I digress.

Frisco's performance was fantastic. Like I mentioned, he brought on Anthony B who graced us with his antics and hits. To everyone's surprise, Baby Wayne made an appearance as well. He performed hits from the early nineties as well as a couple new tunes, which were very well received. To my dismay, he left out "Mama" which I thought he would have to have run. Ah well. I'm sure we have all heard the rumours about Baby Wayne being on this drugs and that drugs, so what is he up to now? Big things for 2002? Guess we just have to wait and see.

Before Frisco though, came Elephant Man, the hottest deejay in Y2K1's second half. One question…What make Elephant Man feel seh HIM can go on stage and cuss up whole heap a bad word when every other deejay before him was abiding by Sting's policy of non-profanity? And not just cuss bad word, but also announce that HE can cuss because THIS is Sting. It's just not right. It really isn't.

NB: Whaddat?Com does NOT agree that hardcore stage shows should be free of profanity. We feel it would be just as easy to search for weapons, as it would be to have an 18 and over rating enforced. It just boggles my mind that you will attend any given event in Jamaica and see an underage CHILD being served and consuming alcohol, but yet still no 'claat can cuss on stage???? Isn't 18 the legal drinking age in Jamaica? LET'S GET REAL! And another thing!! This 2am curfew…it wasn't enforced at Sting, but it was enforced at Reloaded. Instead of "Out of Many One People", our motto should be "So It Go Inna Yard".

BACK TO ELLY.

So, Elephant Man took it upon himself to ignore the non-profanity rule by unashamedly throwing cuss words in any and all authorities' faces side stage. Whatever. To each their own. He lived up to his Sting-given name of Energy God and tore down the stage. He climbed and jumped and ranted and raved. Next question..is Elephant man a misogynist? 'Cuz when he brought up Kiva, when he'd had enough of her he just tossed her to the side like a rag doll. That's nothing new, I mean, during almost every perfomance I see him do that to some chick, but why? Anyhow, we cannot argue that Elephant Man has ripped up the charts and the audiences of 2001 more so than any other artist. Kudos to him.

The Finale

Emcee Nuffy took the mic. It was time for Ninjaman to come on, which meant it was time for the shit to hit the fan.

Basically, this is what happened. Ninjaman came on stage in a ninja suit with the two-toed boots, braid down his back, ninja sword, and all. Just the pose alone when he came out caused mass pandemonium in the crowd. Almost immediately, he called for Merciless. Everybody wants to know what happened why Merciless get it so bad. Well, I feel it's because he made the crowd wait for ten minutes while Ninja paced the stage. Mi nuh understand why him do dat. 'Cuz he won the 2000 clash? I don't know wha' tek him but by the time he reached on stage the crowd just don't even want to see him. He came out silent in a black ski mask, black turban and black trench coat, like some bin Laden mafia.

As soon as he showed his face, bokkle start fly, and HE KEPT deejaying!! Aiiee sah. When Ninja reply back to anything he came with, the crowd mash up. Merciless came up again! He got one forward still, a nuh lie…a true! Well, maybe a half a forward but anyway, that was it for his forward.

Ninja never came off once and Bounty came up when Merciless was side stage. That was it! The crowd almost jump pon stage wid dem! Imagine seh Merciless come back on stage when the two a dem did a work. Him murda himself cuz bokkle start fly once more. This time, Bounty got really pissed off and Ninja chat bout di people dem a fling bokkle offa dem owna Jamaican deejay. Bounty looked like he wanted to murda Merciless for real. Ha! That was the last we saw of Merciless for the night. But still, everybody has been talking how Merciless was hiding side stage when Bounty and Ninja were on stage. I never thought so. It looked to me like Merciless wanted to perform regardless of the bottles and boos. He was being very brave how he kept coming back on. The promoters and bystanders would not allow Merciless back on because of the mayhem he was causing. Straight.

So Merciless was out of it, and the stage belonged to Ninja and Bounty. Bounty addressed Ninja as him Fadda and Ninja embraced Bounty as his son. When they performed "Bad Bwoy Lick Shot" together - I would have been quite content going home cuz that was the wickedest part of the night for me.

Bounty dealt with the statements "Betweenie" Man has been making in regards to his appearance in No Doubt's video "Hey Baby" (with the naked man). When Bounty asked the crowd if they've ever seen him hug up a naked man, they responded with a resounding "NO!". When asked if they ever saw Beenie hug up Rupaul the crowd responded "YES!" Aaaah boy. He unleashed his new track about Gwen Stefani becoming his matey while recording the song for their album Rock Steady. The Killa and Ninjaman desecrated Merciless for the better part of their time on stage together and joked about Beenie Man not being present.

When Ninja exited the famed Sting podium, Bounty took his time to launch into an all-out lecture about the state of Dancehall, deejays fighting down deejays, Lady Cham and all the young artists he's made into stars. It was 7:30 in the morning, the sun had taken over as the spotlight from just an hour before, and although what he had to say was pretty poignant, the crowd was very tired very ready to go home.

Me included. One

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