South London based Dancehall artist M Dot R has made headlines for several things other than his fusion music. He has drawn attention throughout the nation, for his “extra large” claims, his unique Jamaican-infused accent and his Peter Andre-style take on Jamaican culture. 

This time M Dot R has once again conjured up public discussion after a clip from his latest documentary emerged, where 'Turn Red' didn't turn everyone's heads. The artists teased what was to come in the upcoming documentary in a recent interview, saying: 

“There is a big documentary we have been filming for a few years now, it will probably be on Netflix or something like that. It followed me around my whole life, through south London, Kent and Jamaica, it’s called White Lion.”

However, it seems the ‘White Lion’ has run into some trouble as the newly circulated clip shows the artist struggling to fill a venue for his headline appearance. In the video, M Dot R can be heard saying to the film-maker and production team:

“This place is dead.

I don’t know what he’s done with the promotion…

At the moment, I don’t even know if I’m gonna go out there.”  

He continues to explain the situation saying, “they said I don’t get paid. We split the door money, and I had a bad feeling  about that”. It becomes evident that he was justified in his bad feeling as the three party-goers spotted in the video didn’t add up to much door money.

The documentary-maker following M Dot R’s career, stated that “things had changed” as a result of the poor turn out, giving him a feeling that M Dot no longer wanted him and his crew there to film the unfolding disaster. 

M Dot ultimately decided against not only performing but allowing the documentary-maker to showcase the low turnout. M Dot R concludes it would be “too damaging” for his blossoming music career to show the ordeal and begins pleading with the production team not to show it. He is obviously aware of the embarrassing nature of his predicament, as he states that his manager would “go mental” if anything got out about the empty appearance. He adds:

“One promoter looks at that, bookings stop bro…

I can’t do it. I sell out clubs every weekend. I can’t do it…My manager - ah mate - there’d be steam coming out of his ears.”

Turns out the ‘Lickle But Talawa’ artist may be a better musician than negotiator, because the footage has begun making waves on social media.