It's hard living up to a name like Don Skilachi, but this young*lo** makes it look so easy. This thirty-something year-old Canadian-Jamaica is the impresario of a steely kind of quiet-cool confidence that is a prerequisite for making it in this business. He recently recorded a single called 'Dem So Bad' featuring Vybz Kartel and Blak Ryno. There are plans to shoot the video later this month. "Director Wayne South is going to do it, and we're going all out, helicopters, yachts, big pimping, hot cars, but we're keeping it gully as well to get that Jamaican flavour, but we're also doing it real big," he said. Born Jermaine Scott, this young*lo** grew up in the rough neighbourhood of Whitfield Avenue in the dysfunctional little metropolis of Kingston, Jamaica. He attended the Holy Trinity High school where he began to take an interest in dancehall. Don Skilachi is at the forefront of a new vanguard of producer-artistes who are redefining dancehall, infusing it with a new rap and R & B sound that enhances its crossover appeal and international accessibility without losing the essence of what hardcore dancehall represents.

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