Gully Bop To Be Buried On January 14 In Rural St. Andrew

Gully Bop will be buried on January 14, 2024 after a thanksgiving service for the Dancehall star’s life in a church in King Weston, a district in west rural St. Andrew. 

Bop grew up in the district of King Weston, which is also the hometown of fellow artiste Gyptian. 

“The date ah the 14th, we haven’t done organising yet, we’re still in arrangement about the rest of the things, the church and the time. We’re in a family group ting ah organize it up, but the date set for January 14th,” Andrew Chamberlain, a brother of dancehall entertainer Gully Bop, told DancehallMag.

Gully Bop, whose real name is Robert Lee Malcolm, passed away at Kingston Public Hospital on October 31 after a prolonged battle with kidney-related ailments. 

He was a genuine social media sensation, riding a meteoric rise from homelessness to stardom when a video of him, looking dishevelled and almost toothless from years of neglect, went viral. The public appeared to be infatuated with the man and his incredibly arrogant boast that ‘every gyal want a wuk offa mi’.

From there, the “Dem Nuh Bad Like Me” artiste secured a deal with Claims Records and even toured internationally. He scored major hits with Wuk Offa Mi, Who She Want, Bruk and No Have No Money.

He was a major featured act at Sting 2014 but eventually split ways with Claims Records after the executives there said he had become disrespectful. During the next two years, he headlined various stage shows performing on Reggae Sumfest and he had gigs all over the world.

After that, he encountered a litany of problems, which included charges of domestic abuse and robbery. Former girlfriend and manager A’mari DJ Mona Lisa accused him of “running her down with a butcher knife” and stealing her passport and United States Green Card. Gully Bop was released on US$1,200 bail when he appeared in the Brooklyn Criminal Court. The charges were later dropped.

After that, there were rumours that he had lost all the money he had accumulated during his music career and at one time, he was reportedly homeless again. His last major brush with the law came with assault occasioning bodily harm in 2018 when his wife made a report to Morant Bay Police, that he had hit her in the face during a dispute in Nuts River district.