Portmore Empire deejay Blak Ryno’s Thug Anthem (So Yardie Stay) has stormed into the RE TV Dancehall charts at #20, solidifying his status as the clear frontrunner in the Best New Artiste category. The deejay was in the streets campaigning last night and performed at Weddy Weddy and at Quad, getting major forwards for his songs, especially Mek Di Paper and Thug Anthem.

“Yea, the streets are really responding to me right now, the Empire is getting out there in a big way, I am getting crazy requests for shows all over the Caribbean and the US. The people love the music and I promise to continue making the hits,” Ryno explained.

He mentioned nothing of last night’s shooting incident at the Coppershot studios saying that he was an artiste and that is a ‘criminal matter that the authorities are dealing with’.

“Ah music me a pree, nothing else,” he said.

Last week, he performed at a Digicel stage show featuring the likes of Busy Signal, Lady Saw, Beenie Man and this weekend, he will be performing at the Canadian Link Up street dance in Cambridge on the outskirts of Montego Bay.

Former Portmore Empire member Deva Brat has voiced a diss song aimed at his former mentor and friend Vybz Kartel. The song calls Kartel a ‘Judas’ and makes references to Jeffrey Hype’s VK tattoo but it is clear that DB has lost a step or two during his incarceration and the song fails to deliver a knockout punch to the Teacha.

 
With Vybz Kartel’s help, Deva Brat vaulted into the spotlight and hit a number of major dancehall charts this year with Gussie Clarke before his incarceration on a double carnal abuse charge. The second charge was that he had sexually assaulted a 14 year-old girl in February of this year. The charges were eventually dropped on the first charge.
While in prison, the relationship between Deva Brat and Vybz Kartel after VK distanced himself from the abominable and disgusting allegations levelled against  Deva Brat. Deva Brat also began a media campaign claiming that he was the one who first came up with the name Portmore Empire and that Kartel had stolen the name and registered it.