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Dancehall artist Spice says Mr. Vegas is a hypocrite for blasting her embrace of queer fans when he has done so in the past.
In Instagram posts on Tuesday, the 2085 Tea artist, known for keeping receipts, shared clips of Vegas’ 2016 interview on DJ Vlad’s platform to make her point.
“Misses GayGas here’s the highlight that you’re hungry for,” her caption for one post read. “I couldn’t sleep tonight without highlighting the hypocrisy and jealousy plaguing my career.”
Included in that carousel were a clip of a man singing the lyrics to Needle Eye; another of Vegas denouncing Spice for embracing the fan; and clips of his earlier stance about engaging supporters from the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) community.
“You saying I’m no Queen because I have no problem with anyone from the LGBTQ community, and mi nah stop say I don’t care about people sexual preferences and I Love ALL MY FANS WORLDWIDE,” she wrote.
In a follow-up post, Spice shared a longer clip of his Vlad TV interview, which delved into him showing love to transgenders.
“I go to one of these top stations to do a performance that was aired across the United States, and they’re outside,” Mr. Vegas said at the time.
“I went outside, I saw some guys, like transgenders and stuff, like they wanted to take pictures, but they were scared. So, my people I’m with are like, ‘Dem boy deh waan tek some picture enuh’. I’m like, ‘Weh di boy dem deh?’. I’m seeing people dressed like girls…”
He said his team identified the transgender women as “the boys,” but he didn’t hesitate to take the photos.
“I call all of them and I took pictures, hugging and taking pictures.”
Spice laughed at the paradox.
“Tag the artist so we can remind him in case he forgot that he loves Transgenders 😂😂😂,” she wrote. “Every man hide your bottom from Vegas. Woooiieeeee the hypocrisy is beyond me. This is the same man who is bashing me for loving my fans who’s from the LGBTQ community.”
The interview also saw Mr. Vegas weighing in on the possibility of Jamaican pop culture accepting gay lovers in mainstream media.
“That’s a far way, far way for the public to accept that,” he said. “However, I do think that artists – myself, other artists coming up and stuff like that – we don’t let that stuff bother us. We don’t pay attention to those things. We don’t worry about the life that people are living, especially myself.”
Spice, who is in the middle of promoting her third album Mirror 25, called the Tek Weh Yuhself artist “badmind”, a label he anticipated in his rant on Monday.
“Weh we a badmind Spice fah? Spice badmind her owna self… Spice a live inna misery…and dah misery deh a bring a negative energy inna the space and unno a embrace it and a accept it and a crown queen… Queen fi weh? Queen fi bring man pon stage come skin out?”
He further called her a talentless recording artist, which she is up to challenging. “I’ll finish you off tomorrow because you said I have no talent,” she said. “So, let’s match our musical accolades.”
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