THURSDAY night’s Chug It at Sugar Man’s Beach in Portmore, St Catherine, the second of the ASPIRE Flex Week event, lived up to its billing of celebrating dancehall culture.

The event brought together two of the biggest names in the genre, Beenie Man and Lady Saw, for a performance that had the massive crowd going wild.

With the venue filled to capacity, Lady Saw was the first to take the stage. Knowing her audience, she made no bones about heading into ‘raw as ever’ mode, dishing out lyrics promoting female power and sexuality. Both topics garnered nothing but the loudest response from the ladies in the audience. Eventually she moved beyond that bringing the men in as well as she got around to her long catalogue of hits. In one quick moment, the self-styled Queen of the Dancehall went from songs like Man Is The Least to teasing the male patrons with her suggestive dancing and freestyles.

Then she went quiet, but only for a moment as Beenie Man, who was scheduled to perform after joined her on stage. The doubling of the star power drove the crowd wild as both joined their musical talents. Beenie Man easily had the audience eating out of his hand. Acknowledging Lady Saw’s presence on stage, the two spent the night riffing off each other, finishing each other’s songs, and performing various hits they shared together on the same rhythm like Matie and Stab Out Mi Meat.

ASPIRE Flex Week continues this weekend in Portmore, with Levels today at Board Walk Beach, and the party series finale Frenchbook Live, on Sunday at Fort Clarence Beach.