Buju Banton Condemns ‘Privileged’ Artists Flooding Dancehall With “F-ckery”

Buju Banton was in a no-nonsense mood at a recent staging of Weddy Weddy, lashing gunmen whom he says have been posing as Dancehall artists, and the privileged Jamaicans who have infiltrated the music spawned by ‘ghetto youths’, and yet, have been inundating it with debauchery and other repulsive content.

During a recent Stone Love Weddy Weddy event, Buju, who hails from Salt Lane in Downtown Kingston, said he was peeved with the content that the privileged and educated artists have been injecting into the music, which was originated by the inhabitants of Kingston’s poorest slums, and has been the saving grace of many, including himself.

“Wi neva have no subject!  Wi neva grow inna no good bloodclaat house!  Wi neva have no dinna!  A music save wi!   A dancing save Bogle… Bogle dance him way to di bloodclaat moon, as a ghetto yute,” Buju stated citing iconic Dancehall dancer Gerald “Bogle” Levy, as an example of a beneficiary of the music.

“Now mi si some p-ssy weh have nine subject, 10 subject, live inna good house (eat) three meals a day, helpa (housekeeper), a f-ck up wi business,” Buju added.

According to Buju, he has a responsibility to defend the music of his forebearers from those who were seeking to expropriate it and inject it with unwholesome content, while projecting themselves as the face of the music.

“Nobaddy neva si wi…Rememba, look pon wi enuh.   We a oonu an oonu a wi.   Dem face deh weh dem want represent our music, nuh look like wi.  An a bare f-ckery dem come wid!” he declared to the patrons.

“An some bwoy a come corrupt wi ting wid dem sadamite an dem batty-man fren!   Wi haffi defen our ting enuh.   Wi a defend dis way before fi dem family a defen it.  Becaw it neva used to play pon radio.  Yuh couldn’t tell yuh madda seh yuh a guh a bloodclaat dance inna Jamaica, dem run yuh dung an lock yuh out,” the Til Shiloh artist stated.

Criminals Posing As Dancehall Artists

Buju had also condemned the phony entertainers whom he said were also giving guns to ghetto youths, and helping to sink Jamaica into further depravity.

“Hear mi find out di problem is: yuh have some entataina weh guh inna di ghetto an carry gun.  A p-ssy dem!” Buju, who turns 49 in July, told the audience.

“We neva do dat!  An any man weh love Buju as a real gangsta, yuh caan gi mi nuh gun.  Yuh can come inna mi car wid nuh bloodclaat gun!  Caw me can protect you; you caan protect me!  Mi realise seh dem nowadays bredda yah, dem a nuh entataina; dem a nuh musician.  Dem a bad man weh a look cova!” the Champion artist said.

As he continued his rebuke of those he defined as traitors to the inner-city and Jamaica, Buju said, unlike their musical predecessors, they lack the ability to lift the spirits of their audiences.  “Dem caan bring wi nuh bloodclaat joy!   Temporary.  Yuh waan follow dem?  Gwaan!  But yuh si dah suppm yah, is like a pressure.  Because every time wi move, some man tink seh we a dem!  We tink different, fi real…,” he stated.

The 2011 Grammy winner went on to laud some of the Dancehall pioneers among them Johnny P, John Wayne, Penny Irie, Shabba Ranks, and singled out the Kingston 13 area for special praise, as he rained further condemnation on those he said were guilty of desecrating Dancehall.

“Dis ting big! A Shabba start it.  Him carry it and show seh it can guh way up…,” he said.

“Caw meck mi tell yuh supm, wi all sing about our experience: rude bwoy sing about rude bwoy experience, bad man sing bout bad man experience, man weh a suck p-ssy sing bout dem suck p-ssy experience; batty bway sing bout dem batty bway experience!” he added.

Last year, both Bounty Killer and Mr. Lexx raised the issues of Dancehall artists who associate with criminals, and the genre itself being infiltrated by criminals, who posed as producers and artists.