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March 12, 2009
What’s with the killing in the dancehall
By Rootzgirl
 There is a saying that my grandmother used to repeat and it’s what you sow you will reap. Why are we amazed at the various murders now taking place in the dancehall?” Why the sense of outrage when a boat event turns out to be deadly or shootings are taking place at club events and at the dances? It should be drawing any shocked gasps from us.
We are the ones who have embraced the gun lyrics in the dances which glorifies the act of killing people as if they are not worth much. One DJ even bragged about his prowess implying he’s bold enough to kill man in broad daylight, while another describe the gory details of marrow spilling.
I could go on and on name a lot more songs that makes the act of taking a life seem like nothing, so when these songs help to feed the appetite of the perpetrators don’t complain.
That’s why I have to big up Bounty Killer who recognized the importance of effect songs and artistes have on their fans when he went on stage and said, “mi nuh want nuh more people fi dead!”
Yes that’s the stance artistes should now be taking realizing the responsibility they have and they power they have over listeners. I am not saying that they are the ones urging them to pull the trigger, but if they do songs that are more conscious then it could help bring about a change.
Just go into a hardcore dance and you can feel the tenseness, but on the other hand go to an oldies jam or some singers session and feel the lightness in the air, the sense of enjoyment.
The dance has become a scary place to be and that’s sad. People are now thinking twice before they leave their homes. It’s time to reclaim what was once our pride and joy…cut the almshouse out of it and let’s get back to some real jamming!
Posted by YardFlex at March 12, 2009 11:02 AM
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Posted by: sakpasse
on March 12, 2009 01:32 PM
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I couldn't disagree with you more because I don't see you using movies where there's the visual of the killing. I'm tired of people using that as a scapegoat. If a people is evil listening to love songs while not change killer matter of fact I know alot of killers that listen to love songs 24/7 and guess what they still are killers. Dancehall may glorify the nonsense likewise movies but it's always dnacehall we want to look at. Heavy metal and hard work is as dangerous for that matter but people don't focus on that since its ran my whites just like the movie industry. So impress me by going after the movie industry like you are doing dancehall. Willie Lynch's the making of a slave is still doing it's job even centuries later.
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Posted by: HOTGIRL
on March 12, 2009 02:20 PM
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THE SOMEBODY A TALK SAY DI DOCTOR LOVE SPOT LIGHT, TEK WHE YUH SELF THAT SOUND LIKE A BADMIND.WHEN YUH SEE BOUNGLE DONT PULL IT, IF HIM WAAN CHAT ABOUT HIS LIFE LEAVE THE MAN ALONE IS HIS BUNINESS,A SO HIM STAY AND HE CANT CHANGE,WE WOMEN MUST KNOW SAY WE MUST KEEP WHAT WE HAVE YOU KNOW WHERE QUIET AND STOP FLING IT AROUND TO GET HYPE.YOU DONT KNOW WHY HE MENSION MS. "B' SO KEEP OUT A DIH MAN BUNINESS. DOCTOR YUH A DIH THE BOSS BIG UPSELF.
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Posted by: robert
on March 12, 2009 02:31 PM
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ah battybwoy dancers are f*cking uo jamaica. its the dutty gyal weh dress like whore thats f*cking up jamaica ah dat me seh. f*cking faggets wearing the tight up
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Posted by: jamin
on March 12, 2009 03:37 PM
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I seriously believe that the gun lyrics has some amount of impact on the thinking of the man with the gun in his hand and the one who does not have a gun but thinking of getttin one...our music determine the way the masses dress...it was a dj who started wearing tight pants ...look at the thing now the whole country is wearing tight pants.... if they sing about drinking guiness or red bull ...red bull an guiness sell off....if they big up a certain model cell phones the masses yearn and find money to get that phone at whatever cost. if they big up a certain brand of shoes then the whole jamaica will be wearing that shoes.. It goes to show that we behave according to the music isn't that logics enough to saY that the music impact the crime and violence..we really need to clean up the music..leave the pictures (movies of of it). We don't need our music to be like or worse than the movies. Movies are doing enough harm. Lets not add to it. Its a disgrace. Our little paradise is like the wild wild west right now...that's just my opinion
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Posted by: g
on March 12, 2009 08:22 PM
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dancehall mash up a pure batty bway dancers yu have in a dancehall now a days the way how some bway pants tight it look like them guh a female store and buy the girl them streach to fit jeans them a bun batty bway and them look just like them thats why mi stop guh dance because a pure sadamite a guh dance now a days
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Posted by: gigglez
on March 12, 2009 08:39 PM
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The more you want to think things in Jamaica will get any better it get WORSE man a walk in a dance and a kill off people fi no reason. The more me read the Jamaican star and di more me think a lot a people glorify the killed to them down there they use to it it's normal thing. Police no care and people no care. How safe are Tourest know??? Black people will never rise together they will for every fall.
