What happened at Camp Fire is the question everyone is asking? Some people are saying that Mavados entourage and Kartels entourage had a flare up while others are saying that members of the Bounty Killer-led Alliance attacked Beenie Man and members of his entourage. However, theres no way Mavados entourage and Vybz Kartels entourage could have been in any tussle as Vybz Kartel werent even billed for the show.

Just as we were about to contact, the Alliance camp an email was already sent to us from Julian Jones-Griffith whos the spokes person/management for the Alliance. Below is a copy his statement explaining what took place at Camp Fire.

Several people have called members of the Alliance today with news that Beenie Man was on the radio saying words to the effect that he and his entourage were beaten up by the Alliance or people attending Camp Fire with the Alliance in Ewarton last night (December 31, 2008).

If indeed Beenie Man did that, we would just like to state categorically that its untrue and we are in the process of acquiring the recording from the radio station and will not hesitate to take legal action against Beenie if our lawyers deem any of his statements to be slanderous and/or libelous.

The situation was this: Beenie was scheduled to close the show using his Ruff Kut band, every running order we saw said that. Mavado and Killer were to work before him using our own Anger Management band. For some inexplicable reason Beenie wanted to stir up proceedings and began insisting, he was going to run up on Ruff Kut after Elephant Man and before Bounty Killer and Mavado. The organisers of the event were having none of this and instructed Beenie to await his allotted time slot, as presumably they had agreed prior to the event.

Mavado was at an elevated position about 20 meters above the stage steps and at no time was he or anyone from his entourage anywhere near Beenie and the Camp Fire personnel and show security. It seems that Beenie Man and his cohorts got into a shoving match with the police who were securing the stage and following instructions that it was not Beenie Man's time to work.

Bounty Killer and his entourage could not even see what was happening from where he was and had no idea what was happening, only that he heard Beenie was trying to rush the stage. Over the years, this has happened on many occasions at stage shows in Jamaica with this particular artist so everybody just remained calm and let the situation play out.

Next thing we saw was Beenie and his entourage storm past us and out of the venue. Mavado and Bounty gave the Camp Fire patrons a great performance and we left the venue just as we could hear the MC unsuccessfully pleading with the crowd not to throw bottles.