally known as Beenie Man.
Davis was born in the Waterhouse district of Kingston in 1973. He was involved in the music industry from a young age, started toasting at the age of five, and was encouraged by his uncle Sydney Knowles, who played drums for Jimmy Cliff. He won the Tastee Talent contest in 1981, and Radio DJ Barry G introduced him to local sound system operators, who helped to establish the popularity of the young deejay, who became known as Beenie Man. He recorded his debut single, “Too Fancy”, with record producer Henry “Junjo” Lawes in 1981, with Lawes also including him on the 1983 album Junjo Presents Two Big Sounds alongside established stars such as Dillinger, Fathead, and Ringo. His debut album, The Invincible Beenie Man: The Ten-Year Old DJ Wonder was produced by Bunny Lee and released in 1983, his first hit single followed the same year with the Winston Holness-produced “Over the Sea”. In 1984 Beenie Man recorded some material with Barrington Levy (released ten years later), but his music career was put on hold while he finished school, and spent time travelling to the United Kingdom, United States, and Canada.

Rodney Basil Price (born 12 June 1972), known as Bounty Killer, is a Jamaican reggae and dancehall deejay. AllMusic describes him as “one of the most aggressive dancehall stars of the ’90s, a street-tough rude boy with an unrepentant flair for gun talk”. He is considered one of the best dancehall lyricists of all time.
Price moved to Kingston at an early age, along with his mother and siblings. His father owned and ran the Black Scorpio sound system and Price started his musical career as a sound system deejay in his early teens. At the age of 14, Price was shot by a stray bullet during a gunfight between rival political factions, and while convalescing in hospital decided on the name Bounty Killer. After recovering, he increased his performances on a greater number of sound systems and turned his attention towards recording.

Cham (born Damian Beckett, 24 February 1979) is a Jamaican-born dancehall singer-songwriter, mostly known for his 2006 single “Ghetto Story” from his major label debut album of the same name, a song which led to multiple “story” songs by other artists in a similar vein. He is currently signed to Atlantic Records and was known as Baby Cham until 2005. He is still called Baby Cham by his Jamaican fans and fans from around the world despite the name change.
Originally from Sherlock Crescent in Saint Andrew Parish, Cham’s career began in the early 1990s. The Miami New Times referred to his debut album Wow… The Story, released in 2000, was “the most anticipated album in years from any reggae artist”, and a Washington Post review of a live Cham concert in 2006 described him as “the man who may be the next Sean Paul – a dancehall artist who crosses over to the U.S. hip-hop market.”
Throughout his career, Cham has collaborated with many hip-hop and R&B artists such as Foxy Brown, Alicia Keys, Carl Thomas, Shawn Mims, Mis-Teeq, Rihanna, Che’Nelle, Jentina, Akon, T-Pain, Keke Palmer, and many others.
Cham has for a long time worked with producer Dave Kelly. In 2012, he recorded with his wife, O, on the singles “Wine” and “Tun Up”. In 2013 he released the Kelly-produced single “Fighter”, featuring Damian “Junior Gong” Marley.

Marlon Jaro Plunkett, better known as Kiprich, formerly known as Crazy Kid, is a popular Jamaican dancehall deejay. He, like his mentor Elephant Man, is a member of The Alliance, a group of Gangsta-themed deejays.
Plunkett was born in Linstead, St. Catherine, and raised in the Waterhouse district of Kingston. He attended Ardenne High School and was still a student when he had his first hit with “Leggo Di Bwoi”, a collaboration with Chino; Later followed “Mad Sick Head No Good” together with fellow deejay Predator. Also, he wrote the lyrics for Elephant Man’s “Jook Gal”, whose remix together with Kiprich himself, Lil Jon, and The East Side Boyz entered the charts in 2003. His latest, and greatest hit so far was “Telephone Ting”, followed by “The Letter”.
He has become known for humorous songs and songs aimed at other deejays, such as “Talk”, aimed at Elephant Man, Beenie Man, and Vybz Kartel, and “Ca’an Get Brown”, aimed at Vybz Kartel.

The artist, Nadg, has become a household dancehall name in Jamaica, and globally, since the release of “Waterhouse Badness”. The music video for the viral TikTok sensation, ‘We A Run E Grung,’ by dancehall artiste Nadg, has cemented his name as a viral sensation.