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Posted by: so what
on March 12, 2009 09:34 PM
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@JAMIN, i agree with you 100%,as of the three first comments, you assholes are ignorant and stupid as f*ck, all you guys do is defend these artiste like them f*cking you, are paying you bills. you damn fool ,fool frighten ass idiots.
I could,t agree with you more. Cheapening life by devaluing human beings has inadvertent consequences> I have long argued that if some of the guns and violence that they illiterate DJ's espouse were to ever turn on them or their loved ones they would sing a different tune. Most do it because it cheap forward and they are either too unintelligent to write more creative lyrics, others like Bounty who told me in an interview that his embrace of all this was a theatrical concept and he never intended for it to be taken literally. He also said in that 1996 interview in NYC that when he realized that it was being literally he eased off to the person who is trying to confuse the issue because other genres and movies are equally guilty that doesn't mean dance hall is any less guilty for foisting this
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Posted by: Anon
on March 13, 2009 08:05 AM
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Thats Crap about the BOUNTY on stage saying HE DON'T WANT NO MORE PEOPLE FI DEAD........over the last few years at stage shows for example REGGAE SUMFEST .. he gets no forward (more boos) whenever he comes on and say that crap about people dead ... his career is dying and i'm sure thats the only reason he wants to make a change.....cuz i'm sure if he was really sincere .. it wouldn't have taken him THAT LONG TO RECKOGNIZE .... and in regards to people saying violence in movies .....WE ALL KNOW MOVIES ARE MAKE BELIEVE ONCE WE REACH OUR TEEN YEARS ... AND IN MOST MOVIES THERE ARE CONSEQUENCES FOR THE WRONG DOERS..... . whilst in the music ....it's different when someone is telling you he is a killer etc .. and he's still out there preaching that crap
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Posted by: ricky
on March 13, 2009 08:12 AM
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no artiste has directly told any individual or group of people to do anything,every man has his own choice.a man nah kill a man cause a artiste seh people dead.some peolpe will kill people with or without the lyrics...But lets not forget that lyrics did not create crime,the crime created the lyrics...Peolpe fi look deeper than just the music..If the same continueous pressure was applied towards the government to make a change there might be a better tomorrow...
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Posted by: Ann Marie
on March 13, 2009 12:20 PM
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Jamaica needs to send all the gunmen to Iraq and send the soldiers home to their families.
The murder rate in Jamaica is ridiculous I really do not see why they have to kill each other the way they do.
I refuse to encourage anyone to take a vacation in Jamaica and I would never think of going to Jamaica for a vacation..................rubbish!
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Posted by: Real
on March 13, 2009 02:37 PM
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@ Jamin. You are 100% correct. I totally agree with this statement. Those idots who feel the music dont have an effect is just crazy. We all know crime and violence will not go away however, dancehall music does influence the youths and unfortunately most times its the ghetto youths that are affected. I am literally scared to come to Jamaica. I beleive the the DJ, entertainers and everyone can help to bring back the love and security the country needs. PLEASE.
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Posted by: jamin
on March 13, 2009 07:02 PM
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WHEN YOU SAY THE GUN LYRICS IMPACT THE CRIME AND VIOLENCE. IT DOESN'T MEAN IT IS SOLELY THE MUSIC OF COURSE THERE ARE OTHER FACTORS. I however, believe the music plays a big part.
The Dj who can only sing about guns and women only..should find a new career because that's not his talent. I rate a Dj who can produce a variety of lyrics. Many of the Dj's are very limited and have no clue as to what is going on. Many of them are just into the thing for a fast money. they are egotists. they do not care about their country or the people or the future of the music. its just what they can make as fast as they can make it.
Don't they listen or read the news. Their conscience alone should say look "let's sing something different, there is too much butchering going on in the country. Even if I don't believe that what I sing is causing all of this. Let sing something uplifting for the people ...to help lift their spirit and give them some hope in such a trying time." Its a crisis right now and for most of them its life as usual. I guess they say well, it wasn't my brother or sister or little brother or grandmother .........that was killed. its sad and it makes me sad. People who sing are usually passionate people with a heart. I guess people who dj are different.
No matter how lightheartedly said, singers words do motivate. In Malawi and in my 23years of life i havent seen a murder scene or a dead body coz here, even saying 'porn, or gay or gun or f*ck' is taboo!
