Dancehall child performer Kareem 'QQ' Dawkins wants to put his parents custody battle behind him.

"I don't really think I want to do anymore interviews or talk about it," says the 14-year-old singjay in a telephone conversation on Wednesday night. "I just want to put it behind me. It's just something that happened and that's it," he shares nonchalantly of the just concluded court case.

In July this year, QQ was forced to cancel a number of stage shows abroad as advocates of Jamaica's child labour laws forced the young star to desist from performing - the first step in the onslaught of legal woes.

For several weeks, the custody battle raged on in local courts and made headlines - most of which, the artiste says, were unfounded.

"I saw it on the front page. I was shocked, like 'bombaat' how dem people yah so wicked and lie," he quips.
It's roughly two weeks since the court demanded he spend four days in a private home, away from the influence of both parents. he's reflecting on the state in which the whole ordeal has left him and how this will all unfold into music years from now.

"The day after the headlines I was in school and everybody was asking me if I am alright," he tells Splash. The second form Calabar High School student mentions, too, that several of his peers jeered him for spending time in what they believed was a boys' home. But the young star is quick to dismiss their unkind actions, saying that, "teasing is something you can't escape, not even me".

These days, he just wants to forget about everything, but not before the paperwork is all done.

"The verdict," the young artiste says, "is out, but some little things are still being reviewed" .

QQ also dismisses the reports that his father, known to many on the entertainment circuit as 'GQ', had been abusing him.
"A lot of people ask [if I am abused], but is not true. Daddy don't beat me," he tells Splash, adding that though he did pen the letter procured during the case; it did not, however, contain anything that could be used as evidence of his father abusing him.

As for his time away from home, QQ says it was a normal weekend, except the part where he was barred from contacting either of his parents.

"I played video games and went on the computer. it never really felt weird except I had no contact with my family," he says. "I really felt a way though, star, because I was like I can't talk to my daddy. him is a man I normally talk to everyday."

And though he's compelled not to reveal with whom he lives, he's confident in telling Splash that his ordeal is already translated into song.

"I have something new that's creeping steadily on the radio right now," says QQ of the song aptly titled Justice, "yes, it has something to do with the case".