On February 26th, his recording label Adidjahiem Records, in partnership with notable Reggae label Tads Record, will release Pon Di Gaza 2.0, a re-release of last year's digital Pon Di Gaza album, with a bonus disc of the deejay's latest hit singles, include the current #1 hit "Life We Living." Pon Di Gaza 2.0 is Vybz Kartel's first physical album in nearly four years.

Like Pon Di Gaza, the release of Pon Di Gaza 2.0 comes in the midst of a storm of Kartel controversy -- rumors and allegations of everything from trouble inside his Portmore Empire camp to tangles with law enforcement -- which is all par for the course for the unconquerable deejay.

Maybe all the fame is getting to Mr. ‘Flash and Film it’. He has been absent from several concerts in several countries including Guyana, where only a handful of his entourage and members of the Portmore Empire were absent.

The deejay scored eight #1 singles in 2009, including the internationally acclaimed single "Romping Shop" which hit the Billboard Top 100, and "Dollar Sign," and "Virginity" which are currently in rotation on urban music stations throughout the Caribbean and North America. Since the start of 2010, he has been heralded as Deejay of the Year, Recording Artist of the Year, and Song Writer/Lyricist of the Year by the Excellence in Music and Entertainment Awards, and Favorite Artist of the Year and Best Male Artist of the Year, while his song "Love Dem" was voted Best Chart Topping Song of the Year at the Youth View Awards in Jamaica.

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