Y'all are both wrong, Jamaica produces better music than US/Europe

[JohnKleeb]

Ok :D.

[nickgutierrez]

1. You WOULD say that, wouldn't you?

:smoke:

(I know, I know...)

[JohnKleeb]

2. I got mannnnnnnnnnnnnnny rivers to cross

:) Hey I am doing an article on Marley and why he's popular today.

[nickgutierrez]

3. I saw.

You shoulda done the one about the cockfights, though. :evilgrin:

[JohnKleeb]

4. hah

:), I bet you I could have my journalism teacher liking that, I am one of the top writers in the course.

[Paul Hood]

5. Ther's a lot of homophobia in some of the newer Jamaican music.

"Battybwoys affi dead"
Action against homophobia in Jamaica
In January 2004, around 30,000 people attended a huge stage show and Rastafarian celebration, Rebel Salute, in St. Elizabeth, Jamaica. Some of Jamaica’s most celebrated artists were present. Throughout the night, Capleton, Sizzla and others sang almost exclusively about gay men. Using the derogatory terms for gay men - “chi chi men” or “battybwoys” they urged the audience to “kill dem, battybwoys haffi dead, gun shots pon dem… who want to see dem dead put up his hand” (kill them, gay men have got to die, gun shots in their head, whoever wants to see them dead, put up your hand).

Elephant Man, Bounty Killer, Beenie Man, TOK, and Capleton are amongst the stars who have written lyrics variously urging the shooting, burning, rape, stoning and drowning of gay people.

From Buju Banton’s Boom Bye Bye, which threatened "batty boys" with "ah gunshot in ah head", to Beenie Man’s “I’m dreaming of a new Jamaica, come to execute all the gays” to Babycham & Bounty Killer’s “Bun a fire pon a kuh pon mister fagoty, Ears ah ben up and a wince under agony, Poop man fi drown a dat a yawd man philosophy” (Burn gay men, til they wince under agony, gay men should drown, that’s the yard man’s philosophy), the exhortations to kill and maim seem to know no bounds.

http://www.amnestyusa.org/outfront/jamaica_report.html

I love Marley and a lot of reggae but this kind of stuff is disturbing.

[JohnKleeb]

6. Ive heard about that, thats so wrong

[Placebo]

7. Pssh. You'll only agree with that if you're a stoner.

[JohnKleeb]

8. Excuse me!

but there is nothing wrong with that first off and second off, the message in this music I am listening to is just the best.

[Placebo]

9. You're a stoner.

:smoke:

[JohnKleeb]

10. Nope, non-stoner for sensible drug laws

but hey theres nothing wrong with being one, I am a traditional one, I drink not smoke.