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February 28, 2008

Mavado continues to get a bad rep in Trinidad

mavado_pic_edit.jpgOh boy, Mavado just can't seem to get a break in Trinidad and Tobago. In an article published in the Trinidad Express his kind of lyrics was again blamed for a stabbing incident leading to the death of a secondary school student.

See below the article in question.

In the wake of yesterday's stabbing to death of a secondary school student, at least one popular urban radio station has moved to clamp down on violent dancehall lyrics.

Well-known DJ, Kwesi "Hyper Hoppa" Hopkinson, special advisor/consultant at Red 96.7, described the stabbing incident as "the last straw" and he identified the music of dancehall star Mavado as one of the chief offenders in this regard.

"There is no doubt that the music is influencing the youths towards violence. Particularly an artiste like Mavado who says he's a gangsta for life and has the youths emulating that lifestyle," Hopkinson said.

Asked why these chose Mavado in particular, Hopkinson said he has been in the business for over 12 years and understands what music does to people. He said he had nothing personally against Mavado and his music.

"But we need to understand what Mavado is doing to the youths when he says he's a gangsta for life. We have to take a stand against the music that's inflaming these young minds, because they are not strong enough to withstand these messages," he said.

Hopkinson said his Afternoon Drive programme, which airs from 3 to 6 p.m. daily, would be focusing on music with more positive messages. He also spoke about the music of 50 Cent and newcomers Busy Signal and Demarco as having negative influences.

Hopkinson said he hoped DJs at other stations would see the harm that is being done and take a similar stance.

"We certainly are taking a stand at this station," he said.

Posted by yardFlex at February 28, 2008 10:59 AM


Comments

Posted by: wildrasta on February 28, 2008 11:53 AM

greetins 1& all!!!! no man reputation iz dat solid fi...blame murder in hiz name...........if u study life& seek wisdom...u should know di different from good& bad....stay in jah path& live righteous...walk gud& stand firm...if u luv jah...live wise...u will have ah prosperous jahful life. please stop judgement of addas...1 man lyrics cant cause murder in his talent.


Posted by: yearight on February 28, 2008 11:56 AM

bulloxs


Posted by: Nics on February 28, 2008 11:59 AM

His lyrics dem nuh have no good message fe true


Posted by: haiti'slastprince on February 28, 2008 12:06 PM

Its so funny that there's no mention of the parents or T&T itself. Movies does more harm than music because you can see it but I don't him going after American movie makers. I guess he still needs a VISA


Posted by: tyrone on February 28, 2008 01:07 PM

di people dem need fi tak responsibility fi dem actions and tap blem di DJ dem fi dem lack of self control. di muzic hav violent lyrics but di DJ did not tel dem fi kill nobaddy.


Posted by: blaze on February 28, 2008 01:27 PM

Sad day when people can not realize music/movies are entertainment, not reality


Posted by: DIAMOND on February 28, 2008 01:57 PM

BASICALLY, I DONT UNDERSTAND, FROM WHAT I JUST READ , I STILL DONT FEEL THAT HES THE BLAME OF THIS GUY BEING KILLED. NOW I VE BEEN LISTENING TO MAVADO, BOUNTY, KARTEL,DONIA,MUNGA ETC..... FOR THE LONGEST WHILE & I HAVENT KILLED ANYONE YET. I DONT EVEN HAVE THAT INBULGED IN MY HEAD EVEN. I FEEL THAT ITS JUST MUSIC PERIOD. IF ANYONE HEAR, LISTEN, & UNDERSTAND WHAT THE SONGS OF ALL THE ARTISTES ARE SAYING & YOU GO AHEAD AND APPLY IT - THEN YOU HAVE SERIOUS ISSUES.
EXAMPLE: BACK IN THE DAYS, KING SHANGO, SIZZLA, BEENIE, BUJU, ETC....- THESE GUYS HAD THESE SONGS AGAINST GAYS & LESBOS. I DIDNT GO OUT KILLING GAY & LESBIAN PEOPLE. BUT I LOVED ALL THEIR SONGS. SO, THIS IS NOT FAIR TO BLAME THE GUY FOR SOMETHING THAT DOESNT HAVE ANYTING TO DO WITH HIM. IF YOURE WEAK MINDED & YOU FALL FOR ANYTHING YOU SHOULD ENTER YOURSELF TO A ASYLUM. I LOVE MAVADO FOR LIFE.


Posted by: Nelly on February 28, 2008 01:58 PM

I just dont like when people use other people as scapegoats. I am not into the dancehall type of music but for crying out loud. If someone kills someone, Why blame a Song!..Why not say the Murderer is just Wicked and Evil.


