‘Chappa Gyal’ Honey Milan Celebrates A YouTube Milestone; Silence From Skillibeng

Skillibeng and Honey Milan’s contentious Chappa Gyal track has amassed more than one million views on YouTube, a milestone that is being celebrated by the US-based artist, but with apparent continued ambivalence by the Crocodile Teeth artist.

“Chappa gyal just hit 1 million ‼️💰 brrrrrpppppp,” she wrote on Instagram on Tuesday, under a behind-the-scenes snippet from the accompanying video, with Skillibeng, to the delight of her fans.

While she did not tag Skillibeng’s personal page, nor did he acknowledge the post, she had her fair share of congrats.  Among those giving her congrats was English footballer Daniel Sturridge, who is of Jamaican descent.

“🔥🔥🔥🔥 Chune,” he wrote.

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Chappa Gyal had been plagued by controversy at the outset, when it was released earlier this year.   Skillibeng and Milan were forced to pull the music video for the track, after its directors were slapped with an order to edit out a building of the H&L Rapid True Value company, a subsidiary of Grace, from the production.

Attorneys from the law firm Levy and Cheeks, which represented H&L, had sent Skilli’s producers a cease and desist letter, which took issue with how the establishment’s brand was misappropriated.

The building, which was featured at the beginning of the music video, was renamed Skillimoney Headquarters and was portrayed as a fictional ‘scamming base’.   However, the lawyers contended that the video was not only a trademark and copyright infringement, but was also a “deliberate attempt to take advantage of the reputation and goodwill which has developed and presently exists in the ‘H&L’ and ‘Rapid True Value’ trademark, trade dress and get-up”.

The letter had also outlined that H&L does not endorse scamming and did not grant anyone affiliated with Skillibeng’s video permission to use its trademark.

Not too long after, Honey Milan, whose real name is Tina Lynch, was pummeled by Skillibeng’s fans after she told Onstage host Winford Williams, that the song would have done well without the Crocodile Teeth artist’s vocals.

Her statements evoked accusations of being ungrateful, after she said at the beginning of the interview that the song was hers and the E-Syde artiste was a “feature”.

“It’s my song and he’s the feature.  I actually sent him a couple songs and he said he would get on them and then it so happened that I came up with Chappa Gyal.  I was just like, ‘you know, you should just get on that’”, she had said about the track whose lyrics and video are centered around a scamming operation.

While some of Milan’s fans praised her and said she was going to be the next big star, most E-Syde fans took umbrage to her remarks, stating that she disrespected Skilli and failed to give him the credit he deserved and that he should part company with her as she was exalting herself at his expense.

Others had declared contrary to her statements, if it were not for Skilli, they would not have listened to Chappa Gyal in the first place, while there were some who thought that Milan was just being confident in herself and her abilities.

Two weeks after that incident, Milan again came under fire after she painted a series of fake Skillibeng tattoos on her forehead and posted the images on her Instagram page, in an apparent bid to ingratiate herself to the Crocodile Teeth artist.

At the time, some of Skillibeng’s fans pointed out that she did not number among the close to 2200 people the E-Syde artiste was following on Instagram, which they felt was an indication that the St. Thomas native now had very little regard for her.