When asked at last week's Carifest C.A.R.E.S. (Compassionate Artists Recognizing Entertainment Solutions) press conference what Carifest meant to him, Eek-A-Mouse replied. "It doesn't mean (expletive) to me." He then changed the subject entirely and went off on a tirade, dissing all the white people who control reggae, like Ace Of Base, Matisyahu, (whose name he repeatedly mispronounced and called Matissaweh), Sean Paul and Shaggy; bitterly blaming them for his inability to get signed by a major label. He even included the late, great, reggae founder Bob Marley in his racist rant, citing that he had a white father.
Don't take our word for it...check out the video for yourselves
.
Posted by yardFlex at June 17, 2008 01:21 PM
Comments
Posted by: brown girl
on June 17, 2008 04:15 PM
what a disgrace u are eek a mouse, stop taking coke
Posted by: Joi
on June 17, 2008 04:24 PM
No that's wrong. Jamaicans control REGGAE and it will always be that way. people will come and go and make money but everyone knows Jamaicans run and control REGGAE for eva. Don't blame. What reggae really needs is for people to invest in it. In the states and say other country there needs to be a reggae radio station, without it people will not hear it every day. there's Irie t.v. so that helps but we really need a main stream radio station beside the online ones. Lata
Posted by: Dugu Dugu
on June 17, 2008 04:44 PM
Eek-A-Mouse is a legend but personally i don't think his music is dat good
Posted by: Dallio Star
on June 17, 2008 04:44 PM
YOOOO SOME TRUTH TO WEH HIM A SEH FI REAL BUT YUH CANT DISS THE GREAT BOB MARLEY NUH MATTA WAH....BOB MARLEY IS IN A DIFFERENT CATEGORY FORM THE OTHER REGGAE ARTIST....FROM BOB DEAD REGGAE WENT TO THE WHITE BWOY DEM FI REAL AND HOW SEAN PAUL LEFT OUTTA NUH WEH AND COME WIN GRAMMY WHEN BETTA ALBUM MEK DON FI HIM.....SAME THING WID STEPHEN AND ZIGGY WEH MI RESPECT DEM WIN GRAMMY FI WAH DEM NAME MAYBE.....Eek-A-MOUSE KEEP BOB MARLEY NAME OUTTA YUH MOUTH A THE ONLY ARTIST THAT WEH TRY FI UNITE JAMAICA.....
Posted by: The R
on June 17, 2008 04:47 PM
That was a classic.....
Posted by: Esbrand
on June 17, 2008 06:56 PM
Eek A Mouse is implying that the bigger acts in Reggae Music are Caucasian or are a lighter complexion such as Shaggy, maybe the Record Companies feel that it is easier to market Caucasian acts such as UB40 and Matisyahu or those acts are less hassles to work with. Most of the consumers of Reggae outside of the cities with high Caribbean populations such as (Toronto, New York, Miami, London & Birmingham) will not be of Afro origin hence the Record Companies may just be playing a numbers game.
Posted by: asomiseh
on June 17, 2008 07:37 PM
How u mean Eek-A atleast u naw sit dung pon yuh mouth like some ah dem.
Posted by: madman
on June 17, 2008 08:15 PM
Honestly...EKA Mouse sounded like a f*cking DUNCE. EEKA MOUSE, you had one song that was a hit. The same Tune that you were singing during the conference. The rest of your lyrics is straight fucking garbage. You are a legend. But a legend that sing straight f*cking Garbage. I can't listen to anything else from you but that one hit song you had. You never got sign to a big label because you fucking suck. Maybe you are looking a hype. , please, please email his punk as this message if you have that punk ass b*tch email address.
Posted by: y-t
on June 17, 2008 09:34 PM
kinda sad ... every show i seen, it was white boys buying eek-a-mouse him tickets and him tees ... one more thing: reggae is music. no one controls it. music is freedom. but this man sounds like a bitter old man enslaved o his anger. wish you all the best.
Posted by: S Johnson
on June 18, 2008 12:03 AM
I can understand Eek A Mouse's frustration. Unfortunately that is the case with black music. It is frequently controlled by people who did not originate it, however, there are better ways of disagreeing and rectifying this situation. People still have to have respect for others. Music can still be a unifying force.
