Big up to Sizzl'a... Runnin tings for nuff years now... A him time fi shine now... Bless...

sizzla keep on doing your thing and never look back

Sizzla do your ting yah...You are the silver lining in all whats going on in Dancehall today...The whole stupidness wid Bounty and Beenie...I look forward to your new album...Bless

Sizzla has been a major disappointment since "Da Real Ting." He has strayed from what made him who he is today and in effect, lost a lot of his fans.

Serious Youth out deh right now. Big up Sizzla. Keep di Fya Blazing.

Bless up Kalonji .... kip igniting de flames.
Ah world a respec fi yuh ....

Good going son.

Large up Kalongi. I Hear say the Hype Show in St.E
was a hot show. I'm hearing here in London that ye free style was so tuff most check it was a new song. Keep the fire Blazing same way King.
You are the no1 Dj Right now..
Gwarn Lion

As for the yard flex viewers....
Ye see how unu stay unu cuss Yard flex fe a show one sting show and look how unu post comment like ye a post love letter.
Ye have me arist an unu no even show no love..
Seem to me unu just love ye mix up ting...
anyway One Love same way
Bless up to one and all.

Continue striving for excellence.

This is what happens in our region because of the negativity we portray towards our artist.The people of stlucia adore sizzla but one hypocrite who listens to all the negative writes this to the commisioner of police to stop a great show scheduled for the 5th may 2007.

Sizzla Concert in St Lucia-Letter sent to Commissioner of Police and AG
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Mr. Ausbert Regis
Commissioner of Police
Royal St.Lucia Police Force
Jeremie Street, Castries

10th April, 2007

As a St.Lucian national I write to you with deep concern about the upcoming performance by the controversial reggae artist Miguel Orlando Collins, also known as "Sizzla" Kalnji.

In 2004, the Stop the Murder Music campaign in the UK was successful in applying pressure and much needed publicity to the anti gay lyrics that exist within the reggae and dancehall music industry. Sizzla was among eight artist (Buju Banton, Beenie Man, Bounty Killer, Capelton, Vybz Kartel and T.O.K) being investigated by Scotland Yard's Racial & Violent Crime Task Force after a complaint was filed by Outrage! and other concerned community parties. Possible charges under UK law included inciting the assault and murder of gay people, and/or charges of causing harassment, alarm or distress. As a result of much public pressure many concerts were cancelled across Europe and the United States. Sizzla was subsequently denied a visa to enter Britain on November 1, by immigrations officers at Heathrow Airport for his UK tour.

Sizzla will be in Saint Lucia on the 5th May 2007 to perform at a concert in Gros-Islet under the promotion of Gaiety Productions and in collaboration with TriStar Promotions.

The lyrics of three Sizzla songs listed below call for the capital murder of gay people and are at the very least, likely to be considered swearing, abusive or indecent language in public- all of which are criminal offences under the Criminal Code of St.Lucia.

As a citizen of St.Lucia, I call upon the Commissioner of the Police to play particular attention to this delicate legal matter. We also request the police to warn Gaiety Productions and TriStar Promotions that they may be guilty of aiding and abetting criminal offences by promoting and giving a platform to Sizzla, especially if he performs any of his violently homophobic songs on 5 May. If the promoters are unable to give assurances that these violent criminal tracks will not be preformed, we urge the Royal St. Lucia Police Force to insist that Sizzla's concert is cancelled and that all ticket sales are halted. We expect the laws of St.Lucia to be upheld.

Amnesty International has documented how Sizzla boasted to an audience in Chicago in a recent concert that: " I k*ll sodomites and queers, they bring AIDS and disease upon people". Only sub-Saharan Africa has a higher HIV infection rate than the Caribbean and statistics note that heterosexual sex is the main way of transmitting the virus in the region. As a result of the anti gay lyrics, artists like Sizzla continue to perpetuate the stereotype that HIV/AIDS is a gay mans illness and as a result help promote a discriminatory and violent environment for gay black men in the Caribbean. A notable speaker at a CARICOM conference said that: "A number of artistes are effectively contributing to the spread of HIV by producing reggae and rap songs actually encouraging discrimination”. In allowing an artist such as Sizzla to make such discriminatory statements in public, we believe it discredits the hard work of the Ministry of Health and the Aids Action Foundation (AAF) in their relentless effort to educate the public on safe sex and HIV/AIDS prevention.

I believe in free speech, however in a democracy like St.Lucia no one should be able to incite murder or violence through hate crimes against minorities. This goes against out Criminal Code.

