Spragga Benz Believes Authorities Are Out To Get Him And Buju Banton
Dancehall and Reggae artist Spragga Benz says the “bigger heads” are plotting against him and fellow compatriot Buju Banton for their stances on COVID-19 and measures employed to fight the spread.
The Rastafarian community remains divided on the issue of COVID-19 vaccinations. Just last week the Rastafari Millennium Council called Rastafarian entertainers to rethink their negative stance because of those who are disproportionately affected by the pandemic. Even Reggae Legend Burning Spear recently got his two shots in New York but for Buju and Spraaga, accepting the vaccine remains out of the question.
The Some Bwoy singer took to Instagram to highlight the conspiracy he believes involves the authorities trying to silence them. “We are just the messengers….Why they always want to shoot the messengers?” he wrote in the caption of the video.
He urged Jamaicans to reconsider their stance on the vaccine and not be eager to take it.
“Di bigger heads dem weh a plan and a scheme ‘gainst me and Buju and all a di other artistes dem weh unno a plan ‘gainst, yuh think seh politics have nothing fi do wid this? People unno look to Jah. People, this vaccination thing weh dem a come wid is not nothing fi unno run into,” he said.
Some fans have insinuated that the artist has taken such a hardline against vaccinations because he is aligned with the People’s National Party (PNP), however, he denied the accusation.
“As a man mi get fi know myself and as a youth me and my friend dem never tek side fi run up behind nuh politician and get nuh favours from dem. Red Square we name… We build fi we owna self and dat a what cause we and people fi inna vibes all the while because we never a run back a no politician,” he added.
He went on to say that his position against the vaccine was not for any monetary profit either.
“We nah do this fi money, mi nuh run dung money. Mi a probably one a di poorest artist dem… Jah just put me in a position until a time when him use mi fi weh him a use mi fah and this a di time and di time a fi talk up against injustice and the things dem weh mi see a happen in front a me face,” he said.
As the video progressed he once again questioned whether or not the vaccines would be using microchips to implant people to establish a new world order. A common conspiracy theory associated with the vaccine. The veteran artist added that he was willing to lay his life on the line for more people to come to his understanding.
“Jah seh we only ordained to die once so anytime unno free me from out a dah body yah, weh me inna as a soul, what else unno a go do?… Whatever will be, will be, but that still nah go stop me from seh weh mi haffi seh because mi nah seh it fi me, mi a seh it fi Jah.”
He ended the video by calling on people to realize that governments around the world had been working on this “plan” for years and that it was only now coming to fruition.
Buju Banton, too, has been unwavering in his stance against the Jamaican Government. On Monday, he released yet another video calling on his fan to wake up after the Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness announced stricter lockdown measures for three weekends in a row.
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Bounty Killer criticized the new measures, by insisting that the imposition of sporadic islandwide curfews would amount to naught, as Jamaica’s Achilles heel remains at the island’s entry points. “Curfew not helping or curbing Covid. Close di Bloodclaath ports simple. Unuh putting unuh livelihood over the ppl lives simple.” Bounty wrote on Instagram.
Meanwhile, other artists like Shaggy, Macka Diamond and Ce’Cile have all voiced their hope that they could get vaccinated soon so that travel returns to some normalcy and people around the world can get their livelihoods back.