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LOS ANGELES (AP) — It has been 21 years since Sean Paul’s dancehall anthem “Get Busy” topped nan Billboard Hot 100 — which intends “Get Busy” is yet aged capable to perceive “Get Busy” astatine nan club.
“It’s changed for maine now,” Sean Paul told The Associated Press complete Zoom from his workplace successful Jamaica, reflecting connected nan song’s legacy. “Because erstwhile I say, ‘Get busy,’ I’m telling nan kids to do their homework aliases cleanable worldly up.”
In nan years since Paul helped introduce dancehall riddims and reggae to caller audiences, he’s released six eager albums, including 2 consecutive retired of nan coronavirus pandemic: 2021’s “Live n Livin” and 2022’s “Scorcha.” He’s go a begetter and a devoted husband. (The “Jodi” successful nan “Get Busy” lyric “Shake dat ting, yo, Donna Donna / Jodi and Rebecca”? That’s his wife.) And his ambition to make joyful, danceable euphony has ne'er wavered.
“It’s a timeless portion for me,” he says of “Get Busy.” “Every clip I effort to do a song, I effort to put nan aforesaid butterflies that I had successful my belly erstwhile I was flirting pinch nan first woman connected nan first creation level I went to. It’s conscionable a feeling.”
That translates to his extremity of bringing positivity to nan masses.
“I person a batch of thief pinch nan riddim tracks, nan genre itself is very infectious,” he says. “It gives you joy.”
His dedication comes from life experience.
“I had a batch of problems, arsenic astir teenagers do, trying to find themselves, trying to understand what life’s about. You know, my begetter was successful prison. It was a azygous mom situation, and she was struggling to make judge that we were conscious beings,” he says.
Music was nan release.
Now, he’s taking that power connected a 22-date U.S. tally dubbed nan “Greatest Tour,” kicking disconnected May 2 astatine House of Blues successful Orlando, Florida, and ending June 16 astatine nan Fillmore successful Charlotte, North Carolina.
“Why americium I doing it now? I consciousness that nan group are fresh for maine again,” Paul says.
“I did immoderate activity pinch immoderate reggaetón acts past year,” he adds, referencing caller dancefloor hits, including nan monolithic “Niña Bonita” pinch Feid and “Dem Time Deh” pinch Columbian vocalist Manuel Turizo.
He’s besides released a fewer solo singles, including nan infectious “Greatest,” and promises much conscious songs successful nan early — thematically not dissimilar 2016’s “Never Give Up.”
“There’s a batch of struggles here successful Jamaica arsenic good arsenic it being, you know, a very beautiful place. But we do person our struggles that we person to woody with,” he says. “A batch of group don’t cognize maine for that type of material, but, you know, it’s arsenic important successful my career.”
At his shows, fans will get a small sensation of everything. But “good vibes,” mostly, he says: “I deliberation group consciousness nan nosy from maine and it bounces backmost and forth.”
