The multiplatinum Dutty Rock made him dancehall's ambassador to mainstream American pop, but don't expect Sean Paul to succumb to the lure of the big lights. The Jamaican singer has no plans to change the approach that helped him to sell more than 6 million records worldwide.

"I've been approached by many different people, [but] I don't really want to be known as a collaboration dude," Paul said, dismissing the notion that he will load his next album with high-profile pop singers and producers.

Paul has already recorded a handful of pure dancehall songs with Jamaican producers, his manager said. Many of them will surface over the next few months on 7-inch vinyl singles -- still a popular format for Jamaican dancehall music. After a one-month tour of European festivals starting June 14, Paul will go back into his Kingston studio and finish up the bulk of the album, which he hopes to have out by year's end.

"I still have a bit of work to do," Paul said. "I'll still have some party tracks and stuff, but there's a couple of deeper songs [too]. Deeper social issues on this album."

One such song, "Time Rolls On," has already been recorded. Paul explained the message of the song, saying, "As time rolls on, will the world get along? We all have different societies and religions and people that all speak the same thing -- we need peace, we need love. But we never do. We always fight for it, war for it."

Despite his insistence that he's not "a collaboration dude," Paul's working with Carlos Santana on a song for the guitar legend's next album. "I met him at the Grammys and I'm very proud to do that right now," Paul said.