POLI-TRICKS IS SO DUTTY DAT EDUCATED PEOPLE DEM COME CHAT ABOUT FOOLISH WEY NUH NO MEK SENSE !

IMAGINE,REGGAE,DANCEHALL AND HI-POP, AND STEEL PAN COME OVA TEK DEM ! LAWD MI GOD MI CYAAN STOP LAUGH !

RASTA LIVE !

dis idiot lick him damn head!! obviously dont know how reggae powerful, dem must learn to appreciate all music forms!!! dat mi seh!

Us Jamaicans should start listening to quality music besides Lady Saw, Macka Diamond, Vibez Kartel...dem lyrics. All you learn is to frock and frock and frock some more with these songs..Jamaicans kids are so consumed by these scandaleous music and the girls display it in their personal life....

Its crazy to see an 11 year old girl doing the dutty wine at 4am in the street of Montego Bay...no school, no structure, and all the men..biggin her up...this sh*t couldnt happen in Barbados or Trinidad or St Vincent...her parents would be on her *zz..she would actually have school in the morning.

Stop eeh noise! Ca music is a form of expression. Doesn't matta any form. People will express wha dem feel around dem nuh matta wha kind a music genre. Prime Minster need fi go si dong an find betta way fi him people dem fi live inna him country.

big up yurself PM, I understand your strategy with this. you are an idealist and that's not such a bad thing. from a moral standpoint, LET'S FACE IT, most dancehall and hip hop lyrics have very little substance apart from promoting violence, casual sex, smoking, drinking, and materialism. yeh there are lots of conscious artists out there, but they are not being showcased the same way! now from an economic standpoint, more steelpan would put more money in T&T's coffers, so can't blame the man for promoting something that would be a win-win situation for his country, even if it is a naive hope. our youth are being shortchanged and that issue is bigger than just T&T.

BUN CRIME MINISTER AN BUN ANY BODY WHO AGREE WID HIM MUSIC IS LIFE CAAN NOBODY STOP IT DANCEHALL HIP-HOP RAP AN REGGAE IS ALL GHETTO PEOPLE GOT ALL UNNU SO CALL EDUCATED AND SOPHISTICATED PEOPLE GO LISTEN TO UNNU PAGAN BEETHOVEN AND MOZART

respect to the PM. young people need to realize that there is music in the world that isnt made with a drum machine and some pornographic lyrics

is wey the ratid this,steel pan over dancehall and hip hop? man tek weh yuself!i mean yeah the lyrics in these music can be more clean but no way ppl would gravitate towards listening to no blasted heep of iron pan making noise.some of these other caribbean country are jus trying to undermine jamaican music becuase they only can dream about possesing a culture so powerful.

if music is life then QUALITY of music says something about QUALITY of life. see if you can absorb that. gwan do yu ting, PM. you have to lift as you climb.

Mi love reggae hip hop and all a dem but the real thing is that we need not to be bias because reggae a fi wi, majority of the artists needs to clean up them style... their lyrics does nothing but lead the nieve young people dem down the road of casual sex, violence, it mek them young people yah forget about the proper morals and values wah dem granny teach dem.... sing some more song wah a tell dem fi go read dem bible and live in love...

It is a pity the honourable PM Manning has such a negative take on our beloved "REGGAE MUSIC".Reggae music is said to be the music of the KING. "Positive Vibration",as stated in Bob Marley's song "Rastaman Vibration".Where and when did we get this negativity surrounding Reggae Music I dont know. I think the honourable Mr. Manning needs to "check out the real situation".
Bless

No disrespect, but I do not think Mr. Manning will have much success in executing such plans. I am a Jamaican living in Trinidad for a few months now and from what I have seen, young Trinidadians show more interest in dancehall culture than they do in steelpan (and even calypso). They worship dancehall artist Movado like a god. Even the political parties have paid Jamaican dancehall & reggae artists to come to Trinidad to promote their political campaigns. Even when they did their drive-by campaigning I heard dancehall music blasting from the loud speakers. So PM do you consider that direction to be ideal for the young people of Trinidad & Tobago? I am just saying...

I have read this gentleman's (the PM) comments, Now we are all entitled to believe what we want, but lets stop passing the blame for our children's immoral behaviour on music. If you give your children a positive foundation, music alone cant turn them stupid. I love all kind of music and I give each artist respect for making something that will entertain me and others. My parents moved to England form JA in the sixtees, so I have been privy to all genres of music. Reggae being my first, did not make me want to sleep around, kill anyone, steal from anyone. My son is into Hip-Hop, Ragga, even Rock..Yet he is never to be found on street corners, he hates smoking and drinking, so my point is let us do right and give our children a solid foundation, and stop using Jamaican music as an escape goat for all the wrongs in this world...Leaders look into yourselves

WHAT A WEY SOME A YOU DARK EEE????? YOU RIGHT STEEL PAN CAN NOT TEK OVER DANCE HALL BUT YOU NEVER KNOW SEY VARIETY A DE SPICE OF LIFE GOOD GOD SEE WID DE MAN.... YOU CANT STOP MUSIC YOU RIGHT BUT WE DONT NEED MUSIC THAT BRINGS YOU DOWN MUSIC IS TO UPLIFT AND RELIVE THE SOUL SO SOME OF YOU NEED TO GET REAL

Manning is a dumb &ss reggae Music will never ever be replace .. Big up di Steel drums but shut to frock manning yu are a dumb *ss!!!!!!!!!!!!
Trini ( I love mi reggae)

okay to all the fake jamaicans or wannabees on this site,you do not mix patois with english,either you speak or write full patois or speak all english,you dont mix patois with english,you guys and girls are all fake.look at how all you are writing.its fake and sad that you try so hard to speak jamaican.

hahahahaha ahahahaha that is so true jamaican They are all so FAKE trying to write how dem dont speak looserzzzzzzzzzzzzz(flickin FAKERZ)

Dancehall reggae is a weh of life.Steel pan cyaan nuh stop di raging fire ! Not only fi T & T but EUrope, Asia and Africa. DHM's suh infectious & hot , di PM cyaan feel di heat from far.Cyaan nuh beat em you a betta join dem !

manning is a ass...He bring sizzla to trinidad like 2 weeks ago for a show so why didnt he jus use a steel pan band to play at the concert instead?

first of all, I don’t accept grammar or language criticism from people who nuh know seh space fi use after certain punctuation. second of all, how many jamaicans say "all you"? I hear my grenadian and bajan friends with that. don't worry yourself though, it's all good. as far as combining dialects, I personally do it 'cause I move in different circles and it reflects who I am. I think (most of) the people that come on here are fluent enough to understand. some of y'all seem like y'all hang out with the rockerzzz and skaterzzz but you wouldn't catch me criticizing unless it was the topic of the article.