Super Cat, after setting up his base of operation in New York, then negotiated a deal with Columbia Records, and his already successful independent single "Nuff Man A Dead" appeared on the label’s 1991 compilation Dancehall Reggaespanol. That next year Columbia issued Cat’s new album Don Dada, one of the first dancehall albums on a major label, it was a breakthrough for the entire genre, riding the charts and rocking the clubs for over a year.

Vibrantly recorded at H.C.&F. Studios in Freeport, Long Island, and Green Street Studios in New York City, Don Dada slams and jams from the first cut to the last, delivering a caustic political communiquestraight from the mean streets of Kingston that is as potent as its incediary, electro-skanking beat.

"The whole world from the beginning is politics," says Super Cat. If anything you do don’t involve politics it must be antics, so some must choose the political side while others choose the antics. I care to choose the way of the Black Chris’- Emperor Haile Selassie The First. The majority of the people in the world are suffering and there is always a way for the music to send a positive message. It is about survival, Black survival every time."

Through its variety of moods, tempos and dazzling, bass-heavy riddims, Don Dada displays Super Cat’s smooth yet forceful baritone delivery. "Ghetto Red Hot" is his cold chillin’ commentary on the violent Jamaican political rivalries of the 1980s when partisans recruited "rude boys" to intimidate their opposition.

"It is about things that happen in the ghetto," says Super Cat, "growing up a youth in the sea of politics. Most youths never needed or wanted that, but politics is apt to impose itself in our lives. It comes to you, you don’t have to go to it. We all began in one community," Super Cat continues, "but all of a sudden the politics arrived; you had to choose a side. Then the music got into it, because there would be politicians using the youth songs as slogans on the street. So you’re automatically involved. It’s constantly shadowing and hanging over the music and communities."

"Them No Care" is dedicated to "all the people who are fighting for false power, like the heads of the government. Those are the people who don’t care, because the leaders are supposed to hold the responsibility for certain things and see to it that the world is run right. If them and those are spending millions for nuclear weapons, it means that peoples lives are of no significance, no value. It seems like steel has become more important than flesh and blood. Them and those whom are making the decision to invest in these things are people like you and I, yet they are making a decision to bypass the human condition, in order to create destruction and pollution."

In Jamaican patois the latin term ‘Don’ is a title of respect, but Super Cat uses it ironically in "Coke Don."

"A Coke Don is a man who just gets high all the time, even on business," he says. "But you cannot be a Don and touch those kind of things. You have to be physically into yourself and spiritual in dealing with people to become a Dan. Dan as in one of the tribe of Zion –Defender of the faith who follow the Conquering Lion."

"A ‘Dan Dadda’," Super Cat explains of the album’s title track, "is a man who gains his fame from the roots-dub-reggae DJ ghetto music straight off the street, organizing himself to become a productive force in the industry, establishing his own corner in the business, pioneering an easier route for up-and-coming artists to bypass the cutthroat tactics that ordinarily prevail."

"Nuff Man A Dead" is a special dedication," says Super Cat, "to my bredren who went down in the business: Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Tenor Saw, and so on. All of them are soldiers in the music army, so when you lose a man you lose a soldier out of our crew. "Fight Fi Power" questions the significance of the false power that the peasants and leaders are fighting for.

"Most of the songs, like ‘Think Me Come Fi Play,’ and ‘Oh It’s You,’, on the album are hardcore," Cat continues, "so we decided to soften up a bit on a track like ‘Dolly My Baby,’ which is a song for the girls we recorded with Trevor Sparks, a reggae singer who lives in Brooklyn. Super Cat requested the then emerging hip hop producer Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs to remix "Dolly My Baby" Bad Boy Style and featured versions which included cameo appearances of then rising star Notorious B.I.G. – Biggie Smalls and Puffy himself in the Video versions and a sweet R&B mix featuring the vocals of Mary J. Blige. "Dolly My Baby" also appears on the soundtrack for the Disney movie Cool Runnings.