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January 11, 2008

Another dancehall artiste banned

mavado.jpgAnother Jamaican dancehall artiste has found himself in the bad books of Caribbean authorities.

According to a story posted on a website popular entertainer Mavado has been banned by authorities in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

The DJ's has recorded songs such as 'Deh ya pon the Gullyside' and 'Dreaming'.

Police Commissioner Keith Miller confirmed that Mavado, whose correct name is David Brooks, was due to perform in St. Vincent on January 19, would not be allowed to do so.

The Commissioner did not give reasons for the denial, but said the factors influencing the decision will be spelt out at a later media conference.

However, speaking on behalf of the promoter, management of Hot97 radio station, said the artiste's lyrics were cited as the reason for the cancellation.

Last week it was reported that police officials were concerned about Movado's lyrics, which were considered to be violent.

The police said the decision was also made bearing in mind that St. Vincent and the Grenadines just came out from a record year for murders and an increase in violent crimes, especially involving firearms.

There were 36 murders on the island in 2007, a huge jump from 13 in 2006.

It is the second time that a Jamaican artiste has been banned from performing.

In the mid 1990s, female dancehall artiste "Lady Patra" was also banned.

Posted by yardFlex at January 11, 2008 11:31 AM


Comments

Posted by: co on January 11, 2008 12:33 PM

As much as i enjoy the self proclaimed "Gully God's" music, i could see that coming from a far. He really needs to start cleaning up his lyrics. Its a new yr Mavado, start singing something positive!!


Posted by: GERMAICNAFLAVA on January 11, 2008 01:07 PM

IT OK MOVADO BIG UP DAVID AS LONG AS YOU DONT GET BANNED FROM BROOKLYN IM GOOD GANGSTA 4 LIFE


Posted by: Wade Cameron on January 11, 2008 01:17 PM

Jamaica a gwan too bad now. Dem need fi declare a state of Emergency a wipe out di gun mon dem who a mash up di country.


Posted by: Shelly-Ann on January 11, 2008 03:21 PM

Well Mavado is my artiste and i admit that he have songs that speak of murder but what about the good and cultural ones that he recorded he is not the first DJ to do gansta music. They need to give him a break he is a prosperous man let him live. Keep recording GANGSTA 4 LIFE!!!!! ANYWAY


Posted by: portmore on January 11, 2008 03:47 PM

Big up Mavado yo a legend inna 1 +1 year. Yo Rich and Jamaica Richer because of you. police babysit St Vincent ppl and tell them what they can and cannot listen to- that must be their job, fine. Do your job, keep making hit songs and bring the money home to mama and cassava piece. Bad Mind police deh everywhere.


Posted by: realtugz on January 11, 2008 07:32 PM

yo, dem artist jus a mek jamaica look bad, it nuh say y dem bann him but me say dem bann him becah da type a chune dem him, even doh me listen dem but 2much a dem him a do 1 time,


Posted by: cooliebadgyal on January 12, 2008 12:13 AM

yo a wham to dem frocking fools inna st.vincent, a nuh mavado alone have violent lyrics. dem need fi guh s*ck out dem gyal big d*tty hole and leave di gangsta alone. Mavado meh luv yuh and none a dem badmind p*ssyhole cyan't stop yuh shine and fame. Bless up meh dj, GULLY GOD....GANGSTA FA LIFE!!!!!!!!!!


Posted by: sunshine on January 12, 2008 06:59 AM

IT IS ABOUT TIME. THEY NEED TO BANNED ALL THE NASTY MOUTH DJ DEM. DANNCEHALL NO NICE NO MORE BECAUSE OF DEM. IT IS A NEW YEAR AND WE NEED TO STAND UP AND TALK THE TING.


Posted by: Jah-Works on January 12, 2008 11:22 AM

Respect to the St. Vincent police commissioner. I wish the Jamaican government had the same guts but then again they are a big part of the problem. The gang and political thing is sucking the blood out of Jamaica and to see some of these artiste become super stars by glorifying the killings and gangaterism says a whole lot about the people who are supporting these type of lyrics. People quick to say them love Jamaica but how you can love something if you are helping to destroy it. Guns + bullets = muder capital


Posted by: JACKO on January 12, 2008 02:30 PM

reading those comment above and the opening argument .i can say for myself that some people who listen music don't know shit, i am not saying artiste cant be reserve on the words they use but how movado fi sing abt anything but what he is signing, song writers and entertainers write what they see happening around them, its a fact whats in his songs. what do u guys want him to sing abt bi house a cars and chain, well he dont have that he have to sing abt his pass present and the current situation he is in,its dance hall music if u dont wanna hear it listen reaage or some othter genre of music.


