And he believes that his life experiences make him "tailor-made” for the complexities of the rough-and-tumble Southside neighborhood of Belize City.īut Shyne's rollercoaster life and career, from immigrant to rap star to prisoner to politician, remains as filled with highs and lows as always.ĭays after being interviewed by VICE News, scandal rocked his campaign when a police report leaked of an alleged domestic violence incident reported by Shyne's wife, Catherine Barrow. On November 11, Shyne is running for election to represent one of the most downtrodden and dangerous constituencies in the small Central American nation of Belize. citizen was deported to his native Belize, where he had immigrated from as a child. But after being released, the rap star who never became a U.S.
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His second album, partially recorded over the phone while incarcerated, also tracked high on the Billboard charts. After he first appeared on a remix for a track from the R&B group Total, the eery similarities between his baritone voice and silky flow as that of Combs’ previous star disciple, the deceased Biggie Smalls, had hip-hop heads buzzing. The music world was still reeling from the unsolved 19 murders of Tupac Shakur and Christopher “Notorious B.I.G” Wallace, when Combs introduced Shyne as his latest protegé. The then 20-year-old phenomenon was discovered freestyling in a New York barbershop. They won't say that I'm the only Belizean to have sold the amount of records that I've sold, and to chart the charting positions that I've charted, or to even chart."īefore his conviction, no one who hadn’t released an album generated more hype on the hip-hop scene than Shyne. "They won't say that I won a GRAMMY award for writing and performing on Usher's Confessions album. "The opposition will tell you that I'm a deportee, that I'm a convict," said Shyne about his political rivals.
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Shyne had his fame cut short, but now he’s looking for popularity of a different kind: political office in his home country of Belize, in Central America.
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Moses Barrow, now 41 and still mostly known by his pseudonym Shyne, didn't want to rehash the past but told VICE News that the nightclub incident that put him behind bars was “self-defense” and that "I was just protecting my friends."