2021-03-12T09:37:32-05:00 Sean Paul on his new album 'Live N' Livin,'' dancehall culture, and the industry twenty years later [Interview] If you turned on the radio, went out to nightclubs, or even just listened to your 13-year-old sibling's mixed CDs in the early 2000s, I can confidently guess the one name that would inevitably show up every time— Sean Paul. As one of Jamaica's most prolific exports, Paul (born Sean Paul Ryan Francis Henriques) brought dancehall to the masses in the early aughts via a simple trick of a fusion of sounds, with some of the more widely accepted hip-hop and pop beats at the time lining his viral songs, along with a myriad of highly coveted and successful collaborations (Beyoncé, Rihanna). When all these little factors came together—the quality of the production, the irresistibly contagious energy, the big names lit up next to his—he found himself in a fast-moving train, with screaming fans, sold out arenas, endless contacts, and even his own record label. And while two decades have almost passed since his breakout debut, that train never stopped moving. You simply stopped noticing it.