By Nomad
OutAroad.com Writer
The response towards our latest feature - ‘Lost In The Music’ has been fabulous. We have received tons of emails with lots of names that some of our readers request us to feature. There are names on some lists that surprised us here at OutAroad.com and we will be paying close attention to those artistes in the coming months.
This week in ‘Lost In The Music,’ we will be featuring Predator - ‘The War Editor’.
The slang “mad, sick, head nuh good,” raged like a wild fire throughout Jamaica, and even caught on overseas. However, as Bob Marley sang: “Yuh can fool the people sometimes, but yuh can’t fool all the people all the time, so now you see the light…” Well the world has seen the light and have stepped into it and left Predator in the dark.
At the dawn of 2000 Predator was so hot that even internationally acclaimed dancehall artiste Elephant Man and his protégé at the time Kiprich ‘borrowed’ his ideas and turned them into local hits. His songs Nah Nuh Head and Head Nuh Good stuck to the tongue of thousands and Predator looked destine to make it big.
His acquaintance with the Alliance, dancehall’s most notorious troupe, seemed as if it would take the ‘Mad Editor’ places. Well, The Alliance and its credibility as a dancehall force is fast fading and one cannot say that Predator’s career followed suit. What actually happen is that Predator’s career crashed into an alien before the demise of the Alliance.
People seemed to have gotten tired of his lack of creativity and soon Predator began to drift with the northbound winds. With his current status Predator is no longer high on the ‘food chain,’ and has fallen to being a prey of the merciless dancehall arena.
The last time OutAroad.com caught a glimpse of Predator he was trying to beg his way into a party, something he would not have had to do in his days of stardom. There was no entourage, only a mad soul roaming.
I will not pass any judgment on ‘Mad Head’, but what I will say is that if he is to come back into the limelight and sustain his presence he has to be creative. His coalition with the Alliance needs to have more meaning, as he seems to be the ‘go for’ of the union these days.
Posted on July 1, 2008 14:25
there is an artiste in Jamaica call Predator too? How comes mi never hear about him & I know the mad, sick, head nuh good slang?
Posted on July 1, 2008 15:04
Done dead and gone he was not creative the one slang nuh work.Mi breddren seh him hang out uppa beenie man office a day time still..
Posted on July 1, 2008 15:17
"Well, The Alliance and its credibility as a dancehall force is fast fading" Fix up unnu argument Alliance still a rule the dances and the charts.
Posted on July 1, 2008 15:34
re mussi lost inna maze ,alliance naw rule no charts movado and kartel a run the charts
But so what movado cyaan ,travel ,killa done and cyaan travel ,busy cyaan travel,Bling dawg,einstein and the rest a dem nuh count.
Posted on July 1, 2008 15:35
Predator had a come back song couple years ago, bout UGLY ... but it neva work out, d career crash same way
Him can revive tho if him get nex style and new flava.... the mad sick thing did a get stale
Posted on July 1, 2008 18:36
Bwoy a jus suh life guh. Dats why entertainers need fi save likkle when dem on top of dem game, because what goes up mus come down. An mos a di time when career pap down, everything else goes wid it di groupie dem and di hypocrite fren.
Posted on July 1, 2008 18:46
Predator vs Alliance...
I would seh predator never had a chance to mek it any where. Him catch a vibez and then let it go. But that would be false... Alliance is like a crutch... Young artist need to start learn how fe promote and market themselves, rather than depend on people fe do it fe dem. Alliance is nice fe JA, but outside a dat it carries no meaning... Jus a sense of false worth... Out of the many thats in the Alliance only a few shine... Its like a dream of wanting to be in a club from a youth and when you finally get de chance to join you realize its not all what its hyped up to be. Predator was like tires and Alliance was the truck and the wheel fell off. Well Alliance get a new pair a rims (Movado) let se how long de ride gonna last... No disrespect to Alliance but these are times in my eyes where upliftment of our people is needed and violence and segregation needs to end! I see very few positive moments coming from the Allia...
Posted on July 1, 2008 18:51
The lizard never have no talent what uno talking bout... Mad, sick ,head no good was the stupidest slang ever.. Hearing someone describe them self like a mad man was not cute at all... Mi glad say him stop dj.... Couldn't be happier! Hope him stay lost.. go look wuk!
Posted on July 1, 2008 20:13
when him did a gwaan wid him likkle ting him get couple slap off a old head macka diamond
Posted on July 1, 2008 20:35
yeah man fix up unnu statement bout the Alliance!!!
Posted on July 1, 2008 20:37
It's like I heard his name before but I don't remember him. I can't wait to go to Jamaica this summer and promote my music and tour and stuff. My voice is so so unique and needs to be heard. I can't wait !
