“Nigerians can’t make Caribbean dancehall”, singer reveals

In his exclusive interview with Pulse TV, Ketchup has spoken about the difference between Nigerian dancehall and Caribbean dancehall.

The singer who hit prominence with his ‘Rozay’ single, has consistently put out music in the dancehall genre. In this interview, he explained the difference between our definition of dancehall, and what it means to the Caribbeans.

“You can’t compare patois to what we do here.” Ketchup said. “That’s deep, that’s far deep. There are some Caribbean songs you listen to and you don’t even understand anything until you get to the chorus. But in Nigeria, we try to melt it down a bit, mellow down, dilute it.”

“We can do it better in our own way, but we can’t do it the way they do it. They like it the way we do it, we just don’t know.”

Ketchup has a new single titled ‘Pam Pam’, which he is currently promoting. The singer however wants a collaboration with some of his dancehall icons.

“I’d say Shaggy.” Ketchup responded when asked for a dream collaboration. “Shaggy is close to a legend, he is old school. I like old. I looked up to Shaggy a lot. Also Shabba Ranks.”

Watch the Pulse TV video below.