JQuan Speaks On Leaked Diss Track Aimed At Ruff Kut Drummer
Upcoming artist JQuan recorded the diss track ‘Race’ after he had a verbal face-off at the Sharkies Seafood Festival in St. Ann with the Ruff Kutt band and its drummer Ricardo ‘Drummy’ Davis.
The artist told DancehallMag that the song was inadvertently leaked this week by persons unknown. “We don’t know who leaked the song outta the studio,” he said.
“The ting is that the song was done in the heat of the moment right after the Sharkies Seafood Festival, but since that, we and Drummy ting quash and everything good. The song sound heated because mi did vex at the time and mi did want to talk my side of the story,” the artist, whose real name is Javien Jordon Smith, added.
In the DJ Mac-produced track, the Manchester-born artist deejays: “Clip a race out/pussy dem full a bear mouth/drum pan ah knock/and ah never Drummie from stage show/plip pap pap pap the place clear out/nuff vibes we have fi share out/how yu mouth ah move so, wah yu hear bout?/oonu face along tough, oonu a scare crow.”
The verbal fisticuffs are a direct result of a widely circulated video on social media, during which Jquan and Davis traded barbs during his performance at the Sharkies Seafood Festival.
In the clip, Jquan can be heard saying: “Hear mi nuh a say nu badman, mi naw pree nuh negativity enuh, ‘cause mi nuh know whappen to da bredda ya.”
Davis replied: “A whappen to you, a whappen to you.”
Jquan warned: “Mine wa ya do, yuh nuh, dat mi a tell yuh.”
The situation threatened to escalate out of control but security personnel quickly escorted Jquan from the stage.
Since the incident, Davis has done interviews, informing the public that Jquan missed several planned rehearsals for the event, and that “everybody else on the show rehearsed except him. Everybody had a six-hour rehearsal time”. The band said they had six songs to rehearse on the day of the event.
“The moment that he got on stage he didn’t give the thing a chance, he just started ranting,” Davis said.
“He came on stage. He was disrespectful to the point he was ‘bwoying’ up some big men on the stage and it reached a point where we decided we gonna stop playing, and the person that had the TV tracks, which is the keyboard player, just go ahead with the TV track.”
There were some other technical problems with the PA system and the sound engineer that further compounded the situation.
JQUAN WAS SO STUPID, DRUMMIE SAID
Davis said that “Jquan was so stupid, he didn’t even know that the TV track was playing”.
“It seemed as if he wasn’t prepared for the show itself, and he started disrespecting continuously,” Davis said
“And he continued to disrespect the band, the moment he got the mike, he was disrespecting. Remember that this is the first time mi see this man in my entire life was when he walked on that stage, he missed all rehearsals,” Davis added.
Davis bemoaned the fact that the artist was trying to paint a portrait that somehow Ruff Kut disrespected him.
“But that’s the luxury an artiste have, he has the power of the mike in the hand, he can say anything and the people believe you,” he said.
Davis later reported that his life had been threatened, filing the report at the Matilda’s Corner police station in St. Andrew.
Drummie said that in the wake of the incident, Jquan didn’t have the decency to apologize, ‘but him run gone do song now’.
Drummie added that he is not a deejay, so he will not be counteracting Jquan’s song as he is just a musician.
“He has that power, nothing wrong with that, sing your song and talk the worst thing about Drummy, is a buss him a look, him a ride pon a wave, nothing is wrong with that, ah so the business work, him a try capitalize, nah fight him. He disrespected the band onstage and me defend it and if him do it again, mi ah go defend,” he said.
JQUAN PRESSES AHEAD
In the meantime, Jquan, who is known for the songs Chakka, Gift in Szn, Hometown, and Choppa Gospel, is pressing ahead with his career.
He grew up in Richmond George Valley on Manchester and attended Bellefield high school. A lover of music at a very young age, he discovered that he had the talent to sing at age 10. “Once I discovered I had the talent to sing, that’s where the drive to become an professional artist came in. “Jquan” is a nickname from high school so that became my stage name,” he said.
He said he has developed a unique musical chemistry with talented producer DJ Mac.
“Next release with DJ Mac will be in November of 2024. Whenever Jquan and dj Mac goes in studio, hits are created,” he said, confidently.
JQuad said he’s working on a number of tracks to be released on an EP early next year but “nothing has beeen confirmed as yet”.