Posted by: Vincygirl on January 12, 2008 07:14 PM

I am a Vincentian and I was very much looking forward to the show... I think it is utter rubbish the reason that the authorities are giving for banning Mavado. The crime here has nothing to do with him.. It has a lot to do with the governance of the country... Things are harder now than before and people are acting desperately...

The commissioner and his force need to do a better job at protecting the country and solving the damn crimes that we have here... A lot of persons were lookin forward to this show and we are now very disappointed... Mavado continue do ur thing cause whether u come here or not, we still ah go listen to ur music.


Posted by: lucian boy on January 12, 2008 10:12 PM

rasta man dem burn dem fire and de killer he does gangsta music evryone got their ting dats his so keep doin ur ting star


Posted by: nado on January 13, 2008 06:09 AM

u kno wah him nuffi change unu cant ask d man fi do dat, wen him belly full now unu wha decide seh him fi stop mek gun tune, but wen him jus come out everybody did a rock to it. shelly ann a true u a talk cause u neva ago hear bout d good weh people do wen dem name ina mixup all u ago hear is one bagga foolishness. wade u tink seh man wouldan a kill people if dem did hav a job fi support dem family, d government nah do notin fi ensure it get betta either side PNP or JLP, mi nah go look pon my mada a ded fi hungry an nuh do notin, an u cah blame d artiste dem cause all dem a do is give u 100% reality an people hav the capability fi listen and not do, dem kno seh music is simply a way to escape dem kno seh dem nuffi guh out deh an a kill nuh boby because movado seh so.


Posted by: Carlton on January 13, 2008 06:31 AM

Dem Artist need to see that if you got talent you gots ta focus that talent on something positive and good. It's good and honorable to write a song with strong words against social injustice, corruption or poverty, but no artist will go far preach'n murder for murder sake only. It is wrong, evil and pointless unless you get off on kill'n peepl. Then you just a plain azz psychopath. Pathetic really. Mavado gots good talent, so h e needs to rethink what he wants to do with his life and what it is going to represent in the long run.

Look at the article on Elephant.... he had to clean up his act to get where he is and now ready to blow up big big. Take a lesson from teh play book, you can make a few dollar preaching murder, you can be rich preaching love, correcting the world's wrongs and uplifting us with your talent. God gave you a gift, please don't be wasting it, trying to please a few boys who like to think they are gangsta.... It may seem romantic, but it is a waste of time and talent!!!


Posted by: decky on January 13, 2008 11:57 AM

i agree with the ban, i as hardcore a dancehall fan as they could be , and i have a problem with most of movado songs, ninja man was and still is my artist , but even ninja do some positive songs , and some girl song some times.,the youth dem a look up to the artist, den fi do better.


Posted by: Robby fashion on January 13, 2008 02:54 PM

yow ho w them a deal wid the Gully God so,them a gwan like a him a bring gun fi them fire shot jus mek the man prosper,a weh him grow come see him a sing about.....Gully God fi life nah stop support ur music ........aaaannnyyywwaaayyy eeeeee


Posted by: jeazy on January 13, 2008 07:48 PM

D PU**YHOLE POLICE DEM 2 BL**DCL**T BADMIND AND GRUDGE MINDED.DEM NAH WAH C D NI**A STRIVE.DEM JEALOUS AH D SONG DEM WEY YO SING.NAH STUDY DEM..KEEP DOIN WAT YO DOIN.N 2 D BAD MINDED DUTTY F**KA DEM (J.O.S.E)JEALOUS ONES STILL ENVY .KEEP TOUCHIN D ROAD...


Posted by: Jerome on January 14, 2008 08:39 AM

yo nice mi king keep bigging up yo self no bwoy cant stop yo GANGSTER FO LIFE....ANYWAY


Posted by: deena-kay on January 14, 2008 09:33 AM

Mavado should not be banned jus 4 di lyrics of gully side nd dreaming dem pu**ycl**t pple yah ah joker to boxcover mek dem move dem stinking self from yah mavado mi artiste yuh nuh need dem dutty pple yah fi ah try hold yuh dung nd dirty jamaican police dem nuh bl**dcl**t betta either..mavado jus large up yuh self yah.. ah ghetto youths dem mi seh pple dem nuh give ah fr*gg bout di ghetto youth dem.. bu**et bu**et fi all bad-minded pple..


Posted by: Vincy on January 14, 2008 01:04 PM

I'm a Vincy living in Brooklyn and I LUV movado music. Alot of my family still live in St.Vincent. I just spoke to my grandmother during christmas and she tells me how busy my uncle who is a police captin is so busy now because of the rise in crime. This island is very tiny for those who dont already know and I can fully understand where they are coming from.


