Sean Paul, the Jamaican dancehall star, recently revealed the story behind his collaboration with American pop singer Beyoncé.
Their hit collaboration, ‘Baby Boy’, featured on Beyoncé’s 2003 album ‘Dangerous Love’.
In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Sean Paul shared that Beyoncé took a step out of her comfort zone to work with him on the dancehall track.
He expressed how the song not only paved the way for the mainstream recognition of dancehall but also made history for both himself and Beyoncé.
“I was [working] with Busta Rhymes, I was doing stuff with Clipse and I was doing stuff with Blu Cantrell — and all of those stuff was very dope but they were more hip-hop oriented, and this was such a big artist and she [Beyoncé] was stepping out on her own [genre],” he recalled.
“So it really made me feel that dancehall-style was coming into its own and that my music or genre was being accepted by many people. Coming from Texas, I know she’s heard a lot of dancehall growing up and [was] familiar with that whole vibe, so it made sense to me and it made history for both of us.”
