Vybz Kartel

Vybz Kartel is determined that he is non recording music in prison despite coming nether increased pressure from authority.

On Tuesday, Jamaican law enforcement moved in and conducted a search of the dancehall deejay'south cell block where contraband was plant. He was afterward relocated to another prison and placed in solitude pending the upshot of an ongoing investigation.

Speaking with Rolling Stone through his attorney, Tom Tavares-Finson, Vybz Kartel made it clear that he has not been recording in prison house and all his recent singles are as a consequence of his hard piece of work in the years before his arrest.

"I've always been a prolific songwriter, and I record at breakneck speed as well, and so I have a lot of surplus material to choose from," the sometime Portmore Empire head said. "At that place is a recording studio at another correctional facility [in Jamaica] simply none here … cellphones, laptops, or any Internet-capable instrument are prohibited items."

A rep for the incarcerated dancehall star backed upwards his story telling us that all his new music are as a effect of a massive catalog of previously recorded unreleased material. "Nosotros have hundreds and possibly thousands of unreleased material for Vybz Kartel, so for years to come nosotros volition still be putting out new music," his reps told Urban Islandz.