Bashment Sound Unites Rema and Skillibeng on Afro-Dancehall Ballerina

Jamaican-born, Miami-based production and DJ duo Bashment Sound — Silent Addy and Disco Neil — released the single “Ballerina,” credited as Bashment Sound featuring Rema and Skillibeng, via Bashment Worldwide and Encore Recordings. The rollout included an official music video directed by Miklas Manneke and produced by We Own The City, the company founded by STILLZ, alongside Nouvelle Films.

The release follows the duo’s breakout with “Shake It to the Max,” which Billboard reports spent 27 weeks atop the U.S. Afrobeats Songs chart and served as a defining soundtrack for Summer 2025. Rolling Out frames the team’s earlier remix moment — “Shake It to the Max-Fly” — as a billion-stream milestone that helped push Silent Addy and Disco Neil to formalize their artist project and label identity as Bashment Sound. Silent Addy says the move was intentional: “Even before Shake It to the Max, our brand was called Bashment. Our events are called Bashment, we have merch called Bashment. We always talked about starting Bashment Sound, and we said this is a perfect opportunity to fully double down on being Bashment Sound and promoting our label, our brand, and our production duo,” he told Rolling Out.

Musically, outlets characterize “Ballerina” as an Afro-dancehall meeting point. Afrobeats Magazine describes the single as fusing Afrobeats and dancehall, calling out “thunderous basslines and high-octane percussion” and noting that “Rema glides effortlessly over the rhythm with melodic finesse, while Skillibeng injects his unmistakable cadence and sharp lyrical presence.” Billboard labels the track “a scintillating fusion of Afrobeats and dancehall,” and Silent Addy framed the intent succinctly: “We wanted a record that feels like dancehall from Kingston, but still directly connects with the pulse of Lagos,” he told Billboard.

Disco Neil laid out the collaboration workflow, recounting how the duo “made the beat here in Miami, then went to Jamaica and linked with Skillibeng. He came through, we played the beat for him, he liked it, wrote it, and his chorus was talking about a ballerina. Immediately we looked at each other like, we already see the vision of how the visuals could be,” he told Rolling Out. Neil also emphasized the duo’s ear for emerging voices: “We’re always down to work with young talent who are undiscovered, but amazingly gifted,” a remark attributed to him in Billboard.

Visually, Afrobeats Magazine calls the Miklas Manneke-directed video a “kinetic and stylized celebration of movement and culture,” highlighting striking choreography and cinematic transitions that amplify Bashment Sound’s “bold, immersive, and built for global dancefloors” production. Press assets circulated with a “Bashment Press Pic” credit, and several outlets embedded the video as part of the release coverage across the Feb. 27–March 1, 2026 reporting window.

As Creativegenuk and Afrobeats Magazine frame it, “Ballerina” arrives amid the rise of Shatta Dancehall, a high-energy evolution of traditional dancehall blending Caribbean roots with global influences, a space Bashment Sound are positioning themselves to shape through strategic collaborations and their Bashment Worldwide imprint.