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Beres at his best
Bounty will not "Sizzle"
Bramma "bombing" the dancehall
Deafening screams for Akon
Mr Vegas delivers explosive performances
BET filming Top 20 Greatest Moments in Reggae
Mavado takes dancehall night
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Sumfest The Real Hype
Da-Ville endorses Cooyah
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Lil Wayne gets Sumfest Saturday
Konshens Blows Up
The unveiling of dancehall-s first biography
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DOCTOR, D-ANGEL FIX ISSUES?...
Lady Saw off on European tour
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Gargamel-s Jamrock Classics Volume 1
First-timers for Reggae Sumfest
Features
Lutan Fyah - Rasta Still Deh Bout
Cezar - Reggae Soul
Ras Kassa - Music Is I
Aidonia - Next Level
Tafari - Rude Bwoy Warning
Collie Buddz - Finally
Shaggy - Liberated
The Man From Mars
QQ - Stukie
Bramma - Red Hot
Sizzla - Do You Overstand?
Sly Dunbar - Revolutionary
Buju Banton - Too Bad
Chuck Fenda - Gash Dem
This is My Ghetto Story - Baby Cham Pt.1
Jay Wil - Game Over Pt. 2
Jay Will - Game Over Pt. 1
This is My Ghetto Story - Baby Cham Pt.2
Beenie Man - Setting The Trend
Beenie Man - Setting The Trend Pt.2
Wayne Marshall - Chu Chu Chu
KMC - Soul On Fire
Q&A with Bascom X - Part 1
Q&A with Bascom X - Part 2
Soul On Fire
Cooyah Cooyah Cooyah
Tanto Metro & Devonte: Musically Inclined
Good Love with Cherine Anderson
Chico - It Go So Now
Idonia: The New Age Flow
Alozade - Bad Out Deh
Alozade - Bad Out Deh [Lyrics]
Is Shaggy Underrated?
Lyrikal: De Gyal Dem Specialist
Tami Chynn - Major Debut
Annetta Brewster-Aitken: The Trendsetter
Kehv - Masquerade
The Pulse
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Sean Paul Helping Push Reggae
Sound Di Big Ting Dem!
Beenie Man Undisputed - A Man of Hits
CelebrityFest Part One: Di Ting Sell-Off!!!
Reggae Industry Awards - Time For A Change?
Talk Di Truth
Professionalism in the Dancehall: Is it lacking?
Jamaica Explode
Dancehall: a street ting?
Tek the wha? And lef the wha?????
The Other Woman
Pirates of the Caribbean - The Music Edition
Idonia: The New Age Flow

Peppa Pot: We heard the news recently of the separation between you and Scatta. Can you tell us what happened?

Idonia: Well yu done know seh a little contract disagreement. Management never waan compromise. Yuh si mi? You know seh a contract is a compromise between any two people. Ah no nuttin for me the artist fi ask you the management to sit down and compromise, feel comfortable and love the contract. Management di a try bully me fi sign dat - we nuh work with bully ting and bad up.

Peppa Pot: Are you going working independently or are you trying to align yourself to another management team?

Idonia: Well right now mi just a do what mi do best: create music and perform. Mi nah seh mi no interested in other management ... but right now mi jusa gwan do mi ting. Mi get a few calls fi bookings - we just do di ting.

Peppa Pot: What are your currently working on?

Idonia: Well you done know seh we keep the fire still a blaze the real and proper way. I m still in the studio recording the big tunes. I did a couple of videos: King Fish Ah come, Unknown Assailant and a couple of medleys (Galore, Bill Back, Mad Indian). I have some other things to line up like top performances at Sumfest and Sunsplash.

Peppa Pot: Speaking of medleys we have the Galore medley online - how did you come up with the song Chicken Head?

Idonia: The beat inspire that. We jusa vibe to it. The chicken head ting ah American ting to show that it not a one dimensional ting we come with the American ting. Then I said, "Weh I can do fi mek it different?" Leftside & Esco came up with the idea to put the real chicken sound inna it.

Peppa Pot: Tell us how the song with Bounty Killer came to be, because we know you had some conflict with an artist that he works closely with.

Idonia: Who don t know Kartel was mi link from a longer while. Everyone know seh a nuff show Kartel call me pon. Nuff time we deh a studio a hang out. Kartel ah di real man. So Kartel was the one who contributed to that link because he was the one who introduced me to Killa. From deh suh now mi, Killa, and Kartel start link. Ah so that tune deh so it come bout.

Peppa Pot: There was no controversy being as how Killa work with Busy Signal?

