{"id":10541,"date":"2025-04-11T11:57:49","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T11:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=10541"},"modified":"2025-04-18T11:49:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T11:49:02","slug":"welder-ignites-the-internet-with-dont-call-me-no-buddy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=10541","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWelder\u201d Ignites the Internet with “Don’t Call Me No Buddy!”"},"content":{"rendered":"

What starts as a freezing day on a Quebec railway construction site quickly melts into one of the hottest viral moments of 2025. Fitzroy \u201cWelder\u201d Donald, a Jamaican welder and recording artist now living in Canada, had no idea his casual work banter would set social media\u2014and now the airwaves\u2014on fire.<\/p>\n

It all kicked off mid-shift, in the biting -21\u00b0C cold, where banter is the norm among the rugged crew of railway workers. These workers power through the harshest conditions, and sharp-tongued teasing is just another way to stay warm and sane.<\/p>\n

But on this particular day, things took a spicy turn when supervisor Greg Lee jokingly called out to Welder with a casual, \u201cHey buddy!\u201d\u2014a seemingly harmless greeting in Canadian culture. Unbeknownst to him, in Jamaican slang, the word \u201cbuddy\u201d carries a very<\/em> different meaning. Welder, already recording on his phone for fun, didn\u2019t let it slide.<\/p>\n

\u201cDON\u2019T CALL ME NO BUDDY!\u201d he shot back, in full Patois fury. Greg doubled down with a cheeky \u201cMove yuh Bombocloth!\u201d\u2014and just like that, the camera caught lightning in a bottle. The video hit TikTok, and within hours it was being shared, stitched, and memed by fans around the world. But the internet wasn\u2019t done with Welder yet.<\/p>\n

By that evening, Greek Records, a music label based in New York, called him up. They wanted the audio for a track. Welder quickly sent over a sample from the recorded clip, and within three days<\/em>, the full track was mixed, mastered, and released.<\/p>\n

The result? A dancehall banger titled “Don\u2019t Call Me No Buddy”<\/em><\/strong>\u2014a bad man anthem that\u2019s now dominating underground playlists from Kingston to Toronto. DJs like DJ Kenny and the USA\u2019s CD Banging have already stamped it onto their latest mixtapes, alongside some of the biggest names in dancehall.<\/p>\n

Social media has dubbed it \u201cthe realest viral rise of 2025,\u201d with fans praising the authenticity, raw humor, and cultural crossover embedded in the track. Beyond the laughs, it\u2019s also sparked conversations about language, cultural context, and the Caribbean diaspora\u2019s influence on pop culture abroad.<\/p>\n

\"\"Fitzroy \u201cWelder\u201d Donald is no stranger to the spotlight. Before welding in Canada, he was a producer and on-air presenter at CVM Television in Jamaica and worked with Caribbean World Channel. Since migrating to Canada in 2021, he\u2019s been blending his artistic roots with his hardworking hustle\u2014and now, it\u2019s paying off in ways no one could have predicted.<\/p>\n

What started as a cold-day joke turned into a blazing hit\u2014and if this moment is any sign, we haven\u2019t heard the last from Welder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What starts as a freezing day on a Quebec railway construction site quickly melts into one of the hottest viral moments of 2025. Fitzroy \u201cWelder\u201d Donald, a Jamaican welder and recording artist now living in Canada, had no idea his casual work banter would set social media\u2014and now the airwaves\u2014on fire. It all kicked off […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[240,239],"tags":[82],"class_list":["post-10541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canadian-news","category-international-news","tag-featured"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10542,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10541\/revisions\/10542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}