SAD SAD
Crystal Harrison, Star Writer
The member of deejay Mavado’s entourage who was shot during an altercation with a policeman at the Quad night-club in New Kingston earlier this week died in hospital yesterday.
He has been identified as Conroy Edwards.
It is reported that Mavado’s entourage was involved in an altercation with police personnel on the steps of the nightclub.
It is alleged that a cop was assaulted by a member of Mavado’s crew.
The policeman then allegedly opened fire hitting Mavado’s crew-member.
He was admitted to hospital in serious condition.
In the meantime, earlier this week, the Half-Way-Tree police listed Mavado as person of interest.
Following that advisory, the deejay reported to the police and was charged with assault occasioning bodily harm. He is to attend court on June 23.
In an interview with THE STAR earlier this week, Mavado’s manager, Julian Jones-Griffiths, disputed the reports that were being circulated.
“we need to clarify one thing; false reports have been circulated by the media that this incident stemmed from Mavado refusing a search upon entry to Quad nightclub,” he said.
He further said; “That is completely untrue, Mavado and his party were already inside the club, past the search area where there was no issue with anyone. We are asking for fair and balanced reporting of this incident, there is always a lot of false information propagated when these stories break but that doesn’t mean to say we must blame Mavado automatically.”
The manager said that Mavado was not travelling with 20 or 30 people as is being reported. “He was with his girlfriend, a couple of family members and a handful of friends,” he said.
GONE INTERNATIONAL!!
Jamaican news remix: “Nobody Canna Cross it”
- By
- Bailey Johnson
- Topics
- Viral Video
(CBS) – Heavy rains have battered Jamaica in recent days, ruining fields and washing away some roads. One particular bridge was swept away. A news team went out to the road and interviewed people on the scene, including one very spirited local.
As it always does in times likes these, the Internet responded to the event the only way it knows how: a hilarious remix.
The original news piece is right HERE. But, honestly, the story wasn’t complete until DJ Powa added that beat. Now I understand the seriousness of the situation. Also, it’s a pretty catchy song.
The good news is that the situation has improved, and hopefully a new bridge will be built in time. But for now, nobody canna cross it.
Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504784_162-20071653-10391705.html#ixzz1PYGTPuox
AN UNFINISHED CASE FOR JMG MAN COURT
ok this is wendy and moneafah,first thing wendy come on face book everyday and pretend as if she and jr is good but jr don’t be seeing wendy for weeks and he is in new york wendy. jr buy her a white benz and buy his other babymother a white bmw it looks as if he is over wendy now cause jr don’t go back to wendy house and he live with her anymore wendy your time as expire look how yo look old.
BREAKING DANCEHALL NEWS
Owner and operator of C&J restaurant located on Utica Ave., in Brooklyn New York is said to be in Federal custody . He was cornered in his restaurant on Wednesday , June 15,2011. The FBI had a previous raid in Arizona where other members of this drug chain was said to have operated. They engaged in a shootout and one of the men involved killed an officer and is now facing the death penalty. The house was said to contain weed and cocaine, it is one of these men who informed the police on the details and other members of the operation This has led to the arrests of other cohorts. A number of people have been arrested so far, from New York, Georgia, including Arizona.
The Federal Officers raided the restaurant and took not only the owner but all the cash there, jewelry and other items were also seized. He is said to have been shipped to Arizona and has not been granted bail or the right to have visits except by his Lawyer. The dancehall community is said to be in a bunch of nerves as there is widespread fear that many more names will be called because of their involvement with this drug ring.
Other breaking news that needs clarification or confirmation:-
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TASTE & BUY PEPPA??
Paula gordon, STAR Writer
Higglers selling plums and guineps are known to allow their customers to taste the products before they buy them but now THE STAR has learnt that persons selling scotch bonnet peppers are allowing their buyers to do the same.
Sounds a bit strange but information reaching THE STAR is that several higglers in downtown Kingston and along Hope Road near the TGIF restaurant have been involved in the practice.
One woman who recently stopped to buy peppers at the Hope Road location said that she was amused when she heard one of the higglers shouting ‘taste and buy pepper, hot pepper, hot pepper, taste and buy’.
She explained that the practice is extremely amusing. “People did a laugh and ting cause dem a say how yuh fi taste and buy pepper,” she told THE STAR. “People did all a joke a say gi wi a bag a pepper mek wi share it up and taste it.”
Another woman who also claimed to have witnessed the practice in downtown Kingston said she is not surprised because Jamaicans do the funniest things.
“Only in Jamaica. All rat poison dem advertise fi taste and buy,” she remarked.
When THE STAR visited the Hope Road location yesterday we met a fruit vendor who told us that the pepper vendor was not out for the day. He, however, gave us a number to reach the vendor.
‘original pepper man’
When contacted, Goldy who claimed to be the ‘original pepper man’ told THE STAR that he does in fact advertise his peppers as taste and buy.
