Zilla, ur previous post kinda seemed like an attack so that was why my rebuttal seemed kinda strong...I've been in the industry for years, came back from NYC in 2001 from audio school and an extensive stint @ sony music studios...I'm just sick of in my opinion Jamaicans turning their back on something that is so much apart of every one of us...Certainly it has it's problems and I have argued with people about the venom being spewed by our local protagonists of said art form as well...

But problems aside my dissatisfaction was hearing a Bajan politician blame our music for downtrends in their society...That just pissed me off, your points are well taken but there is still a lot of positive stuff out there as you may well be aware of, regulating what is heard by our youth I guess could be one step in the right direction...I just cannot put the blame solely on the artists...Dancehall 4 the most part is fun Zilla man, we are born with logic and the ability to reason, unfortunately that ability is lost on a lot of our countrymen

I support the Barbados move myself unless these artists start hurting financially they will not clean up their music. We all see how the music polarise people in Jamaica well Barbados is trying to stop that from happening on their Island. Live with it people it is their rights and they are a very conservative group people so you of to understand. Watch it is going to spread. Reggae should be positive ites and everyone around the world love positive reggae music but you have some artist is killing the vibes.

Barbados have dem rights still
but dat still nuh mean seh it right

a waan tell yuh seh it come een like within the dancehall genre yuh have different genres
and it come een like di Bajan dem a seh dem nuh want a certain genre over deh

a hope dem naw use gully and gaza and judge the whole ting

dat a just di gangster dancehall
from di days of don gorgon gun pon teeth to peeeeooople deeeaaad original bounty
and mi know some elder can tell wi bout some a di 70's gangster dj dem
gangster dj deh yah from dancehall start and it naw guh nuh weh

if yuh nu want hear dat

den yuh have the culture dancehall
di Ras dem, and few 'shines' even the big Laden tune deh
assasin, bugle have some good tune to

den yuh have goofy and nuts and kiprich and some adda jokey jokey dj.. barky and wickerman if a 'comedic' dancehall yuh rather

mi not even touch di singer dem inna dancehall
who a sing pon some big bad riddim like shank i shenk or death in the arena
who say gyal tune??

suh careful how wi use one brush paint di whole a dem

mi memba one time yuh haffi literally guh inna di dancehall fi hear dancehall
no radio ting
no commercial ting

so dem time deh man coulda dj anything pon di mike
if yuh nu ketch di lyrics pon cassette
yu miss di lyrics
when yuh talk bout lyrics inna dem day deh yuh a talk bout san, trees, nuts, stitchie
how much 'hit record' dem man deh have?

now?
true di ting get suh commercial
di artist dem better create a market a dem own or have a plan fi mek some money widdout certain market

or, tone it down

we can't deny Kartel writing ability regardless a di lyrics
yuh may not be a ManU fan, but Rooney get him props

neither can we deny the fact that movado's voice is one never ever heard in the dancehall
who know dancehall know seh some a di singer dem sound alike
matter a fact
artist mek dem career a sound like next artist

nobody ever sounded like Movado before
totally unique
listen di Church tune di yute sing man??!!
on the rock or supm like dat

so even inna di bad
yu have good

the task at hand is fi find a way fi get dem yute yah wid undoubted god given talent fi realize dem rightful reason fi deh yah

dat a di task

BLESS

everything yu say Humble lion, mi say to.. it is art imitating life but also occasionally as life is a cycle the art comes around to a point when it becomes life imitating art.. Then we all lick out, mek some noise and redress the balance...

Is who sing dah tune yah again... Tribal war... wi nuh waan nuh more ah dat.. remix... Vybez Kartel... We nuh want nuh more ah dat...

nuh get mi wrong... I did love ramping Shop... That was genius.. But when him start get carried away and keep sing bout this teenager unda age girl and all kinda madness...

If anyone know Kartel, mek him know mi naw Player Hate.. Mi just waan di yute dem fi stay awake..