Blak Ryno sounded a warning that he will be the artiste to watch in 2009 with an emphatic peformance at Sting 2008. 

Walking out after a band change, he energised a slumbering Sting crowd with his signature slang, 'see it de' as he performed his runaway hit, Thug Anthem.

"Ah Blak Ryno ah say ah so the ting set, no time at all the thugs nuh tek check," he deejayed as he stepped out, and the crowd roared. Torches stabbed at the night sky and the big banners danced in the breeze.

Then when he said see it de, the crowd sang along with him in one lusty voice: SEE IT DE.

He then paused to intro the second verse, 'dem say anywhere we go, Portmore Empire gwaan like dem ah the baddest ting, mek me tell yu why, Sean, Vinchi, General.....dog, we buss not puppy'.

And the crowd roared again. the forward rolling from the back to the front of the crowd in a clear powerful wave of hands and lighters. The teens in the crowd also loved his other slang,  the drawling 'yea, yea'.

He then deejayed Shot a Buss, and then exited the stage and the crowd begged him to return for an encore. He performed Shot a Buss and the crowd waved and cheered. After that, he did These Stingers on the Jail For Me riddim. He was joined by fellow Portmore Empire member Shawn Storm who got a good ovation for Be Wise.

Blak Ryno closed his set with the girl song, Bend Over. One girl, an obviously over-enthusiastic Ryno fan, ran out of the backstage area to where the ground rose in a small hill and performed a split under the huge projection screen set up for the patrons to view the show. When he walked off the stage, the girl screamed : 'Ryno, mi waan yu breed mi'.

Yea, yea.