I have to make this love affair believable enough. It's very European.
I have carried my Jamaican Flag with pride around the world to share my culture and experience with others because I seek Balance which is what I believe life is all about.
Dancehall music is perceived as party music, which it is because of the rhythm, but there are messages that do come through or a purpose of an artist saying something to the world. People usually don't get the messages because of the partying.
CAN'T TAN PON IT LONG. . . . . NAW EAT NO YAM. . . NO STEAM FISH. . . . NOR NO GREEN BANANA BUT DOWN IN JAMAICA WE GIVE IT TO YOU HOT LIKE A SAUNA.
Time Rolls On' is my most political piece so far. It's not on my album because people didn't support it.
I feel like I have things to say. And that's what I'm looking forward to.
Dancehall is just like hip-hop in that it doesn't always talk about bling; it talks about conscious issues.
If you have any talent, or any occupation that delights you, do it, and do it to the hilt. Don't ask why, or what difficulties you may get into.
Why do people think the spiritual life demands withdrawal from the ordinary? Because they've been taught, at least by implication, that the physical is a block to the spiritual. When we assume that the spiritual, unlike the physical, is impervious to corrosion, then we assume that all things material are not to be honored. But the fact of the matter is, the material is the vehicle of the spiritual.
A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don't cry about what you don't have. Use what you got.
It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation.