Why is consciousness not popular in the dance???

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Peace

[leggo rocker]

Steppah, Maybe you should come up here on the 11th for the Mad Professor's guest spot with Highness!

http://www.myspace.com/highnesssounds

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Lets arrange a dance.
bless
peace

[leggo rocker]

That would have to be put to Highness and there promoters, Detonate. It's not for me to say, but I could suggest it at my next gig as Detonate are also now my promoters.

[sean]

thanks to blessed youth for starting off this topic, i know and have always known, that Rastafari is a real nice belief system with wonderful priorities and amazing music..peace

[Jah Glu]

Jah Glu wrote : Then you obviously dont understand slackness. Lets just take some examples:
Admiral Bailey - Punaany: All he is saying is that he wants punaany. Whats so wrong about that?
Shabba Ranks - Wicked Inna Bed: Here he is just saying that he is very good at fucking.
Imo slackness is merely talking about sex. And whats the problem with that? No, no i know they dont exactly tell it as a love story, but whats so wrong with bragging about how good you are, and that you wanna have sex? THAT is slackness for me. Talking about sex. And come on! Are you actually blaming slackness for "sexual diseases" (have never heard, "Gun inna baggy"??!?!?! or any other anti-AIDS", "alcoholism" (why?!!?!, what?!!)

And could you please refer to some songs were they sing that they roob, loot or steal?

What kind of conscious message is that? Sex is a problem in all cultures. Prostitution, rape and STDs, are not good things...and i mean if people are singing about sex and all that...people are going to hear it and start thinking the way you are thinking...just not caring. And i think that is a problem in itself.

But cant you see?! They are just singing about like their own experiences and stuff. "Lecturer-punaany too sweet" for example. I agree that rape and STD is a problem of course, but what has it got to do with jamaicans singing about their sex experiences?

Jah Glu wrote :And do you think that slackness is "wrong" culture leggo?

As a yute growing in the 80's there was nuff slackness around and i listened to it,probably like many of you on this site.The difference between the golden era of reggae and present times is there is no balance.

General Echo's bathroom sex and Max Romeo's Wet Dream were a gimmical minority amongst hundreds of classic roots,nowadays it's the total opposite.

A question to Jah Glue

If you are a father is it ok for your kids to use language like PUNNANY,WICKED IN A BED or BEDROOM BULLY in your yard or in your presence?

Nuff Respect

I cant really answer that since i have no kids.

hiya jah glu, just out of interest, in the same shabba ranks song you have named above, dosent shabba say 'pom pom lick a shot in a mamma man head' ... meaning shoot the gay in the head....would you call that slackness?

ital kemar

I dont like gayhating. But i would not at call gayhating for slackness. It is 2 very different things imo.

[Quemster]

Song lyrics can definately have an influence on the youth. Who knows? If it wasn't for Pato Banton's "I Don't Sniff Coke" in the 80s, I might have tried cocaine and..........

[Blacka da Islanda]

Most consciossness music that is on this site is not dancable any more, roots music of the 70 was 30 YEARS ago!, times and trends change and people usually want to go a dance fi ave fun and hear good tunes that are if a wide variety--too much of one thing is good for nothing, selectas have to please john public