Posted by: jay on January 14, 2008 02:02 PM

PEOPLE Y WHEN THE LAW KILL ALL THESE PEOPLE WITHOUT A CAUSE,Y UNNO DON'T BANNED AND DOWN TALK THEM,BUT AS ONE MAN RISE R U TEAMING UP WITH THE LAW TO BRING DOWN THE MAN.BUT WHA CONTINUE TO DO YOUR THING YOUTH BECAUSE WHEN U DO GOOD THEY STILL TALK BOUT U SO JUST WHAT U WANT IN LIFE AND MIND THEM.LIFE OF A G,GANGTA FO LIFE BIG UP YOURSELF.ONE MORE THING SOMEDAY THIS SAME MAN BEEN BUYIN NEW COMPUTERS FOR SCHOOLS MAYBE HELPING ONE OF U ALL BADMIND PEOPLE FAMILY AND NOT ONE OF U ALL TALK BOUT THAT,BUT THE BAD COME EVERYBODY HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY.KEEP YOUTH GWAN MEK MUSIC FOR THE GULLY SIDE.ANYWWWWWWAAAAYYYYY ALLIANCES AT THEM.HOT HEAD HOT HEAD,


Posted by: jay on January 14, 2008 02:10 PM

the good u do they did not talk but that.live to make yourself happy and don't make them stop u youth.anYWWWWWWAAAAYYYYY gangta fo life


Posted by: The-i on January 14, 2008 05:53 PM

A country ongli ave 36 Bl**dclo**t murda inna year 2007.... and dem seh dat a drastic increase.... dats where Mavado realli need fi go ...fi go meet him likkle phole bregrin dem


Posted by: Conscious on January 14, 2008 08:01 PM

unoo chat bout the ute come from ghetto so all him can sing bout is "My war is like no other when you dead you have no sista no brother".

Come on now me know say it rough yard but dem yute deh weh claim say dem a suffer and a buy up hundreds of thousands of dollars on ammunitions to terrorize dem neighbor
u a tell me say dem couldn't find a better hustle. You tell me say murder and murder lyrics a the only way out fi the ghetto yutes?

Me know say the government keep up frockery but I learn from a very young age say nothing in life is free, I don't have the luxury of sitting down and waiting for handout from the government. Education was my only option i got it still a struggle but me still better off than nuff out there. There is nothing wrong with singing about the struggle and the violence that 1 was exposed to but when u sing lyrics promoting murder as a way of life then dem just a create a tuff road for dem self. At the end of the day Movado can sing what him want a continue fi mek money off a the corrupt druggist promoter dem inna jamaica while man like junior reid and taurus riley will sing 1 blood and mek millions offa the world.


Posted by: Bais on January 15, 2008 08:05 AM

yow people y should they banned ma artist just for his lyrics? is he the only one singing about murder? Yow officer u too bad mind mein
yow u knw wat i hav fi tell u.....
LET DA YOUTH ROCK THE ROAD
SET IM FREE FOR THE SHOW


Posted by: Vincy on January 15, 2008 10:42 AM

I'm a Vincy living in Brooklyn and I LUV movado music. Alot of my family still live in St.Vincent. I just spoke to my grandmother during christmas and she tells me how busy my uncle who is a police captin is so busy now because of the rise in crime. This island is very tiny for those who dont already know and I can fully understand where they are coming from.


Posted by: mala on January 15, 2008 02:02 PM

yo that show woulda sell off!!!!!badmine police and good name dem want movado u ah de boss yo fan base big!!!!!no hell inna vincy Big Up yoself king


Posted by: portmore on January 16, 2008 10:06 AM

The argument here is simple and needs to go no further than this. "There shall never stop being Gun tunes for there shall always be guns in the community...i from trinidad and some of our Ragga soca tunes have begun to HIGHLIGHT...not GLORIFY....Highlight the gun thing cause that's how i look at it..
No Guns...No gun tune" a quote from my website. And it is very true. Their wouldn't be a fuss if Mavado wasnt getting rich off highlighting the violence going on in Jamaica. And you all can keep on saying the artists are glorifying it, none of them are bussin guns for a living now and if they or ppl they were close to use to do it, they have now stopped because of this music. The governments are so afraid of outsiders knowing what is going on in the countries they are misgoverning. And this is just a cheap way to take the blame off their hands and try to place it on the artists and to punish the ppl of St. Vincent, these people were not going pay their money at a stage show to be horryfied they wanted to enjoy themselves. I have been listening to bounty killer gun tunes since i was about 7 and he is still my favourite deejay today and never yet have I dont any wrongs because of one of his songs. I have stolen food because i was hungry though, I have went on many buses without fare because my mother didn't have any money. And Mi stay away from di gun ting as much as possible, because mi neva really inna di ghetto but wi did still poor. Yet still mi find mi self having to run from police on many many occasions, for what? being 16, 17? Remember this no guns made in Jamaica, most of them are US made many property of the US government, yet nobody is putting a bad on U.S imports or a tax for terror their guns are reeking in jamaica, they prefer to sell out our resources to the US and open on Jamaica like a whore house. And then they do stupid shit like ban bad words at stage shows? we are not children this is not a T.V broadcast, bad words don't make or fire guns. Stop looking up to the artist dem as saviors, no matter how many positive songs they do, they will not change the government, unless they start inciting some serious violence against the politicians and business ppl who are exploiting Jamaica, which i would support to the fullest(but they are entertainers and they have families to feed, so im not expecting them to be ). Think about this, which country in this world has more positive songs than Jamaica? None. Which country in this world has more violence than Jamaica? for the size of JA none. Big up to di St. Vincent ppl dem, but dem dutty police. Dem want Mavado fi do dem work fi dem?


