Much has been said about the Usain Bolt phenomenon, and his taste for Mavado's music. For once, the four-time Olympic gold medallist at the Beijing Games has been beaten to it: Asafa Powell, a declared Vybz Kartel supporter, is the first to take the step into music.
The big disappointment of the Olympic Games has got involved in the production of a track, Trod It, for the group Konscious (finalists in this year's Magnum Kings and Queens of Dancehall talent contest), whose riddim is by Stephen McGregor.
Asafa Powell thus joins Ricardo "Bibi" Gardener, the only top-level Jamaican sportsman before him to have turned his passion for music into reality. The Bolton Wanderers midfielder in the English Premier League, and a producer since 2004 with the label Heart of Love, is indeed behind the emergence of Erupt.