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He wanted to take me to Jamaica to record and I gave him the impression that I was an adult and I could make that decision on my own, but I was really only 15," she confessed.
So she drafted a plan while school was on winter break. She told her mom that she wanted to visit her cousin in Queens. What she really did was to pick up a plane ticket from Steelie at the travel agency and flew straight to Kingston, where she recorded a dancehall flavoured, hardcore rap single titled, Kill The [censored].
She wasn't too proud of the song, as she felt the producers had concentrated too much on the sensual slurs she used to flavour the music, which gave it an overtly sexually hardcore sound.
In the meantime, Sasha's mom heard the full story about how she had actually flown to Kingston to record a hardcore song, after giving her the impression that she was only going to Queens to see her cousin.
"She beat me badly. I got some licks! Then she threw me out after she heard the song. The song sounded so explicit, she was furious. It had a very strong sexual content," Sasha admitted.
But the song became a favourite of nightclub deejays and was even picked up by Chris Blackwell's Island/Mango label as the flipside of Buju Banton's Bogle.
"I didn't like it, I hated that song. I was saying how could I do a song like that. But, it did a hell of a lot for me," she confirmed. "Even in Africa it did well. The result was phenomenal. The club DJs liked it so much it became a club anthem."
<span style="color: #CC0000">some years later.....</span>
But, is she determined to retain that hardcore crown she wore years ago with Kill the [censored]?
"When I say hardcore, you will never hear Sasha on a stage saying certain things. I write suggestive lyrics. I don't say things, I just suggest it. When I say hardcore, I don't mean the raw chaw, I don't even curse, if I curse I make them up, like raam scraam. I make up my own things. I don't know if it is that I've matured over the years - but I am not that kind of artiste. I could say my kitty kat and get away with it and get the same response.
"I am here to prove that you can come to Jamaica from foreign and done the place same way, because music is music and if you're good and confident, and you go out there, you can make it same way. Even if I am not living in Jamaica, I can do just as well as anybody coming out of Jamaica."
So she drafted a plan while school was on winter break. She told her mom that she wanted to visit her cousin in Queens. What she really did was to pick up a plane ticket from Steelie at the travel agency and flew straight to Kingston, where she recorded a dancehall flavoured, hardcore rap single titled, Kill The [censored].
She wasn't too proud of the song, as she felt the producers had concentrated too much on the sensual slurs she used to flavour the music, which gave it an overtly sexually hardcore sound.
In the meantime, Sasha's mom heard the full story about how she had actually flown to Kingston to record a hardcore song, after giving her the impression that she was only going to Queens to see her cousin.
"She beat me badly. I got some licks! Then she threw me out after she heard the song. The song sounded so explicit, she was furious. It had a very strong sexual content," Sasha admitted.
But the song became a favourite of nightclub deejays and was even picked up by Chris Blackwell's Island/Mango label as the flipside of Buju Banton's Bogle.
"I didn't like it, I hated that song. I was saying how could I do a song like that. But, it did a hell of a lot for me," she confirmed. "Even in Africa it did well. The result was phenomenal. The club DJs liked it so much it became a club anthem."
<span style="color: #CC0000">some years later.....</span>
But, is she determined to retain that hardcore crown she wore years ago with Kill the [censored]?
"When I say hardcore, you will never hear Sasha on a stage saying certain things. I write suggestive lyrics. I don't say things, I just suggest it. When I say hardcore, I don't mean the raw chaw, I don't even curse, if I curse I make them up, like raam scraam. I make up my own things. I don't know if it is that I've matured over the years - but I am not that kind of artiste. I could say my kitty kat and get away with it and get the same response.
"I am here to prove that you can come to Jamaica from foreign and done the place same way, because music is music and if you're good and confident, and you go out there, you can make it same way. Even if I am not living in Jamaica, I can do just as well as anybody coming out of Jamaica."
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