Idonia: Listen No controversy. Killa no too deh pon the controversial ting to a level. Him rate Busy him rate me as two of the fresh new talent coming out of Jamaica. Killa no waan no war between me and Busy neither. Him just see Idonia as an artist; so fi do a collaboration him accept. Mi thankful fi dat to the fullest cause you Killa ah di man wheh first inspire mi fi do the music. So no controversial ting - ah just the work.

Peppa Pot: Alright since you brought up your inspiration tell us about your style because it s a little different. More lyrical.

Idonia: Well my style ah di new age style. Mi draw inspiration from Killa, Shabba Ranks, Ninja Man, Baby Wayne, Baby Cham, Vybz Kartel. My style ah really mi myself but mi tek a little from each of the artists mi rate. Ah di direction the whole dancehall ah go to. Ah dat we a work pon the real and proper way.

Peppa Pot: Regarding your mixtape, I noticed you re as comfortable on the rap beats as you are on the dancehall riddims. Did your time in New York contribute to this level of comfort?

Idonia: Definitely. Im a great fan of rap music. The time in the States contributed, cause we study the rap game too - yuh si mi? We study different types of music. Ah suh mi a tell you bout the new age flow - we slice up a lot of tings and put it together and call that Idonia flow.

Peppa Pot: ListenTell us of the first time you felt the love from the audience that made you really want to pursue music.

Idonia: Ahh..... First time.....I ve been performing since 99. When I was in the States I did some parties and reh reh teh teh. People always accepted me as a lyrical deejay long time. But the real time mi start feel like a star was 2003, when I had a song playing on the radio and people started getting familiar. That took place in Spanish Town, Jamaica. Mi did get a different love; mi neva get dat love de yet. So 2003 when get dat love from the Spanish Town people mi seh, "No man mi haffi continue" So mi continue till right here now.

Peppa Pot: It s been said that your lyrics are too violent. How do you handle the critism of your lyrics?

Idonia: Yuh done know seh we talk what we see, what we fren dem ah do round we, or what we actually do. Music is life, yuh si mi? Ah just music too people fi know dat. There are different types of music for different people. We have the girl songs to make the girls dem feel good, culture songs fi di cultural people, and di badman ting. Ah just life we a represent through music the real and proper way. No one should be offended and seh Idonia ah promote this and promote dat - ah just music.

Peppa Pot: ListenI haven t seen to many flyers with your name on it in New York. When can we expect you?

Idonia: Definitely this summer. This summer nah pass. Yuh done know. We wait like a year, from last year, cause Jolly was from last year summer and it s summer again. So this summer ah go mad yuh know. So you can expect me this summer the real and proper proper proper way.

Idonia Audio / Video

Send Fi Di Guns Bounty Killer f. Idonia
Chicken Head
Please (Holla Back Mix)
Kingfish Ah Come
Buka Buka

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mad lane101 ah seh:
sound it yow differently stil idonia and busy fi dun di f---ry if unu do a june together da june woulda b problem.
Posted: Friday September 8th, 2006

dappadada ah seh:
eazy i di di donia..........keep it di proper way you don know.......a so di ting set......nuh watch nuh face.......dappadadda seh dat....am out
Posted: Friday September 8th, 2006

goodasgalshanice ah seh:
mi uv u .jus wat u fi know u did bad a somefest
Posted: Saturday September 30th, 2006

goodasgalshanice ah seh:
mi luv u .jus wat u fi know u did bad a sumfest
Posted: Saturday September 30th, 2006

goodasgalshanice ah seh:
mi luv u .jus wat u fi know u did bad a sumfest
Posted: Saturday September 30th, 2006

tevans ah seh:
I love you idonia
Posted: Sunday October 1st, 2006

tevans ah seh:
i would like to meet you,i listen to your music alot and am a big fan of yours,i just hope one day i meet you in person you know maybe at any one of your concerts.mi come from cockburn pen treemile mi family dem sen mi yo CD wid all yo song dem pon it dats why mi love yo so much because you a bring a different ting to di table yo flow and everything sound nice.word up mi meen it 2047 mi listen to yo music over & over again.
Posted: Sunday October 1st, 2006

fiya uth ah seh:
fiya uth:
idonia, ah yu ah mash up yard and broad,
f--- whe di badmind breath hafi seh, jus
gwan do whe yu ah do di propa way fi di
yuth dem
Posted: Tuesday October 3rd, 2006

kerriann ah seh:
I di di donia buka buka yow the song sell off and mi seh mi go a yard fi sunfes it sell off kerriann from fameusdancer group kerriann a.k.a ms di di donia buka buka dem sick in head dem a chiken head f**k all haters stop it busy stop the clashing this a nuh beenie are buntty all dem need fi stop it tou buka buka di di donia sell off from dem dis mi nuh wan know how mi a go sen fi the G>> now
Posted: Tuesday October 10th, 2006

