“Thought that was a cartoon thing”- Internet reacts as M Dot R gets pelted with tomatoes and eggs at the 2025 Balter festival 

M Dot R recently performed at the 2025 Balter Festival, which was held from May 22, 2025, to May 25, 2025, at the Chepstow Racecourse in Chepstow, Wales, UK. During his appearance, the singer got pelted with tomatoes and eggs, and the video of the incident has gone viral, sparking reactions from netizens, like the ones given below:

"I thought that was a cartoon thing."

Other netizens reacted to the incident, with some wondering where the festival crowd got the tomatoes and eggs.

"Were they just Dancing with groceries or When did they get all this produce in hand lol." one netizen reacted.

"Om not gonna front..... that should actually be a considered compliment now a days you know ow how mich eggs and vegetables are right now and it's the UK they got no chemicals and pesticides lol they throwing a fortune at him." another netizen reacted.

"So yall just brought eggs and tomatoes to the concert." another reacted.

Other netizens condemned the incident, defending the rapper:

"that’s just disrespectful." one commenter opined.

M Dot R is a dancehall artist

M Dot R is a dancehall artist. Dancehall is a Jamaican genre that originated in the dance halls of Jamaica, popular dancing and music establishments in the country in the 1970s, though precursors to it existed all the way back in the 1940s, as per the blog Shey Music.

M Dot R is an English singer of Irish and Scottish heritage and began his career in grime music before he switched to Dancehall music. The singer talked about his music in an exclusive interview with Vice on December 22, 2023, including how he picked up Jamaican Patois and consequently Dancehall music:

"I’d been going to the Caribbean when I was 16 or 17. But I’m talking when I’m nine, ten years old, my older sister’s partner was from St. Vincent. So from [that age] the accent has been around us; it’s been spoken in the family."

The singer continued:

"I think listening to the music constantly from childhood, going up towards 15, 16 – by then you’ve caught the little slangs and the way they say things and clock what it is. It was just a build-up over the years of being around Jamaican people and going to Jamaica."

The singer later talked about the usage of the Jamaican patois as a white person from England and how he would respond if someone told him he shouldn't use the patois:

"I’ll say you shouldn’t be saying that because you’re segregating people. Don’t segregate people, man. There’s too much religion and different stuff out here to segregate us already. All that is, is you’re trying to draw something out of something. Don’t try draw something out of something, man...."

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M Dot R is best known for his single Turn Red, which was released on November 10, 2023. Turn Red is also one of his first songs to enter the charts, charting at the 69th spot on the Swedish singles chart.

The song has more than 9 million views on the singer's official YouTube channel. Other notable songs by M Dot R include his collaboration with Fully Bad, Dem Na Bad, as well as Two Halves and his collaboration with Lv General, Anything, all released in the last two years.

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