Posted by: Alliance on February 28, 2008 02:10 PM

The quickest set a people to be blamed in these situations are either dancehall or hiphop artist never movies,never society or peoples social background always musicians. If those secondary students had any common sense or better yet learn anything from going to school they would have know better than to be stabbing each other or going to school with knifes in addition if they had a good family structure they would know right from wrong.I remember once a 5 or 10yr old kid after finsh watching superman when up on his roof an jump off breaking his neck an killing himself cause him think him a superman an from that happen the amount a superman movie an cartoon mek y them never think fi ban superman eeeehh. Trinidad media just want something fi talk bout cause nothing aint going on over there. I wonder how them so sure is because listening to mavado's lyrics cause them yutes deh to stab each other, like them both couldn't have a vendetta gainst each other just like how the other day them mek report say mavado's music mek man kill another man when the set a hypocrites know well say the man a born criminal an a rob him go rob an man kill him rass. Leave di artist name alone man call satan name cuz a him response fi all manner of evil. ALLIANCE 4 LIFE.


Posted by: Bajanqueen on February 28, 2008 02:25 PM

Well, haiti'slastprince, the man is a DJ, not a counsellor or politician - so he is talking about what he knows best - music.

And artistes like Mavado do have a negative impact on youth in the rest of the Caribbean, who have NO IDEA of what Jamaica is really like or the background or context of this hyper-violent music.
They just emulate what they hear (and see now, with the spread of Caribbean music channels and youtube) without understanding that Jamaican society is totally different to most Eastern Caribbean societies.

I am definitely not excusing the sadism of the lyrics of a lot of dancehall songs (sample from Mavado :"weh dem a do...weh dem a try...marrow will fly-yy-yy to the sky") but I can understand where Jamaican artistes get that perspective from especially after I lived in Jamaica for several years.

The danger comes when some youth in the E.C. who may be disadvantaged by the terms of our society (but certainly NOT by the standards of Jamaican society) starts to equate his situation with that of being in a garrison community in JA and thinks he needs to respond accordingly.

I see it happen even in Barbados and there is NO-ONE in Bim suffering like how poor people suffer in JA - our version of suffering still includes free education, health care, subsidised housing and a 7% unemployment rate. But a lot of youths don't understand that and the Jamaican music fuels the resentment they do have.


Posted by: shack on February 28, 2008 03:35 PM

Governments and guerillas kills between several hundred and thousands of humans around the world daily...
Why not blaming them.
The political, military, and paramilitary leaders from USA, UK, Sudan, Colombia, Israel, Turkey etc commit murder every single day and they are supposed to be the leaders of nations.

What kind of worldview and message does that leave to confused, disenfranschised youths across the globe?

It is more likely that they influence youth to kill than Mavado.


Posted by: bishop ranking on February 28, 2008 03:44 PM

IF ANY ONE DOES ANY THING CRIMINAL IN TRINADAD THEY'L SAY IT IS MAVADO'S FAULT, WHAT AN EXCUSE FOR A NATION THAT CANT CONTROL HER PEOPLE'S ATTITUDE.

I THINK THESE KIND OF MUSIC ARE FOR ENTERTAINMENT, JUST LIKE MOVIES AND SOME SORT OF SPORT.

WILL ANY SANE PERSON WATCH A SUPERMAN MOVIE AND JUMP OFF A CLIFF JUST BECAUSE SOMEBODY DID THAT IN THE MOVIE?

I THINK THIS PEOPLE HAVE TO SEARCH FOR THE REAL REASON WHY THEIR YOUTHS ARE GETTING OUT A CONTROL AND STOP BLAMING MAVADO, HIP HOP OR DANCEHALL MUSIC...


Posted by: bishop ranking on February 28, 2008 03:46 PM

I'M PREETY SURE THAT IF A GUY COMMITS SUICIDE COS OF A GIRL IN TRINI, THEY'L BLAME SEAN KINGSTON FOR THE ACT.....


Posted by: portmore on February 28, 2008 03:55 PM

So parents have no responsibility? Keep finding a scapegoat and the problem wont stop.


Posted by: Nadine on February 28, 2008 04:05 PM

In that case BAN ALL TV SHOWS....and MUSIC VIDEOS
This is a sad day when the blame is placed on Movado this is such bull...if yu dont like or respect his music dont listen to it....and monitor yu damm kids....Shame on all yu that agree this is Movado's fault....We need fi take responsibilty and stop blame others for our mistakes and neglect....Shame on Trinidad!!!!!!


