Re: Why is consciousness not popular in the dance???
Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 7:20 pm
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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?_Easy_ wrote: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.
I cant really answer that since i have no kids.donstrumental wrote: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 dont like gayhating. But i would not at call gayhating for slackness. It is 2 very different things imo.ital kemar wrote: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