Jamaican reggae artist, Shaggy, has disclosed that he declined an invitation from Rihanna to collaborate on a song for her much-anticipated ninth album.
The two-time Grammy Award winner explained that he turned down the opportunity because she requested him to “audition.”
“They approached me for the Rihanna project, yeah,” stated the musician to Britain’s Daily Star. “There’s a lot of great people involved, but for me, I didn’t need to audition to be on the record. I’ll leave that to younger guys. But from what I hear, it should be good.”
Despite rejecting the offer to be part of the album, Shaggy still expressed positive remarks about Rihanna’s ‘Caribbean dancehall-inspired album.’
‘“It’s healthy competition,” he remarked. “Dancehall is in a good place but we need as many people to do this art form as possible. When it crosses over and becomes popular with artists from other genres and other cultures, that can only be good.”