Today, January 7 2012, is Vybz Kartel’s – di World Boss Birthday!
Mr Adidja Palmer was born January 7 1976 in Kingston, Ja, today he turned 36 years old.Mr Palmer, The Lyricist, The Dancehall Hero,The Outlaw, is a full time Dancehall superstar currently languishing in a Kingston jail cell, waiting to return to the Corporate Area R-M Court on January 9 with Gaza Slim aka Vanessa Bling – Saddler. Kartel and Gaza Slim are facing together allegations of perverting the course of justice, a charge that attracts a sentence of over five years. These latest charges are related to the even more serious murder charges pending on Kartel and members of his entourage since the beginning of October 2010, when he was initially arrested in a Kingston’s hotel room together with other people and, was kept in police lock for ganja charges. In the following days and months a lot of surprises, mysteries ,u turns, more arrests and more accusations, including Shawn Storm’s arrest, another prominent member of the Empire, til di Gaza Slim’s latest arrest dated December 2011. 2011 is been a crazy year for di Gaza Boss and di whole Empire.
Check out Kartel’s recaps for 2011.
Toward the end of 2010 Kartel traveled to Europe for a successful mini tour with Popcaan and Jah Vinci, During the entire 2011 Kartel’s fame and notoriety grew exponentially ,worldwide .
- January 2011 some people thought he brought his cake soap concept too far. Beside the controversy generated from his single Cake Soap the DJ was elected Caribbean Artist of 2010 and Selector’s Choice Award for 2010 too. He also released a hot collaboration with prominent rapper Eminem. Clark mixtape was so successful, after few months of being released digitally , that TAD’S Records went from digital to physical, but Kartel wasn’t in the news just for his tunes.
– Febraury 2011 Vybz Kartel made the news again, this time it was reported that he was banned from US radios for Black History Month because of his bleaching habit. In the same month Gaza Kim went Alliance and Kartel brought home 4 Awards from View Youth Awards 2011, one with Russian for Best Collaboration of 2010. He kept releasing hot singles and topping charts and airwaves from the beginning of the year non stop, and was featured in several TV and radio interviews as well as magazines both in Jamaica and internationally.
– March 2011 Addi di Teacher went to Kingston University for a Lecture proving that the The World Boss was also a Smart Man, and he could Teach. March brought more Awards in the Gaza Kartel won Deejay of the Year, Song of the Year (Dancehall) — Clarks, Album of the Year, and Collaboration of the Year for Clarks, featuring Popcaan and Gaza Slim at the EME Awards.
- April 2011 Kartel cancelled his upcoming European Tour and toward the end of the same month declared he wasn’t into gun tunes anymore , because he was tired of feeding other artists songs and inspire them with beef. Was also the time of the alleged beef and rumors sparkled by Shabba ‘s song None Of Dem. In April Notnice came out with di Eternal Riddim and Popcaan, Shawn Storm and all the other Gaza Artists fame was growing in the background. In April 2011 he also published the single Real Bad Man and appeared on The Message Riddim from Don Corleon.
- May 2011. At the beginning of the month Kartel started sporting a new hairdo. There was a lot of talking about that. A lot of different artists went speaking against his bleaching habits and new hairstyle on radios and Jamaican Tv shows. Was around the end of May also that Mr Palmer split from his long time manager Corey Todd. During 2010 Kartel made some headlines for “beating his artists”. When Kartel and Corey beefed Corey went on TV talking their business, Kartel, instead ,just released more songs and worked harder. Several artists departed from di Gaza with Todd : Notnice, Jah Vinci, Blak Ryno, and also few other artists that were gravitating around the Gaza, everybody with his own claims and motivations. Street Vybz Rum, the successful company Kartel and Todd put together manufacturing and distributing alcohol was over as well as their experience at the Club Building, where they were partners too. Club Building was raided several times and closed down from police last year right before Sting ,when the two where still a team and didn’t wrote statements against each others. He also released the single Summer Time toward the end of may, that became quickly an hit single worldwide as well as been nominated best Dancehall song for 2011. may was intense. He also performed via Satellite from Kingston to Miami’s mega concert Best Of The Best 2011. 
- June- July 2011 Kartel wrote a book Voice of the Ghetto – Social Commentary for My People and released the single Informa. Merital Family joined the team of former Gaza artists and Kingston Story the album produced by Dre Skull launched while Summer Time was number one topping. Beenie Man and Mavado got their working US Visas back, but not Kartel.
- August 2011 Corey Todd made the news for reacting to a Kartel song being played in his club and attacked a DJ while Kartel didn’t show up to a big show staged in Guyana at the very last minute,sending in panic the promoters and resulting in being banned from airwaves and considered not welcome anymore in the country. Kartel said he received death threats and that was the reason he didn’t go, but wasn’t the first time he flaked on Guyana . August was also the month of Lost Angel Riddim which gave new exposure to all di Gaza artists voicing on it.