I hope you can reassure me that action will be taken.

Yours truly,

Akim Adé Larcher, AA, LL.B
akimlarcher@gmail.com

References to the Murder Music lyrics by Sizzla Kalonji

Lyrics in Jamaican patois, with the standard English translation underneath in [brackets] and BOLD.

Sizzla - Pump Up

Step up inna front line
[Step up to the front line]

fire fi di man dem weh go ride man behind
[burn the men who have sex with men from behind]

Shot battybwoy, my big gun boom
[Shoot queers, my big gun goes boom]

Sizzla – Boom Boom

Boom boom! Batty boy them fi dead
[Boom boom (as in gunshots) Queers must be killed]

Sizzla - Get To Da Point

Sodomite and batty bwai mi seh a death fi dem
[Sodomite and queers, I say death to them]

Mi no trust babylon fi a second yah so
[I don’t trust Babylon for a second]

Mi a go shot batty bwai dem widdi weapon ya
[I go and shoot queers with a weapon]

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Big up to Sizzla all the time, keep doing what yu doing rude bowy, try not to stray and cross over two much in to the hip hop world,just keep giving the people more "black woman and child" and "dry cry". big up Sizzla....

SIZZLA YOU A DI BOSS, MI FAVOURITE CULTURE ARTISTE. GWAAN ROLL OUT DI TUNE DEM. DEM BOY YAH NUH HAVE LYRICS LIKE U. BUNG BANG.

ALLIANCE MI SEH...

Big up...SIZZLA from di beginning to tha present, but need to stay conscious more than dancehall, we miss tha old Sizzla dey

Sizzla a big artiste, but i think he has lost his way. i remeber when every artiste in Jamaica used to say that when they wanted to "hold a meds" they would listen to Bob or Sizzla. Not again. Nearly all a sizzla now a days tune somebody head a open or buss aff. Bounty say it when him an sizzla did a war. "Good good sizzla whe sing black woman an chile and tune like dat, tun fassy and a sing bout unda di gal dem frock". I listen to his songs but i think he is one of the biggest scurges on Jamaican society.The worst thing is he is educated so i think he can do a lot better.

I miss the early days of Sizzla, the black woman and child days. Nowadays his music is hit and miss. I hope that his future works will bring those vibes back.

Continue to make great music and to uplift yourself in everything that you on your journey.I love the fact that you're are doing something new and that you took a time out, of your busy scheldue to educate yourself to a next level,continue to stay focus and grounded.

continue to do the good works miguel collins bless up always. me look forward to hear u on reggae on hill in barbados april 29th blessings always!

Sizzla sings conscious lyrics yet still he supports violence. The two don't work and I think he is just using rastafarianism as a mask to cover the real him. Fire pon dat!

More than ever, I n I youth need the true teaching of Rastafari that only Kalonji was chosen to deliver, only in Jah time. InI know that you are dealing with your business, Royal.
Remember the words of Marcus Garvey, stay firm and don't stray... Mind who u ah flex roun... whether yard or foriegn. Prince Kalongi, May the Most High continue to bless you in all you do.

Much continue love and respect.

Strange, but mi seem fi agree with DA MAN pon dis. back in di days when im pen tune lyk "slackness," "jerusalem," "babylon rose up on fyah," "get to the point," and im track pon di "boom" riddim mi really thought im was ah very inspired songwriter. but di tune whe im ah pen nowadays ah get mi vexx, as mi used to be down wid im big tym.

What mi really wish for kalonji is fi im to find im old vein and buss more well written tune again.

sizzla big up urself and continue to strive ,god bless

BIG TO SIZZLA. WE INNA GHANA LUV YA
BLESS UP!

sizzla mi stil luv u mi care wah nobody sah big up everytime keep cool luv uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.

Yow mi link how yu fi say di man stray?
some ah unno ah idiot from sizzla fus start
sing him come out wid a chune called "no other like jah" and inna di verse sizzla him self say
"sizzla is the element of suprise" so when you see di man mek a move weh yuh nuh use too ah nuh stray di man stray. Di man ah try preach to di world wah him know and wah him believe inna him heart.. ba**yman fi d**d, ah dat him say. ah di same thing god say but di words weh dem use fi sasy it ah just different, woman fi get fuck ah dat sizzla say, di bible say be fruitful and multiply, so ah just the difference in wording..
Sizzla ah mi DJ from GENESIS ah di real boss dat..
"dem never see mi when mi clean only when i dirty"
tru talk from sizzla kalonji..
blazeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee up di fire

First off mi haffi big up Sizzla yuh a one of the best of all time however mi feel like lately yuh lost yuh way. a long time mi want yardflex fi say something about you so i can see if i'm th only one who feel like you old tunes are way better than the new one as far as the message part of the music goes. love yuh music still but sometimes i feel let down by the whole heap a gun tings. Leave that to the Warlord and dem man deh. mi wish yuh can go back to tunes like black woman and child and so on.
Blessings from the most high

Obviously, the St Lucian that wrote this letter to the commissioner is a sword swallower. I guess that's why he is so pissed at Sizzla's songs. So-called concerned St. Lucian shut the f**k up. you may not like the artist but remember you are just one of the millions of St. Lucians and quiet obviously your opinion has revealed your true identity of an ass kisser.

Big Up SIZZLA KALONJI One Love and keep up the great work you are truly one of my GREATEST INSPIRATION and your MUSIC keeps me going. Ba**yman fi d**d, downpressers fi dead and policeman weh support ba**yman fi go weh, dont go agaisnt the BIBLE. Free SPEECH for artist to express their views.

BWOY MI SEH BLACK PEOPLE IS SOMETING ELSE. DEM IS ALWAYS ONE FI BADMIND DEM ONE ONOTHER. HOW DI MAN FI STRAY. HES AN ARTIST AN HIM ARTISTIC TALENT A GUH MEK HIM WRITE WHAT HIM FEEL LIKE. HIM STILL A TEACH DI YOUTHS DEM. BIG UP SIZZLA. WHATEVER DAT ST LUCIA TING WAS ABOUT MI NOT EVEN READ IT CAUSE IT SO LONG BUT WHAT DAT DEH PERSON PURPOSE FI PUBLISH IT AGAIN---FI PROLONG DI HATE. DEM NO LIKE US JAMAICANS ANYWAYS. BIGUP TO ALL RASTA MAN WHO A TEACH DI YUTES DEM. MORE LOVE MORE LIFE. LOVE FI MY BLACK PEOPLE.

Akim Adé Larcher; as we say in St. Lucia "tia chew-ou la" Homosexuality is not part of the St. Lucian culture and its perpetuation will be demonstrated against by any means necessary.
Sizzla come bless us with your aphorisms and purge the society!!!

I have to agree with those who say Sizzla has lost is way... A lot of young artist feel they have to jump on the slackness/gun hype bandwagon to get a forward. We have enough idiots to look to for that. We don't need an icon like Sizzla to delve into the depths of ignorance with them.

Sizzla get back to the basics! You are an international star, don't let Damian Dash pimp you as if you are some struggling artist, getting you to sell sneakers, you should make him donate to your favorite charity. Poor people cannot afford the sneakers that he puts out!!

Get back to your roots!!

If you don't have anything positive to say about Sizzla just fall back please

every body mention sizzle and compair him and his music incline to black woman an child, people this is not the only song sizzla has done, i c him as a man who lives his life natural and when u live a natural life u express your word and doing natural, u no hold your talk for nothing r no one, expression is the key, me c sizzla as a very expressive man and nothing is wrong with doing this, if the man say fcuk woman and not man a so it fe set so preach it so the youth can know right from wrong, u have gay show a teach people kid that gay is cool, and if sizzla bun that me cannot bun him, if sizzla say up under girl skirt a so it fe set go up there not down there, his words r graphic but life is also graphic. sizzla no wrong fe say what he say, and if u r a real sizzla fan u will know his expression r all good and to take it out of context is kinda silly, music is all about expression like art, and music is art to the fullest extent. dada keep up the good word and let no one get u down because they cant an a that a kill them, more time i wish people would fight against the Gaye's like they fight against us real people. sizzla fa life he will be having a earth strong in ny city April 21 at a club called amazura in queens ny city.

Big up Sizzla from up in T-Dot. He doesn't just speak words he sings emotion. Best reggae artiste alive. See the confused thing though, preach overstanding and love but sometimes preach ignorant hate and punishment, not just for batty, for non-blacks, babylonians, and even for fellow Jamaicans. Maybe he not overstanding yet but hopefully still have charted course to get there. Stay away from the american rappers trying to make themselves a name off Sizzla ('shotta')

Rastaman don't apologize to no ba**y boy
Gays & Queers aren't spreading AIDS more than heterosexuals. That's true, but whatever, it's at least strange to f**k the same sex. I mean, this is not going in the evolution way. How do gays do to be pregnant ?????
Nevermind ! Let gays live, they'll let us listen to Sizzla, Get a Rizzla, And smoking sheeva !!

Akim Adé Larcher, AA, LL.B
akimlarcher@gmail.com

The lyrics were NOT meant to be taken literally and they do not inciteviolence against homosexuals... if that was the case they would be NO gay people in Jamaica and they are many alive and WELL. A society has every right to determine what type of behaviour is acceptable and to MOST people in the Carribbeab HOMOSEXUALITY is NOT acceptable. You can always move to LONDON or San Francisco.

I want to ask a question to anyone who cares to answer. Bounty and Mavado are gangsta DJs. Luciano is a cultural artste.Beenie is recognised as a girls' DJ. What bracket would Sizzla be classified?
The reason i ask is this.. How would you classify an artiste that has done an album like "Da Real Ting" and then songs like "big long gun" and "Buss ya skull"?
Sizzla has fallen prey to the same societal stigmas which he admonishes in some of his songs. Sacrificing morals, ethics and ideals for mainstream popularity.
Sizzla is a fraud. No different from any other DJ. Just in the biznizz to make some money...

I would like to respond to the comment about Sizzla "licking out" against homosexuals. The bible says that thou shalt not kill. I don't think that homosexuals should be murdered for their sexual preference but it is a scientific fact that HIV/AIDS was first discovered only among the gay population and these in the closet gay men gave their wives the disease. It was first called the gay man's disease by scientist. So Sizzla has a point about them spreading HIV and AIDS. Sizzla has the right to freedom of speech. Just like homosexuals want the freedom to be who they are.

Debbierella

DA MAN,

Please use the common sense God gave you and think before you write. Artists are 1st and foremost people and just like people they have diverse views and moods so their songs reflect that. For instance Artists like Buju do Culture music, love songs and rebel songs... and so did Bob Marley... Mr. Marley did a variety of music...

I wonder what Bob thought about homosexuals, well as a Rasta man from creation he would have probably said "me nuh inna nuttin with them."

Ebony, please attain the ability to READ and COMPREHEND but u respond to someone's post.
What is ur point?

"Click clack and it's over you dead.
My damn glock, buss a cap in your head.
It's in my blood I love killin you fools.
I'm a thug, that goes by no rules"

What the f**k with these lyrics, this is what 'da man' talkin bout

We want back the old cultural Sizzla dey, you don't need to compete with Bounty and Beenie on stage and you don't have clarity in your voice for that..then the violence, gun ting need fi stop against black innocent people, but i agree with u ba**yman fi d**d

just be more conscious and jah bless

well last year it was mad love the way u rip the stage u an capleton..sorry that i will miss such a high energy show an performance this year..but all the best an hope you make that $paper$

cha,cyaan step thru original jamaican reggae widout talkingremembering,seeing,haeringn man like sizzla come wid im kind a inspirational 'n' angelic voice.Well,I-man Ras Beenie hav more dan me coulda tell bout Sizzla than squat,burn a likkle herb 'n' watch im sing 4eva.RASTAFARI!!1

"anytime sizzla feel say him bad, tell him an the whole of bobo hills fi come"

so what evreyone forget when sizzla try play badman and bounty fling him down?

sizzla need to go back to what make him, VOCALS. When he is doing the vocals no-one comes close.

i want to address da man not the man, iam the man. just wanted to clear that up. u asked who is sizzla, the man life is a open book skip the pages and real along, and he does have a song that goes my life is an open book, listen to it then u will know who u r up against. Sizzla is a revolutionise, he is a freedom fighter, he is a scroller among men, and he is the element of surprise, so wicked heart will never get him down, does that sum it up for u? to ask who is sizzla is like question your self and u should know yourself, JAMAICAN PEOPLE DONT SIDE WITH THE GAYES ON TRYING TO STOP SIZZLA MUSIC, CAUSE THEY CAN BUT IF US JAMAICANS LET THEM KNOW WE LOVE HIS WORD AND HIS INSPERTATION OF HIS CHOICE OF WORDS THEY CANT STOP HIM R US, SO DONT HAVE BAD THINGS TO SAY ABOUT SIZZLA HE DOES THIS FOR MAN KIND, BOTTOM IS NOT TO F%$#, PUZZY IS NOT TO SUCK, U CANNOT DISLIKE A MAN FOR SAYING THIS UNLESS UR GAY AND U FEEL U R JUSTYFIED FOR YOUR WICKED ACT, IF SIZZLA SAY RISE THE MACHINE. RISE IT BUT RISE IT FOR A CAUSE NOT TO KILL INNOCENT PEOPLE R ROB PEOPLE RISE IT TO PROTECT YOUR FAMILY, RISE IT TO DEFEND WHAT U FEEL IS RIGHT FROM WRONT, SIZZLA IS NO DIFFERENT FROM BOB R SELASIE R ANY OF THE FREEDOM FIGHTERS HE SPEAKS HIS MIND, U HAVE MAN LIKE BUSH A KILL OFF INNOCENT PEOPLE GO ADDRESS OUR PRESIDENT, LOW POOR PEOPLE ENTERTAINMENT.

Big Up Sizla.We na Feel Ya Here In Nairobi,Kenya.Jus keep Ja fire burning

People,...(hold on...let me stop laughing..), ok... Why is it that when i ask a QUESTION only the FOOL FOOL people choose to respond?! Can someone please read "out and bad" comments and interpret them for me.. please? Did i ask who is Sizzla? "Out and Mad"(sorry...bad) what is a "revolutionise"?
And what is this crap about "our" president. "Out and bad" you are a classic example of the fact that the internet is for everybody. Even those that are mentally challenged...

I totally agree with Da Man. Please people, stop steeping yourself in a quagmire of vitriloic nonsense by saying an "artist can sing or say whatever they feel according to moods"!!! An artist must stake out his ground. And one of that ground must be rooted in his value system. I cannot place Sizzla's value system because he truly seems confused especially with his stronghold on guns in August Town!!! So, if you choose a moral road to extol the virtues of blackness and our worth, do not show yourself to be a greedy scourge who feed the few around you while you get rich and then sing against BABYLON. It makes no sense. And I can no longer hold Sizzla in high regard. If you are burning the corruption of babylon aka. the government etc, you cannot also become a scourge of corruption yourself. If you do so then STOP singing like you are a paragon of goodness. It is HYPOCRITICAL! I see through you Sizzla. I see through you. You need to reflect and look hard at your path!! Also, stop sleeping with young girls....for Christ sake! If they fling themselves at you...think of your own daughters when they get to that age!! And I KNOW what I am saying....fact, NOT fiction!

@ Da Man
Yu no easy yu no!!!!!
Yu always getting into something with somebody.
Anyways, stay making yu points still I may not always agree but sometime, your comments be off the hook, and crack me up.

Nadine, as you know, i give respect where respect is due. To be honest with you, i don't try to get into these little skirmishes with these internet thugs. I do however enjoy stimulating discussions on any topic or issue. People please realize, nobody will agree with everything, but please recognise that person's right to voice that opinion. But in voicing that opinion please don't appear to be pyschotic.
Anyway Nadine a so di ting set.
Till we meet again..
PEACE.

I don't know what these people are talking about SIZZLA to me has hit songs in every category most of all inspirational and love. For every mood there is a SIZZLA, as he would say NUH DUTTY HEART.

Keep doing u think me youth.

"Voice of truth", very well said.

MAN U LARGE

BLESS UP. SIZZLA THE NO.1 IN jAMAICA. KEEP HOLDING THA RASTAFARI FAITH.

I am extremely happy for the support on this issue and I cannot and do not aim to please everyone with my letter; however here is how I feel.

I won't bother to comment on issues that divert me from the topic and I must make it clear that this is a social and legal issue to me. On a social level I have faced homophobia in St.Lucia, and on numerous occasions I have been assaulted physically and verbally in the past because of my sexual preference. On the legal landscape insisting violence is against the laws of St.Lucia.

I cannot and will not claim to be an expert on human rights or knowledgeable on all the other moral issues that need to be discussed in St.Lucia, however I will be specific on this topic.

I totally respect Sizzla's right to free speech, however no right is absolute. I understand and respect his right to express his view that homosexuality is wrong. I will not however respect his right to call for the death of them or anyone for that matter. We live in a democratic environment in the Caribbean and we must respect one's right to life, privacy and family life.

Saying we can move to London and San Francisco is pure rubbish. HIV/AIDS may have shown its head within the gay community first, however that does not mean it is a gay disease. The black community continues to turn a blind eye on HIV/AIDS and at the moment the HIV infection rate in the Caribbean is the second highest in the world. We continue to view HIV as an illness that can only affect people who are gay or are sexually promiscuous. We are losing this fight people.