Baby Tash, Tellah - file photos

One of the winners of the Magnum Kings and Queens of Dancehall, Tashon 'Baby Tash' Williams has been receiving threatening phone calls since winning the talent competition.

A popular entertainment website reported that "Magnum has pulled an about turn in promoting the lyrical battle (clash), after Baby Tash claimed to have been receiving death threats concerning the lyrical battle".

And while it is being suggested that Tellah or her supporters are threatening Baby Tash, Tellah denies this saying, "no threat or anything like dat, mi not even know dat gal numba".

Tellah says in the last stages of the competition Baby Tash did a song aimed at her called Repeat Verse. So, she decided to do a song on the road shows that would defend her name. However, she said she would not perform the song as part of a clash.

"What cause de problem is that wherever mi go, mi get forward an' she nah get none. A my career mi a tek up in hand, dem cyaan stop my ting," she said while noting that she is booked for the Little Ochie Seafood Festival and Manchester Fiesta.

However, in an interview with THE STAR, Baby Tash said the threatening phone calls had nothing to do with the clash between herself and Tellah. She also said that Magnum did not discontinue the possible clash because of the phone calls.

Baby Tash says she received the calls a week after the end of the competition, after which they stopped and began again the week of the Portland roadshow.

Baby Tash said, "basically they're saying they're gonna mash mi up. Mi shouldn't win the competition and what they gonna do to me. On the Monday before the Portland roadshow they called like 2:15 a.m. saying 'don't come to the next Magnum show 'cause we gonna throw a Magnum bottle in yuh face'." Since the Portland show the calls have stopped.

Baby Tash received the calls from a private number. A female caller whom she described as 'loud, vulgar and boisterous' made the threats.

Baby Tash said, "sometimes they call, call and call and I won't answer. At one point they even left a voice message. If they continue to call, I ask someone else to answer it. When I answer it, I don't respond I just listen to them cuss until they're done."

Baby Tash says when she first began getting the calls she first spoke with the Magnum officials who then spoke with all the contestants, who denied making any disparaging calls to the new dancehall queen. When the artiste received the calls before the Portland show Magnum put extra security at the show to ensure her safety.

Despite the seriousness of the situation Baby Tash says she will not let the situation 'stress her out'. "God carried me through this. Bad mind people can't stop me. Not everyone loves you, but you have to be positive." After the competition Tash says the response from Jamaica has been a positive one and she has never received negative responses otherwise.

However, the rivalry of the two former contestants has transcended the competition. A clash was being promoted between the two artistes but Magnum has abandoned the showdown.

According to Baby Tash, Magnum stopped the clash because it moved from being something fun and purely lyrical to being personal.

When contacted, Gary Dixon, brand manager of Magnum, said that the clash was welcomed at first.

"For the creativity of the show, we didn't see the lyrical rivalry as being a problem, but when we met with them (Baby Tash and Tellah) together, we realised that it was much more personal and we scrapped the idea because this was not the direction that we wanted the competition to go. It was to the point where we had to seperate them for the road shows."

The show's executive producer Mark Kenny declined to comment on the matter as he says, "nobody spoke to me about that matter, but I'll call and talk to her (Baby Tash)."