Marlon Samuels Escalates Feud With Ben Stokes & Shane Warne, Preps Dancehall Diss Track

Marlon Samuels’ longstanding vendetta against his arch-rivals, England’s Ben Stokes and Australian Shane Warne, has intensified, with the retired batsman, now Dancehall artiste, revealing that he is penning a diss track aimed at decimating the two cricketers.

The retired West Indies superstar, who is a controversial figure both in cricket and Dancehall circles, prolonged the drama when he wrote on his Instagram page a few days ago, that the name of his new song will be Worst Enemy.

“Me just finish the baddest diss song with all 4 of them names.  There is nothing in this world that I can’t do punks.  I will be releasing it to the world, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Caribbean every media house,” Samuels wrote.

The Kingston College old boy, who goes by the Dancehall moniker ‘Icon’, also threw verbal daggers at Good Morning Britain television host Piers Morgan, who is apparently one of the two other targets of his Worst Enemy song.

“Piers Morgan.  How you reach ina this?   I can’t remember seeing you around the game of cricket.  That’s not how you speak to a legend.  Yu need to go take a picture at Lords with my number 7 jersey.  Am going live Friday worldlord style.  Got some questions to ask,” Samuels declared.

The bitter feud between Samuels and Stokes was reignited last week after the Briton said he would not wish two weeks of COVID quarantine on anyone, not even his “worst enemy Marlon Samuels”.

An enraged Samuels, after learning of the “worst enemy” comments, ripped into Stokes, declaring that, among other things, he was genetically superior to the Briton.

“No white boy could diss me in the sports and no get back diss look at this b__tch still thinking about me give me 14 days with you wife turn her into Jamaican in 14 seconds mate none of yall knows me that simple means it’s my f__ing superior skin tone yall hate f__k you.”

Initially, the bad blood between the two began in April 2015, when Samuels mockingly saluted Stokes off the field during a Test match in Grenada.

It escalated at the World T-20 final in Kolkata in 2016 when the West Indies beat England, and Samuels, who hit 85 not out to win the Man of the Match award, made jeering comments about Stokes in a post-game interview.

Later that year Stokes published his autobiography Firestarter: Me, Cricket, and The Heat of the Moment, in which he said the Jamaican lacked manners, was disrespectful of the game, and that: “I do not like him one bit”.

In the current drama, Samuels also took aim at another detractor, Australian cricketer Shane Warne, who had criticized him for his statements about Stokes’ wife.

“ICC cricketing world Ben b__tch Stokes Shane b__tch  Warne and a few b__tch West Indians cricketers … f­­__k with my army bigger and we richer,” Samuels posted.

The relationship between Samuels and Warne has been acrimonious from time the Kingstonian began batting for the West Indies at age 20, and even became physical after the Australian confronted him during a match and pulled his shirt in one instance.

In subsequent game Warne had provocatively hurled a ball directly at Samuels, striking him in his upper body, resulting in the star hurling his bat away in anger.

In an interview a few years ago, Samuels had told journalists that he did not appreciate the way that he Warne “continues to talk about me… maybe because my face is real and his face is not,” referencing to plastic surgery which the Aussie had reportedly done over the years.

Amidst the abusive comments which he has been receiving from cricket fans across the world, Samuels, who is currently promoting his fragrance line Sextillion7thpower, is being pushed by some of his Jamaican fans to make haste and release the diss song to further curse and embarrass Warne and Stokes.

“Sextillion7thpower army will make it one of the most viewed song videos on YouTube. We are ready to get it trending boss,” one follower, baghiesamaj said.

Samuels has been known for his protracted social media feuds and bantering with other compatriots in the Dancehall space.  He had an infamous online beef with selector Foota Hype in 2018, which started after he claimed that the Cassava Piece native was “carrying feelings” over his appearance in his ex-girlfriend Ishawna’s Insta Boy music video.

He also had verbal spats with Mr. Vegas, and conflicts with his ex Yanique ‘Curvy Diva’ in 2018, an upcoming singer Ikon and Devin di Dakta’s manager Shelly-Ann Curran in 2019 over the artiste’s New Flame single.  Devin had poked fun at the cricketer with lyrics saying: “nuh matter how me love di gyal dem, none cyah mad me cuz me nuh Marlon Samuels’, in reference to the rift between the batsman and the Curvy Diva.

Marlon had blamed Curran for allowing Devin to insert his name in the song and said she should “pick a war wid a person weh above you”, a comment which she denounced in The Star tabloid and said he was “looking a hype”, and was “talentless and classless and no money can buy those”.