Mr. Vegas Calls Spice A “Mediocre Recording Artist” Who Should “Grow Up”

Dancehall artist Mr. Vegas is over Spice’s antics.

The Tek Weh Yuhself singjay believes the blue-haired star deliberately stirs the pot to promote new music, and he’s had enough. 

“Spice is a mediocre recording artist,” Vegas wrote in a Facebook post this week. “She is the beneficiary of Lady Saw’s conversion to Christianity. Factually, she is not talented enough to become a musical icon. Hence, her theatrics and histrionics stands supreme to her musical contribution to dancehall.”

Spice’s latest release, 2085 Tea, accompanied her calling out one of her former dancers for having sex with her then-partner.

This contrasted her stance in 2020, where she accepted the allegation of her child’s father, Nicholas Lall, raping her former dancer Danger.

For Mr. Vegas, it was an exploitation of Danger’s trauma.

“You nah fi go dig up back dah diary yah B and fi hurt a sister…” he said in another post. “Everybody wrong and you never yet wrong. You always a play the victim, sister. Grow up man, grow up… You a near 50 now, grow up.”

Spice, 41, has acquired a reputation for using publicity stunts to promote music. In 2023, she shut down the murmur that she was pregnant with the release of her real-life inspired tune God A Bless.

Speculation that she was expecting spread in March when she shared a photoshoot with a pronounced belly. In an Instagram Live Q&A, Spice said the post was symbolic of new life, considering her major health scare in 2022.

Spice had previously sparked skin-bleaching rumours after posting a light-skinned photo of herself in 2018. She later revealed it was a ploy to highlight colorism, addressed in her song Black Hypocrisy.

“You muss can do music where yuh nai haffi come out come put on one fake belly, seh you pregnant, and nuh pregnancy nuh deh deh,” Vegas said. “You muss can do one song weh yuh nah fi go put on one fake something seh yaa bleach fi everybody think seh yaa bleach, and then drop the song. You take away from the song because all people a memba seh is you did white. Grow up man. A nuh every song fi get one a dah something deh brethren.”

2085 Tea reimagines Spice as an elderly woman, primarily reflecting on the strides and scandals associated with her career. Her vocal performance nails the “granny” persona, previously executed by artists like General Degree and Macka Diamond.