In the early beginnings of dancehall, with foundation dancehall artistes such as Jose Wales, it was a means of expressing the feelings of the common man
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Reggae’s Michael Rose returns after hiatus
Rising in popularity, he had at one point three top 30 Gavin Reggae hits! In 1998, Michael Rose was one of the most in-demand recording artistes…
Read MoreEditorial: Jamaica’s Government in the gully, hiding in the gaza
I live on an island and I cant swim! Writing about the decline in culture as I see it through hazy, myopic lenses is somewhat weird. I call the kettle black and I am a junk-filled pot. I feel like the accusing voices stick like sweat o the back of my neck and the loudest of all dissenters-the Alvins- screeching nauseatingly in my ear. This is a ‘squeakel’!
As I smoke my last cigarette, I hope I exhale the smoke as thoughts to Jamaicans to think about what two dancehall artistes and hordes of their fans are trying to do. They are going along the lines of PNP/JLP and we will not have it!