The US has already revoked about six of these Jamaican artistes visas for whatever reason I do not know. But, as citizens of the Caribbean we have seen how many of our youths have resorted to gangster life styles and others are losing their lives through crime and violence. Banning the artistes from ones country will not stop this negative behaviour, but its sending a strong message to these artistes that the government and people will not be tolerant to their type of artistry and we demand better.
Music etc can be downloaded from the internet, and that's where parents and guardians can play their roles in ensuring what comes in or out of their homes, but the governments must lead and protect their citizens from what they deem as negative art forms. Randa St. What's the purpose in banning the artiste? Patrick Thompson Kingston, Jamaica. Bravo St. Lucia let him take his filth elsewhere.
Good riddance if he's banned from his country why not others? Kudos to St. Lucia, Barbados and Grenada. Melissa Hollywood, Florida. Our leaders must be seen to be taking up these issues. When they start to be responsible we can then entertain them. Romnel Barbados. What do we really think we are doing by banning an artiste? Really what are we doing? We as a Caribbean people have turned away from raising our kids and so now, instead of parents taking control of their households, they are asking the governments to do it for them - how sad.
Parents govern your households, take stock of what your children's minds are consuming. It doesn't make sense for 'us' to tell VK what to sing about, what makes more sense in my mind is for parents to do their job as parents and govern what their children listen to. Come on, wake up people and stop passing blame around. Geo St. Peters, St. It is in no way stifling the artiste or any other artiste for that matter. It is just simply separating the good from the bad. Many other artiste's music have gained them recognition the world over and they never had to swear and corrupt the minds of the younger generation.
If you are been banned in your own country doesn't that say something. You have to be doing something real wrong for that to happen. Young people need real role models to follow not someone leading them further astray Frankie Thomas St. It is interesting that this performer is banned from three of the more progressive islands in the OECS. It is important that these entrepreneurs work on their lyrics and see that performance must not always come from the heart.
In the entertainment business live performance is the best way to make money. If you can't travel then you don't work resulting in no pay. Frankly I enjoy some of the music played because they are good for a laugh or have a good beat but truly they are outrageous at times and I would try not to be seen in public rocking to them.
I really hope artists like Vybz Kartel and others find a way to be welcomed by all, but naturally they have to clean up their lyrics or try and not be as graphic.
They all have talent which can make them popular, wealthy and accepted and that should be made known to them. Wayne Murray Kingstown, St. Because one has freedom of expression it does not mean it is ok to bring anything that comes to one's mind into households. The Jamaican music industry must re-examine the content of their products. However on the basis of Caricom's free movement policy I have a problem with the ban of the artistes.
This proves that Caricom, as I have always said, is in fact an illusion. Louinel Jean Mandeville, Jamaica. The intrusion of governments in the Caribbean to ban lyrics they deem offensive encroaches on freedom of expression protected in the constitution.
Are Caribbean governments now going to ban the music that is readily available on the internet? Nicole Campbell. Davion Lewis. Youn Manii. Jah Son. Tenday Hamilton Rukowa. Kautioni Music. Damoni Robinson. Humble Kid. Hurdyn Hamilton. Dimej Muzic. Jahmins Sajato.
Rashane Antonio. Taj Tomlinson. Beatsby ABI. No Sah the boss too bad!! With all my degrees I still cannot understand how ingenious this man is. Pure Backside Talent. How do you think of things like this song after song Been a fan for over 17yrs and im profound still to this day the real king kartel emperor.
Buss a blank to the King a dancehall lalalalalallalalalalallalalalalala!!!!!!!!!! The king lives on Vybz kartel addi realist Song say a lot I can relate If uh dont mean what uh say gone with your white lie. Loyalty is not a word it's a lifestyle. Why da worldboss sound so different? Sumting Na sound right!? I feel the vybz! Caan trust nobody Loyalty is a must tell dem kartel, dis song is so real.. G7 nation gang fully bright Real tlk breda cya truss nutn an no one such is life data y man bill by me self still zemi str yea yow.
If yuh doh mean weh yuh seh Gwan wid yuh white lie wid yuh white lie Loyalty, it's not a word it's a lifestyle All di woman a yuh yard yuh can't trust. Renaldo Bourne. Leanna Marisa. Nick Arthur music Vevo. Westside Gamblers. A tally of songs issued during his incarceration would total well into the hundreds. How, exactly, Kartel has maintained such productivity while behind bars remains something of a mystery. Many dancehall fans presume he must be recording in prison, covertly cutting vocals through a cellphone app.
Others have even suggested certain songs were voiced by an impersonator. Musicians usually become engimas by disappearing or holding back, but Vybz Kartel has become one by being impossibly present through his incarceration. He launched a clothing line, the Official VK Line; and created a literacy program which recently sponsored a robotics camp in his hometown of Portmore, Jamaica. In an interview conducted through his lawyer, Tom Tavares-Finson, Kartel denied that he is recording in jail.
The new releases, he insists, are the fruits of a massive deposit of unreleased vocal material left behind before his arrest, updated for the moment by a cadre of trusted producers. His expansive catalog is a confounding mixture of the profane and the poignant: Coarse strip-club anthems, heartfelt love songs, troubling revenge fantasies, scathing social critiques and earnest etiquette lessons for schoolkids, all bound together by a wily, quick wit.
As humans, we have a dark side and a light side. The fact that he articulates both, and all emotions, to the degree and to the depth that he does, makes him outstanding. The concern was less that the feud might inspire violence between the two artists than among their fans. Around this time, as his influence and the controversies surrounding him grew, he began to attract negative attention from other Caribbean governments.
Soon deejays — MCs who toast over previously-recorded tracks, or instrumental riddims — became the stars themselves.
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