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https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/5d3kxx/jamaica-music-ban-drugs-crime
Oct 15, 2022 10:13 PM
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https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/5d3kxx/jamaica-music-ban-drugs-crime
DongleBelongsToDingus
Is nobody going to talk about that photo of King Charles?!?
lordoverkill
This is like when Tumblr banned the porn, and then realised that their site was about the porn, and the only page left was, bring back porn
SithShodan
Excellent! So when are they going to crack down on sexual assault convictions?
vote4mclovin
Looks like they're copying the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
billcosbybangedurmum
youtube de ting mon
zsuzsicica
Thanks for wording it this way. I was like "what is this youth saying?"
0neManBucket
Thanks for tuning in listeners! Please enjoy the next 23 hours of static followed by the weather.
ccccaaaa
Steve Miller's "Take The Money And Run" would like to have a word.
cyno01
Sounds like a job for
fnoigy
To be fair, modern gangsta rap literally became mainstream due to a partnership between record labels and for-profit prisons
CannotBeBanned
I mean, I don't disagree, but it's a crazy slippery slope
DrSchlepenstein
There goes at least 50% of all music. All that's left is songs about sex and jesus.
NoQuestionMarksInDeclarativeSentences
Fuckin Christ
Kompromatic
"I sent the sheriff / my mom's cheese topped meatloaf rec-i-pe, oh no..."
path0sMathos
Ah yes. Censorship, that always works.
baddream
its funny cause they write music because of the drugs and violence...not do drugs and violence because of music...low hanging fruit i guess
zoraniko
You get it.
tomtomtomFR
Jah is ded
Sonicschilidogs
What the fuck else is there to sing about? Pussy and Jesus? That's all you'll have on the radio, Pussy and Jesus.
NotAThrowAwayJustDontWantToUseMyRealName
!!!!!!!!!!AIR HORN OVER THE MUSIC!!!!!!!! becomes !!!!!!!!AIR HORN OVER OFFENDING WORDS!!!!!!!! (Jamaican radio is terrible to listen to)
PedroBenecol
So, that's a lot of music out the window, then? This is absurd.
Kompromatic
"...with my chocolate-covered Twinkie in your lunchmeat envelope" See more at: songwritereuphemisms.com
elevatediron
Just you wait, a year from now ALL the violence and drugs will be gone because those kids can't hear people sing about it on the RADIO
symmetry7
They can still play the Scruff McGruff album:
symmetry7
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mcgruff-takes-a-bite-out-of-crime-pt-1/id1376577202?i=1000581578367
Idownvotegunnuts
I don't know if I've ever heard a Jamaican song that wasn't about Drugs or Crime.
korndogg83
They’re pretty woke about sanitary pads.
NibblonianNibbler
There's lots of sexy sex songs. Lots.
victell
Lovers Rock is an entire genre.
DeepFriedAndSanctified
Maximum irony is not being able to play "I Shot the Sheriff," a key song about political oppression, on the radio in Jamaica
Hexidimentional
i was just saying to myself "so, is there any bob marley they're allowed to air?"
giveusalol
So just sex then?
SerenePrincess013
It's almost like these yuppies don't realise that kids jointing gangs do so bc of abject poverty & a driving desire to belong. Not music.
DocWino
Hustler by Kai Marley. One of my favorites. Ghetto soldier, the march. He sings about being poor and doing what he had to.
FUKYU350
Just wait until you see UK roadmen. They literally kill each other for clout an homemade rap videos where they brag about their murders.
SerenePrincess013
It's almost like you don't understand the lengths kids have been driving to, to feel like they belong.
Dasnekones
It would not hurt them to pick a different topic to sing about once in a while too if i am honest. Gets old eventually.
NaughtButOne
>"deadliest country's per capita" Vice, seriously? Give your editors time to fucking proof-read. That's embarrassing.
MetellusCeler
What if one shot the Sheriff?
CouldYouPleaseRatherNot
Admittedly, the first time I heard "'cause I got high" was on radio. Like 25 years ago..
dejadrew
25 years ago, music media content was pretty much exclusively Radio, CDs, and Cable Radio stations. Radio doesn't really matter anymore
CeruleanSky1988
and now im high, and i know why... because i got high because i got high because i got hiiigh
pyrokiller47
You need cooler friends
GuestChrist
Closer to 15. I'm old enough as it is, let's not push it.
RedLanternGrodd
2000 was a bit more than 15 years ago.
GuestChrist
I looked it up because I was sure you were wrong. My god am I old. It's really been that long. Shoot me.
spookyhats
in September 2023 we will be as far a way in time from bowling for soups 1985 as it was from the year 1985.
HackerWithYourUsernameAndPassword
It was from 2001, so it's more like 10 years ago
kwyjiboner
In Jamaics though, marijuana isn't considered a drug
NotAThrowAwayJustDontWantToUseMyRealName
Big signs at airport say the opposite. Though every resort employee is happy to sell to you discretely.
dailysuicidalthoughts
Common misconception, it is illegal. But like in most things, if it involves tourists the police turn a blind eye.
HungryHungryLawStudent
Weed is also still technically illegal in Jamaica
ImgurCouncilOfLlamas
Isnt it a major part of religious practices there?
seatarn3
For less than 1% of the population
RasAwesome
I mean, it's not considered as big as deal as it is in some countries but we definitely classify it as a drug.
MastrBaker
I was in Jamaica last week and practically everyone offered us weed. A dude slipped me an 8th and I gave it back cause fuck getting arrested
adognamedpumpkin
Out here in the streets, they call it merther…
spookyactionatadistance
If it's not considered a drug then that is pure ignorance. It is scientifically a drug.
RasAwesome
Take it from a Jamaican living in Jamaica, it's a drug.
kwyjiboner
"Drug" carrys the connotation of illicitness in this context, dont be disingenuous dude.
spookyactionatadistance
The correct sentence would have been "they don't consider weed to be an illicit drug". Drug is used in many context and some people do
spookyactionatadistance
2) believe that some things aren't drugs. Alcohol, cigarettes, coffee, cough medicine, Tylenol, aspirin are all examples
IAmDrBanner
Yeah, I imagine they are talking about more hardcore stuff.
swedeonamoose
And if talking poor areas, it is the kind of cheap drugs that make you eat your family and run at the police with a bloody axe.
SithShodan
Krokodil is bad for that. They call it the zombie drug D:
alittletime
Don't addicts of krokodil consistently die after only a few years of abuse?
SithShodan
I don't know enough about the statistics to confirm, but imagine taking painkillers and washing it down with clorox and kerosene.