Dancehall fusion artiste Lil Hanky Panky generated a buzz on social media recently after being caught on camera doing a $50,000 pull up for her latest single, ‘Bling’, featuring street dancer Bling, at the weekly Uptown Mondays dance.

“It was just a spontaneous thing, I used the gun money dispenser and shelled the place, it was an amazing feeling,” Lil Hanky Panky said.

“The response has been amazing, the streets are loving it. The song is playing at every party from Uptown Mondays through the week to Boom Sundays and Bounty Sundays and they are catching on to the routine, the dancers dem loving it, this is giving me a lot of recognition, especially on Tik Tok.”

Given the advance buzz on the song in the streets and social media, her label After 13 Productions quickly bankrolled a video for the project.

The video features a superstar team up of who’s who in the dancehall world. Personalities like Pata Skeng, Omar Cleanstep, Nick Overload, Rudy Legacy, Pata Pata , Impact Unit, Rifical team, Shelly Belly, Gabbidon, and Tuff Head,

“The video shoot was like the United Nations, with girls from Jamaica, Belgium, Israel, America, South Korea, Mexico, Chile, Colombia, Argentina and Poland. This is a truly international video that is going to shake up the whole world. Big up Boom Boom and ” she said.

Lil Hanky Panky has steadily made inroads in the dancehall game with her output, and it is hoped that ‘Bling’ will make her a major contender.

“The song is playing in the same segment as Teejay’s Drift and Masicka’s Tyrant so it’s a great look,” she said.

She released an EP, Metamorphic, last year.

Lil Hanky Panky, who has been living in Jamaica for about four years, is gearing up a barrage of new releases to whet the appetite of her growing legion of fans.

“I have the songs recorded and I am doing the fine-tuning now. I have a lot of different vibes and I can’t wait for people to hear it,” she said.

As for the rest of the year, the artiste, whose given name is Lilie Gorchkov, said she is just hoping to come out of her shell as she finds her place in the local music business space. Lil Hanky Panky is excited about the trajectory of her career for 2023.

“I just want to keep pushing and pushing till the egg cracks and a beautiful swan comes out of it. I plan to do a lot more collaborations over the summer,” she said.