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Shaggy: I'm a 5 hit wonder with Britney's catering budget
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Could you have imagined back in 1993 when “Oh Carolina” exploded that you’d be having a huge radio hit 22 years later?
I was dubbed a one hit wonder. That was the biggest headline because it was such a massive record and it was just the kind of a record that people… it was like, “It’s a cover, he’ll be done.” I had an argument with my record company Virgin. They were asking me to do another song like “Oh Carolina,” but I wouldn’t do it again. Then I wrote “Bombastic,” which was totally different.
They believed in it so little that it became a double A-side with “In The Summertime.” They thought it was safer. We wanted “Bombastic” and they wanted that song, so it was a compromise. And when it came out, they wrote something in The Sun that said: “This is not even worth the vinyl it’s pressed on.” It went on to become a number one hit. I’ve always believed in myself. My biggest problem throughout my career is convincing other people about my capabilities and what I do.
But you have such a track record of hits…
You would think, you would think. Yeah I’m the only guy that’s a five-hit wonder.
That’s crazy.
You would think by this point they’d be like, “Let’s give this guy a budget, the dude sells millions of records, at least give him a budget.” No, not even, because I’m reggae. They sit at a table, a whole bunch of record execs and they say, “Okay what radio format is out there that supports reggae?” And there is none. They’re like, “Show me a track record of reggae doing great numbers and doing all kinds of things.” Besides myself and maybe Sean Paul, there isn’t anyone else doing big numbers. So you get Britney Spears’ catering budget.
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