What a sweet moral panic to kick things off with! The Jamaican Broadcasting Commission has essentially banned any music that contains reference to sex and/or violence.
See Dancehall.mobi for more!
I thought at first that this was just a ban on 'daggering' lyrics. In case you didn't know, daggering is a form of sexually explicit dancing - as one person so eloquently put 'its like givin a hundred stabs'.
Anyways, Robbo Ranx was interviewing someone outta yard online just there an hour or two ago, and she was saying that she hadn't heard any 50cent or the like on the radio for over a week. It's a pretty wide spread assault on contemporary urban music, where even 'beeping' is no longer considered acceptable and all music has to be screened for high moral standards, taste and decency. I mentioned in one of my bodytonic columns a while ago that maybe the JA crackdown on outdoor dances was turning the music more 'clubby'. It remains to be seen what will happen to it as a result of this!
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