Vybz Kartel became the showtime dancehall artist to be featured on the TV show "Earlier They Were Famous."

Host Michael McCrudden did a feature on the incarcerated dancehall star's ascension to stardom from his childhood days to becoming a household name both in Jamaican and in the global dancehall space.The show revealed some small details about the artist that well-nigh of his fans wouldn't know, for example, some of his musical idols includes Buju Banton, Volition Smith, Ninjaman, KRS-One, and Papa San. Kartel also started writing lyrics when he was eleven years quondam and has written hitting songs for other dancehall artists including his former mentor Bounty Killer, Elephant Homo, and more.

In one of his onetime interviews, Vybz Kartel spoke near the fierce content of dancehall music and how he believes it wouldn't be accepted on the globe stage if release in its purest form. "Dancehall music is then indigenous that every bit we said if it was to be put on an international market in it's purest form it would be intolerable," Kartel said.

1 of Vybz Kartel most famous moments in dancehall was when he assaulted Ninjaman on Sting 2003 and thus became the first artist in dancehall to physically attacked an creative person on phase. Ninjaman contempo weighed in on that incident revealing that Vybz Kartel had to pay him $3 million to settle the beefiness and save his life.

There are a lot more you lot might acquire about the controversial dancehall enigma, lookout the video beneath. Vybz Kartel is currently serving a life sentence for the murder of his old associate Clive "Cadger" Williams. He volition exist eligible for parole in 2049 when he is age 72. But the artist is cyberbanking on an early on release with a judge giving him the green light to keep with his entreatment. The case will be brought upwardly in the Jamaican appeal court as early on equally later this year.