Fun-loving deejay Ding Dong has big things in the works, as plans are being made for him to be signed to International pop star Sean Kingston's 'Time is Money Entertainment' label.When THE STAR spoke with the dancer-turned-deejay yesterday, he explained that the deal wasn't official as yet as his lawyers were still looking over the paperwork saying, "It's almost there."
Time Is Money Entertainment was founded in 2003 by Kingston and scored big when his first artiste, Virgin Islands native Iyaz's Replay topped the Billboard charts.
Ding Dong and Sean Kingston met in January when Kingston was the headliner for the Coke Zero concert held at the New Kingston Golf Academy.
linked up
According to Ding Dong, "Sharon Burke linked it up and I played Holiday for him and he loved it. So from there we linked up a lot when he was here and I spent a week in Miami doing work at his home studio for him." While in Miami Ding Dong recorded three songs including a collaboration with a group from the Bahamas.
As it relates to the deal, Ding Dong says, "It's a blessing knowing where I'm coming from to this. He respects me as a dancehall artiste, him sey mi a him artiste. Him like my look, lyrics, swag and thinks I can cross over."
Ding Dong says he also respects Sean Kingston especially as a businessman. "Him big every weh, if yuh deh on him label you gonna get big, anyone you waan collab wid you have the chance to and you get good promo."
Thus far, Sean Kingston and Ding Dong have worked on three songs together; the already released My Girl, the soon to be released Time is Money and Over and Over Again.
Ding Dong made headlines recently when he was banned from performing in Trinidad. The deejay was reportedly placed on a list of Jamaican entertainers who have been denied entry into the island. He said, "You know when it happened people blasted it on youTube and twitter, but it have no effect on me, it hasn't stopped me from going to other countries. I am upset about being banned cause they can't tell me for what reason."
Trinidadian government
Ding Dong said his representatives have repeatedly tried to find out the reason for the ban but has got no reply from the Trinidadian government.
In the meantime, the deejay has been busy with upcoming songs such as Follow Through for Stephen McGregor, a collaboration with Voicemail for ZJ Chrome and a rock song for Notice Productions among other songs.
"I like to be different... look how di Holiday song help change dancehall, showed people that you can do feel-good music, you don't have to be vulgar or violent," he said.
THE JAMAICA STAR
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