Similarly, the album was a commercial disappointment, and Virgin, assuming that Shaggy's moment had handed (because it quickly had for a lot of of dancehall's crossover hitmakers), dropped him from its roster. "Oh Carolina" wasn't as big a success within the U.S., where it stalled in the lower half of the charts, regardless of its inclusion on the hit soundtrack to the Sharon Stone film Sliver. Furthermore, its observe-up singles, the tongue-in-cheek gospel of "Soon Be Done" and the jazzy "Nice and Lovely," failed to duplicate its success. Nonetheless, the overseas success of "Oh Carolina," coupled with the excessive-profile Maxi Priest duet "One More Chance," was sufficient to land Shaggy a profitable cope with Virgin Records. His debut album, Pure Pleasure, was released in 1993, and included many of his recent singles; the following yr, Greensleeves issued a group known as Original Doberman, which coated many of his earliest recordings.
Shaggy's final top forty single within the United States was "Angel" from the album Hot Shot. On March 11, 2002 Shaggy and Ali G launched "Me Julie" from the soundtrack to the film Ali G Indahouse. The music bought 300,000 copies within the United Kingdom, as acknowledged by the Official Charts Company. It spent 14 weeks on the UK Singles Chart, peaking at quantity two.
Stationed at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, he continued to pursue music in his free time, and infrequently made the drive again to New York for recording classes. Who is the highest paid avenger cut his first single, "Man a Mi Yard" b/w "Bullet Proof Buddy," at age 20 for producer Don One's personal small label; for the observe-up, "Big Hood" b/w "Duppy or Uglyman," he worked with producer Lloyd "Spiderman" Campbell.
Meanwhile, the album went platinum, nearly reaching the R&B Top Ten, and spent a full year at number one on Billboard's reggae album chart; it also won a Grammy for Best Reggae Album. A third single, "Why You Treat Me So Bad," featured guest rapper Grand Puba and almost reached the British Top Ten in 1996, however failed to make much of an impression stateside. Shaggy's most essential connection, however, proved to be radio DJ/studio engineer Sting (born Shaun Pizzonia), who received him a gig chopping dubplates at Phillip Smart's studio.