Daygo P Rolls Out ‘Money Step’ Riddim With Skeng, Jah Vinci

Dancehall artist-producer Daygo P knows a thing or two about missed opportunities.

As a teenager, he migrated to Canada where he excelled as a midfielder playing in the high school soccer league in Ontario. He played for a York Jets, a semi-professional football team in Ontario, where he impressed as a midfielder with his playmaking skills. Scouts eventually saw him and he was invited to the Chelsea Youth Academy in 2004.

“I was at the Chelsea Youth Academy for a few months but I would sneak out every night to go to clubs, but I never missed training. As a Jamaican, I was not used to being cooped up, I was used to going to dances and staying out and partying, and eventually the players told the coaching staff and they caught me one night,” he said.

The coaching staff was not amused.

“The next day, I didn’t get any game in the match, and that same week, they kicked me out. They just told me when was my flight and that was it, I headed back to Canada,” he said.

He said he regrets his “youthful exuberance”.

“At the time, when I was there, I was bawling say I want to come back to Canada, ah just training and match. One time, they carried me on the Mall, when the real time, mi ah bawl say mi waan stay. One of those things , mi have to make it up back,” he said.

Now, he hopes to score with his latest single Money Step, released June 10. Visuals for the single have racked up 319,000 views since its release five days ago.

“I decided to record Money Step as a way to inspire the youth by showing them a better way. At the time, I was getting a lot of fight with business and with the music — and I persevered. I want the youth to know money haffi mek in a positive way. They can make money without doing certain things, so we ah show the youth,” said Daygo P, whose real name is Adene Adolphus Higgins.

Money Step appears on the artiste’s Front Step Records imprint. Money Step is on the rhythm of the same name and features acts including Skeng and Jah Vinci, as well as emerging artistes like Suspense, Badda General and Ambiance. Jah Vinci’s ‘Haters’ single is already beating FM radio into submission.

“I plan to shoot a video for Jah Vinci and Skeng’s singles later this month,” Daygo P said.

The Money Step rhythm is his Daygo P’s third compilation project.

“This project’s aim is to bring back dancehall juggling and recreate the togetherness while helping the youth of the future,” he said.

Hailing from Spanish Town in St Catherine, Daygo P attended Homestead Primary. He migrated to Canada in 2003 where he completed his education at Downsview Secondary School in Ontario, Canada. He represented the secondary school in football as a midfielder.

In 2004 scouts selected him to try out for the Chelsea Youth Academy in England. He said he was, however, pulled to music.

He returned to Jamaica in 2010 where he became interested in music and recorded his first professional single, Man Fi Buss, in 2015. His other songs are Genuine Friend and Money A Fi Mek.

His other rhythms are Pain Land and Boasy Talk.