TEENage caught up with one of dancehall's most prolific lyricists, the man with so many hits right now. He will always be known as a great performer and man with many words to share, we spoke to Busy Signal a little about what's coming up:
TEENage: What was the reason for the change in songs like Step Out to more conscience songs like Jail? Busy Signal (Busy): Yuh find say the music gwaan a way and everybody deh pon one vibe to monotonous, so we create we own ting. We wanted to do something new, something fresh, and the people dem love it, it was just time for a change, sometime yuh haffi reinvent yuhself.
TEENage: Do you have an album coming up? Busy: Yeah three albums coming out, it was suppose to come out from August, but because of all the elections and the hurricane and dem tings, it was delayed, but look out for it soon.
TEENage: What shows you have coming up and anything new coming up? Busy: I have West King Jambowe, Sting, Teenfest, and a show in Canada and a couple others. Yeah and we shooting a new video.
TEENage: How do people abroad treat you? Busy: People abroad, God Bless me with Step Out and it well out there with the Internet. It out there an' the people know mi, so the feedback I get is unbelievable! I mean wid di people abroad yuh never expect for them to know yuh music, but they do and it's a good feeling.
TEENage: What's your favourite place to perform apart from Jamaica? Busy: Favourite place to perform outside of Jamaica is definitely Japan. The vibe there and di people, them jus love dancehall music, it mad! And then London, Trinidad and Cayman is also good too.
TEENage: What was it like winning a TEENage Choice award? Busy: Is a blessing, Jah know, jus' fi get nominated and to win on top of it. Jus' fi know seh is a voting ting and di people dem choose me! I wan' give the biggest big up to the fans nuff love.
TEENage: What's your favourite song to perform? Busy: Nuff song perform, but personally mi have nuff favourite, mi cyaan choose one practically. Is about seven tune a day mi do. Mi never gwaan like mi bigga dan the music, is the music mek me and di fans. See fi all the TEENage Choice Awards is all kinda people vote, mi sure seh some older people vote too an' mi wan' big dem up too. Big up everybody!