£15 feels like £5 when spending on Apple Pay.
That same £15 feels like £10 when I use chip & pin.
But, it feels EXACTLY like £15 when I use cash.
Am I making sense?
I fully see why the Soca-defenders get annoyed.
Urban music has regular festivals, daily radio play, artists doing regular club PAs, etc. It's so accessible.
Yet the one, big Caribbean-oriented event is watered-down for you entitled twats kmt. Only 2 days out of 365.
Joke ting
🤣🤣🤣 this is so bad, lazy & inauthentic
Even the “let’s stick ‘em in Brixton for a photoshoot”…
When will brands realise, Carnival is an Eastern Caribbean thing, NOT Jamaican. Jamaica adopted THEIR culture.
Designed an exclusive tee with reference to both our Jamaican and Nigerian heritage which means a lot to the both of us!
And with carnival fast approaching we thought why not get you guys carnival ready!
The beauty when two cultures unite
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Carnival culture has sexualised itself. Look within before condemning outsiders.
Costumes: unnecessarily & overtly sexual.
Music: “baby push your hand in your p*ssy & push it in my mouth”
And this is not the carnival culture many of us met.
Dancehall is a genre
Bashment is a type of party
We don’t listen to Bashment!
We listen to Dancehall!
UK Misconception:
Dancehall = Old school
Bashment = New school mainly whining tunes
No!
Dancehall = Old AND New school
😒
Defo not a colour thing. You’d be shocked to see what happens at white events
All races and creeds act up when in large groups. Human nature. Stop expecting black folk to be the anomaly
Kids under 3 go free at London Zoo but my son will tell anybody who listens that he's 4 or 7 (he's not, he's only 3)...So guess who's gotta pay just because this lil dude wants to lie unprovoked
1) It’s a West Indian event. Not black-British. Take away the West Indian influence and you’re left with something nobody cares for.
Therefore, respect is due. Listen to the people who’s culture it is...they know a lot more about carnival cultures and practices than you
This convo is so tired but carnival isn’t compulsory. You really don’t have to attend if you don’t like the default music.
Years and years of disrespecting and degrading Caribbean culture to only rush up into our shit and dictate how it should run?
Super Cat threatening to shoot a patron and throwing a bottle into the crowd as retaliation.
This occurred 6 months after he’d fatally shot fellow Dancehall artist Nitty Gritty outside Super Power Record Store in NY.
You lot kill me looool
- People saying play gun tunes
- People saying, "NO! Play Commercial instead"
You only have 10 songs to choose. Kartel has 1000+ songs. Trying to condense it is a madness!
Anyway, you wanna hear ME as a DJ play Kartel?
West Indians simply don’t want their culture diluted. And that’s a very fair ask too.
It’s already a struggle for the culture to be seen, upheld and respected in the UK... so why make condescending tweets like this? 🤔
10 YEARS LATER, SUPER CAT RETURNED TO JAMAICA TO COLLAB WITH 112.
These lot were signed to Diddy. 10 years prior, Diddy got another one of his protégés to work with Super Cat - The Notorious BIG for Dolly My Baby
This is Jamaica’s world & we’re all living in it. The way their culture has transcended the country is amazing. Imagine, one day, two people plugged up some speakers and went tune for tune to see who’s system was better...now we’re seeing musical clashes all over the gaff
51 other weekends in a year to hear whatever you want.
We just ask for that one weekend where, if you’re coming to celebrate with us, you respect our wishes.
What do you get from arguing otherwise, anyway? Makes more sense to stay home if you’re not feeling it
Yeah they’ve been involved in dancehall culture for years... e.g. Mighty Crown...Ain’t a problem though, they love it.
The problem though is novelty. People act like this is remarkable and start giving them more props than black folk doing identical things.
2) The West Indian diaspora are slightly to blame too. We only speak about gate-keeping when feeling threatened. Yet for years, for example, we’ve allowed outsiders to enter and charge us higher prices, to celebrate our own culture, than we would charge ourselves
Deejayed for some Ghanaian lady on Saturday…she was like “can you play the ‘Yes’ song?”
So I asked if it’s Burna Boy or Aidonia she wanted?
She didn’t know so I asked her to sing it.
She said “yes, yes, yes, yes…then everybody runs”
Not to disrespect anybody. But, yo! These white guys you're praising on insta for playing our black music. I hate to break it to ya, but black DJs play these exact same tunes every week yet nobody bats an eyelid.
Lets support our own first and foremost, please.
Loool this is a lie…
‘Shh’ played…crowd didn’t know it
The new Fiesta Riddim songs played….crowd didn’t know them
‘Flames Rock’ played…crowd didn’t know it
‘Happy Birthday’ played…crowd didn’t know it
‘Ambala’ played…crowd didn’t know it
Adidas have been big culprits of this, too. Zero research - anything West Indian related HAS TO be Jamaican in those boardrooms.
It’s lazy and dilutes the culture.
Another product of white corporations desperately seeking that black coin
So much room.
Olympia - sold out
Manny Swarv - sold out
RnB & slow jams - sold out
All on the same day. All black-owned. All sold out very quickly, too.
Something to remember when folks are playing crab in a barrel 🙏🏾
Me: “he’s referring to how it’s killed. He’s Muslim. They’ll only eat meat & fish killed in a certain way”.
Her: *stares blankly*
Her: “how mi fi know how animal dead?”
@shellyyyyy_x
@2wenty4s
This is false. She's credited because the song sampled Destiny's Child's track 'Say My Name'.
Same way Burt Bacharach's credited on Kanye West's Slow Jamz for sampling 'House is Not a Home'
Sanchez and Beres Hammond have 18 - 50 year olds at their concert.
Artists, do you see how good quality, timeless songs will run the course of longevity?
I know it's all fun and games but there was something very distasteful about that Burna Boy comment yesterday that doesn't sit well with me.
We love and support his music & he's used Caribbean culture for his come up too.
I dunno, that post was distasteful to me.
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT!
DJs if we all play VYBZ KARTEL - WEH DAT FAH at 11:59:52 tonight, we'll all go into the new years singing 'SUCK YOUR MOTHER' and that's the exact same energy we should keep for any bad mind twats throughout 2019.
Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.