4 years ago Jamaican entertainer Ishawna did her own rendition of Ed Sheeran’s “Shape Of You” causing much uproar in the dancehall community. Now Sheeran himself will be recording some new dancehall music with no other than Ishawna.
In an interview with Chuckie Online on the Halfcast podcast Sheeran shared that he was on his way to recording his verse for a song with Ishawna.
Ishawna posted a clip from the podcast highlighting Sheeran’s interview.
A few weeks ago Sheeran endorsed Ishawna’s remix of Shape Of You on Qmusic Nederland and the two seemed to have made a connection since.
“There are so many remixes of it, I was in the Caribbean, and I heard like a totally different song, It is really really filthy, but she is just singing about her man going down on her”. He said candidly.
Ishawna used the popular track from “Shape Of You” to spit dancehall lyrics about granting sexual favors as long as it is returned. Some of which are considered taboo in tradtional dancehall culture.
Bounty Killer made a posted threats against Ishawna warning her not to sing the song at a concert they were both billed to perform.
Ishawna responded “Bring it on Rodney” on her Instagram post. She went on to perform the song in his presence at the event in Portland Jamaica to massive approval from the crowd.
During his performance at the show Bounty Killer said, “Weh the clean mouth gal dem deh now, me heard some a unuh a sing some sumn” before launching launching into a tirade performance.
Other artists even refused to use the same mic as Ishawna whenever she was booked for a show.
Sheeran who has been accused of cultural appropriation by a new Zealand music critic said he is aware of the love he gets from Jamaican artist. To show his approval he sings in patois lines from some of the remixes he has heard of “Shape Of You”.
“..You have the best Pu**y, you know mi like to f*ckin sponteanous..” he sings.
Ed Sheeran began recording music in 2004 and released his first collection of work, tiled Spinning Man
He has sold more than 150 million records worldwide, making him one of the world’s best-selling music artists. He has 84.5 million RIAA-certified units in the US, and two of his albums are in the list of the best-selling albums in UK chart history.
