Posted on 03 April 2011. Tags: beenie man, bleach, bleaching, dancehall, sean paul, shaggy, vybz kartel
The challenge on my Facebook Status Message was simple: name me one dancehall artist who has succeeded in a long term way on a world stage. Just one. In a flash my friends suggested the usual suspect of probable names. “Beenie Man.” Okay, he’s the only one. For real. And, he behaves like a pro. [...]
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Posted in Editorial, Hot Steppers
Posted on 28 March 2011. Tags: black and proud, bleach, mr. vegas, shadism, skin bleahing, skin colour, slavery
Hooray: a dancehall song/video with a humorous message stitched between the grooves. The theme is topically brazen: don’t bleach your skin and be proud of your colour. The message is also serious… The subject of skin bleaching has always been relevant in Jamaica where, several hundred years after the abolishment of slavery, shadism still seems [...]
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Posted in Hot Steppers, Videos