CURTIS CAMPBELL, STAR Writer

From left: Elephant Man, Capleton, Bounty Killer and Beenie Man end Fullyloaded on a high on Sunday night at the Palisadoes Go-Kart Track, Kingston. - Mel Cooke photos

The recently concluded Boom Fullyloaded lived up to expectations in some areas, but failed to end as a seamless event because of some technical difficulties and an overbooked line-up of performances.

The STAR arrived at the Palisadoes Go-Kart Track after 1 a.m., during a heated musical battle between DJ Naz and Close Range.

The war was being dominated by Close Range until he lost respect from the audience because of a statement he made regarding the chopping up of females.

The audience showed their displeasure in the selector's distasteful attempt at dissing DJ Naz, by booing Close Range's selections and crowning DJ Naz as the victor.

Following the clash Barrington Levy's Black Roses Sound took centre stage to perform a set filled with homophobic selections. Ironic was the fact that the selector was wearing pink pants and a pink bag.

left in total shock

This gave the Australian DJ who played next a big edge over Black Roses, as the Australian selector shouted in his accent, "mi kno sey Jamaica a bad-man place, so how come selector a bun ... and a wear pink pants?" He got a huge uproar from the crowd and exited with Mavado's Don't Wanna be a Memory.

American DJ Green Lantern was up next, and he played a segment filled with hip hop selections.

His biggest impact came from Biggie Small's Juicy, and his explicit Junior Gong dubplate that had the audience in total shock hearing such words from the conscious reggae artiste.

Veteran DJ Sky Juice also made a decent impact, stealing the attention from the younger selectors with his diverse selections.

Sky Juice expressed that the younger generation of DJs could only get hype by disrespecting others.

He then schooled the young DJs by using musical selections and stage performance to deliver one of the best sets for the entire night.

notable performances

He even played Celine Dion songs to the delight of the females. "A woman mi mek dance, some selector mek man dance," he shouted while closing his set.

Other notable performances came from Vertex Sound who represented well, playing custom dubplates from the likes of Mavado and Konshens, that earned them big forwards. Exclusive Sound, Black Cat, Flava Unit, Japanese Sound Barrier Free and Baby Jew also delivered great sets.

Entering into the war zone, selectors threw words at each other for the greater part of the night, but there was no major matchup until Flava Unit took on the experienced Black Cat.

At 4:30 a.m., Jabba announced that no more selectors would be allowed to perform to facilitate the artistes and, mysteriously, the sound equipment began to malfunction during the set of the young artistes. During this time, many patrons made their way through the exit.

However, at 5 a.m., Beenie Man, Bounty Killer, Elephant Man and Capleton took the stage by storm, and, mysteriously, all the technical glitches were gone. They delivered an energy-packed tag-team performance, to bring to a close Fullyloaded 2011.