Jamaican music star Vybz Kartel has said he will never bleach again.

A Dancehall icon, he spoke to US media star Ebro Darden on his Hot97 radio show.

“I mean in hindsight it definitely had to do with self-love, but on the other hand while I was doing it, my mind wasn’t telling me that,” Kartel reflected.

“My mind was telling me, ‘I am doing this to show my tattoos’ – I got a lot of tattoos. But looking back, it was just as a black man, sometimes we have those issues but I would never bleach again though.”

Nicknamed the World Boss, he noted he was now controlling his alcohol and smoking intake, underlining he was originally using these habits as a coping mechanism for the trials of his life.

"I analyse myself a lot of times, and I think it’s just – the heavy drinking when I came out and smoking, I think that's just my crutch. You got to try to cope with [being] in prison 13 years; I'm out now. The world is bigger; it's a lot," he said.

On more commitments, he indicated his enthusiasm to have “Turkish children” with his girlfriend Sidem Öztürk, whom he intends to marry.

One of the first things Vybz Kartel said when he was released from prison was warning young people that crime was pointless and destructive.