Sean Paul is pulling again the curtain on the historical past behind his well-known identify.
The Jamaican rapper, who was born Sean Paul Ryan Francis Henriques OD, has had followers singing alongside to his loopy in style tracks on the dance flooring because the early 2000s, however solely NOW is he offering legitimacy to a hilarious fan concept from years in the past! As far as we’ve all been conscious, the Gimme the Light artist has been together with his identify within the lyrics of his songs identical to so many different musicians, together with Pitbull and Jason Derulooooo.
LOLz!
But in 2017, one curious fan tweeted:
“I used to think that Sean Paul was shouting out [Shivnarine] Chanderpaul at the beginning of every song in a weird tribute to the Cricket player”
Well, quick ahead to 2022, and the person himself simply confirmed the Twitter consumer isn’t fully incorrect!! During a Vice documentary uploaded to YouTube earlier this month titled, The Story Of Sean Paul’s ‘Get Busy,’ the 49-year-old musician defined:
“There’s a famous cricketer in Trinidad [named] Shivnarine Chanderpaul. Everybody was like, ‘Sean da Paul,’ and that name stuck.”
Okay, critically… This needs to be one of many CRAZIEST and most area of interest examples of a fan concept that really received it proper! Sean added:
“Then I just started to say it in shows and met the dude Chanderpaul years later, and he’s like, ‘Yo!’ But yeah, big up to Shivnarine Chanderpaul.”
Then, to humor the fan in query, the Temperature rapper responded to his tweet, writing:
“If u didnt kno ~ now you kno: big up #Chanderpaul”
See the complete interplay (beneath):
If u didnt kno ~ now you kno:
large up #Chanderpaul ????????
I do know I do know… He’s from #Guyana???????? https://t.co/qWmR9alK0h
— Sean Paul (@duttypaul) December 16, 2022
Chanderpaul is a Guyanese cricket coach and former participant, and is basically thought of one of many best batsmen of his time. See Sean’s full documentary (beneath):
Crazy, loopy! Did YOU have any thought of the origins of Sean’s catchy identify, Perezcious readers? Let us know within the feedback down beneath!
[Image via Atlantic Records/YouTube]