Shaggy Turned down a Spot on Rihanna's Reggae Album?

Depends who you believe...
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Shaggy recently revealed that he had the opportunity to be featured on Rihanna's upcomming reggae album, but ultimately turned down the chance. During a recent interview with UK Daily Star, the multi-platinum selling dancehall legend had this to say

“They approached me for the Rihanna project, yeah. There’s a lot of great people involved, but for me, I didn’t need to audition to be on the record,” Shaggy said. “I’ll leave that to younger guys. But from what I hear it should be good.”

Shaggy also touched on the rise of international artists getting in on the dancehall scene:

“It’s healthy competition. Dancehall is in [a] good place but we need as many people to do this art form as possible, when it crosses over and becomes popular with artistes from other genres and other cultures, that can only be good.”

However.... Representatives from Rihanna's camp are telling a slightly different story

“After Rihanna had already gathered all the material for the album, Shaggy contacted her asking to be a part of the album. She explained to him that the album was pretty much completed and they were just working on mixing, mastering and deciding which songs to actually use. However, she invited him to submit some materials so she could see if it fits with the flow of the album. That was by no means asking for an audition, it was more going out of her way to get him on the album.”

The rep added, “We hope Shaggy will come out and let the fans know the real truth because we all know that the media in general and especially entertainment media cannot be trusted. They will twist someone stories in order to get the most viewers.”

So who do you believe, Shaggy does have shaky relationship with the truth...