Nine months ago, Medz Boss, Joseph Ollivere, released Just Do It, a Trinibad track that was destined to become the biggest song in the Caribbean, featuring in dancehall sets across the globe.

Since January, when he turned 29 years old, the official video for the track, written and produced by him, has pulled in a record-breaking 32 million views on YouTube, in addition to 5.1 million streams on Spotify.

It was an unprecedented inroad into the Jamaica-born-and-bred dancehall market. The numbers are record-breaking for any Trinidad and Tobago artiste, of any genre.

More importantly, however, “Just Do It” by Medz Boss is an intense diss track aimed at his rival, Kman 6ixx (Kashif Sankar), within the Trinibad dancehall scene. He was calling Kman to account. Its overwhelming popularity, added to factors not yet revealed, contributed to the truce at the Summer Stage concert at the Queen’s Park Savannah on Saturday, August 22, where Kman appeared alongside Plumpy Boss, a surviving victim of the gang war.

Plumpy Boss (Meschach Emmanuel) was shot in the head on Saturday, July 27, 2024, after he finished performing in Sint Maarten, a victim of the violent rivalry between the “Sixx” and “Seven” factions in the Trinibad music scene that spilled out into the Caribbean.

Gunmen fired a barrage of between 13 and 50 rounds at a vehicle taking Plumpy to the airport.

He has come a long way, not just in his physical recovery, but in his journey since the shooting. He chose to mount the stage to prove that the bitter feud was forgiven.

Kman was humble and helped him up the steps to the stage, where they performed together on Kman’s track, “Bend Ova.”

While his repertoire was predominantly street anthems and gun tracks, Kman has included a couple of “gyal tunes” since 2023, with that side of his music increasing significantly since his rebrand, when he dropped the 6ixx from his name earlier this year.

By the time he appeared at the historic Summer Stage festival, he led his set entirely with his massive new gyal anthem, “Bend Ova,” to highlight a clean, positive career path.

Ceasefire on direct diss tracks

On November 28, 2025, Kman released his track “Red Dot”, aimed at the Medz Boss camp based in the Beetham Gardens, just 1.7 kilometres away from St Paul Street, where Kman lived.

One day later, on November 29, Medz Boss fired back with intensely personal lines, going for the jugular and laying Kman bare, highlighting his real-life street losses, which included three friends who were ambushed and shot on their way from the airport in December 2023. It was the second attempt on his life since he released “Black Rain” in April of that year.

The immense popularity of “Just Do It”, therefore, came like a loud knocking on Kman’s door, asking him to own up to the chaos caused two years and seven months after the frenzied lyrical war spilled into the streets.

As his rank on the Trinidadian dancehall (Trinibad) scene grew, so did the gigs in the other Caribbean islands, where he performed more freely than he ever could outside of his hood at St Paul Street in East Port of Spain at the time.

That changed after the Plumpy Boss shooting got the appropriate reaction from Caribbean states, where the governments of Dominica, St Kitts and Nevis and the Bahamas, at least, banned Trinibad artistes.

Medz Boss literally dethroned Kman with “Just Do It”, which was released the day after Kman dropped “Red Dot” with aggressive lyrics, pelting subliminal and direct shots at his rivals, specifically targeting Medz Boss and his camp.

In his response track, Medz Boss laid out the message clearly. He opens the track with a simulated news report voiceover that explicitly blames Kman for the tragic losses his circle has suffered in real life:

“Kman 6ixx continues to not take accountability for so many deaths, by his one diss track alone. Were they sacrificed? Questions are still unanswered,” it is stated in the intro of the official video, which was released eight months ago.

It turned out to be the pivotal point in the war between 6ixx and 7, which was driven by killer lyrics riding tracks with hubris and trigger-happy men who took it to another level.

In June 2026, after he tried to participate in a peace walk that was stopped by the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service, Kman rode his bicycle into what was once a rival turf on Nelson Street in Port of Spain.

Days later, he issued a statement removing the 6ixx from his name.

Clearly, there is now a ceasefire on direct diss tracks so as not to inflame street tensions that could lead to retaliatory violence. Sources say the artists committed to removing aggressive gang imagery, firearms and specific neighbourhood-linked threats from their upcoming music videos.

This will be enhanced by public performances together, as they did at Summer Stage ’26, to visually show their respective fan bases that the war is over. It won’t be just peace for 6ixx and 7, but is intended to reach their peers.

Kman joined the Free Medz Boss Campaign, using his Instagram stories as the platform. He showed himself on video walking in the Beetham Gardens.

And then, two days after Summer Stage, Trinidad and Tobago’s Homeland Security Minister Roger Alexander, knowing the stage was set, revoked the Preventative Detention Order (PDO), which had kept Medz Boss inside the Eastern Correctional and Rehabilitation Centre for five months.

He had been flagged as an alleged figurehead of an organised crime group linked to the “7 Gang.”

“Everyone deserves a second chance to make a first impression,” Alexander said days before when he announced the truce, hoping “to encourage dialogue for resolving differences.”

There was enough from Kman and Plumpy to indicate that the Trinibad scene was shifting heavily towards unity and stability rather than the street warfare which spread like wildfire and claimed hundreds of lives across Trinidad and Tobago.

Finally, they can all monetise the popularity of their music. Four days after the groundbreaking concert, Kman dropped another track, “Location”, with Seedne, to strike while the iron is hot and capitalise on the positive attention.

Explainer: How we got here

• April 2023: Kman 6ixx releases Black Rain.
• October 2023: Kman and his associates were ambushed by gunmen in Woodbrook, and 28-year-old Kaveer Alvin Nandram (popularly known in the local music scene as DJ Global) was shot dead.
• December 2023: Three of Kman’s friends are ambushed and killed while travelling from the airport. Kman survives.
• July 27, 2024: Plumpy Boss is shot in the head in Sint Maarten after performing.
• November 28, 2025: Kman releases Red Dot, aimed at Medz Boss and his camp.
• November 29, 2025: Medz Boss responds with Just Do It, intensifying the lyrical feud.
• 2026: Just Do It becomes a major Caribbean hit, reaching more than 32 million YouTube views and 5.1 million Spotify streams.
• June 2026: Kman rebrands, dropping the 6ixx from his name, and wants to remove “Black Rain” from YouTube.
• August 22, 2026: Kman and Plumpy Boss appear together at Summer Stage in the Queen’s Park Savannah, publicly signalling a truce.
• August 24, 2026: The Preventative Detention Order against Medz Boss is revoked.
• August 26, 2026: Kman releases Location with Seedne, capitalising on the new positive attention.