Ninjaman is reacting to Sting promoters recent announcement that they have pulled the plug on the 2022 staging of the almanac dancehall bear witness.

Last week Isaiah Laing and Heavy appear that Sting 2022 is officially canceled. While that may not come as a surprise to some dancehall artists, what was surprising for Ninjaman was a statement the promoters made about not having the headline acts since Vybz Kartel'due south incarceration. In a video posted on his social media page, the Don Gorgon shot back saying that the headline acts are right hither at abode just the promoters refused to pay them to perform.

"Me Ninjaman is saying this, we are tightening up the dancehall unity considering look how disrespectful you are," the dancehall legend said. Ninja besides laid out a long list of artists who he thinks can headline Sting and draw huge crowd including Busy Bespeak, Aidonia, Romaine Virgo, Tarrus Riley, Chris Martin, Compensation Killer, Beenie Man, Popcaan, Masicka, and more.

"They are wicked and don't want to pay the artists, the deejays that can mashup the phase shows you guys don't want to pay them and so telling a bag of lies, I lone tin perform," Ninjaman rants.

The iconic deejay went equally far every bit to demand an apology from Laing and Heavy or else no large proper noun artist will always perform on the show again. "If nosotros don't get a public apology we are not performing on the show again," Ninja added.

Ninjaman is one of the foundation icons of dancehall who fabricated a proper name performing and ambivalent on Sting in the early on days of the festival. Sting has been an annual issue for over 30 years and this year is the commencement time that the evidence is being canceled leading us to believe this is the start of the cease of an era in dancehall.