{"id":8828,"date":"2024-06-07T12:00:48","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T12:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=8828"},"modified":"2024-06-14T10:07:25","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T10:07:25","slug":"chronixx-makes-appearance-at-reggae-boyz-training-session-fans-ask-wheres-the-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=8828","title":{"rendered":"Chronixx Makes Appearance at Reggae Boyz Training Session, Fans Ask \u2018Where\u2019s The Album?\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chronixx\u2018s appearance at a recent Reggae Boyz training session ahead of their World Cup Qualifiers against the Dominican Republic on Thursday, June 6, has stirred speculation not only about his interaction with the footballers but also reignited curiosity about the release of his long-awaited \u2018Dela Splash\u2019<\/em><\/strong> album.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF), the governing body for football in Jamaica, shared a slew of photos on Instagram featuring the Here Comes Trouble singer with the national football squad.\u00a0 \u201cLook who stopped by our training today! Chronixx,\u201d the Federation said of the singer, who has in the past called football \u201cthe greatest sport.\u201d<\/p>\n

Many of the JFF\u2019s followers cheered Chronixx along, some pointing back to Jamaica\u2019s Road to France Campaign leading up to the 1998 World Cup finals, where numerous artists visibly poured their full support behind the national football team, which went on to qualify.<\/p>\n

\"\"\u201cDuring our entire 98 World Cup qualifications journey we had the artists and many many others visiting the camps. They had school children and even the Manning and DaCosta cup teams and had regular fans visiting training sessions. It brought a whole different vibe. Maybe they trying hard this methodology again,\u201d one man noted, while another woman expressed the same sentiments albeit in lesser words adding: \u201cIt\u2019s a good look. Kinda reminds me of the 98 WC\u201d.\u00a0 \u201cLove the approach! Connect back with the fans, need the stadium packed for matches. More of this!\u201d another urged.<\/p>\n

Other people, though, expressed concern that Chronixx had seemingly been keeping a low profile and that\u00a0\u2018Dela Splash\u2019<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0was still unreleased after more than two years.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince he\u2019s there with yall\u2026 ask him bou the album,\u201d one person said, to which another football fan added: \u201cRight! Bcuz him a do everything except put out new music\u201d.\u00a0 Of Chronixx\u2019s low profile, leonson_samuels mocked: \u201cMe feel that man reach a zion to how long me nuh see or hear nothing bout him\u201d.<\/p>\n

In December 2021, Chronixx had explained that\u00a0\u2018<\/strong>Dela Splash<\/strong><\/em>,\u2019<\/strong> his highly anticipated, but overdue sophomore album, would not be released any time soon, as daddy duties had taken precedence.<\/p>\n

\u2018Dela Splash<\/strong><\/em>\u2019<\/strong> had been initially slated for release in the Summer of 2020, but, after the album did not materialize, speculations were rife that it had been delayed due to the pandemic.<\/p>\n

However, Chronixx had explained in a Rolling Stone interview that the delay had to do with the fact that he was spending time raising his then two-year-old daughter, whom he had said in a past interview he planned to bring on the road with him as much as possible.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt wasn\u2019t what I was expecting, but really, there was nothing I could expect. It was a new feeling, and I was not ready to leave her to do anything. The pandemic was the perfect time for a father to be beside his daughter and also a good time to create,\u201d the\u00a0\u2018<\/strong>Skankin Sweet\u2019<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0singer had explained.<\/p>\n

Chronixx\u2019s 2017 album,\u00a0\u2018<\/em><\/strong>Chronology<\/strong><\/em>,\u2019<\/em><\/strong> debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Reggae Albums chart and also earned the St. Catherine High School Old Boy a Grammy nomination.<\/p>\n

He had told Billboard in March 2020, that for\u00a0\u2018<\/strong>Dela Splash<\/strong><\/em>,\u2019<\/strong> he had recorded each of the songs \u201cstraight through\u2026then took the best from those recordings and comped them together and that there was a lot of \u201clearning and experimenting on the album because he was \u201cstepping out of his comfort zone\u201d.<\/p>\n

Chronixx had also said that he co-produced several of the tracks and compared his approach to \u201cwhat hip-hop artists do, putting different things together and rapping on top of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe long-delayed \u2018Dela Splash\u2019<\/strong> may never be released, but the songs he recorded for it will make their way out to the world, Chronixx promises,\u201d the publication had noted.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0\u2018<\/strong>Dela Splash\u2019<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0album is named after the now-defunct annual concert in De La Vega City, Spanish Town, where Chronixx was born. According to its founders, the Dela Splash show originated in 1982 to help the community football team raise funds for purchasing gear for a local competition.<\/p>\n

Due to the number of Reggae and Dancehall luminaries who lived in and around Spanish Town, the footballers had decided to put on a stage show to raise funds.<\/p>\n

The first event featured the likes of Papa San, his brother Dirtsman, Anthony Red Rose, Buccaneer, Major Worries, Galaxy P and Major Christie and Chronicle, Chronixx\u2019s father, among others.<\/p>\n

Because it was set for the summer, weeks after the Reggae Sunsplash music festival, the name was adapted to reflect Dela Splash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chronixx\u2018s appearance at a recent Reggae Boyz training session ahead of their World Cup Qualifiers against the Dominican Republic on Thursday, June 6, has stirred speculation not only about his interaction with the footballers but also reignited curiosity about the release of his long-awaited \u2018Dela Splash\u2019 album. On Tuesday, the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF), the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":8818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[260],"class_list":["post-8828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-breakingnews"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8828","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8829,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8828\/revisions\/8829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}