His fans call him the youngest, and the baddest, ladies Dancehall
is about to have a new face by the name of alkaline. It’s time to pay close attention
to this one; his marketing, has been surrounded by his free expression and he is
not letting up. The last time we at Road Show Ja have seen young women respond
to an artist in Jamaica like this; was with the King himself Beenie Man, but Alkaline seems
to be growing in his own space and time. The confident with a humble undertone;
alkaline caught our attention so Road Show Ja took to the streets to survey what
fans had to say, and out of 300 people; one comment the ladies had in common
was Alkaline is the Chris brown of Jamaica (without the issues); which lead us
to believe there’s a bigger story here.
Recently Alkaline promoted and headlined his own show; and
the ladies showed up, to bruck out; we’ll leave you to Youtube to see it for
yourself. Sky is the limit for this young artist. There’s no doubt it’s just a
matter of time before the world comes knocking, and they will. We decided to do
some fact checking to see how big his fan base was, and where better to look
than the social networks; where we found he had 27.9 million view to his
content across Youtube , 20 million hits
to his name on Google, 2 million hits to his various hashtags; with a presence on Facebook, and Twitter; numbers are worth its weight in goal;
just in monetization, and content harnessing; where looking at a possible $600,00.00
US dollar without counting sales from download, yes impressive numbers for a
young artist in this market.
Earlier this week; the alkaline camp was shaken up by the
departure of his manager, but the fire has already been lit, and both will go
on to bigger and better things. Some may not agree with most of his lyrics, and
apparently trend setting styling’s, but you can’t deny that he has something
special, questions has lingered for some time about his tattooed eyes, here’s a
spin that you might find interesting; it’s been said your eye are the gateway
to your soul, and in some cultures covering the eyes is a form of protection
from evil or simply evil minded people; we've even heard mixed views about his tattoos
of choice, and I reiterate his choice; yet tattooing has been part of African warrior
culture from the beginning of time. We say loosen up people, and dig a little
deeper finding another level of consciousness, and allow this young artist to evolve.
We have a gut feeling there is more here than meets the eye;
so road show Ja will go out on a line and throw our endorsement behind the
young warrior. We understand one thing; numbers don’t lie, and the more exposure he
gets the more powerful he become play apart in his evolution, and be careful not to jump to unfounded Judgments.
Road Show will be watching closely; don’t be surprise if Alkaline become the
artist to bring Reggae/Dancehall back to the Grammy stage.
“
Come over baby look
inna mi eyes; love is pain, but you hafi try, do what eva mak you happy yeah you
bring joy inna mi life” Alkaline
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