Fed Up! Bounty Killer Says He’s Done Talking About Jamaica’s “Plights And Issues”
Just over a year after Bounty Killer laid out a thorough crime plan, detailing how the Andrew Holness administration could effectively lower Jamaica’s crime rate, the exasperated Warlord says he is fed up.
“Government and society go deal wid di problems unuh sh-tsystem created. I’m done talking about Jamaica’s plights and issues after 3 decades. After all I’m a entertainer not an educator I chooses to teach ppl I could say whatever the f_ck I wishes to say,” the Fed Up Dancehall artist wrote this afternoon, on his Instagram page under a video snippet of the one-hour speech he made January last year at a Red Stripe employee forum.
Bounty’s discontent is a build-up over the past few weeks, following statements made by politicians including the Prime Minister, that Dancehall artists should accept the fact that some of their violence-laced lyrics are influencing the levels of crime and killings on the island.
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It came to a head after the Grunggad was lashed by some fans and told to accept some blame, yesterday, after he re-shared a video of Cham’s message to the Prime Minister. In the video, Cham absolved artists of blame for violence, and instead instructed Holness to lead from the front, as he was the one elected to lead and not Dancehall artists.
Today, Bounty said he took exception to Dancehall artists being singled out by politicians when the multiplicity of social and economic problems, foreign movies, politicians, and even agents of the State who had acted improperly and were influencing violence on the island, were being exempted from blame.
“If corrupted, politicians/police/soldiers/Pastors/Lawyers/poor parenting/unemployment/poor educational system/Rambo/Scar Face/Terminator television and social media that promotes the most negatives pornography and violence not facing no backlash why should I or fellow entertainers IDGAF. UHUH TAG WHO AND WHO NEEDS TO HEAR THIS PPL BUMBOCLAATH,” he added.
In January last year, while addressing a forum on eliminating violence against women, at Red Stripe Beer’s headquarters in Kingston, Bounty Killer had said that the measures implemented by the Jamaican government to address crime were ineffective.
Speaking like a seasoned criminologist, Bounty had said the government was being reactive, as opposed to being proactive, seeking to address the aftermath of criminal acts instead of preventing young people from becoming criminals in the first place.
“With all the state of emergency SOE and all these things, it’s not a police problem. I told the government this long ago; it’s a social dysfunctional problem. Moral issue… financial issues, unemployment issue, broken homes issue, dysfunctional parenting issue and then no social development not happening,” he said.
Bounty had also asserted that to some extent, successive politicians prefer when their constituents remain ignorant, as this works in their favor.
“Them nuh like when smart, smart people inna politics enuh, them only like dem up a parliament. But they like to come and say ‘fundamentally’ and put some word where the people dem nuh know what you a say enuh,” he said.
The Coppershot artist added that Jamaica’s high crime rate was not as a result of poor policing, as the police’s responsibility did not include societal reform. He also said the security forces were outnumbered by a constant stream of young men, who had no value for life, choosing to engage in crime.
“We have to fix dem dunce thugs head, if we want to solve crime in Jamaica, cause no care how you have SOEs inna dat deh community or round a dat deh one deh too, you have to help the young people of the country, especially the young boys dem.”
Bounty had also told the government to provide the requisite social service to deter young men from going down the path of crime in the first place. He said there was nobody “looking out for the good boys” and no activities being implemented to prevent them from falling into the vicious cycle of crime.