Shame on you Rodney!

I often get worked up when writing about an issue that pisses me off, but Bounty Killer’s and Movado’s “big ups” at a recent concert really blood claat grieve me! How could this self-styled “poor people governor” (sic) really go on stage and proclaim “nuff respect to Stone Crushers”???

My first reaction was that maybe someone just asked him to big them up and he did it without really knowing who the “Stone Crushers” were, which would have been bad but marginally defendable, but the Warlord continued to put his foot in his mouth by declaring that “police have dem work fi do and bad man have them ting fi do."

I would love Mr. Pryce to tell me what the fuck he was thinking when he decided to pay homage to a criminal gang that has been terrorizing Montego Bay for the past three years. This is not a “militia” that protects a community from “outside forces”, or an “area leader” that helps children to go to school. This gang has been involved in murder-for-hire, extortion, robbery, and other heinous acts in communities where it is based as well as the rest of Montego Bay.
It’s one thing to talk about violence in your songs but it’s quite another to endorse a group who is helping to keep people in the same poverty Bounty claims to wage war on. How can school children “pressure them book” when they can’t go to school because of curfews or are afraid to stay for extra lessons because the lessons finish after dark? How will people in the depressed communities of Montego Bay ever lift themselves out of poverty if people are afraid to hire them because of the reputation that their community has acquired due to the activities of gangs like the “Stone Crushers”? I completely agree with a member of the Community Organisation for Management and Sustainable Development’s opinion that Bounty is a “traitor to….. (his) country.”

Bounty, you need to apologize for the statement you made and make some kind of meaningful effort to stop the criminal activities of the group that you endorsed. It won’t change my opinion of you, but it may actually help the people you claim to be representing.

On another note, why are people still being charged for using "bad" words under some ancient law? If you don't want to hear a certain type of music or language then don't go to the damn show! It's high time that Parliament throws that law out or, at the very least, amends it.