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Stefflon Don Drops ‘Clockwork’ Featuring Spice And It’s The Right Amount Of Raunchiness

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    Platinum selling British rapper Stefflon Don dropped the first single from her debut album Island 54. The song titled Clockwork features Grammy nominated dancehall artist Spice.
    The first verse goes to the Don as she aggressively laces the track , “Yuh 3.24 tight eeh, gyal angle yuh back 90, Pu**y degrees hotta than a pepper scotch eeh, Don Dodda woulda f*ck you pon backseat, put it een take it out, camera, amateur, gyal f*ck pon di scene,” she rhymes smoothly reminiscent of Vybz Kartel’s pace and timing.
    The way she plays with her voice, she has mastered her craft in multiple genres but Clockwork is authentic dancehall.
    Stefflon Don
    The The hook is infectious and elicit at least a head bop on first listen. One minute in the song has all the ingredients of traditional dancehall and then Spice come in with her verse to add more explicit hardcore flavor to the track tail end.
    “Bwoy love it love it when me kotch it one side gyal a cry fi di work but she never qualified, all di Pastor see dis and a try fi backslide/ride me a ride me nuh fuck man and hide/a suh me brack it and me siddung pon di top,” Spice flows in her signature style. This verse and collaboration is among Spice’s better features as she prepares for her sophomore album ‘Emancipated,’ which she says will be release independently.
    Stefflon Don is one of the most streamed dancehall acts globally. Her top YouTube song is the 2018 single ‘Calypo’ with Luis Fonsi which has surpassed 442 million streams.

    Stefflon album is scheduled to drop in September on he own label 54 London, a subsidiary  of Universal Music.

    “This is gonna be my first album,” Stefflon Don explained to Hunger magazine. “All the other stuff that I made like Secure and Real Ting, were just mixtapes. So, with this project, I’m taking it a lot more seriously.”

     

    The MOBO award winner revealed that she drew inspiration from her family and friends throughout the two years she’s been working on the project.

    “I just spent more time on it and thought, what do I really love?” she continued. And what do my family and friends really love the most? We’ve been working on this for a good two years so I can’t wait to let it out to the world. It’s just a vibe.”

     

    She also said her Jamaican roots helped her to become one of the few U.K. artists to break into the U.S. market.

    “Jamaican music travels very far outside of the UK,” Stefflon Don explained. “I feel like with the UK sound before it was very niche unless you’re a fan of grime but the sound has changed a lot since then. When I go to different countries, I now hear a lot of UK rappers, more than I used to before, I think it’s a good time. I think TikTok has had a big part to play in that.”

    Back in June, Stefflon Don revealed that she explores a more vulnerable side of herself in her upcoming project.

    “You know I can rap, you know I can sing, but how hard can I really go?” she teased. “It’s definitely showing even more versatility and making you know who I am from a vulnerability standpoint.”

    The cover art for the lead single “Clockwork” has both artist wearing a Jamaican flag bikini and upper arm sleeves doing various poses.
    As dancehall becomes more popular among mainstream rappers Jamaican bred artists are choosing to use the home based aesthetics as inspiration for their brands singles and marketing their albums. Spice also seems like the go to good gyal to add the authentic flavor as several person have called her name for a collab recently.
    In July, Cardi B said she was open to an ‘authentic’ collab with the recently crowned Queen of Dancehall Spice.

    The American rapper hosted a ‘Passa Passa’ themed birthday party last October in Los Angeles where Spice among other dancehall artists performed. She recently Angela Yee on her Lip Service podcast, that dancehall might be ‘out of her lane.’

    Yee prompted her by saying that she saw a Dancehall collaboration in the “I Like It Like That” rapper’s future.  “I’m really nervous to do something like that,” Cardi quipped.

    “Because it’s just like…it would be natural, but it’s just like it’s certain things that you just not gonna do because it’s like you not like that great or that at it. Not great at it, but it’s just a little bit out of my lane,” she said.

    “I always told Spice like when I was 13-years-old I told her that I like made my dad buy me a Ed Hardy shirt because I saw her wear it,” she said on the podcast.

    Boo’ed Up singer Ella Mai also said she would want Spice and Vybz Kartel at her own Dancehall party.

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