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April 10, 2008
iTunes Pulls Violent Anti-Gay Music From Store
 Music retailer iTunes recently announced the removal of several songs promoting anti-gay violence from its online store after protests led by Egale and Stop Murder Music (SMM).
According to pinke.biz the songs- by Jamaican artists TOK, Elephant Man and Buju Banton - have been removed from the Canadian version of iTunes' online store. Not only that, but iTunes went another step forward and removed the albums featuring the offending songs on their own initiative. Other albums by the artists will still be available.
Akim Larcher, founder of SMM, calls the decision a victory for gays in the Caribbean and Canada. He said: "iTunes is exercising its corporate responsibility by pulling this murder music and raising the bar for other retailers and distributors to do the same."
Egale and SMM hope that other music retailers will follow iTunes' lead and refuse to stock music with lyrics like the one's featured by Elephant Man: "Dance wi a dance and a bun out a freaky man" (meaning join our dance and burn out the queer man).
"We are extremely pleased with this decision. We have also contacted HMV, Archambault Inc, and Amazon.ca and we are optimistic that they will follow iTunes lead," said Helen Kennedy of Egale Canada.
Human rights activists have become increasingly concerned with the plight of gay men and women in the Caribbean. Music promoting the murder and assault of gays has become distressingly common, and homosexuals face violence in everyday life.
Posted by yardFlex at April 10, 2008 11:19 AM
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Posted by: PinkCattie
on April 10, 2008 12:28 PM
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After wi no Buy iTUNES. Real J'can download song dem free from internet so a Mus di FARIN people dem did a buy it from itunes. Real people no buy dem tings we find way fi get it free
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Posted by: Nadine
on April 10, 2008 01:29 PM
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F*ck iTunes and bigg up all the Jamaican Artiste whey a do dem thing!!!
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Posted by: slew dem
on April 10, 2008 02:44 PM
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stupessssssssssssssssss.... whateva yes... wrong is wrong man i'n kno why it so hard fa dem ta see dat... man wid wombman n not the other way around... this is disgusting!
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Posted by: shack
on April 10, 2008 06:06 PM
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What the hell is going on? This is an attack, considering what has happened the last weeks.
I mean, I´m not jamaican but I respect jamaicans and their music and is honestly enraged by this boycott-shit.
Why do they wanna run Jamaica in the ground? Will they stop at nothing? Why are Jamaica and it´s people suddenly the worst in the world?
itunes are hypocrites by the way, all the money they earned on dancehall. I bought several songs like that from them, like "Boom Bye Bye" by Buju.
Well, there are a lot of people still supporting you! I´ll always love reggae, no matter what some gay-bullies think.
Always support the artists! Keep it going Jamaica! You don´t need itunes.
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Posted by: DIAMOND
on April 10, 2008 07:14 PM
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BOMB**LOT--- ME NA CAR IF SEY DEM A PULL OUT DE MUSIC DEM--- WE HAV OTHA MEANS OF GETTIN MUSIC-- PLUS THOSE SONGS ARE OLD--& DATS CUSTOMERS DEM A LOSE TOO IF DEY REMOVE IT-- OH WELL THOSE DUMMYS---THEYLL LEARN BOWIN DUN TO GAY F**KAS ---THOSE B*TTI BUTT PLUGAS A MIND CONTROLIN EVERY RAS TING INNA A FARRIN
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Posted by: Saint
on April 10, 2008 07:50 PM
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We can't win this war against homosexuality unless a non-bias study involving; lie detecting (utilizing lie detectors), auditing (undertaken by one of the "Big Four" worldwide Auditing Firms) and overseeing of the subjects, scientists, scientific process and results is done to finally state as a fact whether homosexuality is a mental disorder.
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Posted by: fire fi apple
on April 10, 2008 09:24 PM
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bun a steve jobs and him likkle fruity company apple. di man look like a fruit mek him gwan him ways. any Jamaican artist we want support we just buy di cd an turn dat inna mp3 wi self
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Posted by: Dugu Dugu
on April 10, 2008 10:30 PM
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yo mi agree with Cattie who really buys dollar music anymore can't even buy gas fi dollar anymore, dem not even have songs i like, dem ah try put wi down but we di jamaican population will stand strong always.
bless
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Posted by: jungle
on April 10, 2008 10:43 PM
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Man and man is wrong. Woman and woman is wrong. Before dem fight against people weh promote nastiness dem a fight against people weh a talk di truth. Leave di artist dem and go read a bible. Who waan vex can vex.
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Posted by: Niki
on April 11, 2008 12:02 PM
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Pls no matter if unnu pull it outta store ppl a go still find a play it........... suh they can du that but i wnt stop ppl from buning out B*TTY BOYS
We Jamaican's are the strongest people in the whole
wide world they can't keep a good man down we don't
give a shit if u stop sell itunes are fucking not u an u gay friend dem fi get bu...... straight.
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Posted by: donna
on April 11, 2008 08:41 PM
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if jamaica accept gay rights a dunn we dunn fah distruction woulda tek wi beautiful country dat nuh possible no day so dem can do anyting dem want fi do dat caan stop wi one door close many more open.gayman an woman woulda dead.dem fi go create a world fi demself.
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Posted by: BODO
on April 12, 2008 03:16 AM
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big up buju,tok n elephant man,u got to let them know that this is abomination to GOD.KEEP IT UP TELL CUZ THEY SHOULD KNOW THIS BY NOW,MAN TO MAN N WOMAN TO WOMAN? NO WAY!!!!!!!!!!
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Posted by: millah
on April 13, 2008 10:46 PM
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Lat time I checked Jamaica was the murder capitol of the world! I'm not gay and don't support it either..people so busy with who's f*@kin who they forget were killin each other!!!! Major ova heat... no!!! Jamaicans are not the strongest people... BLACK people are!!! Know that!! Who give's a sh*t about i-tunes or whatever else. That's not how I get my music anyway. Don't you know they don't like any of us? We are just brown to them... Not just each country for themselves we gotta stand up for our color! That's whats up!
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