“It just come to me one day, I find it as a slang and people just like it, people say dem go foreign and hear bout di ‘taste and buy’. Man say dem go church and preach bout it,” he said.
He explained that he uses the tactic in order to draw people’s attention. Furthermore, he said that since starting the practice several persons have shared in the experience.
“If dem want it I give dem to taste, yeah man people come to taste it, taxi man, woman and so, people carry it home and say it nice,” he remarked.
Scotch bonnet peppers are a member of the Capsicum Chinese pepper group, which is believed to contain some of the hottest peppers.
Consumed capsaicinoids contained in the peppers bind with pain receptors in the mouth and throat that are responsible for sensing heat. Once the receptors are activated by the capsaicinoids, they send a message to the brain that something hot has been consumed. The brain will then respond to the burning sensation by raising the heart rate, increasing perspiration and releasing endorphins.
Meanwhile, Goldy says that he is out each week with his fresh peppers and persons are being invited to visit him at the location to share in the experience.
Managing a Brand He Made Himself
The dancehall reggae artist Vybz Kartel. His new album, “Kingston Story,” will be released on Tuesday.
By ROB KENNER
Published: June 16, 2011
SHORTLY before 10 p.m. on the final night of Best of the Best, a reggae and hip-hop concert held over the Memorial Day weekend in Veterans Park in Miami, DJ Nuffy, the master of ceremonies, began to introduce the dancehall reggae artist Vybz Kartel. But Vybz Kartel wasn’t actually in the park, in Miami, or even in the United States. He was more than 500 miles away at Jamaica Jamaica, a fancy nightclub just outside Ocho Rios, because he has been denied a United States visa.
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In addition to his music Vybz Kartel said he is developing beverage and clothing brands.
“And now for your feature presentation, the biggest thing in Jamaica,” DJ Nuffy roared, adding “him look like Michael Jackson.” The sly remark — referring both to the artist’s enormous celebrity in the Caribbean diaspora and to his controversial practice of lightening his skin — drew laughter and mischievous cheers from the crowd of some 10,000 who stared intently at a screen on the stage where artists including DJ Khaled, Busta Rhymes and I-Octane had performed just moments before. “Let’s welcome via satellite, live to you, Vybz. Vybz. Vybz.”
The crowd shouted “Kartel” in unison as his image filled the screen. He wore a purple suit with a loosely knotted silk tie and button-down shirt, his pale brown tattooed face framed by aviator glasses and a mane of black hair extensions. “Yo, Miami, you know what time now?” he asked, checking his wristwatch as the stuttering digital beat for “Touch a Button,” his chest-thumping challenge to rivals, started to play. Before long Vybz Kartel’s rapid-fire flow had the audience spellbound.
Over the last few years Vybz Kartel (pronounced Vibes Cartel) has become the most talked about figure in dancehall, a genre that is to the roots reggae of Bob Marley as hip-hop is to R&B. More than any of his predecessors or his peers, Vybz Kartel understands that he is not just entertaining an audience but managing a global brand. At a time when major-label interest in the genre is at a low ebb, and most dancehall artists release a smattering of singles, he will drop a full album, “Kingston Story,” on Tuesday on the Brooklyn digital label Mixpak Records. Although there will be no P.R. blitz to push the work, Kartel, 35, is highly skilled at creating controversy and leveraging the media exposure into new opportunities. The secret of his success may be that Vybz Kartel doesn’t worry about conforming to expectations; he’d rather break the rules.
“Kartel has remixed the notion of what it means to be a dancehall star,” said the Jamaican novelist and essayist Colin Channer. “He’s a pop artist in the sense of somebody like Madonna or Lady Gaga, who are aware of how transforming their image makes them attractive to different segments of the public.”
When asked how he maintains his international notoriety while rarely leaving Jamaica, Vybz Kartel laughed and said, with his usual braggadocio, “We work with what we have, and we make miracles like Jesus.”
The satellite-feed performance is only the latest example of this artist’s innovative approach to advancing his career. “I feel very special,” Vybz Kartel said by phone two weeks after the performance. “A lot of artists don’t have any visa now, but I am the one they approached. The job was pulled off, and I was the first to do it.” (He said he had his United States visa taken away six years ago over what he calls “allegations”; United States officials are not required to explain the grounds for denial of a visa.)
But the show almost didn’t happen. A week before the concert Vybz Kartel’s longtime business partner, Corey Todd — an American businessman who formerly worked with the Pimp Juice drink brand owned by the rapper Nelly — gave a series of interviews on Jamaican television accusing Vybz Kartel of threatening his life. He publicly severed ties with Vybz Kartel, dissolving the ventures that the two had built together, including Street Vybz Rum and the popular Kingston night club the Building, where the satellite performance was supposed to have been staged. Two of Vybz Kartel’s top collaborators — the singer Jah Vinci and the producer Not Nice — also jumped ship with Mr. Todd.
