{"id":28118,"date":"2024-09-12T05:30:17","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T09:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=28118"},"modified":"2024-09-13T16:31:18","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T20:31:18","slug":"come-fly-wid-reggae-star-shaggy-part-2-of-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/12\/come-fly-wid-reggae-star-shaggy-part-2-of-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Come Fly Wid Reggae Star Shaggy (Part 2 of 3)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Continued from Part One<\/a>…<\/i><\/p>\n

Shaggy:<\/b> I think as you get success, you get less inspired because you\u2019re not forced. So you\u2019ve got to keep the hunger. Which is why I rarely do records with big superstars. Recently I did \u201cHabibi (I Need Your Love)\u201d with Mohombi and Faydee, two unknown guys. I did \u201cBanana\u201d recently. Over a billion streams with Conkarah, an unknown guy. And I did \u201cGo Down Deh\u201d recently with Spice, who\u2019s certainly not a big superstar. And now I have a new record called \u201cMove\u201d with another unknown artist by the name of Lavinia.<\/p>\n

And the reason for doing this, it\u2019s not strategic in any way. For one, it\u2019s how inspired I am by these people; Lav, here\u2019s a girl that is really a dancer. She holds a note good, so I\u2019m like, \u201cOkay, but I could make her sound great<\/i>.\u201d And her voice compliments mine. So that is inspiring to me. When you get people that are in the trenches with you, it\u2019s the inspiration that you get from them that makes you do these things. All I want to do at this point is to stay inspired.<\/p>\n

These artists don\u2019t have the same name recognition as you. There have been quite a few singles. At this point, are you focusing on these self contained projects, singles rather than albums?<\/b><\/p>\n

You know, if I listen to my manager, it\u2019d be like, \u201cYou really need to do a Shaggy album because it helps your touring, it ignites your fan base.\u201d You got to understand:, I\u2019m doing Shaggy for the last 30 years. If I\u2019m doing a Shaggy album right now, I have to be saying something. It\u2019s gotta move me. And right now I\u2019m getting most of the inspiration from these people. So I\u2019m looking for the inspiration that is going to make me find something that is special. And to me, if you\u2019re not going to go for greatness, then why do it?<\/p>\n

The single \u201cPeligroso,\u201d that also takes things in a little bit of a different direction\u2026<\/b><\/p>\n

Maffio is a great producer. He does a lot of these Latin artists. He sent me just a beat, and he says, \u201cI\u2019m doing something. Could you give me a verse?\u201d I spit a verse. Sometimes the inspiration will come through, maybe from the track, maybe from a joke, maybe from a person in the room. I take it from anywhere and any place. I don\u2019t have to be in any particular place, you know?<\/p>\n

And I\u2019m not the guy that\u2019s like, \u201cOkay, it\u2019s three in the morning. I gotta get up because I\u2019m inspired.\u201d No, I\u2019m not that guy. I go into the studios from seven to ten, and between seven to ten, you\u2019re gonna get the song. Now, the trick is whether I like it or not. I write a lot of shit I don\u2019t like, and I don\u2019t care if anybody else likes it. I make music selfishly.<\/p>\n

If you create something you don\u2019t like, do you set it aside with the possibility of using it later?<\/b><\/p>\n

I\u2019ll finish it even if it\u2019s not moving me, because that\u2019s my work ethic, I was in the military for four years, and I\u2019m just that kind of a guy. It\u2019s very rare that I\u2019ll go back to it, but I have done that before where I go back to something, take a piece of it, or parts of it, or the idea of it, or maybe the subject matter of it and flip it again.<\/p>\n

On a good day, I\u2019ll write an average of four songs. I could sit down and knock four of them out. But nobody wants to do that because first of all, it\u2019s boring as fuck. I\u2019m clearly good at it, but I find it the most tedious fucking thing ever. No, I do not enjoy the process.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why I surround myself with a lot of people; it has to be a room full of jokes. Because it is so boring. And you\u2019re just sitting here with your thoughts, and I\u2019m not that guy. I\u2019m a stage guy. I want to be on stage. I will sing the same song 30 times as long as I get 30 different reactions.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been listening to Come Fly Wid Me: The Sinatra Songbook Inna Reggae Style<\/i>. It\u2019s an inspired album concept. Those songs sound like they were written to be arranged the way that you do them. Is that something that had been gestating in your mind for a long time? <\/b><\/p>\n

What if I tell you that is my favorite album that I\u2019ve ever done?<\/p>\n

First of all, it was the most challenging thing forever because Sting [this time, the former Police man \u2013 ed.] saw something in me that I couldn\u2019t see. We\u2019re on the fjords in Norway and we\u2019re doing the tour in support of our album 44\/876<\/i> at the time. We had a day off and he\u2019s like, \u201cLet\u2019s get a boat!\u201d We went out there and he\u2019s jumping in this water. It\u2019s freezing! You know, I\u2019m from Jamaica; I\u2019m not gonna jump in that shit. He\u2019s like, \u201cOh, come jump in, Shaggy.\u201d I\u2019m like, \u201cNo, I don\u2019t feel like freezing my ass off.\u201d He\u2019s over there in his little Speedo. And I\u2019m like, \u201cYo, fuck that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Click to continue<\/a>\u2026<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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