STORY OF INTEREST: Jamaican dancehall stars at centre of row

The cover of the CD Vybz Kartel and Mavado Gaza vs. Gully. Photo credit: artwork.datpiff.com

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Two controversial Jamaican dancehall artistes have found themselves at the centre of a row over indiscipline among the nation’s youth.

The pair, Vybz Kartel, whose real name is Adijah Palmer and David “Mavado” Brooks, are slated to perform here on March 27, despite local law enforcement declining a request to provide the customary security for the show.

The popular artistes and their rival camps have triggered a bitter Gully-Gaza feud that on many occasions has turned violent, spreading from the nightclubs of their homeland like a wildfire across the Caribbean.

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13 Comments

  1. input
    March 18, 2010

    i live in toronto, canada, which is definitely a melting pot of cultures. The majority of blacks that I (dominican) encounter are Jamaicans. By Jamaican, I mean either native or related by parental birth. In Canada, blacks come together and enjoy each others music, support each other. Music is an international language and should not be separated because of its orignation. The Jamaicans i find with this negative mentality about not wanting to hear “small island” music are the ignorant ones who perhaps never allow themselves the opportunity to listen to our music. There were and still are many positive jamaican reggae artists out there. Likewise, there are soca artists out there who sing ” garbage”. So, with that said, it is not a competition about big island-small island and who is better. There is good and bad everywhere. No one artist is going to satisfy every crowd. There is soca music that promotes sex and what have u, which also is not good for the youth. When I hear people talk about Jamaicans in this negative light, you are talking about the ones that you encounter. There are many Jamaicans that are “boujwois” sorry for the spelling. Many of them who are educated and thus talented. Likewise, there are many small-island people who are educated, talented and many too who are “ghetto” like the jamaicans we tend to refer to. stop the stereotyping people. We are a black race. Do you see Chinese bringing down Chinese, Indians bringing down Indians? It’s time we start to uplift our own and instead use constructive criticism to encourage our people. Cuz at the end of it, the “white man” looks at us all like animals. Let’s prove him wrong!

  2. D/can to the bone( foreign)
    March 18, 2010

    Yes my people , we always glorify the foreign music more than our own. In the Uk Jamaican dont support our jam and music per say. Infact they refer to our music as jungle music. I have been to Jamaican jams ,they hardly play Soca and not even a calypso from my country or islands down south.

    Our music is Soca, calypso and cadence, so lets be proud of it. We are islands down south OECS countries so let stick to our own including Barbados, Trinidad and Guyana. These countries have joint jams and we all hear our music, we even have DJs clashes with their various country music, so Dominican wake up and live our dream ,as they say we are small islands so let do out self proud with our own.

  3. d/ca to the bone
    March 17, 2010

    THE DO NOT SUPPORT OUR SMALL ISLAND , BUT LOVE OUR CAKE
    WE NEED TO KEEP THEM OUT. ALL THE LYRICS IS VILOENT. HATE . CRIME, NOT FORGETTING THE EXPLESITS LANGUAGE IN ALMOST EVERY SENTENCE, IT IS SICKENING, BERES AND MORGAN ARE TO LIVE FOR, HEATS OUT TO THIS TWO, VIBES AN MOVADO NEED TO TAKE A BOOK FROM THE IE ENCYCLOPIDIA , BUT JUST GETTING A PAGE JUST WON’T CUT IT

  4. de caribbean change
    March 17, 2010

    Play them some cadence instead, “soulhier en talon haut”

    • Candid
      March 17, 2010

      I agree… groove us with some Groovers… lol

  5. Marian Jno-Finn
    March 17, 2010

    Words are so powerful!

    These artist are a very bad influence to our children anywhere. Their demeanor and spirit project that which is negative- the gang style mentally- the get rich quick or die trying (by showing off their material stuff) is all playing in the minds of our children. By not promoting and supporting these kind of behaviour is always effecctive in getting positive result. Evil prevail when good people do nothing.

    Marian

  6. Kalinago
    March 17, 2010

    Neg Bawi you are so right. Jamaicans in general hate our music. They refer to us as ‘small island’ folks. Yet we embrace this trash call dancehall as if it is our own. Folks in Dominica even taking “sides” in the Gully/Gaza thing and they don’t even know what it is all about.

    Give me my zouk and bouyon and cadence any day.

  7. Jerry Henderson
    March 17, 2010

    WHO??…..The Undertaker AND the Pall Bearer?

  8. Tammy
    March 17, 2010

    KLA LAMOR > Death Bells.

  9. Neg Bawie
    March 17, 2010

    Hey I went to school at the University of Technology in Jamaica and one day I almost got into a fight with a Jamaican guy for playing a Soca cd in the class which I had in my possession at the time. In his words “Yo Big Man when you in de small island dem, you can go on and play ya small island music. In Jamaica we nah want to hear unno sh**”

    I had to take a step back and consider the difference in attitudes and I realized that Jamaicans do not evn like our music; in fact most of them hate it. But here in the Eastern Caribbean we embrace Dancehall is if it is our music. When you go to a nightclub in Jamaica you will be lucky if you hear one socca song for the night…forget Bouyan.

  10. Young Man in Dominica
    March 17, 2010

    next venue Dominica

    • LA
      March 18, 2010

      U are so right, next stop for Vybe Kartel is Dominica.

      • Dem
        March 19, 2010

        Dominica have enuff profanity & sexuality in our music, thanks to a few bands, so i’d say we can keep Vybz and Mavado on the radio.

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