Rapper Tula is ecstatic about his newest single, ‘Shabba Dance,’ his tribute to the Dancehall celebrity Shabba Ranks.
“I wanted to create a brand new dance and honour Shabba Ranks on the identical time. So I got here up with the concept to do ‘Shabba Dance’. I’m very excited with thuie concept as a result of Shabba is a legend and numerous that dancehall stuff and Jamaican music got here from him. I really feel like he doesn’t get numerous credit score which is a part of the rationale why I made a decision to do that tune,” Rapper Tula informed DancehallMag.
Shabba Ranks is thought worldwide as one of many first Jamaican dancehall artists to interrupt by means of the mainstream market. His albums ‘As Uncooked As Ever’ and ‘X-Tra Bare’ gained him consecutive Grammys within the Greatest Dancehall Album class within the Nineteen Nineties. These albums each gained a Grammy Award as Greatest Reggae Album in 1992 and 1993, respectively. He’s notoriously in style for “Mr. Loverman” and “Ting-A-Ling”, which have been globally acclaimed and deemed his signature songs.
Rapper Tula can be songwriter and producer, releasing tasks underneath his label, O Masters.
He grew up in Lionel City in Clarendon, together with his maternal grandmother, Pearline Robinson. He attended Bustamante Excessive College, the place he rose to develop into the pinnacle boy of the establishment.
After graduating from highschool, Oneil went on to additional his schooling on the Northern Caribbean College (NCU), the place he graduated together with his affiliate diploma in Hospitality Administration. Thereafter, he attained his Bachelor of Science in Cyber Safety on the Penn State College. Nonetheless, regardless of the tutorial accolades, it was music that remained his first real love.
“I grew up listening to my household singing at weddings, funeral and numerous neighborhood occasions, which additional inspired me to pursue music,” he stated.
In 2012, Rapper Tula began his personal label, O. Masters Leisure. Underneath his label, he has launched a myriad of tasks largely as a producer, but in addition a rapper and songwriter.