Posted by: alafura on February 28, 2008 04:22 PM

HOPPY IS A PU>>Y. I AM FROM TRINIDAD AND I AM SAYING THIS. THIS IS THE WORSE MOST SET OF BALLS I HAVE EVER HEARD COME OUT OF A MOUTH OF A DEEJAY (WHO DON'T DEEJAY, ONLY TALK ON D MIC).THESE PRETTY BOYS NEED TO SHUT UP. THEY DONT LIVE IN THE GHETTO. I WILL TELL YOU WHAT IS CAUSING CRIME IN TnT CAUSE I AM FROM THE GHETTO. PEOPLE IN TRINIDAD HAVE THE MONEY TO BUY FERRARI ENZOS A 4 MILLION USD CAR AND S CLASS BENZ'S THAT COST 3 MILLION TT DOLLARS AND SOME OF US IN THE GHETTO ARE STILL SHI**IN IN OUTSIDE HOUSES (LATRINES). THAT IS THE PROBLEM THE GAP BETWEEN HAVES AND HAVE NOTS. IT IS GETTIN RIDICULOUS IN TRINIDAD. MANY OTHER ISSUES SUCH AS, HEALTH CARE, EDUCATION, TRANSPORTATION, INFRASTRUCTURE ETC ALL ARE ISSUES THAT CAUSE THESE PROBLEMS. HOPPY IS A LIL RICH BOY FROM LONG TIME DAT FEEL HE IN SOMETING, ONLY FAKES AND FRAUDS. I DONT CARE, I HAVE BEEN LISTENIN TO BOUNTY SINCE 1993 AND MI NEVER KILL NOBODY. MY COUNTRY NEED TO TAKE BLAME FOR THEMSELVES, FOR LEAVING THE COUNTRY TO CRASH, HAVING PROBLEMS AND THEN WANNA PLAY THEY FIXING IT.


Posted by: Ricky on February 28, 2008 04:29 PM

lef di gangsta alone. mi a listen mavado long time now an mi neva even try fi kill a soul


Posted by: B-Man on February 28, 2008 04:59 PM

Bajanqueen speaks the truth


Posted by: KingRo on February 28, 2008 05:27 PM

I think this particular station DJ kwesi need to take a look at the bigger picture. Everybody wants to put the blame somewhere instead of looking at the real situation. Movado is a ghetto youth he grew up in this kind of environment and like the rose from the concrete has made a name for himself in Dancehall.
For instance Bunji Garlin the artist that win best artist of the year award in trinidad carnival this year doesn't he sing about violence as well and soca music is very sexually explicit at times. As long as this applies to all artists in general and not just Movado then I can see this as something positive but you can't just single out one artist and then blame the actions of some deliquent juvenile stabbing on him. I think this is very unfair. This is the same kind of bull that they tried with Tupac when he was alive.
Like I said earlier look at the big picture these artists have made the necessary changes in their lives to develope their musical talents.
Blame the parents not the artists!


Posted by: T on February 28, 2008 06:22 PM

...what a bunch a bs
dem keep run the godfather and scarface on tv dat dont incite violence right nooooooo bush and co killing a million innocent people for oil other side of the world that dont incite violence nooooo 40+ years a outbargo ina cuba fi starve di poor people fi death w no medications that dont incite violence nooooo
but a dancehall dj ooooh dats really dangerous


Posted by: Jays on February 28, 2008 06:34 PM

Seet deh, BADMIND,

IF THEM WEAK I SAY LET THEM BE STRONG.

MEK YUH MONEY GHANSTA.
FROM WE BAWN, WE AGO GUH DEAD,

WE COME SEE DI WORLD CURRUPT
IF THEM WEAK I SAY LET THEM BE STRONG.

GOD BLESS DI YUTE FAMILY.


Posted by: oxx on February 28, 2008 07:58 PM

yo, how you fi blame crime pon music, that not fair at all, so we should also blame cnn for the shootings and bob marley for weed smoking( not to say smoking weed bad .lol) but u see what me mean.
playing kenny rogers wouldnt make nothing better jus education fi d youth dem .. education...


