‘Ignore him’ - Trippple X not impressed with Demaro’s new single

Call him psychic, but Trippple X has correctly predicted that dancehall would have an openly gay artiste.

In an October episode of STAR CHAT, the entertainer predicted that would happen by 2024.

Although four years early, that prophecy has come to fruition in the form of recording artiste Demaro, who recently released his single Mi Ready.

In a Billboard article published on January 1, Demaro, a Westmoreland native, is heralded as the artiste whose music can hopefully break stigmas towards the LGBTQ community in the Caribbean.

But Trippple X believes dancehall will never fully accept a gay artiste.

"I don't know how big his audience is going to be but he's going to have an audience. Still, I don't think the dancehall community will ever offer an olive branch to a homosexual artiste to say 'come into dancehall, you are welcome'," he said.

No real talent

Admitting that he has listened to the song and watched the video, Trippple X believes Demaro has no real talent.

The music video has amassed a little more than 2,000 views on YouTube since its release on December 22.

Trippple X expressed that the only way Demaro will be catapulted into the spotlight and generate any further buzz, is if Jamaicans, particularly dancehall artistes, start talking about him.

"Me nuh feel like da song yah a hit because it's real, real garbage. I think it's just a gimmick and him a use the fact say him gay to get some forward," he said. "But a nuff a di artiste dem ah go cuss and talk a bag ah things and if da yute yah buss, a di artiste dem ah go make him buss. The more dem call him name, ah di more people ah go Google him and listen him music. This is something we can more dan ignore cuz is not like the song ah go be no hit song. But, 90 per cent ah our artiste ah idiot so dem ah go run in pan dis."

Trippple X also said that many artistes will feel like lashing out at the song is what people want to hear.

"And some of dem nuh really secure inna dem sexuality so to prove they are not that, dem ah go lash out and di one dem weh you see lash out against this the most, dem a di 'shakiest' ones," he said. "I appeal to the dancehall artistes to ignore da bredda yah. The more unu chat bout him, ah di bigger him ah go get."