Buju Banton

Reggae Icons, Jamaican Culture, and Homophobia "The world is in trouble/Anytime Buju Banton come/ Batty boy get up and run/ ah gunshot in ah head man/Tell dem crew… it’s like/ Boom bye bye, in a batty boy head, rude boy nah promote no nasty man, them hafi dead." The average member of the reggae dancehall culture knows the message that this song is sending to its listeners. However, without a translation these lyrics do not mean a thing to someone who is not familiar with this culture and the vocabulary

Buju Banton, born Marc Anthony Myrie, is a popular reggae musician from Jamaica. Banton has written many songs based on sociopolitical topics, some of which have received great criticism and nearly ended his career. “Untold Stories” was released in the 1995 album ‘Til Shiloh and it displayed many topics which had been forgotten by dancehall audiences. The song related in great measure to the popular issues in society such as poverty, crime, corruption of the government and the degradation of the

[Intro: Baka Not Nice] Murda on the beat so it's not nice [Chorus] For this life, I cannot change (change) Hidden Hills, deep off in the main (main) M&M's, sweet like candy cane (cane) Drop the top, pop it, let it bang (pop it, pop it) For this life, I cannot change Hidden Hills, deep off in the main M&M's, sweet like candy cane Drop the top, pop it, let it bang (pop it, pop it) [Verse 1] Drop the top, play hide and seek (yeah) Jump inside, jump straight to the league (league) Take a sip, feel

The Mirroring Lives of a Jamaican and a Rastafarian Introduction This paper is a series of two interviews that I had over the course of the semester. I used both of the interviews as a series of research. I then used this research and supported it with published work. The first interview occurred when I was in Jamaica. I randomly crossed paths with Peter. He informed my friends and I that he was a Rastafarian. We spoke with him for about two hours on the beach. He informed us about his religion

Jamaica Kincaid addresses the reader as a tourist in her book A Small Place. Throughout the book her sarcasm and resentment towards the postcolonial state of the country cannot be missed. She exposes the “ugliness” of tourism, she writes, “The thing you have always suspected about yourself the minute you become a tourist is true: A tourist is an ugly human being” (14). Kincaid points to the fact that the tourists (European and American) and the tourism industry are morally ugly. The first section

WST 3015 – Intro to Women’s Studies Gateway to Sexual Attraction? “I bleach my skin because it makes me more appealing to men.” “Some girls who are black themselves, say they don’t want a black man, they want a man with light complexion” (Tafari-Ama). These are quotes by Jamaican commentators who believe that lightening one’s complexion is the gateway to sexual attraction and gaining a potential spouse. Sexual attraction and colorism has been synonymous as early as British colonialism and more

Sam Cook 12/1/2012 Rhetoric of Reggae Tuna (Professor Snider) Common Misconceptions of the Rastafarian People When an average person hears the word Rastafarianism, several things come to mind. Some examples would be the stereotypical images of dreadlocks (long braids or natural locks of hair), the smoking of ganja (marijuana), the busy streets of Trenchtown, and the reggae rhythms of the one and only Bob Marley. Unfortunately, those things are not necessarily the makings of what truly embodies

Jamaica is known for its jerked chicken, clear waters, and more notably for Reggae, which makes Jamaican culture globally recognized. However, despite its mainstream entertainment value of today, reggae is not only music; however it is a way of life for some Jamaicans. It originated as a political form of protest against the colonial forces operative in the social context of Jamaican life. Musical ambassadors like the Abyssinians, Burning Spear, Sir Jimmy Cliff, Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer

On the onset of Nicole Dennis-Benn's novel Here Comes The Sun, Margot is introduced as an ambitious woman with grand aspirations of amassing enough wealth in order to escape a life of poverty and to shield her younger sister from the harsh realities she herself had to and continues to face. In pursuit of her ambitions, Margot works as a front desk agent at the Palm Star Resort hotel, a lucrative job in the eyes of her peers, but in actuality, it wasn't much. To expedite her pursuits, Margot also

Crystal Hislop Research Paper: Final Submission History of Jamaican Music Contemporary History Professor:  Sharon Rodriguez 2/19/12 History of Jamaican Music The history of Jamaican music is inextricably intertwined with the history of the Jamaican people. Jamaica is the third largest island in the Caribbean, and was initially populated by the Arawak people. Christopher Columbus "discovered" the island on his second voyage to the Americas, and it was settled first by Spanish colonists