Dancehall deejay Beenie Man is open to receiving a front page feature from Billboard Magazine, as an apology for the publication excluding him and Bounty Killer from the cover of a recent issue which highlighted the Verzuz brand. Both entertainers

During a recent interview on Fox

Soul’s Out Loud With Claudia Johnson,the host suggested that the magazine give the deejays their own cover story.Beenie Man agreed.

“That’s what I want,” he said. “I

will never tell a person how to run their publication…but if you have a

chance to give us that respect and you take back that respect from us it’s like

you try to give us life five weeks ago and then you suck it out back. It’s not

a good feeling and I don’t feel that anybody who love and respect and listen to

dancehall music feel good about it. It wasn’t right to snap us from that cover,

we deserve that cover.”

The magazine had done its usual

scoreboard story for their battle on May 23, as they have done with every other

face-off. They followed up with another story on May 29 about the increased

streaming of Beenie Man and Bounty Killer’s music since the showdown.

The Girls Dem Sugar deejay is disheartened that dancehall music does

not get all the acknowledgment it deserves, and gave his reasons for this.

“I think it’s because it’s not

American,” he started. “Jamaica is a powerful little island. We got the fastest

man in the world, we gave you Bob Marley, we gave you reggae music, now here

comes dancehall music. I don’t think they agree with us for Bob Marley to be

number one on iTunes from iTunes open until now. You can only move him off the

spot for a minute and then Bob is back at number one again. I think the music

is too influential and the powers that be is trying to hold back the music, and

they’ve been trying to do it from the 80s, from Shabba Ranks to me right now…”

He added that the genre has also

contributed to the success of many American entertainers.

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“We have made a lot of hip hop

artistes rich, we’ve made a lot of pop artistes rich, we’ve made a lot of

American artistes big internationally because of reggae (and) dancehall music,

it’s just for you to give us a chance. Even the African dem come with dancehall

and you play them more than dancehall music and it’s crazy but we can’t cuss

Africa because Africa is where the beat is from, it’s where we get our drum

from… We’re not a threat to nobody, we’re just here to entertain the world so

you should give us a chance to entertain the world and let the world know us…”