Spice. I'm not about to make no album jus' so, a lot of people do album and then turn 'round an' bawl because no album sales

Spice is back, and this time she's sparing no one.
Back from a nine-month hiatus - she left the scene to give birth to her now two-month-old son Nicholas Lall Jnr - the raunchy female deejay has released a new track entitled I'm Back. The song is a celebration of motherhood even as it criticises Spice's detractors; hurling innuendoes at Macka Diamond, Queen Paula and D'Angel, while exalting Lady Saw as "the mumma" of dancehall.

"If somebody says something about me, as Jamaica may have heard, me haffi express it through the music," said the artiste, born Grace Hamilton. She's not bothered by the attention her controversial words might afford her since, "It's nothing physical. the dancehall need that right now, because nothin' naah gwaan fe de music."

"A me name Spice if me nuh talk up the things dem, nobody else naw go do it. who want take it wrong dat a fe dem business," Spice added.

Speaking to Splash in an interview yesterday at the Observer, Spice mentioned that her 'beef' with D'Angel came about last year during an argument with the former's now estranged husband 'Beenie Man'.

Though she admits motherhood and the desire to be more media-friendly have matured her, she doesn't plan on getting soft.

One of Beenie's supporters had allegedly hit her in the face, however, Spice claimed that D'Angel sided with her husband, insisting she was lying.

"If me say something 'bout her that she no really like, all she haffi do is answer through de music," the female deejay said, adding that she'll be on the warpath at this year's Guinness Sting.

Spice, who is a resident of Portmore, gained credibility as a stage show artiste and is widely known for her fiery lyrical darts on stage.

Notwithstanding she wants to somewhat change that.
"I'm still gonna be the rough, ghetto, 'gangsta' girl on the stage but I'm working on more TV and radio-friendly music," she told Splash, adding that she just wrapped up recording a song Dun Out on the Dem Gyal Sitt'n riddim - which is produced by Ward 21 and features only female artistes.
"I realise that I need to have a larger fan-base and I have to do songs that appeal to everybody," Spice said.

Though she admits motherhood and the desire to be more media-friendly have matured her, she doesn't plan on getting soft.

"I'm still gonna represent for the females," Spice added, further outlining that female fans of the dancehall have requested that she bring back the "walk out" songs.

"I also have a song on the Truck Back label called Inna De Light," said Spice, mentioning, too, that she has a revamped "street team" which includes a new stylist, publicist and manager.

"I wasn't doing a lot of studio work and now that's changed," said Spice, who for the next couple of months will be working on pushing new singles in an effort to broaden her fan-base.

"I'm not about to make no album jus' so. we all know that music don't sell in Jamaica, a lot of people do album and then turn 'round an' bawl because no album sales," she said. Spice told Splash that though she's had several offers to do collaborations with others in the industry, she's not quick to make a decision.

"Right now, me jus' vibing with one an' two artiste. we nuh go so far as to say who I'm gonna do a hook up with."
And what of her nemeses, would she voice a collab' with any of them?

"Well," she said, pausing as if considering what exactly to say, "I'm gonna say not presently because it makes no sense to collaborate if you can't get along with an artiste. the vibes have to be there."

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