Bounty Killer, Cham, Dave Kelly Tease New Song ‘Blood Clxxt’ From Upcoming EP
Two months after legendary Madhouse music producer Dave Kelly hinted at new music with Bounty Killer and Cham, the trio have teased a new song about the bloodletting in Jamaica, aptly titled BLOOD CLXXT and also revealed that they have also completed a new EP.
The three made the joint announcement on their Instagram pages via a video this morning, to the delight of their fans and Dancehall stars including Queen of Dancehall Spice and TOK’s Bay C as well as producers, NotNice and Teflon and sprint Kingpin Usan Bolt.
“I am looking forward to Reggae Sumfest. It is the first time myself and Rodney gonna perform onstage in a long time,” Cham states in the clip.
“People been asking for the collaboration so I think time now. And I think Madhose productions is one of the giants in the game as the 90s producers – most a dem maybe not so excited about the music anymore. Suh, this year is a big year for Madhouse and Dave Kelly as they say. Dem celebrating him, suh we are working on an EP – A Bounty Killer, Baby Cham EP,” Bounty Killer stated in his comments.
“Head Phones On 🎧…🔥BLOOD CLXXT🔥 Now!! New Music, Ready!! Sumfest Performance, Ready!! Honoring Of A Legend – Dave Kelly!! Montego Jamaica, You Ready?!!” Bounty had added in his caption, referring to the Reggae Sumfest’s upcoming Madhouse Tribute to Dave Kelly on July 23, for which he and Cham are headliners, alongside Beenie Man, Wayne Wonder, Spragga Benz, Frisco Kid and Mr. Easy.
The trio also shared a clip of the new song BLOOD CLXXT, which they describe as “a song for the people”, which is a commentary on the killing in Jamaica and the proliferation of blood-lusting psychopaths, who are popping up daily, while highlighting the inaction of the Government whose only response is to the situation is to: “chat pare faat”.
In early May this year, Cham and Bounty shared a rare photo of themselves with Kelly, sitting betwixt them, all three clad in black, but with the Showtime producer, as usual not showing his face which is lowered and shielded by a cap.
Cham was the one who introduced Bounty and Kelly to each other, back in the 1990s, after which the men went on to record some of the biggest social commentary songs in Dancehall, of note Anytime and Look Into My Eyes.
In July last year, the Ghetto Story artist had revealed that he had encouraged the Warlord to voice for Kelly, as he knew that whatever they came up with in the studio, would be nothing short of masterpieces.
According to him, he knew within himself, that Bounty Killer had the greatest deejay voice in Dancehall history, as his deejay technique is the rawest, purest delivery” he had ever heard from anyone and with his booming voice and commanding he was in a class by himself and at the pinnacle of Dancehall deejaying, unmatched by any of his predecessors or his contemporaries.
Cham had also confirmed that Bounty’s songs Anytime on the Brukout riddim in 1999 and Poor People Fed Up were written by Kelly, and recorded at Madhouse studios. According to Cham, they became instant classics because of the Coppershot deejay’s style and vocals, and especially his “aggression”.
Dave Kelly had also produced Bounty Killer’s Cant Believe Mi eyes, which was a part of his Next Millennium album.
Bounty and Cham had also teamed up for Another Level on Kelly’s Bug riddim in 1999, on which some of Dancehall’s greatest classics such as the Warlord’s Look into My Eyes and Cham’s own Ghetto Pledge were voiced. Bug which effectively slowed down the tempo of Dancehall songs which were going at 100 beats per minute, at the time, resulting in Bounty not deejaying, but rather singing Look into My Eyes.
Bounty Killer and Cham had fallen out in 2000 in a rift which began after the Its OK artiste questioned Cham’s loyalty and accused him of being too Americanized, this after he engaged in a series of collaborations with American rapper Foxy Brown and others.
Last December Bounty had admitted that he was the one at fault, as his overreaction following Cham’s failure to show up for his Saddle to The East concert, started the ruption with the Sherlock Crescent native, which by extension, included Dave Kelly.
He said that both men were innocent, but that the associated embarrassment after Cham failed to show up to perform at his Saddle to The East concert, “brought out his emotions” at a time when his “head neva used to work good” and he was “dark”.
He said that years later, after realizing that he had erred he had called Cham to mend fences, and neither of them could remember why they had fallen out. The reconciliation he said was immediate.
Cham had also said that he had held no hard feelings against the Warlord, as he knew he had a demanding temperament, but had not acted out of malice.
After the truce was made in 2005, Bounty and Cham performed together at a Hot Mondays anniversary show. In 2010 the two men joined Kelly to produce the single, Stronger, which also featured Mykal Rose, released in October that year. Dave and Bounty had also followed up with the single titled The Message on the Turn it Up riddim.