Posted by: BUNGBANG, CONNECT! on February 28, 2008 08:37 PM

TRINIDAD, TRINIDAD- HOW SAD AND PATHETIC, AND WHO THE HELL IS THIS GUY BLAMING STUFF ON THE GULLY GAD. WHAT'S HIS NAME? "HOPPY"; NIGGA GO HOP YU ASS INNA YU BED AND GO SLEEP. REAL DUPPY-BAT, "HOPPY THE POPPY-SHOW" WHILE YOUR AT IT STOP PLAYING MUSIC FROM BOUNTI KILLA, MAGGIE DI BLEACHA(VYBZ KARTEL),IDONIA,MUNGA AND ALL THEM OTHER ARTISTE THAT SINGS ABOUT VIOLENCE IN THEIR MUSIC. AS MENTIONED ABOVE WHAT ABOUT PARENTAL STRUCTURE, THEY ARE THE ONES WHO SHOULD PUT A TAP ON WHAT THEIR CHILDREN LISTEN TO. LISTEN MI MR. POPPY-SHOW IF YU DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY BETTER YU DON'T SAY ANYTHING CAUSE ITS A LOAD OF DOG DOO-DOO JUST COME OUT OF YOUR MOUTH WITH THAT STATEMENT. NO MATTER HOW MUCH YU WANNA SEE THE GULLY GAD FALL YU ONLY MEK HIM STRONGER; POPPY YOUR A HATER WITH A P.H.D AND LEARN THIS WHO JAH BLESS NO MAN CURSE. GULLY GAD FI LIFE, AND BIG UP THE DADS BOUNTI KILLA. ALLIANCE MI SEH FI LIFE, YO POPPY MAN COME F**K YU WIFE, CAUSE YOU LOOK LIKE YOU PREFER TO USE YOUR MOUTH AND CHAT BARE F** KERY. I'M OUT, BUNG BANG BANG! CONNECT! GANGSTA FA LIFE! ANYWAYYYYYYY! REAL PATRIOT!


Posted by: victor on February 28, 2008 09:09 PM

DO lyrics and songs really hurt or motivate the society

the answer is yes

Why because music is power

Unfortunately young minds don't know how to convert the power into useful purposes (generally speaking)


Should they ban all or most of the volient crime movies and tunes the market

Ans NO ( Why)

The amount of guns which are sold in the world will slow down, which these gunmen cant afford
so let people kill each other and be rich

Its high time people realize there is more to life than just entertainment


Posted by: sexyllisha on February 28, 2008 09:12 PM

THIS ONE GOES TO BAJANQUEEN YOU CANT BLAME SAY THAT DANCEHALL MUSIC HAVE A NEGATIVE IMPACT ON THE CARIBBEAN BECAUSE ENJOYING MUSIC AND ACTING OUT WHAT IS SAID IS TWO DIFFERENT THINGS JUST LIKE IF YOU LISTEN TO CERTAIN RAP SONGS THEY SAY THE SAME THING DANCEHALL IS SAYING IF NOT WORSE ONLY DIFFERENCE IS THE BEAT AND THE ACCENT MUSIC ON A WHOLE IS BASED OFF OF EXPERIENCE AND WHAT MOVADO DJ'S IS BASED OF HIS EXPERIENCE GROWING UP IN THE GHETTO AND HOW HE SAW IT JUST LIKE IF ONE SCHOOL STUDENT STABS ANOTHER IN TRINIDAD CHANCES ARE HE IS ACTING OUT WHAT HE SEES IN HIS HOME ENVIRONMENT. TRINIDAD IS ACTING LIKE THEY DONT HAVE GHETTOS AND PEOPLE SUFFERING AND ALL THE OTHER WORLDLY CATASTROPHYS, THEY ACT LIKE THEY WERE HOLIER THAN THOUGH UNTIL DANCEHALL MUSIC CAME INTO THE PICTURE AND ALL OF A SUDDEN THEIR YOUTHS ARE OVER NIGHT SHOTTAS I HAVE TRINIDADIAN FRIENDS SOME WHO EVEN REFUSE TO GO BACK THERE BECAUSE OFF CRIME RATES THAT WERE AROUND LONG BEFORE MOVADO DID EVEN MEET BOUNTI KILLA. TRINIDAD NEED FI CHUCK BACK INNA DEM MUMMA AND LEAVE WE ARTIST ALONE AT LEAST WE JAMAICANS KNOW THE ISLAND HAVE PROBLEMS AND WE HAVE WAY TRYING TO DEAL WITH IT THEY ACT LIKE NOTHING IS WRONG WITH THEIR DAMN COUNTRY...


Posted by: toni on February 28, 2008 09:47 PM

I am getting so sick and tried of people always trying to place the blame on other people when things go wrong... They keep talking about dancehall and the influence it has on kids... so what... parents are the ones that are suppose to keep their kids in check. teach them right from wrong, it's not the job of an artiste.. Mavodo. kartel and all the others are just out to make money, they mean no harm and they don't expect people to take what they say serious... it's just entertainment folks and we all have the choice of not listening to it. Stop balming the aristes for the problems that the government causes, stop using them as scrape-goats for idiots that can't think for themselves!


