Shane O’s ‘Dark Room’ Being Hailed As A Trap Dancehall Classic

Dancehall star Shane O’s new Trap-infused track Dark Room, is being hailed as a breath of fresh air by Dancehall fans, who say they have become fed up with the monotonous, unmelodious and overly-violent lyrical content which have characterized the majority of Trap songs being recorded in Jamaica.

The track, which is being deemed another masterpiece and a classic Trap song by Shane O, was released in February, but the Lightning Flash artist said it was recorded last year.

Shane O’s figurative Dark Room, addresses the struggles associated with being deserted by those closest, and betrayal by those once trusted, unsurety, and a reliance on weed to ease the concomitant pain, but also coming to the realization that these sorrows are among the ups and downs of life.

The track begins with Shane O singing the haunting hook:

“Mi alone inna di dark room/And mi nuh have nobody fi talk to/Just me myself and I and my shadow/Lights Outs,” while the verses speak to his myriad of woes including his depression.

The music video for the track which has also been released, shows Shane O in an old building sitting on a chair lighting his spliff, as he laments his sorry state of affairs, in what can be described as one of the finest examples of songwriting to emerge out of the Jamaican Trap sub-genre.

The song has been getting steady rotation at Kingston’s biggest parties including Weddy Weddy, Boom Sundays, Uptown Mondays and others.

Shane O’s YouTube followers were thrilled with the song, which they contended, not only serves to soothe in dark times, but demonstrates that the Partner Draw artiste’s penmanship places him amongst Jamaica’s lyrical greats.

One commenter, Mario Visual Artist, noted in a post, which Shane O reposted on Instagram, that the Kingston Technical High School old boy had proved that Trap does not have to be centered on violent and hedonistic criminal lifestyles, such as scamming and witchcraft.

“One of the realest in dance hall when everybody else regurgitating the same old narrative here comes shane O with something unique and refreshing that any and everybody can listen, and it takes real creativity to talk about about various topics in the music.  It takes nothing to talk about killing and gun thing you hear it everyday just being recycled over and over just like the garbage it is.  And not because shane O nuh put out dem kinda tune deh you feel like him or him circle soft, big up yourself young King gwan dweat youth wi need more work like this and the previous hit partner draw,” he noted.

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“You see the thing is people keep complaining even the government, that Artiste are not doing any positive music and I’m sure if you check Shane O catalog of songs, its mostly conscious songs and yet these types of artists are not getting the recognition they deserved they’re are so underrated,” another commenter FranklynCnC said.

Shane O, whose given name is Roshain McDonald, told The Star tabloid recently, that he felt the first quarter of the year was the appropriate time to release the song, as the trajectory of the music was trending towards reality.

“But me never drop it because you know music change. This time around a reality time now, so you haffi can blend in with every genre for the change,” he had said.

Shane O, who, in addition to deejay and songwriter, has music producer among his other credentials, had also said that he had got the beat for the track from YouTube, and composed the song over the course of a few days.

“You know say a YouTube mi a scroll through because me is a man who sing right through and do music right through and mi deh deh a scroll and mi hear the beat and mi jus deh pon ‘A me alone inna the dark room and mi no have nobody fi talk to; a jus me, myself and I and my shadow’ and mi stuck right deh so until mi add lights out,” he had explained at the time.

In the meantime, Shane O is gearing up for his summer tour of Canada which is expected to begin July 1, spanning cities such as Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Edmonton and others.

The now 35 year old Shane O exploded onto the Dancehall scene in 2004 as an 16 year old, with the mega-hit Lightning Flash on Jah Snowcone’s Applause riddim, which also had hits such as Sean Paul’s Temperature and Sizzla’s Run Out Pon Dem (Big Long Gun).