Admitting that her latest collaboration with TikTok sensation Derrick Morgan may not be a song of supreme substance, veteran dancehall entertainer Macka Diamond says the single still has its place on the entertainment circuit.

Pointing out that music is multidimensional with vast audiences, the artiste defended her artistry and the song’s relevance against naysayers who believe the single, titled
What Can Go So, should have never hit the airwaves.

“I understand the negative commentary people have about the song but we haffi understand say a foolishness run dancehall sometime, and everything has its place in music,” she told the Jamaica Observer. “We also haffi understand say sometime a di same foolishness give a joy to people, and out of that foolishness can come greatness. It is what it is, and so mi nah watch wah people a say, because some of it is because they cannot find a hit song right now.”

Indicating that the single is doing well right now, Macka Diamond says the song’s success has shocked many. In just over a week the song has amassed more than half-a-million views on the platform and is trending in the top 10 list of songs making waves on the local scene.

“Right now da song here shock nuff people, because you can’t go anywhere especially on social media and nuh hear the song. Honestly, mi know it did a go tek over
TikTok because that’s Derrick’s territory, but mi never know it did ago take over the scene like this,” she said. “This is the first song I ever record that I never shared with anybody until it release. I wanted everything to just go straight to the people. I always said to myself that the things he [Derrick] saying can make a song and him don’t even know it. We haffi admit it whether we want to or not that the things Derrick says, sticks with us. It stays on our minds and, as artiste, we know a nuff hit songs come from slangs.”

Macka Diamond went on to share that for those spewing hate and tearing down the single, as a student of music, she knows she’s not the first to take a popular catchphrase and transform it into a song. In fact, the entertainer says there are others who have done the same things in recent times, except, they have failed to give the slang creators the same platform she has.

“A nuff a di artiste dem take the TikToker dem talk and turn it inna song. We know a so it go as artistes. Slangs make songs,” she said. “Instead of talking bad about the track, people should be looking for the positive in this. Derrick got the opportunity to record a song. He came to the studio and he was excited to voice and that make me happy. Giving him that new experience, allowing him that new platform, was the highlight of it all for me. Why we nuh try focus on that,” she questioned.

“People never like to look at the positive side of things. The fact is that the song make people laugh. Unnu nuh think music have enough a di serious song dem [with] the bagga gun talk and thing? This [song] make people smile. There’s an audience for everything in this industry.”