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    Ninja vs. Reggae Star In Unfair Sword Fight

    Jamaica Bans Jamaican Music

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    Image of FitnessMadeSimple FitnessMadeSimple
    10/05/09

    In reply to Ninja vs. Reggae Star In Unfair Sword Fight
    He would have been better off crusting and sugaring over...like a syrupy sweet. Or maybe sagging like a heavy load. Or even exploding. Any one of those, really.
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    10/05/09

    In reply to Ninja vs. Reggae Star In Unfair Sword Fight
    Think of the bump-up in street cred.
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    Image of Botswana Meat Commission FC Botswana Meat Commission FC
    10/05/09

    In reply to Ninja vs. Reggae Star In Unfair Sword Fight
    I like to think your typical machete-wielding Jamaican can take a ninja.
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    Image of The_Left_Coast The_Left_Coast
    02/23/09

    In reply to Jamaica Bans Jamaican Music
    Jamaica is one of those places where music plays an outsized role in daily life. Regular folks don't have computers, or even books, but everybody has a radio. And almost every yard has a sound system. I can't believe the government is so out of touch with the yards.
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    02/23/09

    @The_Left_Coast:


    Maybe if someone put a milkshake there . . .

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    Image of andheartss haz it andheartss haz it
    02/23/09

    In reply to Jamaica Bans Jamaican Music
    As a West Indian American, I must say...


    Every dance we have can be connected to sex.


    EVERY. LAST. ONE.


    RIP Dollar Whine.

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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    02/23/09

    @andheartss haz it: And justly so, as the whole damn idea behind dancing is sex!
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    Image of Aaron Altman Aaron Altman
    02/23/09

    In reply to Jamaica Bans Jamaican Music
    Well, color me Sean a-Paul'd!
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    02/23/09

    In reply to Jamaica Bans Jamaican Music
    To paraphrase my neighbor, "Damn blood clots!"
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    Image of andheartss haz it andheartss haz it
    02/23/09

    @BookishLookish: Or my mom, cousins, etc.


    What de ass!


    [Sucking teeth]


    De c'yan go scratch.

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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    02/23/09

    @andheartss haz it: Lulz. The sound of "c'yan"--I love that sound and wish to hear it daily.
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    Image of uninspired uninspired
    02/23/09

    In reply to Jamaica Bans Jamaican Music
    At least it's still okay to sing about drug abuse.
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    Image of gawkimo gawkimo
    02/23/09

    In reply to Jamaica Bans Jamaican Music
    Bob Marley never sang dance hall songs openly calling for the lynching of homosexuals.


    Not that I support censorship -- but if this move reduces rather than increases the amount of this hyper-macho, gun-toting, bass-heavy, swaggering bullshit I have to listen to at a stoplight, well then it's not all bad.

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    Image of ambitious ambitious
    02/23/09

    @gawkimo:

    Bob Marley never sang dance hall songs openly calling for the lynching of homosexuals.


    And yet, many of his songs would still be part of the ban.

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    Image of gawkimo gawkimo
    02/23/09

    @ambitious: I don't think Bob Marley's music celebrated guns, violence, murder, rape or arson. And I don't recall any videos depicting "daggering", either. Again: I don't support the censorship of the arts.


    That said: They should snatch every copy of "Legend" in the world and have a big ol' bonfire.

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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    02/23/09

    In reply to Jamaica Bans Jamaican Music
    So "daggering" is something new? Waaay back in the 80s, dancing in Kingston was called "square dancing" (since a couple would try to confine movement to the hips, and within a single linoleum floor square). What would account for this sluggish government response time? Can't think of a thing.
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    02/23/09

    In reply to Jamaica Bans Jamaican Music
    So ... the government is doing something potentially constructive and you're making fun of it?


    Based on what? Your need to retain Jamaica as some kind of drug sex crime paradise of the mind?


    Yes, the policy may be too broad and needs refinement. But I don't think this merits the snark treatment.

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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    02/23/09

    @1.1.1.: Yeah, government censorship is always a positive thing.
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    Image of Hamilton Nolan Hamilton Nolan
    02/23/09

    @1.1.1.: Come on man. At least make some semblance of an argument, or a joke, when you're wildly wrong. Widespread govt. censorship of music is not in any way "potentially constructive."


    Also everybody please stop saying "snark" except when making fun of David Denby.

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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    02/23/09

    @Hamilton Nolan:


    Speaking of whom, will there be a post on the skewering of Snark in yesterday's Times Book Review?

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    Image of Botswana Meat Commission FC Botswana Meat Commission FC
    02/23/09

    In reply to Jamaica Bans Jamaican Music
    I'm sure if I understood what Vybz Kartel and Macka Diamond were saying, I'd be horrified.
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    Image of Weegee's bored Weegee's bored
    02/23/09

    In reply to Jamaica Bans Jamaican Music
    Time to jerk those chickens!
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    Image of ambitious ambitious
    02/23/09

    In reply to Jamaica Bans Jamaican Music
    So, just 'Night Nurse' and 'No Woman No Cry' 24/7? Because that sounds like Berkeley. Which is terrible. Don't do this, Jamaica.


    Are bullhorns and sirens still okay?

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    Image of jbwan jbwan
    02/23/09

    In reply to Jamaica Bans Jamaican Music
    Jamaican me crazy with all these new laws!
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    Image of blix blix
    02/23/09

    @jbwan: Rastas it to you?
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    Image of naugahydeinplainsight naugahydeinplainsight
    02/23/09

    @jbwan: I dread where this may lead.
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    Image of blix blix
    02/23/09

    @naugahydeinplainsight: Three in and I'm out. I'm such a jerk.
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