Dancehall Rapper Boozy Bee Readies Debut Album, ‘One Ting’

Dancehall rapper Boozy Bee is gearing up to release his first EP, ‘One Ting’ in December 2021.

The album will be 16 tracks, most of them self-produced and released on his own label, Mr. Tuckers Truckers LLC.

“It’s going to be 14 tracks and two skits, and it’s going to have a theme around the experiences of a Yardman inna the US. That’s why it’s called One Thing , ’cause every yardman start with a one thing, a one job, a one girl, a one visa, a one pound,  a one item of stock, we all start at one,” he mused.

The album will feature tracks such as Gun Class featuring Aidonia, Shoot Em Up Baby, I Wanna Be Loved, and Solve Any Problem.

Boozy Bee has carved out a reputation on the L.A dancehall scene with his songs which depict street narratives and grimy asphalt visions about thug life delivered on hybrid dancehall-trap beats.

‘”I sing about real things in the hustling life, the Corn Life….images, stories, narratives, it is not no joke thing, this is life. And my message to all Yardman is , when you go foreign, know what you’re doing, don’t just jump into it, do wicked things and get rich, and then later, your head hurts yu so much so yu caan sleep at night… do the right thing, survive,” he said.

Despite his obsession with street life, Boozy Bee is not one-dimensional as shown by one of his favourite songs on the upcoming album, ‘I Wanna Be Loved’ featuring Twyce. He will be officially releasing the song in October as the lead single from his album.

“Twyce is a great singer, one of my friends when I reached L.A. years ago. He is mad talented, he is working on his own new album but this collab is a love song that shows how big man fi deal with woman,” he said.

He critiqued the demeaning way in which dancehall artistes depict women in their songs.

“These modern-day dancehall songs have nothing to do with love, romance, black women are sexy, and we do them a disservice when we talk about our goddesses a certain way that is based only on sex. Big up black women who have fashioned their own definitions of beauty with their own inner confidence, that’s why dem happier with their bodies than white women,” Boozy Bee said.

Originally born in Miami, Florida, he returned to Jamaica to attend high school, and once he left, he took a different approach to music, leaning heavily towards more hip hop-sounding instrumentals when he moved back to the US to live in New York.