DJ Merciless threatened to push his knife through Gabriel's throat during Sunday morning's clash at The Settlement in St. Thomas over the weekend.

Merciless, who had been floundering badly in a clash dominated by Gabriel, was perhaps overcome by the emotions of the moment
and resorted to intimidation to get the better of his younger and much better prepared rival.

The brash, confident Gabriel, was primed and ready to deliver from the onset, bringing titters of laughter to the crowd when he remarked: "send him out, who go prison mek man bend him out'.

He deejayed an edited bit of his famous Long, Plain and Straight, leaving out the former PMs names, and inserting Merciless. Then he counteracted Merciless' Letter to Mama, saying "mek mi tell yu 'bout the letter. the blue steel letter". He proceeded to deejay a song to Leonard's mom that suggested that her good son had been involved in sexually deviant behaviour during his incarceration. The crowd roared its approval.

Then on walked a weird-looking man, reportedly from Merciless' camp,

Gabriel summed up the emotions of the crowd succintly when he said: "****c**t, a who him?"

He never even got the chance to deejay before he turned tail and bolted off the stage.

Gabriel, his confidence surging now and fantastic disses bubbled up in his brain stem. He laughed and remarked:

"Merciless know him life ah go end, so him hide and send out him *****man friend."

The crowd almost lost its mind. Screams, whistles and cheers filled the venue.

Then Gabriel deejayed a snatch of lyrics which ended in the punchline: 'yu a talk bout furry mouth when yu a the dirtiest". The crowd
cheered again.

Then Merciless appeared stage right and someone gave him a microphone and he said: 'mi no war wid handicap *****bwoy'.

However, right from the start, it was obvious that Merciless' heart was not in the clash as he kept going over to the promoter Tommy Thompson, saying:'this is not a how clash supposed to be, yu have to pay mi good money fi kill people'.

So by the time he started to deejay old faves like 'Lend Out Mi Mercy', the crowd was smelling *lo** and began to boo him. Even when he did Letter to Mama, he was roundly booed again, but to his credit, he deejayed straight through the boos.

The turning point came when Gabriel deejayed another snatch of lyrics that suggested that Merciless was a raging homosexual for 'drinking Snagga's roots and preeing Kartel boots'. The crowd, especially the girls at the front of the stage, screamed delight. When Merciless tried to deejay, more boos greeted him and that was when he promised one of the girls waving him off that physical violence was near. He growled: 'hey gal, mi wi kick yu inna yu p**sy'.

Merciless then resorted to intimidation, grabbing at Gabriel's microphone, and the two men faced off dangerously onstage before two burly security guards rumbled over to keep them from each other. An upset Merciless then declared: 'yu a bad man? Mi wi push mi knife through yu throat'. The clash ended there, bring a sour note to what had been a hilarious night of clash-tainment.