Sean Paul Addresses His Doubters

(andPOP) - Nobody would have blamed Sean Paul if he felt nervous or pressure creating the follow-up to his breakout album, "Dutty Rock," which sold six million copies worldwide.

But he insists he felt no pressure whatsoever.

"I don?t let people make me feel pressure," Paul tells andPOP. "The only person that's supposed to limit one's self is the human brain. My brain is telling me keep doing it; don?t let people limit you; do what you've been doing since the beginning, which is maintaining that and feeling what is right for you.

"I'm the one in the streets. I'm the one walking around to different places everyday. I know what people like and dislike. I'm feeling the personal effects of it when I go onstage all over the world. That?s why I follow my feelings."

His follow-up album, "The Trinity," was the highest-selling reggae debut in the history of Soundscan, with over 100,000 copies sold in its first week in October.

"My feeling is to give people back the trinity, to give people the young energy and synergy of Jamaican producers and entertainers. Dancehall music blew up big all over the world. Willie Nelson and Jessica Simpson is doing it. They don?t go home to Jamaica to do it. These people need to respect that."

He gets upset when asked if he felt the pressure, and even wrote a song to address the topic, "Change the Game," which appears on the album.

"People are pissing me off about if I could do it again, if I feel stress. Until I wrote that song, I was getting that question everyday from different people. These doubters, that's so doubtful to ask that question. Leave me alone! I sold 6 million records. People say I'm a pop artist now. I don't care if you say that I'm not real folk. I've partaken in my culture."

And he just wants to get people up on the dance floor.

"My main aim is to maintain this energy that I put into the music so that people can feel it."

Check back tomorrow for part 2 of andPOP's weeklong interview with Sean Paul.