As you all may or may not have known, I have been associated with Reggae artiste Gyptian’s career on and off from day one. Through all the ups and downs, Gyptian and I have remained friends and I still refer to him as one of my sons.Recently, I have been receiving countless emails branding Gyptian as an irresponsible ‘no show’ artiste. Since I have knowledge of Gyptian’s tour schedule, I was concerned when I realized he was being promoted at venues I knew he knew nothing about.I decided to call Gyptian himself to get to the bottom of this situation once and for all.As I expected, Gyptian was angry about all of what he had been hearing.I told him to give me a statement and this is what he had to say.
“Someone in New York who was never a part of my management team, someone who we stated on MySpace since March 2008 is not associated with my career, has been going around manipulating people.He has been collecting money from promoters for shows knowing that I know nothing about them and that I wouldn’t be there. Amounts ranging from $1,500 to $8,000 in some cases. People have been calling me about flyers that they see me on from New York to Boston. Shows this man is going around booking that my company, Jus1 Productions know nothing about. The shows with Warrior King are all legit.Jus1 Production is the company to call with regards to any bookings for me.What gets me is, when some of these promoters want to book shows they call this man who a fraud them,
but when things get bad and they realize that they just lost their money, they suddenly find mine and Jus1 number.
Why didn’t they call Jus1 in the first place? I apologize for all the misunderstanding this person has caused.I also apologize to my fans, but assure you that I had nothing to do with these fraudulent bookings.I have been getting a bad rap because of all of this and would like my name cleared. Sometimes people have to be careful and not be so quick to judge an artist. Sometimes we have no clue what some of these unscrupulous people are up to.”
There you have it.
Gyptian’s links are as follows:
www.myspace.com/gyptian
E-mail: ivorjus1@gmail.com
Number: 876-384-7451
-Shilo
Til Shilo Promotions
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