Sean Paul and Beyoncé topped the charts with their smash hit “Child Boy” simply over 20 years in the past, however the pair truly linked a few years earlier than that.
Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter about working with Will Smith for the brand new Dangerous Boys 4 soundtrack, the dancehall legend mirrored on a few of his different big-name collabs over time, which in fact included the 2003 smash.
“She opened on a present right here in Jamaica with [Destiny’s Child],” he recalled within the dialog revealed on Friday (June 14). “They solely had one tune and I used to be on that very same present, in order that’s the place all of us met. And understanding that she referred to as me again a few years later for her first different undertaking was superior. I used to be writing my a part of the tune at the back of my home beneath a mango tree.
“And whereas I’m writing my verse, a mango falls out the tree and falls straight by the window [of my car] into my lap. And I used to be like, ‘That should imply that this tune is a candy tune.’ And one factor that I do recall about that point was being very proud that she used a dancehall-oriented monitor.”
He continued: “As a result of on the time, folks had been hollering at me to do collabs — I used to be [working] with Busta Rhymes, I used to be doing stuff with Clipse and I used to be doing stuff with Blu Cantrell — and all of these stuff was very dope however they had been extra Hip Hop oriented, and this was such an enormous artist and he or she was stepping out on her personal.
“So it actually made me really feel that dancehall-style was coming into its personal and that my music or my style was being accepted by lots of people,” he provides. “Coming from Texas, I do know she’s heard a variety of dancehall rising up and [was] acquainted with that entire vibe, so it made sense to me and it made historical past for each of us.”
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Again in 2022, Sean Paul addressed the whirlwind of rumors that got here with their collab that insinuated he and Beyoncé had connected in the course of the studio classes.
“We needed to have a discuss it,” Sean Paul mentioned. He famous that the rumors brought on them to carry out the tune collectively a mere 3 times. The 2 of them had been on tour collectively in 2003 for the Rock The Mic Tour, however Paul famous that unusual issues began occurring when he would hit the stage with Bey.
“Unusual issues began to occur on the performances, which was bizarre,” he mentioned. “We went to L.A. and I did my present after which she was performing, they usually informed me to stay round as a result of we’ll do ‘Child Boy.’ We do it and I run on the market and the gang goes wild, however after some time it looks as if I misplaced their power.”
He continued, “And it’s bizarre as a result of I used to be going wild on the market. When the tune completed, I got here backstage and my very own band was all pissed off, like ‘Man, that’s fucked up. You heard your self? We couldn’t hear you within the crowd. Your mic was off.’ I used to be like, ‘How the fuck did that occur?’”
