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June 02, 2008

Vegas warned about lyrics

edit_vegas_grenada.jpgThe New National Party (NNP) government in Grenada said it was forced to caution Jamaican dance hall artiste Vegas about using offensive lyrics during his recent live performance at one of its rallies, this according to a report on radiojamaica.com

Youth Minister Senator Emmalin Pierre made her disclosure in response to public concerns as the party faced a likely fall-out over another pre-election concert.

Local media have reported that Vegas' performance featured songs promoting drug use and branding women as prostitutes in the presence of ruling party officials.

Miss Pierre said the artiste was advised that he should immediately refrain from offensive lyrics and he complied.

Callers to talk shows had complained against the choice of some of the lyrics used by Vegas, some of which were played back on several local TV stations.

A month ago, there was public outcry following a concert with another Jamaican artiste Beenie Man.

This forced NNP officials to apologize for aspects of the event.

General elections are constitutionally due in Grenada by April 2009 but speculation has been mounting that polling day could be next month.

Posted by yardFlex at June 2, 2008 10:22 AM


Comments

Posted by: sean peezy on June 2, 2008 10:59 AM

wey the r*ss clath Grenada makin news,

lol; i'm proud of grenada, the little country that people never knew about is now know by people all over the world includin space aliens due to The NNP and the crookedness.


Posted by: Dugu Dugu on June 2, 2008 01:25 PM

same old crap a caribbean country trying to denounce dancehall


Posted by: SARGE on June 2, 2008 03:40 PM

THIS DOES NOT SOUND RIGHT TO ME. i HAVE SEEN vEGAS'S PERFORMANCES OVER THE YEARS AND I HAVE NEVER HEARD ANY OF HIS SONGS CALLING WOMEN PROSTITUTES OR ENCOURAGING ANYONE TO TAKE DRUGS. i FIND THIS HARD TO BELIEVE BUT AS DUGA SAY DEM PEOPLE YAH JUST A TRY A TING. vEGAS IF YOU SAY DAT DEN A MUST MISTAKE BECAUSE YOU PERFORMANCE DEM ALWAYS PROFESSIONAL AND UP TO PAR. MY YUTE NO BADDA FOLLOW DEM OTHER ARTISTES WHE DUH DEM TINGS DEH YOU BETTA THAN THAT.


Posted by: portmore on June 2, 2008 04:20 PM

Dancehall putting all these lame ass countries on the map...full time dancehall artist go pon a fast and ban all foreign countries. No dancehall no reggae, no dancing nuttn. Cause these fucking old people dat fail di yutes from jamaica to guyana, have the nerve to be fighting our musical expression. They act like life is homogenized if life is multifaceted music has to be multifaceted. Who wants to listen to a bag of stressful songs all day talking about the struggles we face, we are living the struggle, sometimes we just want to part and have fun. Since you old shits sold our countries out for some bags of rice.


Posted by: 2Hot on June 2, 2008 05:16 PM

This is total B.S.
Wha mek dem nuh warn Bounty, Kartel and Movado.


Posted by: Thuggy007 on June 3, 2008 02:48 PM

Firstly let me say as a Grenadian and West Indian i will not have u MR/MRS PORTMORE disrespecting my country like that talking bout "lame ass country" motherf**ker who the f**k do you think you are we are all considered low class by the bigger countries.In case you have forgotten each country has its own short comings and im pretty sure that you are just another illiterate little negro from the ghetto who never had an education and judging from the way that you have written i am so correct.
Secondly the NNP is comprised of mainly crooks and thieves trying to brain wash the younger generation with free shows and gifts and talking shit to buy votes and thats nothing new.
THIRDLY Mr Vegas is a good artist just doing his thing its not a fight down of dancehall music all artists are welcome to our shores NNP just didnt want the opposition and their supporters to give them fire for the f**kery that they have been doing over the years. So PORTMORE GET YOUR S**T TOGETHER BEFORE TALKING ABOUT THINGS YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT.


Posted by: Thuggy007 on June 3, 2008 02:51 PM

2HOT just for some clarification it just goes to show how crooked the NNP is they gave Movado and Kartel permits to perform all their gangsta tunes but trying to fight down vegas. THEY ARE JUST BADMIND AND WILL BE VOTED OUT OF OFFICE ON JULY 8TH.


Posted by: Greenz on June 4, 2008 07:31 AM

F**king Bias. Yesturday my friend "post" comments as grenadians and it never appeared, but pure political bullshit dem ah promote. To much mix up!!


Posted by: slim d on June 4, 2008 02:29 PM

kartel is bl*8dclat star how many times, u'all going to hear this, the man is the lyrical god, so they cant stop him, if a gun tune, gal, weed, war or peace him have it lock, get that p*ssy


Posted by: spice man on June 4, 2008 05:25 PM

i am from grenada i and every one need to stop the sh*t . Grenadian love my vegas but what the nnp was saying is the show was for the kids and some things mr vegas was not to say . i no mr vegas and me and him is friends and i never hear him sing the song she is are hore befor at a stage show . so i tink it was a set up and some one ask him to say them things .


Posted by: Sparro7 on June 5, 2008 01:29 AM

Yow SLIM D i rate Kartel but don't forget da youth call AIDONIA, him lyrics mad like (psycho) or better than Kartel's sumtime>>>listen Aidonia clearly


Posted by: Dallio Star on June 5, 2008 09:52 AM

DEM CARIBBEAN COUNTRY YAH A TRY STOP REGGAE LIKE THE REST A DEM YUH KNOW WAH F*CK DEM WI NUH NEED DEM...A BADMIND DEM BADMIND REGGAE AND DANCEHALL CANT DEAD LET DEM KNOW.....DEM CAN GWAN


Posted by: slim d on June 5, 2008 03:11 PM

YO SPARRO 7, u r correct next to Addi is Aidonia,he is my second to Kartel, i luv him alot, he is the only one that i see can stand a change against Addi.


Posted by: greenzqueen on June 7, 2008 06:46 PM

I think the way u guys bad mouth my country is really f**ked up!! yes Grenada is a small country but we have wat it takes to make it far..Mr Vegas is one of the most loved dancehall artist in Greenz we love him but i think this article labeled him wrongly the NNP party just found that some of the music wasn't appropriate for the children and i dont agree with the comment that WE CARIBBEAN COUNTRIES R BRINGING DOWN EACH OTHER WHEN SOMETHING IS DONE IN A WRONG MANNER IT NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED..


Posted by: Reality on July 2, 2008 01:53 PM

This one is for sparro7 and slim d. Now I let me start by saying i truly love dancehall music it is my heart i like kartel i like the way in which he puts his words into context yes but for Idonia that man is pure nonsense first thing you can't understand what he's saying and when ya do it doesn't make sense I only heard one good song he had his shows totally flop in my country fa sure.


Posted by: Reality on July 2, 2008 01:55 PM

This one is for sparro7 and slim d. Now I let me start by saying i truly love dancehall music it is my heart i like kartel i like the way in which he puts his words into context yes but for Idonia that man is pure nonsense first thing you can't understand what he's saying and when ya do it doesn't make sense I only heard one good song he had his shows totally flop in my country fa sure.


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