I am black and I'm a born and raised Jamaican, what eek a mouse did was out of pure jealousy. In reggae music, if your music is good you will have an audience. I've watch videos on youtube with eek mouse performing in Israel, touring and even going to the wall where other jews were and praying; they had him on their national TV for a sit down interview. White people have loved reggae music when many black Jamaicans were hating it and is still hating it today because of the Rastafarian culture that they resent. To dis Bob he should be more than a shame of himself. Sean Paul may not be a ghetto youth but he is humble and he pay his dues to reach where he is. lets look at black Jamaican success story in Reggae/Dancehall. Shabba Ranks 2 Gold album and 2 grammys, Mad Cobra Flex went Gold, Patra went Gold, Supercat & Shaggy paved the way in NYC/USA for Jamaican Artists to follow. Junior Gong is not living in his father's shadow He is a great lyricist and Artist, And the Great Bob, like it or not His music just surpasses everyone else in reggae, His lyrics, melody, vocal range and style is like unto none, Peter Tosh is also an Icon that white people work with and helped him advance his solo career. In closing eek a mouse is an hypocrite, cause Junior Gong even sampled his tune on the welcome to Jamrock album and he say he doesn't get recognition, he's a jealous fool and I hope the Israelis and Europeans who have given him his biggest fan base see this hypocritical arrogant speech of his and take the just measures in not supporting him anymore, Jamaican music is run by Jamaicans that is why gays protest everyday and can't get what they want so eek is a plain idiot.
Posted by: properway
on June 18, 2008 02:56 AM
Eeata Mouse (no correction needed!) is jus a likkle has been, him nuh do nuttn 4 di musik, him a one a di biggest sell outs, live a switzerland wid white woman, an ave di heart a mek racist comments, waste man... a bare (white oman) p*ssy yuh s*ck an a talk shit, thas what mi cant tek wid some a unoo (artiste) ole an present all unoo do is course a ting but still a rehearse it...stupid!!!
Posted by: biguprealjamaicans
on June 18, 2008 06:02 AM
yes big up eekamouse,yuh tell dem boss,bun di white reggae artists,dem nuh give anyting back to jamaica,they change there accents and they are all fake,they are not jamaican,they have indentity crisis,think about it they are fake,if you changing your whole voice to sing to me thats fake,they are not born in jamaica,some really think they jamaican,have they forget that they are same whites who enslaved blacks in jamaica,its a disgrace,so dont buy non-jamaican reggae artists,bun all white reggae artists,if you born in jamaica and sing reggae not to mention nuff of these white artists dont even sound good you could hear the fakeness and they pronounce the language off,what a joke black judah group and a member is white,some black dat is,idiot ting dat,you jamaicans who support them are a disgrace to jamaica
Posted by: reggaeking
on June 18, 2008 06:04 AM
a joi if you live in cities in florida,ny and toronto we do have main stream radio stations on your fm dial to listen too,maybe u live in di bush
Posted by: biz
on June 18, 2008 06:31 AM
a bad workman blames his tools
Posted by: toya
on June 18, 2008 08:03 AM
him sound arogant and unintelligent...... dissing godfather of reggae..... nahhhh him gone too far.
Posted by: Miss Dee
on June 18, 2008 08:13 AM
With that kind of attitude he aint neva gon get signed to a label. He need to stop blamin other ppl and their successes for his failures. So Mr. Mouse plz stop HATIN' n get ur act together
claaaahhhhh,yow some man dark still ino. while there maybe some thruth in what he is saying, he needs to keep in mind that these men, inspite of the color of there skin are Jamaicans too. people no mata wah no man noffi dis di legend, bob. NO MAN. honestly i don't know dude, which is why i can recon to his idea but there are black reggae icons who are known world wide such as, Jimmy Cliff, Peter Tosh and so on.