Posted by: donde on February 28, 2008 10:39 PM

Too bad fi di gangstar. Im a gud artiste it's high tym him tone down his lyrics.
Music so powerful tool im cyaan it use fi spread peace especially pon yute who a nid guidance.Lol badbwoy Movi.


Posted by: BEEF SOUP on February 29, 2008 06:31 AM

WHY NOT BLAME IT ON THE MOVIE INDUSTRY; I WATCHED THE MOVIE >HITMAN< AND THAT NUH PRETTY, HOLLYWOOD GLAMOURIZING MURDER EVERYDAY. COME ON LET US START WITH THEM AND LEAVE MOVADO ALONE....


Posted by: laughoutloud on February 29, 2008 08:24 AM

So dat mean wi can blame promiscuity pon Soca and Calypso den? I guess di video tape going around on the internet wid di Jamaican Students having sex should really be blamed on All dem Trini Calypso and Soca Artist. Mek wi ban dem Artiste deh from di airways inna Jamaica. If is di music alone to be blamed ban dem to ra**s!


Posted by: Queen B on February 29, 2008 09:08 AM

SOMETHING BIG MUST AGO HAPPEN FI MAVARDO MEK DEM A BLAME HIM FI EVERY KILLING WEH HAPPEN.


Posted by: Kymanie on February 29, 2008 09:44 AM

yo lo di mon alone...Movado to di world..weh unnu feel like..as sooon as sumthing happen first person unnu blame a di artist dem..


Posted by: Prodigal on February 29, 2008 09:52 AM

Why stop there, what about all the kidnappings? i guess its mavado's fault to. Black people lets act like we have some sense and education especially if we're on da air waves


Posted by: CHADS(DOLLYBABY) on February 29, 2008 10:01 AM

IT SEEM AS THOU UR COUNTRY AVEN'T DEVELOP AS YET..IT STILL UNDER GOING SOME CONSTRUCTION.THESE DANCEHALL ARTISTES SING OR DJ ABOUT WAT THEY SEE, BEEN THROUGH OR WAT THEY GREW UP WITH..DEY AREN'T TELLING PEOPLE TO SHOT/BULLET A MAN.DI ONLY PEOPLE WHO SEE IT AS DAT NAH NUH RA$$ SENSE..YUH NEVA SEE OR HEAR MAVADO, BOUNTY KILLA OR THE REST OF THE DANCEHALL OR REGGAE ARTISTE ESPECIALLY BUSY SIGNAL AND DEMARCO A TELL A YOUTH FI SHOT A MAN CAAH HIM DOH LIKE DEM OR DEM DO HIM SOMMO WRONG..WAH MI A PRE FROM ALL A DIS IS DAT, YOU Kwesi "Hyper Hoppa" Hopkinson, IS ATTENTION U A LOOK OR SOMMO..ANNO JAMAICA OR DI DANCEHALL ARTISTE OR DI PEOPLE IN THE INDUSTRY MEK YUH COUNTRY A DO DEM TING YAH& NAH USE DEM HEAD...I CAN AGREE THAT THE ARTISTES DO HAVE SOME GUN TUNE AS WELL AS I CERTAINLY AGREE DAT THEY DO AVE SOME POSITIVE& ALSO GIRL TUNES..TUNES PEOPLE OF ALL AGES CAN SING& RELATE TO..MOVADO HAVE SOME POSITIVE TUNES LIKE 'I'M ON DI ROCK', 'DYING', 'DONT WORRY', 'MAMMA', JUS TO NAME A FEW...YUH CAAH CUM PUT DEMARCO& BUSY SIGNAL IN DIS CATEGORY..DEMARCO SING HIT SONG, 'FALLEN SOLDIERS', 'BEAUTIFUL LADY', 'BETTER JAMAICA', 'LISTEN TO YOUR GIRL',ETC...BUSY AS A FEW GUN TUNES COMPARE TO HIS POSITIVE TUNES..SONGS LIKE 'CURPHEW, FACE TO FACE WITH LIFE(HIM AND DEMARCO SING),SERIOUS(FT SEAN PAUL),NAH GO JAIL AGAIN, THESE ARE THE DAYS,HARD TIMES,MI NAH SMILE,STREET SITN,PEOPLE SO EVIL, MURDEROUS PRAYER,MY WORLD, GOT A STORY TO TELL,PROTECT ME,UNKNOWN NUMBER,SELL SELLS, BELIEVE MI, NO ESCAPE,REAL JAMAICAN, RAT RACE', JUS TO NAME A FEW..
BEST TING U FI GO DO A GO BUY SOME CD WITH DI ARTISTES DEM U AVE PROBLEM WITH OR SHUT U MOUTH IF U NUH AVE DI CORRECT FACTS OR HAVE ANYTING GOOD FI SEY.. CUZ U NOT SEEING OR SAYING DI POSITIVE TINGS ABOUT THE ARTISTES..
>>PEOPLE SO EVIL>>


