Blaxx apologises for cursing Machel

UPDATE:

JOAN RAMPERSAD and SEETA PERSAD

IN a six-minute, 53-second video, shot on the front stairs of his Aranguez home, a humbled Dexter “Blaxx” Stewart apologised multiple times to patrons, the police and all his fans for the expletives he unleashed during his performance at the Mawning Neighbour event in Chatham village on Sunday morning.

Blaxx had directed his wrath to co-reigning road march champion, Machel Montano saying: “F--k Machel, this is meh first time in Mawning Neighbour, but I have been hearing about Mawning Neighbour.

We come here for love. Machel is the devil. I doh fraid to talk ah from down Point.”

In the subsequent video, Blaxx said: “That outburst, which I want to apologise for, stemmed from something that had been bothering me for quite a while.” He said during Jamaica Carnival, Montano had said that event was better than Trinidad Carnival, and “to see the biggest man in soca, the P Diddy in soca, Machel Montano, a guy I really respect and really love his music, to know and to see that individual stand up on a stage in Jamaica” and say so “couldn’t come out my system, dread.”

Blaxx said he decided that morning in Jamaica to ask Montano how he could say such a thing, but members of his team advised him to leave it alone. But he said try as he might, he couldn’t forget it.

“So when we reach Point and the promoter say, ‘Boy, we get lil hurt this year with Machel...when I reach on stage, my statement was, ‘Machel can’t hurt Mawning Neighbour! He got to do what he got to do, and you got to do what you got to do. This is a local show, this is your show, and rest Machel and what everybody tinging bout, you understand!’”

After that came the expletives.

That same day Montano brought the curtain down on the 2018 Point Fortin Borough Day celebrations at a show entitled Relive the Kingdom, which featured Austin “Superblue” Lyons.

They performed their winning road march song, Soca Kingdom. Blaxx said: “I haven’t lost respect for Machel, I am just hurt. I was really hurt by that statement.

“No disrespect, I still love yuh. But as the man in charge of this thing, we have to defend what is ours. I will defend Soca Monarch, Dimanche Gras, Chutney Soca Monarch, Panorama, Kes Tuesday and Machel Monday because these are signature shows in our Carnival. If we loss these things... you know what I mean...the thing eh looking good.”

ORIGINAL STORY:

In a six-minute, 53-second video, shot on the front stairs of his Aranguez home, a humbled Dexter “Blaxx” Stewart apologised multiple times to patrons, the police and all his fans for the expletives he unleashed during his performance at the Mawning Neighbour event in Chatham village on Sunday morning.

Blaxx had directed his wrath to co-reigning road march champion, Machel Montano saying: “F--k Machel, this is meh first time in Mawning Neighbour, but I have been hearing about Mawning Neighbour. We come here for love. Machel is the devil. I doh fraid to talk ah from down Point.”

In the subsequent video, Blaxx said: “That outburst, which I want to apologise for, stemmed from something that had been bothering me for quite a while."

He said during Jamaica Carnival, Montano had said that event was better than Trinidad Carnival, and "to see the biggest man in soca, the P Diddy in soca, Machel Montano, a guy I really respect and really love his music, to know and to see that individual stand up on a stage in Jamaica" and say so "couldn't come out my system, dread.”