Dancehall group Merital Family is the latest casusalty of the fall in Vybz Kartel’s Portmore Empire.
They are yet another set of artistes (that also include NotNice and Jah Vinci) to leave and talk out about the ill treatment and management abuse by Vybz Kartel.
“For the last year and a half, we ah get stifle, we ah get overpriced, dem a tell people say we de pon tour and we de ya nah go nowhere. We ah suffer, we nah get no promotion, we have kids to feed and me have my mother to take care of,” one of the members of Merital Family said.
“Mi come to do music and sake ah the Empire, we never get to contact certain producers and artistes, or meet with icons in the business like Bounty Killer, just because of the Empire.”
It is also reported that the group was removed as the writers of their hit single, “My Money Ha Ha” and replaced by Vybz Kartel!
Merital Family members continued by saying, “VP Records called us about doing some promotion of the song, and that’s how we found out it had been sold to a record label. So we called Tarik ‘Russian’ Johnston and asked why him never tell we about the money and he said ‘Kartel ah yu leader, mi think he would let you know’, and then we checked with our publishers and they told us that the credits for the writer of the song was Adidja Palmer and it was produced by Russian, that’s all, no recognition, nothing, what about our publishing and our rights? We have our song before we met Kartel and the song became a hit and we no achieve anything from it.
Source: Jay Blessed
