Queen Ifrica On “Different Meds” In First TikTok Share: “Since When Rasta Woman Can’t Look Sexy?”

After disappearing from Instagram in September 2020, Queen Ifrica re-emerged on TikTok on Friday, and courted controversy after she shared her first video on the platform, which appears to be a subliminal promotion of her new single Serendipity .

In the TikTok video, Ifrica was comfortably dressed as she made some sexy poses and declared that it was a new way forward for her in 2022 and beyond.  Midway through the video clip, Ifrica lifted her forearm to brandish a tattoo of the word “Serendipity” accentuated by a crown, on her skin.  When she turned her body, her reflection in the mirror displayed her locks pulled back in a tight bun at the back of her head.  In the background, Beyonce’s Brown Skin Girl played as Ifrica carried out her antics.

The TikTok video spread like wildfire over the weekend, with many commenters claiming that Ifrica had, among other things, cut off her locks and “lost her way”.

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However, the Lioness on The Rise singer shared another video today (July 18), to address those who were wondering whether “something was wrong with Queen Ifrica or if Queen Ifrica trim.”

“A nuh whole heap of my natty nuh lef pon mi head, but trim nuh inna we thing.  We bun trim,” she said in the clip, while presenting her colored locs to the camera.

“And mi nuh know ah when since Rasta woman cyan look sexy,” she continued.

“Ah dat we have on underneath the long clothes and turban, because we choose to trod and live dah way deh.  But mi never see nuh wey in the law book weh seh, mi cyan have on a little sexy clothes if mi deh home.  So who bex bout that, gwan bex bout that.”

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The Serendipity track was officially released on July 1, by US-based Nuh Rush Records and is being distributed by Tuff Gong International, ahead of her upcoming album.

Serendipity means “an unplanned fortunate discovery”, a theme which is covered in the song, on which she deejays instead of singing.  In the song, she encourages women to leave men with whom they are fed up, work on themselves, take care of their bodies in order to live fulsome lives.

In a recent statement, Queen Ifrica said the song has a simple but empowering theme.

“I’m delivering a message to women or anyone who’s in a relationship that is unfulfilling, encouraging them to love themselves more than any situation they find themselves in,” she explained.

Serendipity is a follow-up to Predator’s Paradise, a song about male sexual predators who prey on young girls with impunity and get away scot-free.  The song was released in late 2021 by Nuh Rush Records as part of the label’s The Redemption Project album, and the Yad to the East artiste had described it as a “modern way of painting the picture of the strength of predators in our society”.

According to a VP Records release in late April last year, Queen Ifrica, was working on new material in preparation for her forthcoming album for VP Records.

In February this year, Ifrica had told The Jamaica Observer that she was working on a major project which is set for release later this year.  She had also revealed that both Nuh Rush Records Organic Records, were among the production houses with which she would be working to produce the album, which will be her first full-length project since her 2017 Billboard Reggae Albums chart-topping album Climb.

“Yes, the album is in the making. Me think it ago nice too…The business is busy right now, everybody releasing songs, EPs and albums, everywhere is opening up, so we a watch everything and a position ourselves,” the Keep it to Yourself artiste had said.

After disappearing from social media in 2020, and seemingly taking a hiatus from public life, the Fyah Mumma returned in April 2021where she released Four Women, a Nina Simone cover version to mark the anniversary of the 1969 recording of the Jazz icon’s Live from Berkley album.

The track, which was produced by Stephen Marley, was released “in tribute to the legendary an American jazz singer, composer, pianist and arranger.   The original song was released in 1966 on Simone’s Wild Is the Wind album.

Ifrica, whose given name is Ventrice Morgan, began her career in 1995 after shining at a local talent contest in her hometown of Montego Bay.

She joined Tony Rebel’s Flames Production in 1998 when  he asked her to become a part of his team after hearing the clean vocals and the unmistakable quality of her performance.

Since then, Ifrica has become among the most respected women in Dancehall and Reggae music, touring extensively and being a staple act on Rebel Salute and Reggae Sumfest in her native Montego Bay over the years.

Her Montego Bay album was one of the most popular reggae albums of 2009, and for that masterpiece she copped four awards – Artiste of the Year, Most Educational Artiste of the Year, Songwriter of the Year and Best Female DJ/Rapper and was the toast of the International Reggae and World Music Awards, which was held in Queens, New York in May 2010.

Among Ifrica’s hits are Serve and Protect, Times Like These, Far Away, Randy, Below the Waist, Let’s get Silly and Daddy.   A big champion of women’s empowerment, Queen Ifrica has also released songs such as Black Woman, Lioness on the Rise and Girl Like Me.