Who is Dee Shy?

Born Doreen Samantha Mason, Dee Shy worked within the beauty industry and was featured in the “Black Hair Magazine”, which was an “international bi-monthly magazine for the style-conscious celebrity black women around the world”. In 2001 Mason survived a car accident. During an interview with Jerade James Jr for Future Topic and Black British Musicians Magazine, she stated how the incident had changed her perception of life, and she decided to tone down her lyrical content towards Hip Hop. This change caught the attention of the Gospel music genre who mildly associated her with the movement. Although she’s not fully considered a Gospel recording artist it was during an award ceremony in 2019 held in Birmingham where she was introduced to the UK music executive, record producer and rapper, Mark Duffus, (Blak Prophetz), owner of Digital Jukebox Records. She sent him her rap songs and she was later signed to his record label in the same year to release more conscious rap songs including the mentoring of problematic youth within her community.

“Based on ‘Mission Impossible’, Dee Shy expresses a cool approach with confidence. She’s on a mission to do what is right. She’s committed with a sense of duty with powerful punchlines whilst addressing matters that really matter in society. Reggae & Hip Hop is the flavour; Rap is sauce ‘Bun Dem’ is the name of the dish. ‘Bun Dem’ means to burn them which is a common Jamaican Patois statement used when one dislikes or expresses disapproval of one or many. Dee Shy sends a clear message of awareness telling her listeners that the ‘whole world is in limbo’ and for those who are causing it, we simply need to ‘Bun Dem.”