Posted by: z
on June 18, 2008 10:29 AM
he is a f*cking idiot. his music s*cks and now he is worse not going to get signed lol ..... dumb *ss
Posted by: kilfred
on June 18, 2008 12:53 PM
s*ck yuh madda eeka mouse yuh ignorant and badmind nuh b*mbocl***at guh sing some good song if yuh waaaan get sign p*ssyole
There are White Jamaicans ya know ! Light skin, white skin, brown skin, yellow skin and black skin don't matter what color you are your still Jamaican ! Ignorant guy ! I don't even know who he is. LOL But he trynna diss Bob Marley when Bob Marley is Half White Half Jamaican. Yes Bob Marley is a White Jamaican so what ? Shaggy is light skin so what ? Matisyahu is Jewish so what ? Don't matter ! Damn idiot bwoy ! I don't even know who you are that's the funny thing. LMAO
Posted by: FULL EEDIAT
on June 18, 2008 02:38 PM
much truth to what he is saying
Posted by: Joi
on June 18, 2008 04:21 PM
No matter what reggae, dancehall, all jamaican music sounds 200% better when it sung by a jamaican. jamaicans can tell when it's a jamaican singing. Jamaicans created this big music and noone can take that a way, so everyone just have to do their thing and things will happen. Reggaeking i know all the cities you mention has a huge Jamaican community where i live in Chicago has none. What's wrong with living in a bush! If you can find a bush in Chicago where you can live in let me know because that would mean FREE RENT.
Posted by: FYAH!
on June 19, 2008 07:01 AM
I don't agree with eek-a- mouse and the behavior he displayed. It's obvious he is not able to express himself in a clear, consise manner. So here is the deal... It's not that reggae music is controlled by white people, reggae music has now become stagnant and is no longer growing. Consider the era that eek-a-mouse represents...gregory isaacs, dennis brown, toots and even the great BOB MARLEY. Those artist created and performed REGGAE MUSIC. The mistake is that people are now classifying DANCEHALL music with its violent, degrading, demeaning lyrics as REGGAE which is not the same. Yes there are some white artist especially europeans who try to maintain the integrity of the original form of reggae music. THIS IS A WAKE UP CALL. STOP MAKE SLACK, VIOLENT NON-SUBSTANCE music and give reggae a NEWBIRTH. The music has been dead for some years and needs LIFE in order to continue its growth process.
Posted by: African child
on June 19, 2008 08:27 PM
Hahahaha...got to love the yardies...even their fools love and can get the spot light....What a bitter crab ready to pull everyone else down...After 400 years some of you are just well bred haters....Good music always speaks for itself proper it needs no defender.
Posted by: White Mike
on June 20, 2008 01:19 PM
was gonna catch eek @ a small club in NJ this summer....... think I'll only be seeing a couple of the Marley boys here now.....at least dem a possitive vibe........always defended eeks ecentric music and appreciated it.....now he's making me feel like a fool.........eek get cool man!
Posted by: kadian
on June 21, 2008 10:16 AM
well at least we all can see that there are many arrogant people in our country.that comment by eek-a-mouse jus shows how illiterate he is.
Posted by: ras
on June 21, 2008 01:02 PM
bwoy eek-a-mouse is so hungry, i don't listen is song because i don't know what he's singing say, he is a f*cking punk. his mucis sucks someone please tell him to shout the fuck up.
Posted by: The Girl from SD
on July 12, 2008 05:20 PM
All I got to say is: CRACK IS WACK!!!! I thought Ripton and his manager Mark left that shit alone a long time ago!!! Haha!!
Posted by: shyne
on August 7, 2008 07:35 PM
ok so what about reggaeton, they make money off of reggae yet i never see any of those artist give respect to ja....
Posted by: Katrin
on August 13, 2008 10:45 PM
You are a pathetic idiot!!!!!!!!!!!! Mi feel sorry fi you mon
Posted by: Fernando
on August 15, 2008 06:44 AM
We all have a right to our opinion. No need to criticize a legend for having his own opinion on the matter. Eek has been putting out positive vibes in all his music and his live shows are the best, as a reggae fan this is what matters. So what if he has a strong opinion on this issue. Much Respect respect and thanks for the Mouse and all other reggae legends.
