Bounty Killer Relives 2002 Super Bowl Performance With No Doubt
Bounty Killer has claimed that his collaborative song Hey Baby with No Doubt was the most successful single involving Jamaicans, over the last 20 years. The song had earned him the distinction of being the first and only Dancehall artist in history, to perform live at the Super Bowl.
On Saturday, Bounty shared a snippet of his Hey Baby performance alongside No Doubt at the 2002 Super Bowl at the Caesars Superdome, a show watched by approximately 100 million people on television, and which he had initially declared he would not do, after he clashed with the band over the insertion of a nude man in the song’s accompanying music video.
“Two decades later whose ready for the Super Bowl tmrw🏈💫💯🍾🥂💥🏈,” he captioned the Instagram post.
“Still the biggest from Jamaica in the last 20yrs. Sean is the most successful artiste here since then and non of his singles is successful as that song by winning a Grammy it’s my only billboard top ten hit give thanks to Sly Dunbar and RIP Robbie Shakespeare they made it happened💫💯🥳,” he added later after a fan described the song, which was produced in Jamaica by Sly and Robbie, in Jamaica, as the “biggest and baddest hit since slice bread”.
Another fan described Bounty as creating ground-breaking moments for Dancehall, whose curriculum vitae should not be “slept on” but used to inspire the new generation. Bounty replied stating that some of the new artists were too stubborn to publicly appreciate his legendary status.
“Most of them do know about my greatness but they are so filled with hate and grudge they can’t admit but who cares it’s written all over history their grandkids will appreciate it for them one day,” he said.
The Warlord was his usual feisty self when one follower hyltonforever, commenting on the video which shows No Doubt’s lead singer Gwen Stefani gyrating on him, told him that: “Yow killa naw lie you should a knock Gwen Steffani still eno 👏👏👏 it nuh late”.
“@hylton4ever Ppl business u like bredda wah dat had to with anything here?🤔” was Bounty’s terse reply.
Bounty went on, however, to boast of Hey Baby’s achievements, noting that it sold double platinum, won a Grammy, two MTV Moon Man awards, and was performed at Top of the Pop UK and the Super Bowl USA.
“Dem cyaah level up to that 2[0]yrs later🥳🥳” he declared.
In further bragging of the accomplishments of Hey Baby, Bounty had some dismissive words for his detractors in Dancehall, declaring one, in particular, a solid time-waster.
“I won already can’t be stop now 3 decades and still badder than dem non can’t size up they just making noise and seeking attention,” he noted.
“Love me or hate me not changing a thing at the end of the day I am who I am still they better take note its god blessings that keeps and guided me. I need ntn from mankind more than their support it’s the most I will ever ask I swear I hardly ever even takes gifts ask who knows me I’m the giver not the receiver a them fish boy love the receiving end😅😂🤣,” he said.
As for the Super Bowl, Bounty had said last year, that his decision to perform at the Halftime show in 2002, after initially blacklisting No Doubt, came after a friend of his convinced him, by pointing out that Terro Fabulous, who had turned down the opportunity to perform Action alongside Nadine Sutherland at the Super Bowl, had seen his career take a nosedive afterward.
In an interview with the Earn Your Leisure podcast, Bounty had said he was clueless as to what the Super Bowl was, and was initially uninterested.
“In Dancehall you had Action… That year when that song was hot with Terror Fabulous and Nadine Sutherland, Terror Fabulous was on Delicious Vinyl Label. That was in the 90s, like about ’94, ’95 and they wanted Terror Fabulous on the Super Bowl with Nadine Sutherland to come sing that song and Terror Fabulous declined,” the Warlord recounted.
He continued: “And then now, after that Terror Fabulous career kinda fall from grace so my friend a tell me say ‘dog mind bad luck ennuh. The last man fi get that and nuh dweet, wey him deh now?’ Dem time deh me nuh care bout Super Bowl, me think a one football match ennuh. Move you blood cl–t wid dat. Me neven know sey a THE match a the world dis.”