D’Angel Says She’s More Than Her Relationship History With Beenie Man, Bounty Killer

After 20 years in the game, D’Angel wants her legacy to be pinned to her musical contributions, not merely her high-profile relationships with ex-husband Beenie Man and Bounty Killer. 

“Dem a hold Beenie and Bounty against me,” D’Angel recently told Kizzy TV . “Listen, I was a common-law wife and a wife with a ring… Nuff a dem artists yah, dem box round and go round with every artist; nobody never wife dem… Just true me become wife and all these things, a the grudge and the envy and the badmind. I’ve proven myself that I’m more than that.”

Quoting lyrics from her most celebrated reggae single, Stronger, she continued, “‘I’m a woman and a lady to the fullest’ and mi prove myself seh mi have hit song. Mi bad, mi work fi this…so that a something weh mi neven talk ’bout again, but if a dat unno a grudge me fah and hold me back fah, dem free and single and disengaged – go tek dem. Mi move on from that long time.”

The Blaze singjay was in a long-term relationship with Bounty, whom she met at the height of her modeling career in the 1990s. They stayed together for several years, never tying the knot nor having children. They split shortly after her big debut, Uptown Living, in 2005, with D’Angel citing his non-support of her music career as the reason for their breakup. 

The following year, she went on to work with Beenie—Bounty’s then-rival—releasing their debut collab One Man.

Their musical chemistry grew romantic and the couple was soon engaged and headed to the altar. The marriage welcomed one child but grew tumultuous with public spats and cheating allegations on both ends.

By 2011, they were heading to divorce court, which was finalized eight years later. The period attracted a public hate train for D’Angel, from which she wrote Stronger. Beenie is currently engaged to businesswoman Camille McIntosh. 

Looking on, D’Angel juxtaposed that foreign acts date within their circle all the time, adding, “Dem gwaan like me is a side chick or something…”

Beyond this hurdle, D’Angel said she constantly feels she has to prove her worth to music players, despite her work over two decades. This inspired her latest release, Time Now, produced by A Jus Di Vybz Music. 

“A long time mi deh inna music and certain things that I’m supposed to be reaping after mi a sow mi good-good seeds how long…mi a water the plants and it bloom in front of everybody and people tend to be overlooking me, and I’m like, God, a wah really gwaan?…  Everything mi haffi work so hard for it… You’ll have other people that’s not even close as me going through, and my door dem a lock…”

She illustrated this by saying she had to prove herself Sting-worthy by releasing the War Angel diss track in December which caught the attention of promoters. 

“The war side of me jumped out in December and mi go aggressive, a kill everything, and then Sting just call me and book. So mi a seh, why did I have to do that?… Twenty years though; give me my respect. I should be on (Reggae) Sumfest. I should be on all major shows in Jamaica – I am that girl…

“The energy that I bring to every show that I touch, it’s not even no joke. So for you to be ignoring that *pauses*… I have a catalogue that speaks to every kind of show, whether it’s family fun day, whether a mature audience, anywhere you put ‘Angie’… At the end of the day, a my time now.”

Describing herself as a “bonafide column of dancehall,” D’Angel will chronicle her life story in her forthcoming autobiography, which she previously indicated will leave some groveling at her feet.