Dancehall and Hip Hop hit maker Stefflon Don continues to break barriers and take the music to new heights. After an impromptu Instagram story post last week, promoting a ‘Sweet 16’ for Prime Video UK which is about the new Cinderella movie”, the Don follows up with an Afro-Dancehall freestyle titled “Steffgasm”. In the 2 minute freestyle cover, Stefflon Don sits in her home spitting some seductive dancehall lyrics over Nigerian singer Rema’s “Soundgasm” Afrobeat. The 16 shots singer take turns to whine and show off her assets singing, “Bad gyal from the East Side batty and breast/ just a jiggle and a shake like a twrkr contest” the confident platinum Deejay rhymes.
The Billboard chart topping Deejay who has been linked to Afrobeat star Burna Boy flowed, “Is a bad man mi want up innah mi tight hole, budung budu dung send me pon a high road, put me leg innah the sky put it innah flight mode”.
its safe to say the fans of the Hurting Me singer are pleased with the freestyle pick-me-upper as comments started pouring in about the song, “This is a masterpiece I live for it”, “Steff you ate this one”.
Stefflon Don’s latest music video “Dip” with Ms Banks surpassed 8 million views on YouTube and peaked at number 22 on the Hip Hop/Rap UK iTunes chart.
Ever embracing her Jamaica roots, the Instructions singer told Dancehall Mag in July, “I was born in England but my parents were born and raised in Jamaica and I still have sisters and brothers living in Jamaica.”
In March 2017 Stefflon Don made history as the first Dancehall act to create her own record label under Universal Records, 54 London.
She captioned, “Signed my label to Universal then I signed myself” under her celebratory post on instagram.
With her career now in her hands, she told the Guardian, “It gives me artistic control,”
The 16 shots artist rose to fame in 2017 after her single “Hurtin’ Me” featuring French Montana peaked at number 7 on UK Singles Chart. In 2016, She then released her debut mixtape Real Ting followed by another mixtape, Secure, in 2018. After doing other International collaborations, she is now the most successful female Dancehall artists in history with many “firsts” on several charts and has over one billion streams on Spotify.
Her most successful US chart topper is her now certified platinum feature “Alone” with Hasley and Big Sean which peaked at number 66 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 2018 and number 32 on the Canadian top 40. Her other successful features include a verse on the Bum Bum Tam Tam remix by MC Fioti, Future, J Balvin and Juan Magan, and Calypso with Luis Fonsi which has 425m YouTube views.
She has won two Mobo Awards for Best New Artist and Best Female artist and was nominated for Best International At the 2018 BET Awards.