~ Ms. Kawaii
Posted on July 2, 2008 01:02
predator is like one of the lamest so call artiste to emerge in the last decade. The a*s wipe is talentless & then bounty jump pon band wagon and seh him buss him. Predator,Einstein & K-Twins are hopeless souls. Marshall & Bling Dawg lame. Mavado time soon up & Bounty is like the rubbish of dancehall these days
Posted on July 2, 2008 02:36
EVERYTHING WHAT HAPPEN NOWADAYS ALLIANCE NAME HAFFI MENTION, A DJ CANNOT LIVE INNA ALLIANCE SHADOW AND FEEL SEY ALL IS WELL...EVERY MAN HAFFI STAN THEM OWN GROUND...AND NO ONE SHOULD BLAME ALLIANCE.....
Posted on July 2, 2008 07:49
A good Youth still, music is very hard to get a break in to, so when a artiste get a buss is still a good thing u know how long him in to it long long time, him will fine back a hit song. Big up Predator
Posted on July 2, 2008 10:05
Predator was an artiste who I considered to be a rising star back in 2003-2004. He quickly fell out of the limelight, but he had a few songs that I liked very much, such as "Mad Me" and "Mad, Sick, Head Nuh Good".
His link with the Alliance did not bear fruit for him, which is unfortunate. Hopefully, he would go back to basics and rebuild his career rather that give up altogether.
On the subject of DJ alliances, I think when certain DJs get popular, others in the group get lost and forgotten in the rush; an alliance should build the careers of all its members, not just a chosen lucky few.
Posted on July 2, 2008 12:33
Everyday people a try criticize Alliance. Di man dem come up wid an idea an it has been working for several years. If yuh check rap music yuh realise seh dem use di same formula and it works. Bad Boy bus Biggie, Lil Kim, Mase.... Tupac, Snoop and Dr Dre did innah di same camp, Cash Money bus Juvenile, Lil Wayne and the list goes on. At the end of day yuh haffi have talent and hits fi stay in this music business, a nuff yute a try fi years an cyaan even get a one song play pon radio, whether dem in crew or not.
Posted on July 2, 2008 13:16
Why everything them affie call up Alliance name, if you as a artist cant mek it how alliance fi mek you mek it.
See someone up top answer unu whappen to him, him deh a Beenie lab a day time, thats why unu cant hear bout him, him neva hear Beenie say him nah buss no artist. Him get the chance fi buss and just never to be heard from again
Posted on July 2, 2008 14:43
YUH KNOW THAT ALL OF YOU THAT COMES ON THESE SITES AND TRY TO TEAR DOWN THE ALLIANCE WE DON'T CARE.CAUSE WE'RE ALL ABOUT BUILDING.NOT EVERYONE IS GONNA GET RICH AND HAPPY FROM TIS BIZ CAUSE ITS A HARD SELL AT BEST.BUT IT'S JUS LIKE BLACK PPL TO TEAR EACH OTHER APART.WHY HAVEN'T ANYONE POSTED ALL THE GOOD WE'VE DONE IN VARIOUS COMMUNITIES? BUT THE MEDIA NEVER PORTRAYS ANY GOOD WE DO.BUT WATEVA.PREDDIE NEVA MEK IS CAUSE HE DIDN'T MOVE WITH THE TIME.HE NEVA FOLLOWED UP WITH SOMETHING THAT PEOPLE GRAVITATED TO.AND IT'S MORE THAN JUS SLANGS THAT MAKE U A GOOD ARTIST.
Posted on July 2, 2008 23:23
MI WANT UNUH TELL MI WHAT A GWAAN WID TWO BIG ARTISTES OF DI EARLY 90'S - TERROR FABULOUS AND DADDY SCREW. DEM MAN DEH USED TO ROCK DI DANCEHALL WID EVERYTING DEM VOICE. NUH HEAR NUTTEN OUTTA DEM FI DI LONGEST WHILE. I PERSONALLY BELIEVE TERROR FABULOUS A ONE A DI WICKEDEST DJ EVER BUT FI SOME REASON DI MAN JUST DISAPPEAR OFF DI RADAR.
RUN A RESEARCH PON HIM AND LET MI KNOW WHAT'S UP WIT HIM.
U CAN CHECK OUT ON TERRY GANZIE TOO AT DI SAME TIME.
Posted on July 3, 2008 11:40
"Well, The Alliance and its credibility as a dancehall force is fast fading" Fix up unnu argument Alliance still a rule the dances and the charts.
Posted on July 3, 2008 11:50
Y'all REALLY DONT KNOW ABOUT MUSIC. If u knew music, u wud understand that there are many hot artistes in the country. And every artiste has a time to rise, DEPENDING on wat WE the fans and the economy wants. HE MAY NOT BE PROMOTED AS MUCH AS HIS FRIENDS, but he is definitely doing songs. Music is a business not a vibes, Get knowledge b4 u talk.
Posted on July 4, 2008 11:53
"What actually happen is that Predator’s career crashed into an alien before the demise of the Alliance."
Well unless you ppl dont know what demise means cause u r de only media reporting de demise of alliance. if unno nuh like de alliance, nothing nuh wrong wid it but to spread false propaganda is shameful.