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March 31, 2008
Wyclef Pleads With Haitians To Give Up Crime
Wow, I think Jamaican artistes should take a page out  Wyclef's book and set the trend for a better Jamaica.
Check this out:
Wyclef Jean has recorded a radio message asking people in the country to give up crime. "If you love Wyclef that means you love Haiti," he said in Creole in a short ad run by local stations in the nation. "So you should not be raping women, kidnapping people and children. There can be no excuse for doing so." "I reject these evil practices," said Jean in his message, in which he also urged Haitian men to respect women's rights.
Jean, 35, was made a roving ambassador for Haitilast year by President Rene Preval. His message was supported by the UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti, the poorest nation in the Americas. Kidnapping is rife in the Caribbean republic, with 36 people abducted in the capital city Port-au-Prince during March alone.
Jean was born in Haiti in 1972 but moved with his family to New York when he was nine years old. The award-winning musician provides humanitarian aid and assistance through his Yele Haiti foundation.
Posted by yardFlex at March 31, 2008 11:04 AM
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Posted by: Nelly
on March 31, 2008 03:09 PM
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Wyclef is an Artist who is willing to at least try and make a change. Now, lets see which Toppa Top JA DJ can walk in this footstep about asking for peace. Maybe none, because the reality of it is that some a dem(JA DF's) nuh dat Talented, meaning, take away di gun/killing lycris and is like dem cripple. Its about time we stop using the excuse that they are singing about what they know, because in reality if its the Gun/voilence alone dem know then they are no gunmen. I am only saying they must know & can get a vibes on something else to sing about.
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Posted by: DIAMOND
on March 31, 2008 03:26 PM
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A TRU TING DAT. ME TIRED TO SEE DEM A CHAT BOUT MY ISLAND LIK DAT PON DA TV. WERE DA FIRST BLACK INDEPENDANT COUNTRY & ITS SHAME TO SEE US KILLIN & KIDNAPPIN PPL SEEN. ME PIST AS SH*T RIGHT BOUT DAT. DAT FROCKERY A MAK ME MAD. BUT ME KNO SEY ONE DAY WE A GET TO OUR PROMISED LAND & DAT IS ZION. DEN & ONLY DEN DIS FOOLISHNESS WONT HAPPEN NOMORE.
CLEF BIG UP YAH SELF CAUSE IF NAH U IT WOULDNT BE NO ONE. BLESSED
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Posted by: Wade Cameron
on March 31, 2008 05:14 PM
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Yu hear dat Jamaica!?!? Yu cyan learn some tings from Wyclef.
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Posted by: d'mon
on March 31, 2008 05:56 PM
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4 real them fah look in2 wha him a say n jus change 4 a better jamaica!!!
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Posted by: Wade, Virgin Islands(British)
on April 1, 2008 08:59 AM
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If this was a negative article, everyone would be commenting. But because Jean is promoting something positive, there is less post. Well, here goes my comment.."put down the guns and knives, for they are ending young lives. If we carry a gun when we go out, we cannot have fun. If we stop the fighting and walk away, we may live to see another day. So down with the negative and up with the positive and there will be more love and unity in our community."
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Posted by: TONI
on April 1, 2008 11:01 AM
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Jamaican artiste only worried about one thing and that's being hype. They care not about what's really happening here.
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Posted by: precious
on April 1, 2008 12:50 PM
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@Toni, how can u say JA artist only worry about hype. Who do u think is buiding up roads, business, building schools, paying student schools fees, buying school supplies. Feeding the less fortunate. Promoting non-violence, by touring local schools, speaking to children about their future. It's the artist, not the government. Without artist like, The fire man, Bounty killer, Buju, Sizzler, Mavado and alot more, things would be worst. It's the artist making positive moves in JA not the government. Learn that. Wyclef, more stength to u for your positive works.
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Posted by: jenny
on April 1, 2008 02:20 PM
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jamaica will not get no were because of the artis most of them all they do is sing about gun and shot in a head and who fi get dead, them not teaching the youth nothing and every day them a curse b###yman ,which ba###y man kill any one in jamaica, my country not one.jamaica would be better if it was full with bman and no killing i dont support gay because it is wrong in jesus sight but is it right in jesus sight to be killing innocent people like that ,raping and killing babies,the homeless,the old fire for all you wicked,and hell to all these hurry come up artis them a catch them with gum, them a rape and kill, more fire a castro and robert mogarbie fi rule jamaica it will be a better place.
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Posted by: slew dem
on April 1, 2008 03:52 PM
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Wade from da BVI... tune tune tune me seh... lyrically inclined eh yuh shud put riddim on dat :-)...but yeh in all honesty.... serious times i is hear sum ppl say "oh if ppl choose ta do crime das dere choice artist have nuttin ta do wid dat"... PUREEEE DENIAL... Music, visuals n da message it conveys reaches da masses more easily dan ne udda form a communication... chant positivity n not negativity... dem who sing bout d hardlife n ting cud change yuh lyrics n speak bout upliftin yasef frm dat state instead may neva kno wha impact yuh have till YUH TRY....
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