Jimmy Thomas, veteran stereo operator and a member of Super Cat’s visiting group, is rubbishing claims that the For Dad had actually died the other day, jokingly advising fans that the vocalist has 9 lives.
“Cat is alright, him say him have nine lives, him no dead,” Thomas, who is the owner of the Jimmy Foundation noise and the designer who runs Super Cat’s dubplate programs, informed DancehallMag.
The report was set off by a social networks post including images of the Dancehall star with his tune, Rude Boyplaying in the background.
“Is just someone seeking fame or likes, they put it up. We (Cat, his manager) were in Canada, we’re leaving today. We had a show over the weekend with Teejay, Vershon and Ishawna. We’re coming back to Canada for Caribana on August 5th. Super Cat is well alright,” Thomas said.
Thomas said he would be meeting Super Cat in New York later on today.
In 2012, a comparable report appeared that Super Cat had actually been shot and killed in a burglary. In a radio interview, he explained the strange series of occasions after Fox 5 reported that he had actually passed away.
“I was there in mi basement when I get a call from a good friend of mine who was running Jam Rock Club and a manager who was managing Dennis Brown,” he said. “Dem seh ‘Squeeze [another of his nicknames]turn on yuh TV and look at yuh self, dead on Fox 5 Channel. Now, when I was looking at Fox 5, they had a news bulletin saying ‘Super Cat’ William Maragh was robbed and shot in Brooklyn, and was pronounced dead on arrival at King’s County Hospital.”
The Dancehall star revealed that he saw from his tv as numerous individuals collected by the medical facility to witness his remains for the last time.
“I saw hundreds of people out there by Rockaway and Linden Boulevard waiting to see the last remains of Super Cat. I jus’ a puff on my spliff and seh ‘I’m not going to address dis innuh, I jus’ ago watch and see if dis is a conspiracy.”
He explained that he saw the reports go on for several years without resolving it, and just permitted his work over the years to show testimony that he had actually lived and well.
The Wild Apache deejay was among the entertainers at this year’s BET Awards event, which honored hip-hop veteran Busta Rhymes.
Super Cat is Dancehall’s Don Dadda, among the category’s initial ‘rude bwoys.’ The artist, whose offered name is William Maragh, was a dominant deejay in the 1980s and approximately the mid-1990s.
Hailing from Cockburn Pen in Kingston’s inner-city, he was on the leading edge of a wave of dancehall artistes to go mainstream in the 1990s, forming alliances with Hip Hop super stars consisting of Heavy D, P. Diddy and Biggie Smalls.
In the early 1990s, Super Cat transferred from Jamaica to New York, where he signed with Columbia Records. In 1992, he launched the album Don Dada and followed up with The Struggle Continues in 1995. He was likewise included on the remix of Kriss Kross’s mega-hit, Jumpin 1992.
After scoring a big hit in 1985 with Trash and Readyhe followed up that with mega hits such as boops in 1986, along with gritty disrespectful bwoy anthems like Don Dada, Ghetto Red Hot and Dem No Worry We with Heavy D.
Though the star’s group is moving promptly to fight the false information, this is not the very first time the vocalist has actually needed to ward off reports surrounding his expected death.
