Throwback Thursdays: Shabba Ranks + Johnny Gill on Arsenio Hall

The performance might impart nostalgia to you old heads, but it’s all about the interview. Gill takes Arsenio’s seat behind the desk and gets the interview going, starting off by asking Shabba, “What the hell are you saying?!” They talk about why women love Shabba so much, his collab with Eddie Murphy, the meaning of “Bedroom Bully and how he managed to cross over to American audiences. As dancehall fans, most of us know what Shabba was saying, but how about what he was wearing?! Even in dancehall, no one could pull that off other than Rexton Rawlston Fernando Gordon, aka Shabba Rankin’.