Future Fambo ‘tired of clout-chasing, hypocrisy and lying’
After mild heart attack, deejay ready for Christian walk
Dancehall artiste Future Fambo has reported that he had a mild heart attack on Sunday while in New York, and this triggered a response from ambulance personnel in the area. He is now vowing that come January 2026, he is going ditch his partying lifestyle and embrace the Christian walk.
On Sunday, Fambo posted a video of himself on Instagram where he was hooked up to wires while medical personnel worked feverishly on him to stabilise his vitals. The deejay, who has been diagnosed with diabetes, said he complained of “washing with cold sweat” after eating cornmeal porridge, and his friend called an ambulance to assist.
“I hadn’t eaten for two days because I had been travelling from Sacramento on Thursday and I was delayed five hours in Vegas, so I didn’t get to New York until early in the morning, so I didn’t eat. So when I drank the porridge, cold sweat start wash me, vision blurry, and yu caan help yourself, so my friend called the ambulance so the medical personnel coulda assess me,” he said.
Future Fambo, who is now recovering at home, said it was a big scare, but assured his fans and friends that he was “alright now”.
“They said to come to the hospital, but I told them no. It look like mi blood sugar drop and when I eat the cornmeal porridge with the milk, it overload my system. Mi feel a cramp inna mi hand, dem say mi arthritis up but mi blood pressure good,” Fambo said.
The Rum and Red Bull singer, who said that he is seriously considering becoming a Christian in January next year.
“Mi ah gi dem a last run and leave this life behind. Mi tired of the hypocrisy, the lying, the clout-chasing, it is mind-boggling sometimes,” he said.
Recently, Future Fambo released a gospel-influenced single, Amazing Song, on the World Blast Records.
“My song was not for clout so it come in like mi caan sing it and nah live the life. You know say is half an hour mi pray to the Lord fah before this heart attack happen, is a good thing too, because yu have to talk to Him before,” Fambo said.
Christened Warren Williams, Fambo first used the moniker Future Troubles when he emerged on the music scene in the early 1990s after winning the St. Ann-based Roof International talent competition, hosted by record label owner and businessman, Courtney Cole.
As the energetic Future Troubles, he made his name with the songs Kung Fu and China Mi Live. He would go on to represent well in the dancehall, securing hits such as Drunken Dance, Rum and Red Bull, a collaboration with Beenie Man and Tonight We Ravin’.