“I didn’t threaten anybody,” Vybz Kartel responded. “That is definitely a lie, and we are going to pursue that matter in court.” No legal action had yet been taken.
Vybz Kartel (born Adidja Palmer) made his name through a prodigious output of music, flooding iTunes with two or three new releases each week, with songs like “Ramping Shop” and “Jeans & Fitted” becoming international hits on radio. “I’m the Jay-Z for Jamaica, don’t call me a faker,” he rhymed a few years ago.
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Like Jay-Z he is as much an entrepreneur as an artist. He said he is planning to release a book analyzing his lyrics, similar to Jay-Z’s best seller, “Decoded.” Vybz Kartel is constantly making headlines with his X-rated lyrics, his leaked sex tapes, his well-documented arrests and for lightening his complexion in a culture with a long tradition of black pride. The skin-bleaching brouhaha is an enlightening case study.
“How you going to liberate the black people when you bleach out your skin?” asked Vybz Kartel’s erstwhile mentor Bounty Killer, voicing a widely repeated question. “You’re supposed to be proud to be a black man.”
In February the New York radio D.J. Dubmaster Chris of 93.5 FM banned Vybz Kartel’s music on his show during Black History Month. “If you don’t stand for something,” he said, “you’ll fall for anything.”
But Vybz Kartel parlayed the publicity into his first-ever live morning show interview on Hot 97 FM, one of the most influential hip-hop radio stations in America. “This music stuff — what people say about me good or bad — I don’t take it personally,” Vybz Kartel explained later. “It’s business.”
While working on “Kingston Story” the producer, Dre Skull, said he saw firsthand how Vybz Kartel took care of his business. Most of the album was recorded in Not Nice’s bedroom studio during a series of four one-night sessions. “One of the most exciting things about this record is that we did it with no A&R’s, no outside songwriters and no other producers,” said Dre Skull, who runs Mixpak from his apartment in Brooklyn.
Dre Skull was also impressed with how prolific a songwriter Vybz Kartel is. “Your average U.S. artist might do 300 songs over the course of a really successful career,” he said. “Kartel must have written three or four thousand songs, if you add it all up. The man is a master of his craft.”
Mr. Channer, who organizes the annual Calabash International Literary Festival in Jamaica, agrees. “Kartel is one of the best writers in any form to come out of Jamaica in the last 15 years,” he said. “It’s just that he likes to write about nothing but sex and guns.”
Vybz Kartel recently announced that he would no longer record songs with violent lyrics in favor of “more cultural” fare but added that explicit sex, as with the new album’s “Go Go Wine” remained fair game.
He got his break in the late 1990s writing hits for Bounty Killer, one of the most popular dancehall artists of the last decade. He rose to prominence as a performer in 2003 with the song “New Millennium,” which featured his trademark intricately constructed polysyllabic rhymes delivered in densely coded patois — the diametric opposite of mainstream hits. His career has been marked by run-ins with the law. Last July he was detained by the police as “a person of major interest” shortly before the accused drug lord Christopher Coke was extradited to the United States where he is now on trial.
“Why was I in jail?” he asked. “They said I was a gang leader. It was ludicrous. And I don’t mean the rapper.”
But there is no doubt that he exerts a powerful influence over his listeners. His 2010 hit “Clarks,” he said, offers proof of his clout in the global marketplace. The catchy song about the storied British shoe brand — long a staple among dancehall fashionistas — received worldwide airplay, sparking a rush on Clarks retailers in Jamaica and elsewhere. This month the company announced a 19 percent uptick in sales in the United States last year, pushing profits past £100 million (about $164 million) for the first time in its 186-year history.
“Those Clarks people, they are like me, they know how to capitalize on what’s happening,” Vybz Kartel said. “That’s why I decided to come with my own shoe line. ’Cause I got a knack for making things move off the shelf.” Although his rum and condom lines have been discontinued, he said he’s developing new beverage and clothing brands.
Meanwhile he said his line of “cake soap” — a detergent usually used for laundry — is selling briskly. “When people were talking about whether I bleached my skin, I made a joke that I used cake soap,” he explained. “I made some songs about it, and cake soap started to sell like hot bread in Jamaica.” Recognizing an opportunity he rushed his own brand of cake soap to market.
Mr. Channer, the novelist, likens Vybz Kartel to Anansi, the trickster character of Afro-Caribbean folklore. “Many cultures have a trickster figure,” he said. “The trickster finds a way to get something when there seems to be nothing.”
Throughout the controversies, Vybz Kartel seems to be enjoying a laugh as well as a tidy profit. “It’s fun for me to watch people hate me, and it’s flattering to watch people love me,” he said. “But 10 years from now the public is going to love somebody else. Vybz Kartel is going to become irrelevant, and I can accept that. That’s why a lot of artists are bitter, ’cause they can’t accept that. Get over it. Stop trying to be Kartel. You can’t. It’s all about making that money while I’m in the limelight.”
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