The Shaggy and Rihanna saga has taken a new twist.
Last week Shaggy sent tongues wagging after revealing that he turned down a chance to feature on Rihanna’s upcoming album.
“They approached me for the Rihanna project, yeah. There’s a lot of great people involved, but for me, I didn’t need to audition to be on the record, I’ll leave that to younger guys. But from what I hear it should be good,” Shaggy said.
The statement immediately triggered many fans to support his decision while others blasted him for snubbing the Pop superstar.
However, according to an article by www.hot97.com a representative from Rihanna’s team has since rubbished the claims.
“Why would she (Rihanna) require Shaggy or any other artiste to audition?” they questioned.
The alleged representative went on to claim that it was actually Shaggy who contacted their team. He claims the album was pretty much done when “Shaggy contacted her asking to be a part of the album.”
They claim that Rihanna then asked Shaggy to submit some material to see if it could fit the album.
“That was by no means asking for an audition, it was more going out of her way to get him on the album,” the source claimed.”
Solid Agency’s CEO, Sheron Burke, has broken her silence on the issue. She claims that Shaggy’s statements were taken out of context and he never implied a ‘snub.’
“They’ve been in touch with many other reggae artistes to be involved and they wanted Shaggy to submit some songs rather than go in studio together. Both artistes’ schedules are very tight and when he said he would rather not audition by submitting songs and that he’d rather leave that to younger artistes, Shaggy’s word was taken out of context,” Burke said.
