‘I will never bleach again’, says Vybz Kartel

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Dancehall icon Vybz Kartel says he won’t ever bleach once more, attributing his previous decisions to problems with self-love.

The famend artist mentioned his skin-bleaching historical past throughout a latest look on the Hot97 radio present with American radio persona and presenter Ebro Darden.

Reflecting on that interval of his life, Kartel mentioned “I imply in hindsight it undoubtedly needed to do with self-love, however alternatively whereas I used to be doing it, my thoughts wasn’t telling me that. My thoughts was telling me ‘I’m doing this to indicate my tattoos’…I acquired a number of tattoos. However trying again, it was simply as a black man, generally now we have these points however I’d by no means bleach once more although.”

Kartel additionally shared through the interview that he has lowered his alcohol and smoking habits and regarded ahead to marrying his girlfriend Sidem Öztürk and having “Turkish kids”.