Posted by: crystal on February 29, 2008 12:06 PM

how mi neva kill no one nd ive been listening to MAVADO since day 1 he came out...leave di yute alone dem a try fi frame him


Posted by: sexxxy s on February 29, 2008 12:33 PM

Instead of looking at the whole picture upbringing, society, etc... He justs zooms in on Mavado's lyrics. Small minded Hypocrite. At the end of the day I can enjoy dancehall music as any other form of entertainment. There are going to be some unstable individuals who will take what happens in a song and try to make it reality because as I said before they are UNSTABLE and would cause problems whether or not they listen to dancehall music.


Posted by: slim d on February 29, 2008 12:42 PM

MR.HOPKINSON, i was watching the HITMAN an american movie where he was trained to kill anyone that was contracted,and i am sure there are alot more, i have listen to trindad carnival song that was so arousal, i had to restrained fr wetting up my self, i have heard that the school is located in a war gang zone, and the list continue, it is going to take more than MAVADO, song to help trinidad, u need to look at the social background of the youths where they r coming fr, poverty, violence in the home, born in garison areas where u lived by the guns, dons that u paid by extortion, and provide counselling and motivational speach for the youths bcuz MOVADO is not ur last resort.


Posted by: camille edwards on February 29, 2008 03:06 PM

Firstly I must say that not all Trinidadians feel and share the comments of this person. I don't blame any one person for the things that people do or don't do. I believe that parents play the biggest role in training their kids on the rights and wrong for when they go out into society. I read the story about the incident in trini, and what the hell this boy doing with a knife in shcool? You are going to school to learn, not to fight and kill one another. But, this is the society we live in now, and our learders are not doing anything to find solutions to dealing with the young people of this world. Especially the government of Trinidad and Tobago. So, I guess the next best thing for people like hoppie... to do is blame the entertainers. Well Sir, what you should do as a DJ.. in trini, you and others like yourself that's in the business, should help find ways for the young men and women of trini to explore their talents and whatever gifts they may have. same way Mavado bring himself up from the Ghetto, with the right help and backing they can do it too. Instead of posting negative comments about Mavodo do something positive for your country.


Posted by: Badmanplace on February 29, 2008 03:32 PM

I just want to know wat happened to taking responisibility for your own actions it's seems now a days everyone wants to blame issue's on someone else.(big up to da Mavado and da whole Alliance)


Posted by: Iceberg on February 29, 2008 05:22 PM

Its I!!!,music is life,and want u desire
to obtain fr it,its a mind set,if u set it towards it,and how u used it.i just know my self and so i live.


Posted by: lisa on February 29, 2008 10:17 PM

hopkinson, why yu dont hop yu way up in your ma p**sy back or is in that dark area yu speaking from. it is your gay mentality taking a toll on your youngsters. go sort out your own problem and leave us alone. - rich n happy the man a seh.


Posted by: DAISYFRESH on February 29, 2008 10:50 PM

THE INDIAN DEM IN TRINIDAD HATE BLACK PEOPLE. IT DONT MEK IT ANY BETTER WHEN BLACK MEN ACT LIKE COOLIE GAL DEM IS ANYTHING FI LOOK PON. BIGUP MAVODO U GOT THE WHOLE TRINIDAD GOVERNMENT A LISEN U MUSIC. BLACK PEOPLE NEED TO UNITE AN TEK OVA THIS WORLD BUT CAN THAT HAPPEN WHEN MOST BLACKS HATE THEMSELF


Posted by: bad eyes on March 1, 2008 02:51 AM

cool it with the caps...they are hard to read!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

use exclamnation marks instead:):):)


Posted by: custas on March 1, 2008 11:43 AM

how cum mi an my fren dem a listen ninga man ,shabba ranks ,bounty,beenie an wi neva kill no badi yet.u see in life wen a man a mek money real fast people allways try stop him . but it is not suprisin to me because kartel is one a di first man start fight him


Posted by: slim on March 1, 2008 03:37 PM

how dem neva have nutten fi say bout marlon asher..he a ganja farmer


Posted by: ogosh on March 1, 2008 09:57 PM

Fu#$ trinidad


Posted by: ogosh on March 1, 2008 10:00 PM

Movado or jamaica doesn't need trnidad


Posted by: TiTI on March 2, 2008 11:56 AM

Listen a stupidness Mavoda or whatever his name is chatting, pure violence. Trinidad has neva really respected Jamaica, and has always sort of blame JA for their ills, just like Jamaican people blame USA for their social ills. Take responsibility for your children, SOME Trini youth have always been violent bad from the bone, way before Mavado name ever call.


