Weh Dem Up To: ‘We’re no iron balloons’ - K Queens plan to be pillars in dancehall

Dancehall duo K Queens epitomises what it means to be dedicated. For the greater part of their careers, the twins – Kaydine and Kerrine – have been working towards their big break in the local industry. And although they have not yet got the ‘buss’, they refuse to give up.

Well aware of the ‘iron balloon’ label now attached to them, the entertainers say that instead of running down the ‘buss’, they have been studying the business of music. They want to ensure that when their big break comes, they don’t end up being a one-hit wonder.

“We nuh listen to the noise because we are so focused and driven right now. We know what we want, and we’re going for it. We believe in timing, so whenever it’s supposed to happen, it will happen. We’re doing what we have to do to make it happen so that when it does happen, it nuh stop,” said Kaydine.

“Music is a learning process, and we’re perfecting our craft, and we’re having fun doing it. We’ve been learning the business of music so that we’ll know what to do when the buss comes. Just going on stage and performing, that’s just one part. Yuh affi know everything behind the music that a lot of artistes aren’t educated about.

“A nuff artiste get a one hot song and say dem ‘buss’, and they are behind us right now. A nuff artiste weh we start out wid lost right now. Yuh can’t find dem, and K Queens is still around. People still a call K Queens name,” her sister, Kerrine, continued.

“Dem never know the business, so all a dem who did claim say dem buss, deh behind we right now. We a learn the business, so we a guh be like columns in dancehall just like how Killer a column inna dancehall.”

With groups and duos rarely surviving in the local music market, THE WEEKEND STAR asked K Queens if they believed that they would have gone further as solo acts.

The response: “Two makes one. We’re two bodies, but we’re one person. We have something unique because yuh nuh have no twin dancehall acts tearing up the place. Why would we want to change the very thing that makes us stand out?” Kaydine questioned.

“There could never be a K Queens if we went solo. We were born to do this, not separate. What is rice and peas without peas or rice and peas without milk? It nuh make no sense because it a go short a supmn.”

The duo said that since they’ve taken the step back to learn the business, they’ve seen improvements in their craft, and they are now reaping the success of that time away.

“We’ve been doing better music. We just shot the videos for Jamdown Top Ranking, the song distributed by Tuff Gong as well as the song Happy, and a video for our song Teeny Tiny on NotNice’s Kyng Midas album. A lot has been happening,” Kerrine said.

“It’s going to be less talking and more action. We can’t let everything outta di bag right now, but we have a lot in store.”