Sean Paul Still Isn’t Quite Sure What Caused The Beef With DMX
The beef between DMX and Sean Paul was news to the Gimme the Light singer and he’s still not quite sure what initially happened to cause strife between them.
Speaking on The Fix podcast earlier today (October 9) he described the situation from his side. Paul said in 1998 when DMX was at the peak of his career, the two crossed paths, and at some point, he was offered a chance to do a song with the American rapper and Mr. Vegas.
He said he jumped at the opportunity and went down to the studio but the entire day passed and DMX didn’t show so he decided to lay down some tracks with Vegas. DMX eventually showed up around 6 pm and pitched his idea for them, which would later become the hit song Here Comes the Boom . Paul said that he and Vegas changed some of the lyrics because they clashed with Jamaican culture.
Sean recalled he was then offered a part in the movie Belly with DMX and said they became close because of their shared love of marijuana. However, sometime after that, a woman who Paul didn’t name, who was booking shows for both artistes seemed to have influenced DMX into thinking that Paul was his enemy. Paul added: “I didn’t even know he was vex with me till years later.”
He thinks that she may have promised DMX that they would do another song together on a rhythm that Paul had headlined. That song was the Gimme the Light remix.
In an interview in 2005, on VladTV, DMX, stated that his beef with Sean Paul was because the Jamaican artist turned him down when he asked for a place on the remix. DMX said he was hurt because he felt that they were close but instead Paul kept giving him the runaround. DMX even said during that interview that the deteriorated relationship with Paul had caused him to dislike Reggae.
“Reggae lost me; music is music. I respect it as an art form, I respect the people who do it as being talented artistes, I just don’t like the music. (It was) like he had this joint and I just wanted to do a remix to the joint on my own – like make me just blaze that; you know? You don’t have to come out of your pocket or nothing. I just wanna blaze it, the beat is hot. He was like ‘oh mi don’t know if they gonna do a remix’ and he put me on a phone with another lady. I’m like; ‘hold up, when we were in Jamaica you and me were sitting down talking about the song and you gonna do me like that?’ I’m like alright, cool, and two weeks later I hear Busta Rhymes on the remix,” he said.
DMX also said that he, in turn, refused Sean Paul’s collaboration on his fourth album. “When I was doing my fourth album, he was now like; ‘yo mi have a hot song mi want you to do the remix.’ I was like; ‘no dawg get the … out of here with that bull… you know what am saying? I just wanted to do something – I wasn’t asking you for no money or anything. If I did a … greasy he deserved it and he deserved that one,” he said.
It seems as with many beefs in the industry it was all a matter of miscommunication.