Posted by: Nicky on January 17, 2008 09:59 AM

Sometimes I wonder how on earth crime in j'ca is gonna stop spiralling out of control when y'all glorify entertainers like Mavado. The reality is I'm glad he's eating a food, but with the type of lyrics he's recording I think he should be banned in j'ca also. Old time ppl say dance a yard b4 yu dance a broad. Him fe learn


Posted by: crystal on January 17, 2008 11:49 AM

as long as yuh nuh get banned from bk nd nj zeen mavado GANGSTER FA LIFE....."GULLY GOD"


Posted by: adams smith on January 17, 2008 07:32 PM

is what them talking about, dont listen to them davids just continue to sing make me hear some good music and continue to beet the chinee K


Posted by: Dirk on January 17, 2008 07:32 PM

Some dunce comments a run the place boy, a so you attract dumb people.


Posted by: sweetest_lil_thing_1 on January 25, 2008 09:08 PM

Wow... I am vincenin living in Canada .... I was home for the holiday's with my Husband who is Jamaican and he was so supprise by the crime rate .... on the note of Movado been banned for Vincy , I can see what the police is looking at I , at the airport taking a flight to Antigua and there were some young guys who I beleive are no older than 15 singing some of his gangster songs .... I hear it with my own 2 ears ..... the guy's there use the songs to get at other guys .... I am not saying that they should be banned , but they should remember that youths at times tends to listen to their songs .... and if the artist are really smart and wants to reach far they should clean up their songs.... just like here in canada they don't want them here if they are singing about gays ... so what they do , they sing a contract that they would not sing any thing like that ... so to the artist ... you can still sing your gangster songs , but also have the possitive one's and even more than then gangster songs ....Guy's don't get on my back now , just said what I think and how I feel


Posted by: ladyfresh on January 29, 2008 09:33 PM

dont worry yeah movado just speak the f**king truth and just dont get banned from the uk yah nuff love 4 u and cassava piece movado every tink plug inn xxxxxxxxxx


Posted by: JAmerican Mami aka MzDarkSkin on February 5, 2008 02:22 PM

OH PULEEEZE! Dem nah stop grudge an judge Jamaicans....Dem badminded to ras. Jamaican artistes nah do a ting different from the yankee artistes dem an all now dem nah ban ppl like snoop, or 50 cents; etc. Dem nuh like we but mi nuh business cah if mi did come from on place dat no matta mi vex mi woulda vex too lol. A joke mi a mek but seriously, mek dem move an gweh a try blame fi dem misfortunes pon Jamaicans....Jamaica is still the most rated island an wi nah change fi dem so mek dem tan deh. Big up to all my Jamaicans....str8.


Posted by: deanieman on February 22, 2008 05:51 PM

a mi fi tell unnu bout st,vincent dem nuh like jamaicans,mi get tun back an mi is not even a entertainer,so wa dat tell unnu dem nuh like c di coat of arms,dat mi a tell unnu dem fi gwey,a our fault dem ave 36 murders,murda dey all ova di worl,wey dem nuh ban chris brown,alicia keys,and all dem big stars dey our music nuh ave nutting fi do wid dem murder rate fck dem.


Posted by: cho on February 22, 2008 06:05 PM

gun song a sing long time,when bob marley sey i shot the sheriff,a wa yu tink him a talk,right ya now him a legend,so all a unnu wid unnu negative comment unnu a hyprocrite,mavado a ghetto youth,wey get him insperation from wat he sees in the ghetto,jamaica nah get nuh betta as long as yu ave corrrupt gov,st vincent gov nuh like jamaicans from long time so unnu betta talk sensible stuff.


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