Krista Henry and Melville Cooke, STAR Writers

From left: Spice, Buju Banton, Sizzla - File photos

The idea of sexually possessing a female in the dancehall has long been sung about from different angles. By the accustomed gender roles and certainly in dancehall culture, the man is generally the aggressor in male-female relationships, taking the initiative in attempting to form a sexual liaison.

However, it is not always so, as on and off stage more women are being sexually aggressive, to the delight or discomfort of men. The women depend on their aggression in the form of their prowess in bed, such as Lady Saw who declared, "I got your man and there's nothing you can do about it."

Spice also propagates the same in Fight Over Man where she declares "everybody know seh mi a name brand, when mi a wine mi give di wickest sm, but mi sorry fi gal dem out there weh no have no glam." Spice, like Lady Saw, 'haffi' get her man.

Yet a man being aggressive in wanting to form a relationship and his treating a woman like someone who must give in to his sexual advances are two different things, and dancehall has given the two sides of 'having to have'.