Posted by: Lady P on March 3, 2008 11:36 AM

Bajanqueen [Bajanqueen on February 28, 2008 02:25 PM], your comments are extremely offensive. All you're doing is trying to put down Jamaica while acting as if every other Caribbean island is safer, more civilized, and more educated than Jamaica. Crime is everywhere. Maybe if those T&T children's parents had trained them better, they would not have been fighting with knives.

Every comment you make is a swipe at Jamaica. A lot of soca and calypso pertains to promiscuity, partying, and other nonsense, so I suppose everyone should blame out-of-wedlock children and sexually transmitted diseases on soca and calypso?

In closing, you're an insecure idiot.


Posted by: Trini on March 3, 2008 07:03 PM

what people need to understand is that music can incite you to kill somebody but the issue with them two yutes is that they had beef and one stab the other, although the yute died the other boy did not necessarily listen to a mafraudo song and get his ideas from there, Trinidad need to realise that they have a set of yutes runnin bout trying to get some rank and the sad thing about is that the more ppl yuh kill the more rank as a badman yuh does get... daz just the way it is in trini. yuh cah blame the music, is all about the systems and parental guidance that is lacking... and to the person who seh bunji neva sing bout violence, yuh really dunno nuttin bout the man. Bunji sing bout I wayne and sing a song call badman a while back... doh open yuh mouth and talk when yuh na know wah yuh a talk bout, blessings in the name of the most high.... respect and one love


Posted by: ogosh on March 5, 2008 07:51 AM

People should realize that music doesn't make someone bad. Bad people choose the music they listen to, simple as dat. When the likke white boy dem kill dem school mates, and den kill themself who dem did a listen to, movado? The africans cant stop kill each other, what kind of music do they listen to. Trinidadians are jealious of the influence jamaica has on the rest of the world.They have been trying to sabotage our culture for a long time but they need to realize that their voice is not that big and give up.


Posted by: dj hq on March 5, 2008 08:01 AM

as mi say again leff the ###@@$ dj alone everybody have a mind of there own so dont blame the djs if some fool feel like dem want to go pan a killing spre seen what is wrong with the trini dem cant take a blame for them self leave movado and bobo cl**t jamaicans alone.


Posted by: kino on March 5, 2008 01:07 PM

yow some people just chat pure F**kry, like if them stop play the music on the radio its gonna hurt the gangster career, and it still gonna be on the streets, yow a the same ting them a try fi do the (TECHA) KARTEL portmore empire straight busy,aidonia,movado,munga,deva bratt,einstein,beenie man,demarco,serani,bugle,black rhino,shawn storm,teflan, etc a the real big man. so if two man have a fight and 1 dead mi sure movado neva kill him and movie worst a dan music. music is for enjoyment, yow this is kino outa mobay, springfield.


Posted by: laughoutloud on March 5, 2008 07:13 PM

Bajanqueen u need fi shut u mouth and stop chat fk-ry! Mi is a Jamaican weh live inna Barbados and yasso is not all dat. Unnuh have free education but unnuh nuh utilize it. Mi had to opportunity fi go inna some a unnuh schools and nuff unnuh children cant even read (and education free). Mi have yet fi come accross a Bajan weh can speak proper English! Mi had to attend a function at di UWI campus in Barbados last year and di graduates dem upon being interviewed made a mockery of the English Language! Not to mention unnuh News Casters pon CBC! Suh u need fi gweh wid dat sort of talk bout how educated u Bajans all are. Education is free yet still nuff a unnuh illiterate like raas. U tink a Jamaican coulda get opportunity weh unnuh get an mek it go suh? Unnuh get help from Government right up till unnuh first degree still more dan half of the population dont have a degree. Yes mi can talk because mi affi compile unnuh data!

