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Beenie Man In Near-Fatal Car Accident

Dancehall veteran undergoes surgery to stop internal bleeding.

Dancehall veteran Beenie Man was involved in a near-fatal, single-car accident early Thursday morning in his native Jamaica.

The vocalist was driving by himself from his home in Kingston to a dancehall party in Mandeville, approximately 50 miles away, when his Hummer overturned while trying to negotiate a road under construction.

According to a spokesperson, the accident occurred around 4 a.m. just outside the hills of Mandeville. Beenie was taken to a nearby hospital and had emergency surgery Thursday afternoon (January 15) to stop internal bleeding and damage to his ribs and lungs. He will remain in the hospital under observation for three weeks.

While he is expected to recover, his spokesperson said it was not clear how this accident would affect the future of his recording career.

Beenie Man, whose real name is Moses Davis, has been one of dancehall's preeminent MCs since the early 1990s. Before Sean Paul infiltrated U.S. pop music, Beenie Man was the collaborator preferred by hip-hop and R&B artists. He has worked with Mya, Janet Jackson and the Neptunes, among others. He had been in the studio preparing a new album for his U.S. label, Virgin, due later this year.

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