I dont knw why u foolish brothers down there watch or listen to the dancehall crap when i dnt see a dancehall fool who can beat Israel vibes, Mighty diamonds, Black Uhuru, Aswad or Muta! Lets go roots and shame these ganja freaks! Look at their hairstyles! These artistes are gay!
We used to luv riddims here but now we love only those that are concious! Lyk the emotions with Michael Rose!
Fire burn Jamaica and 4 ur info reggae is now based in France and Germany!
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Posted by: KIMBERLYN
on March 14, 2009 01:46 PM
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rootz gal yuh too mix up weh u wah come blame the artist bout him a talk bout murder people in a broad day light fah an marrow spilling a pin yuh wah pin some ting pan di artist. GUH HIDe
STOP BLAME DI ARTIST DEM CAUSE DEM NEVEA SEND NUH MAN FI GO KILL NOBADY
Iam a jamaican and i love jamaica but you guys need to stop the kelling and bring back our beautful island and jamaican girls pussy are two nice for men to be fuckng batty go and find a woman thank you.
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Posted by: WHADDEVER
on March 15, 2009 11:26 AM
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all you idiots talking about dancers mashing up dancehall,go finger yourselves.
the dancers bring a hype or else di damn part boring and you nuh see dem a fight and kill inna dance.a unuh undercova fish whey lock up inna di closet fi so long a kill off people who a enjoy demself and then waan use di dancers dem as scapegoat.the dancer dem a peaceful ghetto yutes and use dem talent fi get out there instead of turning to a life of crime.how you know dem pants tight,you a watch man now-blow whey.
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Posted by: gigglez
on March 15, 2009 03:51 PM
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The day me hear say them kill a tourest is the day me stop gaw JAMAICA and if them lose tourest is the day me feel sorry for them and i think thats the day something will be done
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Posted by: JUNIOR
on March 15, 2009 07:19 PM
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YOU NEED TO STOP WRITING SHIT MUSIC CANNOT INFLUENCE ANYONE TO KILL. YOU ARE ACTING JUST LIKE THE POLITICANS BLAMING ONE OF OUR MOST PRIZED HERITAGE FOR THE TURMOIL THAT IS HAS HAPPENING IN THE COUNTRY SINCE THE LATE 1980. IF SOMETHING TO BLAME FOR THE CRIME RATE IN JAMAICA WE ALL NEED TO BLAME OURSELVES FIRST. EVERYONE KNOWS MUSIC IS AN ART AND ART IS THE EXPRESSION OF ONE FEELING AND THERE IS NOTHING LEFT IN JAMAICA TO BE GOLORIOUS ABOUT EXCEPT FOR SEX,AND DRUGS AND VOILENCE
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Posted by: ryderz
on March 16, 2009 09:49 PM
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so yu go stop feature movado on this site then...
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Posted by: g
on March 17, 2009 01:22 AM
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hey u whey name whaddever u a one a di sadamite dem to u see how fast u come defend u sadamite friend dem a unnu dutty blood claat thight pants faggot a mash up dancehall unnu a push out di girls dem out a di vedio light an a wine up in a di vedio light like a bitch a unnu a contaminate dancehall unnu dutty blood claat germs
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Posted by: RICKY
on March 26, 2009 09:18 AM
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MOST ARTISTE ARE IN IT FOR THE FAME AND FORTUNE,WITH THAT COMES PUPLIC SWAY IF YOUR FANS LIKE GANGSTA TING THATS WHAT YOUR SINGING,IT'S SOCIETY THAT IS THE PROBLEM THEY KEEP ON BUYING..I CAN ASSUME THAT MOST PEOPLE THAT TALK ON THIS SITE HAS LOST SOMEONE TO VIOLENCE IN JAMAICA,BUT WE STILL LISTEN TO THE GANGSTA LYRICS WE STILL SUPPORT THE MUSIC BECAUSE WITH OR WITHOUT IT THE SITUATION WOULD BE THE SAME..OK SO STD'S, TEENAGE PREGNANCY,WUTLESS BABY FATHERS THAT BREED UP WOMEN AN LEFT THEM THE HIGH LEVELS OF PROMISCUITY IS ALL THIS BECAUSE OF BEENIE MANS SEXUAL SONGS OR THE RAMPING SHOP THAT KIDS ARE SINGING OR ALL THESE DAGGERING TUNES ,OR DO WE LOOK AT THE GOVERNMENT AND SOCIETY AND TRY TO PERSUADE THEM TO DO DIFFERENT?
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