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With his trademark blend of sharp wit, controversy, and unfiltered bravado, dancehall artiste Khago has slammed the door shut on the idea of stepfather duties, saying he won't support a woman's outside children.

"Lion don't raise hyena pickney, and that is why mi tell yuh say mi would never raise a next man child. Mi nuh want no more woman with nobody pickney. Yuh know how boot and Pampers expensive, fi mi sit down a mind a next man child and him a drive past mi. Mi rather mind a jacket than a stepchild," Khago said.

"Mi rather mind a pickney whe mi think a fi mi, than fi know say a nuh mine and still a do it. Yuh mad?! All if the child daddy dead, him must have a mother, bredda or sister," he added.

Khago's controversial position is fuelled by the fact that, aside from one, his children are not under his roof -- robbing him of the fatherly bond he desires. He told THE STAR that he hardly knows or sees some of his children, but firmly stated that he will not be chasing their mothers in order to play a role in their lives.

"Dem run away with dem, and that is why mi stay how mi stay. Mi nah run down nuh gal fi take care a mi responsibilities. Mi job is fi have mi pickney dem a mi foot. Dem run weh with mi pickeny dem because dem say dem find better man dan mi," the entertainer said.

As construction continues on his towering three-storey mansion in Mandeville, Manchester, the outspoken artiste says not a cent of his hard-earned wealth will be left for former flames or their offsprings. The DJ also vowed that he will never remarry, and argued that he does not know a happily married man.

"I don't know a man yah now whe have a woman and happy. Dem nuh happy. Dem will tell yuh seh the only time him happy is when him in the bar with him brethren dem," Khago said.

He added: "Can yuh imagine a man a work eight and 12 hours in the sun, and haffi stop a bar and drunk every day fi go home to him wife? The worst mistake a man ever do is married, and mi will never do dat again. If one a mi son decide say him a guh get married him will never see mi, and mi a guh disown him."

But behind the hard talk, there appears to be a softer side that peeks through. Khago's heart, it seems, has been melted by his six-month-old daughter -- the newest light in his life.

"Mi happy now, and mi nuh have no whole heap a gal. But mi get back mi voice and mi start look like mi a artiste and nobody's husband," the Nah Sell Out hitmaker said.

"Mi have a little daughter and she is just six months, but she start soften mi down, and mi know mi have to live for her. She show mi a different type of love," he added.