Stacious gave one of the more brilliant performances of the night. Lisa Hyper started well but fizzled. - Nathaniel Stewart photos

The hype surrounding the fuming female dancehall artistes, who promised fans a spectacle when they took the stage at Magnum Follow Di Arrow, was short-lived, as Stacious and Face were the deejays to get the better of their audience at James Bond Beach in St Mary.

Stacious delivered a brilliant performance Sunday morning, and stole the much-hyped female segment of the show. But the biggest shock came when former member of the Portmore Empire, Lisa Hyper, went a little too low and did the unthinkable, by disrespecting Bounty Killer in front of what was obviously his audience.

After being booed severely, Lisa Hyper, to her credit managed to finish her set, and emerged from the experience relatively unscratched. Stacious was arguably the best female performer of the night, even though Face may have well contested that with a brief, yet, exciting performance.

Stacious walked out to a warm reception and capitalised well when she introduced her segment with Goodas Clap, before she neatly squeezed into Nah Gi None, directed at Lisa Hyper, and which earned her at least three huge forwards for choice lines such as "shine daddy john like soldier man booth" and "when mi over Gully side a buss shatty, yuh over Big Yard ah ..........."

Face generated a lot of excitement in a short, spicy stint where she levelled allegations that Queen Paula and Macka Diamond were sexual partners. The crowd roared with laughter at the remark and bawled for more. She closed with a peppery verse ending with a reference to Paula saying "ina yu bleach out face mi wah chuck yuh."

big roar

Lisa Hyper was given a special introduction by MC Nuffy, with much fanfare as he listed out all her names, including Lisa Swiper. She hit the stage to a big roar from the crowd when she declared: "A who dem a b........ ramp wid?" She then deejayed Death Sentence, which she directed at Stacious. Her forwards quickly took a cardinal when she deejayed, "Bounty a go St Thomas go ...... off donkey."

A Magnum bottle whistled dangerously from one section of the crowd and landed close to her feet as she stepped back, but luckily for her, the other few missiles fell harmlessly. She was later ushered off the stage by Nuffy.

Macka diamond came onstage armed with a prop, that of a picture of her son, saying she did not want to disgrace herself even though they were trying to 'draw her out'. Her attack against Unicorn lacked real venom and sting, and her set soon fizzled. But, she closed on a high note when she said, "Mi want a c.....y weh long like di one Lisa Hype lick."

Queen Paula exited the stage with haste after an ill-fated delivery and Ikaya would, by now be kicking herself to have allowed Unicorn to stay that long on stage, as her performance was brought to an abrupt end.

Queen Paula came out ready for war.