From Dancehall Sensation to International Star: Byron Messia's Rise … – BET

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In 2023, it wasn’t a hip-hop song that lit up the months of June, July, and August – rather – it was a Dancehall joint that makes you want to swing your hips back and forth.

Byron Messia’s “Talibans,” as you may have noticed, lit up everyone’s Instagram Stories and TikTok videos and has garnered nearly 50 million views on YouTube. Still, it was just a piece of a larger and excellent work the 23-year-old dropped earlier this year.

No Love relays much of Messia’s story – being an adopted child from Jamaica, growing up in St….