Chuck Fender asks 'What's happening?'
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Topic: Jamaica, Jamaica

Chuck Fender asks 'What's happening?'

By GERMAINE SMITH, Staff Reporter

Chuck Fenda - Germaine smith Photo

NEARLY A WEEK after being dropped from his management company Fifth Element Records, more questions than answers surround Chuck Fender's status.

The deejay told THE STAR yesterday that up to now, he has not heard any official word from the Fifth Element label, and he has not heard why he was let go in the first place.

The Fifth Element Label has on its official roster artistes Richie Spice, Anthony Cruz, Spanner Bonner, Jah Penco, and Jah Lions. Fifth Element's CEO, Devon Wheatley, was unavailable for comment up to press time yesterday, but another representative of the management team stated that he was dropped because they could not settle on a management issue.

The representative denied that it was related to a recent incident, where the police arrested on the premises, a man who was wanted by the Spanish Town police. There were questions regarding the man's possible connection to members of the Fifth Element family.

Management issue

The representative declined to be named and refused to state the specific cause, but said it was a management issue.

Chuck Fender did not state the specific cause either, but said that late last week he and the Fifth Element Management team disagreed about an aspect of the management, to the point where their meeting got heated. He added that he subsequently stormed out of the meeting, only to later hear through the media that he was dropped.

"We just inna a meeting bout management and we couldn't settle pon a matter, so because it get heated and we couldn't agree me leave go outside and siddung inna mi car fi cool out little bit. Little later mi a hear seh mi get drop from Fifth Element," he stated.

"Up to now nobody from Fifth Element no call me and seh nutten," Fender added.

Fender said that he was more surprised than anything else about being cut from the label, as he was there from its beginning, and the other artistes on the roster are still friends with him.

"Mi no have nutten bad fi seh bout Fifth Element, but mi deh deh from day one a build it. We do the work and struggle with it from dem time deh cause from the bottom a mi heart mi love Fifth Element, dem teach mi nuff things, but it surprise me, and mi no know what is happening."

"Even today, a mi and Richie Spice and Anthony Cruz a par whole day, so me no know where that come from. Until a man call me and tell me what is going on, mi just haffi go on and do the work," Chuck Fender continued.