cell ah seh:
KRIMESEEN
Posted: Sunday November 5th, 2006

cell ah seh:
AIDONIA IS THE BIG MAN KRIMESEEN CREW SAY THAT
Posted: Sunday November 5th, 2006

wetdog ah seh:
bukam bukam more money more life donia sell off
Posted: Sunday November 5th, 2006

wetdog ah seh:
bukam bukam more money more life donia sell off
Posted: Sunday November 5th, 2006

cell ah seh:
IDIDIDID REAL AN PROPRE DONIA A THE BOSS DEM CANT STOPIT IDONIA SELL OFF KRIMESEEN SAY THAT FROM HARTFORM CT
Posted: Sunday November 5th, 2006

cell ah seh:
IDONIA THE REAL MAN BUKAM BUKAM REAL AN PROPRE CURRY SAY THAT
Posted: Sunday November 5th, 2006

wetdog ah seh:
I di di di di di di di di di di di di di di di di di di di di di di donia a ricky ticky & wet dog from hartford ct yuh dun no wi miss di show but nuff love bukam bukam big up rainbow variety bloodc---tttt link up di my space page allove@yahoo.com di PASS WORD A (MONEY1)
Posted: Sunday November 5th, 2006

wetdog ah seh:
I di di di di di di di di di di di di di di di di di di di di di di donia a ricky ticky & wet dog from hartford ct yuh dun no wi miss di show but nuff love bukam bukam big up rainbow variety bloodc---tttt link up di my space page allove@yahoo.com di PASS WORD A (MONEY1)
Posted: Sunday November 5th, 2006

govenor ah seh:
di di di di donia tell seh a di porpa way a deal wid it
Posted: Tuesday November 7th, 2006

ome-t ah seh:
Yow for the Heart a hocking College Ohio Ruff & Tuff a seh guawn duh yuh ting my dan
Posted: Thursday November 9th, 2006

wetdog ah seh:
yu biggest fan from hartford ct ricky ticky seh yow you a di wickedest artist ever come from out a jamaica donia just do yu ting yute
Posted: Friday November 10th, 2006

jah hights ah seh:
a u give i man di insperation fi go hard pon di muzik,so bless up star
Posted: Saturday November 11th, 2006

sexy t ah seh:
big up idonia nuff luv
Posted: Thursday November 16th, 2006

Kellz ah seh:
Bukkam ,Bukkam.
Yuh know its Idddddddonia.
BUKKAM. TKAE IT AWAY. I LUV IT>>>DATS MA BOO.
Posted: Friday November 17th, 2006

wetdog ah seh:
bukam bukam ricky ticky seh dat from hartford keep up di good work yute just like dat proper way
Posted: Thursday November 23rd, 2006

bud_gyal_dnt_watch_no_face ah seh:
adonia di di donia wa gwon my yout..bud mon a bud mon..nuff respect...big up to u n ya musiq keep doin u baby..{dem cant keep a gud mon down always keep a smile wen they want u to frown!}....u ah run hot..dnt let no body try bring u down my yout...dnt watch no face...bless up from ya chest up nah stress up....jah luv...*!~EMPRESS CHANTY~!*...a.k.a...*!~SEXC-YELLA~!*...*!~BUDGYAL FOWARD,BUDGYAL PULL UP DAT!~!*
Posted: Thursday February 22nd, 2007

carla13 ah seh:
gwan do yuh ting idonia.....mi luv yuh bad!!!!!!!
Posted: Monday April 16th, 2007

shanie ah seh:
very good dancehall lyricist..ill saythat much
Posted: Tuesday August 7th, 2007

stacy101 ah seh:
stacy: id di di di diona mi luv yuh.lyrics dem sell off.gwaan do yuh think.nuff ratings.PS
Posted: Saturday November 3rd, 2007

strawberry_876 ah seh:
EVERYBODY NEED FI GUH SI DUNG CUZ IM AIDONIA REAL # 1 FAN AKA WIFEY!!:-)
Posted: Monday November 5th, 2007

babydsite ah seh:
U ADI BOSSMAN DONIA NO WATCH NO FACE
Posted: Thursday November 8th, 2007

shznick ah seh:
yo mi don u dun kno enuh donia..big up from commonsense... the ratings large still no watch no face..w alwasy a fight fi get you some airplay from some badmind selector and radio personality who always a seh dem no walk wid u tune... u know some a dem to enuh who a gwaan like u fren when u come a NY. But u have o work wid it still. at least some promotion is better than none..
Posted: Friday May 16th, 2008

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