To honour the memory of his fallen friends, Teejay pledges to keep moving towards his dreams.

During his recent interview with the Jamaica Star, the Montego Based-deejay says that he is more motivated towards making it in the music industry than ever, since the loss of his friends.

Teejay’s close friends Grimey, Afro and Snow, the Uptop Boss’s friends, who he says were his biggest supporters all loss their life to gun violence earlier this year.

“When somebody pass on, we can’t do nothing fi bring dem back innu, so we affi just move forward. Me can’t sudding and just rest pan dat fi like two, three months, because a my career dat a go go down the drain, and is like my fren dem woulda dead knowing say dem did wah me do good and me just stop,” he told The Star.

“If me do dat, is like dem a go turn inna dem grave, so me affi just continue push forward and understand say this is what life is about. We live to die. We affi dead, but it’s what we do while we living dat a go make our life different. Me affi set a legacy, work towards it, and make sure we nuh live in vain.”

To address the rumours surrounding his label choice, Teejay sought to silence the criticism about him making the wrong decision to sign with the Romeich Entertainment team.

The Unfaithful Games singer said that he is well aware of who will do their best to help him in his musical career.

“Romeich believe inna me and my thing, so me believe inna Romeich Entertainment. The world tricky innu, because me memba when me deh a MoBay and me used to pree wid me fren dem say is a man like Romeich fi have mi career, and it just end up das me forward a town and the dawg see mi thing and say, ‘Yow, yuh bad yute’, he said.

“A Romeich see mi talent and me affi respect him fi dat, so mi nuh listen when people a talk, cuz dem never seet,” he said. “How das a when Romeich seet, and unu recognise say him seet, unu a go say a di wrong thing me do? Why unu never make the push and gimme a strength? Me can’t pay people mind innu , because dem nuh normally believe inna weh yuh can do until you believe inna yurself and actually show dem say yuh can dweet.”

Failure is not an option, said the Uptop Boss “A five kids deh yah fi me, mi can’t stop dis. Mi can’t make dem know say daddy did a do dis and give up, because dem a go come grow fi be a failure, too. Me affi set example fi dem. Dem a my motivation,” he continued.