KIPRICH is incensed at the spate of high-profile killings involving women and has penned a single called Women Protest, urging men to stop murdering women and stem the rising tide.

“Mi kinda fed up of the murders. This keeps popping up in the news too much so mi feel the need to talk about this thing and make dem see that this is a concern right now because the females are not safe. We have mother, we have sisters, we don’t know if dem a reach home after leaving out…it is painful, believe me. It is too much now,” said the deejay whose real name is Marlon Plunkett.

The song will be released on the Green Dot rhythm for Chase Mills Records in November. He released a clip of the song which went viral on social media this week.

“The people have gravitated towards the song, putting up all kinds of short clippings with missing females that have been in the news from the other day. My phone is blazing; everyone wants the song. Wi need justice, ah dat wi need, so I decided to team up with Chase Mills Records, put a song out there in solidarity with women, and to force men to think twice before they kill another woman or child,” he said.

A video for the project is in the works.

“This song is for Donna-Lee and for Slickianna, and for the countless other women whose deaths have gone unsolved and unanswered. This song is for Jasmine Dean, the visually impaired UWI student whose body has not been found, and for every woman out there living in fear, we stand with you. Dem fi stop kill off the woman dem,” said Kiprich.

Social media influencer Donna-Lee Donaldson was reported missing on July 13. The police theorise she was killed the day before. The case is currently before the court.

News of last week’s murder of Aneka “Slickianna” Townsend came against the backdrop of a record number of murders on the island which, according to one 2020 survey, had the highest homicide rate in Latin America and the Caribbean at 46.5 per 100,000 people. According to police statistics, as of October 18 2022, there have been 1,247 murders, a 8.2 per cent increase compared to the same period last year.

Kiprich wants action now.

“We need these killings to stop,” he insisted.

He is booked for two upcoming shows shortly, ‘Touch of Class’ in Orlando on November 18 and ‘Fire in the Valley’ on November 27, also in Florida. Kiprich is also booked for Sting on December 26.

Born in Linstead, St Catherine, Kiprich was raised in Waterhouse, Kingston. He attended Ardenne High School and began to visit studios while he was still a student. He got his big break in 1999 with his hit Leggo Di Bwoy, a collaboration with Chino. In 2003 he wrote the lyrics for Elephant Man’s Jook Gal, whose remix with hip hop mega-star Twista entered the Billboard charts that same year.

Among his hits are Telephone Ting, Mad Sick Head Nuh Good (with Predator), Cut Him Off, Liquor and The Letter. He has continued to make hits, scoring in 2022 with Gallis Astrology with D’Yani, which racked up more than one million views on YouTube and the ‘dance-happy’ single, Rich Look. One of his latest singles is Nah Nah.