Free health care? Ur health care there is a joke! U want to dead fast? Go to di QEH! People unnuh nuh hear about di negative side of Barbados till unnuh live deh...nuh mek nuh Bajan brag pon unnuh. We in Jamaica have far way betta health care dan dem deh. We have our free clinics, wi have lots of hospitals (public and private). Some of our clinics are open up to six/seven or some even up to nine o'clock anyday of the week. In Barbados try nuh visit nuh Doctor office afta four pm weekdays, and 2pm pon a Saturday! Housing subsidies? My girl check out our NHT (National Housing Trust), (NHC) National Housing Corporation and our varous Building societies in Jamaica. In Barbados a good house a di hardest ting for dem to own. Which part inna Barbados anybaddy ever only have to contribute to dem housing trust and qualify for housing benifits? Whether is build on own land, buying a house, or applying for Units built by our NHT? Why is there so much Board Houses in Barbados, some a dem a rotten down and pple still live in it? U tink u aggo si dem sitten deh a Jamaica? Unnuh know why pple? Because not so long aggo Bajans were not allowed to own land unless dem white and rich! Dem did affi live pon plantation weh dem can least one spot so dem house affi be board and lifted on blocks suh dat dem can move it when di owna dem run dem offa dem property. Which part inna Jamaica dat a gwaan? Nuff Bajans nuh have nuh ambition either, annuh likkle time mi pass dem house and dem have di crissesst cars or pickups park a dem yaad and di board house weh dem inna a rotten down. Si ya Bajanqueen, nuh draw mi tongue yaah! Mi can bet u havent even been to Jamaica yet...u just a talk based on weh u hear. A dat mi find wid most a unnuh Bajans! U know how much a unnuh mi affi set straight? When it comes to technology unnuh deh way behind! And di ting weh hurt mi is dat unnuh pompous wid unnuh ignorance to.

Why are there so much homeless pple in Barbados? My girl dont pretend that nuff crime nuh deh a Barbados. Is just last week gunmen ova yah held up and rob some tourist, and one man coming from bank wid him likkle money and shoot him put on top of it. Every week there is practically a different crime committed here. Why u nuh talk bout unnuh climbing murder rate weh unnuh a sweep unnda di carpet ova yah? Mi sick and tired of u self-richuss racist Bajans talking unnuh bag of propagandas a try fool di world. No Jamaican aggo gwaan like wi better dan everybaddy else while putting down other countries. But unnuh Bajan need fi wake up and smell di coffee and know seh unnuh is not England and unnuh is a member of di Caribbean to. Di whole a wi have wi problem and wi affi help each other out. Unnuh need fi stop discriminate genst unnuh own Caribbean pple because memba when unnuh go to America, England and all dem other first world dem treat unnuh like shit...and is always a Jamaican affi come help unnuh raas!


Posted by: justice on March 7, 2008 12:27 PM

here we go again,anedda country blaming mavado for their crime,wen trinidad is known for most murders,terroism and such,was it mavado,no,u say you ave nothing against the artist,but you a blame him fi unnu crime my youth unnu need fi check unnu self low jamaican artist alone crime a gwaan in a trinni before mavado even tink bout singing,so unnu gwey stop hate on jamaican,we dont do you all nothing we were jus born with the gift,its not our fault unnu foreparents were houseniggers.LEF WE ALONE.


Posted by: adonai on March 20, 2008 11:35 PM

the truth is,i'm so tired of these caribbean sub-islands trying to blame our music and us as a people for their short comings. if truth be told they have nothing to do, no where to go nothing to look forward to on a weekend if we were to stop putting out "violent musci" just a couple months back i was on one, where our music was so "happening" that their government forced an MOU on the poor radio stations, that they should play "local music" (talk about repetition)for the equavalent of at least 1 hour in the 24 hour span.the problem with these people is that they have no identity of their own so they are left stuck between kingston and miami trying to be wanna bees. but all they try and do jamaicans know who we are and what we are about.and they should appreciate us for who we are we never tried to force our culture on them, they tried to be like us.they should know this, we do not need them, if anything, they need us.and no matter what. we will prevail... i'm sorry i meant to say we deh yah pon deh gullyside....ALLIANCE....


Posted by: EMPRESS C on April 6, 2008 10:19 PM

Now, people have run out of things to say they are now blaming, the artist for the high rise in violence ad crimes. True some of th dancehall artit compose songs with great violence, but i see no reason to blame Movado. Simply because not all Movado songs are acts of violence. The artists have right to sing what ever they want as a way of expressing their feelings. Stop trying to bring down the artist and start educating the children on the right way and teach them the right things.....It's already too late now....the violence has gotten way out of control..... it's not only the musicians,but the actors..so please people leave Movado and the others alone an check on the T.V and the actors..IS LIKE YOU PEOPLE SEE WITH YOUR EARS ..Until then....Alliance, big ship every body...........Keep it cool.......


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