Many a sound clash has been decided by Mega Banton’s Sound Boy Killing, the 1993 song that helped define 1990’s dancehall culture. Still in the game, the deejay is looking to bounce back in 2021.
The gruff-voiced toaster has had a quiet 2020 largely due to the Coronavirus, but he has a raft of songs ready for release before Christmas.
“Mi have a whole heap a song fi put out. Mi jus’ want even one catch on in di streets an’ everything will fall in place,” said Mega Banton.
No Way Out, Win, Hall of Fame and Puppet are some of the songs the veteran artist is preparing for the road. He recorded them for different producers.
Mega Banton has released only one single to date in 2020. That was the self-produced Golden Moment which he did with his son, deejay Status.
He admits it has been a while since his last big hit. The Wedding, a lovers rock number released in 2014, got some airplay in Jamaica where it did fairly well.
Born Garth Williams, Mega Banton is from Waterford, a working-class community just outside of Kingston, the Jamaican capital. That’s where Vybz Kartel ran his Gaza Empire.
Ten years before Kartel emerged, Mega Banton was riding reggae and pop charts with Sound Boy Killing which he cut as a teenager for producer Jack Scorpio.
Other hits followed, including Wrong or Right which was another Scorpio production, and Decision.
Sound Boy Killing earned Mega Banton fans across the United States, Europe and Africa where he has toured. He said there has never been pressure to duplicate the song’s success.
“Never! But people always ask mi if naah do a next soun’ song. Mi have one a work pon now.”
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