- September 2011 Kartel launched Teacha’s Pet and his own skin care line of beauty and skin products including his fragrances, debuting on the market on September 15. Rumors were he was also about to debut his own application for i-Phone, i-Pod Touch and i-Pad to promote and expand his brands. He also came out with the song Dedication. Teacha’s Pet was airing and Lime cosponsored it. Kartel kept topping Charts, paired by Popcaan.
- October 2011 It was in the very beginning of the month the di World Boss got arrested and his properties raised. Arrested initially for ganja charges in the following days Police quickly raided his property, taking computers, videos, tracking down every move from di Gaza Boss and his closest people. Kartel was charged with murder. Shortly after it become a double murder, then maybe multiple murders in a spiral of gossips and sensationalism that didn’t stop yet. Lime dropped Teacha’s Pet sponsorship and Kartel was questioned and brought back and forth before the courts. Artists and people voiced their comments. Guilty Innocent guilty Innocent…Kartel was able to send out a short message from jail and a bunch of latest Riddims with him and his artists came out : So Bad Riddim, Otis Riddim, Grab Dem Riddim. Kartel jailed and Popcaan topping the Charts having to state he didn’t left di Gaza. Shawn Storm got arrested then released then arrested again. Kartel bail was denied again.. Some artists did songs in his favor. The Teacha had to release a statement from jail about the booking procedures for his Empire. Shawn Storm was recognized in a facial identification by some witness and kept in and nobody talks about him anymore. More got arrested.
-Nov 2011 Gaza Slim aka Vanessa Bling went to the police station saying that one of the men Kartel is accused of killing, robbed her in the street, referring to Clive ‘Lizard’ Williams. The “Kartel Sex Tapes”, as police called them initially, then denying them , went all out and Kartel was probed with more bad tings . Police started claiming they have video and phone evidences of their accusations and also witnesses but never provide the stellar Kartel’s legal team of none of those yet. Kartel was denied bail again. Following some rumors he also had to release a statement where he was stating he wasn’t changing his legal team. At the end of the month of Nov a huge hoax regarding Kartel escaping from prison went worldwide. Kartel didn’t escape but he proved to make the headlines even when locked in. Some police officers got removed from Kartel’s facility following reports of corruption and favoritism toward the artist ,they even saying he was taken in a shopping trip to the mall by some of those officers.
- Dec 2011 After his bail was set to 3 million dollars it was also quickly denied. Gaza Slim got first interrogated and then arrested for preventing the course of justice and she is still detained waiting for bail .As Kartel. There was some hope he could obtain bail before Sting so to make it to the clashes. He didn’t. While in jail he was also brought to court by a promoter for letting down a big show few years before and lost a case of $15 million dollars. Bad timing too. He spent Xmas and New Year’s Eve in jail. Tad’s Record released Pon Di Gaza 2.0 remixed. Popcaan and Tommy Lee went to Sting and brought up their General’s name several times, both doing good on the big stage, proving di Gaza never lacked talents .
To all his detractors. Yes Kartel is “controversial”, to borrow a term that is been glued on him all those months, but beside all the fuckry, he is a great artist that managed to stay prominent since he started his career.The title of Innocent or Guilty won’t take away Kartel’s legit crown. He is still the shit in his fans hearts and on the market. Fact. Let’s also please not forget Kartel brought other artists careers to another level, and was still him that signed and discovered ,first,names like Jah Vinci, Blak Ryno,Gaza Kim,Lisa Hyper…and the list goes on and on. He also helped revamping careers of other artists like , one on all, Blingie General, with songs like Touch A Button, just to mention one. How many artists made songs just as a reaction to some Kartel’s tunes or to some of his behaviors? All the former Gaza members were able to be heard first in di Gaza Empire.Yes. This life on the edge is taking away from Dancehall Music. Let’s hope 2012 will bring some good news for Kartel and di Gaza and the other locked up artists.Like Ninjaman and Buju.Meanwhile Big Ups Vybz Kartel.
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KARTEL I HOPE THIS BE A LEARNING FOR YOU, HYPE LIFE NUH PAY AND TO THE REST OF ARTIST, PUT DOWN THE GUN TING, THE GUN SONG WE LIVE IT EVERYDAY GIVE US BETTER THINGS AS ARTIST.
OTHER WISE LETS LOVE EACH OTHER, AND MAKE A BETTER JAMAICA
free d teacha
gaza 2 di worl ..don affi come back home
me luv u vybz lyk your songs too