Mighty Crown not done with music
Trio says they’ll still produce
Published:Wednesday | July 26, 2023 | 12:11 AMShanel Lemmie/Staff Reporter
After 32 years together, Mighty Crown says they are happy to be taking a step back from playing music.
After their farewell on the Reggae Sumfest stage on Friday night, the trio told The Gleaner that while they will no longer be playing, music will always be a part of them.
Ninja Crown said: “We put a lot of work in, a lot of sacrifice, whole heap a hard work and thing, so we just decide seh after a while we taking a break. But we just taking a break from playing music. We’re not done with music, we have other things producing, and things doing but playing overall, we’re taking a little step back from that.”
Explaining the decision-making process, Masta Simon said they began to feel the wear and tear of the near three decades together before the pandemic.
“We’ve been doing this a long time enuh, from 1991, like 32 years. So it’s like we gonna stop play sound but we’re not gonna stop Mighty Crown cause you know dancehall and reggae a we thing. So we gonna like change the formula and the chemistry.”
Sami-T added: “It wasn’t really a hard decision. We been there, done that. We just needed a little change. Because everything is evolving so fast, so we’re just taking a little step back and see wah a gwaan, you know.”
They told The Gleaner that a big part of their decision to step back is to give other Asian sounds a chance to rise to the occasion.
SAME VIBES
Ninja Crown explained: “There are other Japanese sounds, other sounds in Japan that we want them a chance to highlight them and give them a platform to push themselves, so even though Mighty Crown won’t be there, other sounds will be from Japan with same vibes and everything.”
While chuckling over how much they will miss the forwards they have received over the years, the group’s consensus is that they will miss the fans they worked so hard to gain.
Ninja Crown continued: “The people dem who support Mighty Crown over the years we ago miss them. Jamaica was one of the hardest audience them to break through. So when we come through Jamaica, we go through the garrisons and play clash and everything until we reach.”
“It hard fi please the Jamaica people them, it take about seven or eight years fi dem free we up. Dem see we and say bwoy Mighty Crown unuh gwaan good enuh, a enuh fi win but we can’t mek enuh win. But after a while them start seh ‘you know them man yah na guh nuh weh, dem a support we music suh just let them through the gate mek dem gwaan.”
The trio says while they take this step back, they are hoping to reflect on how music has changed before they consider returning to the space.