Sometimes a man see yu and just a seh ‘weh Macaroni a guh?’ and it annoying sometimes ’cause mi a say mi can’t go no weh private again. Like mi affi guh dark up all a di window dem and screechie-joe, but mi nuh use to dat.
‘Macaroni’ while growing up in Fountain Road, Bath, St Thomas, where he operated a sound system.
“Me used to name Macaroni ‘cause mi love Macaroni, suh a dat a my DJ name ... . Me love mi name, a nuh nobody gi mi di name. A me mek it up fi mi self,” he told The STAR.
Now, he says going about is regular business has been more challenging than in the past.
NOT A STAR
“Sometimes a man see yu and just a seh ‘Weh Macaroni a guh?’ And it annoying sometimes ’cause mi a say mi can’t go no weh private again. Like mi affi guh dark up all a di window dem and screechie-joe, but mi nuh use to dat,” he said.
But despite the attention that he has been getting in the streets, he says he does not feel like a star.
“When a man a star and star movie, him gain from him stardom, suh this nuh mek mi feel like no star. Suh whenever time mi start gain, dem time deh mi a star, cause every star gain,” he reasoned. Macaroni believe that he and the persons’ voices heard in the flooded-road video should receive some compensation from persons using the Macaroni ‘brand’ in songs and for other promotional purpose. “Mi agree say mi fi get supm from the people dem weh a use my name, if it possible,” he said. Macaroni also said that if monetary compenation is there to be gained, he would want for his friend, whose voice can be heard on the vidieo, to get money too.
He says wherever he goes, persons who know him are telling others that he is the famous Macaroni. “Even di bus driver dem, when dem see mi dem a say, ‘Weh Macaroni a guh?’ and a say, passengers, si Macaroni deh’,” he told THE STAR.
As for the videos, Macaroni said “most a di video dem stupid”. Mi see video wid man a tie up him and a jump off a building and drop offa building and mash up and dem a say, ‘Weh Macaroni a guh?’” he said.
Macaroni admits that he has seen the funny side of some of the videos, but says there’s nothing to laugh about when he sees the video of a married man putting his head under his wife’s dress which has the ‘Weh Macaroni a guh’? voice-over.