Hommophobia inna dancehall style...

The phrase "exposed to cultural products" here is probably a little too weak. If I thwacked you in the face with my Louisville Slugger, would you say that you were "exposed to Clarke's bat"?

And I was, like, kickass interesting rhythm or not, that's fuckin' bullshit.

That's about it.

Laughable.

Damn it!

Perhaps part of the irritation with dancehall is that (unlike, say, pop-punka stuff) is that, aside from some astonishingly awful views on social issues, it could be so good -- both musically and sociopolitically.

I'm assuming you mean "Who's to say pop-punka stuff hasn't been that good?" No one's to say that in any objective way. It has been really good. But on a personal level, it doesn't give me chills the way good dancehall does. And its more retrograde (jesus, there's an irritating word) tendencies don't bother me as much for that reason -- I don't care about it the same way I do about dancehall.

when i used to listen to john peel he always used to play the odd dancehall track and he had the same problem so he always would listen out for gay basing stuff and he would only play the 'clean' stuff.

I think its all within the context of the song, you know (but maybe its just that i do have this thing where i don't know abt a lot of the terminology here and i'm poor at picking up on lyrics). I have enjoyed lots of what i've heard on the radio, the rhythms are quite something.

so what makes this diff from, say, gangsta rap. do ppl listen to one and not the other?

Chorus:
From dem a par inna chi chi man car
Blaze di fire mek we bun dem!!!! (Bun dem!!!!)
From dem a drink inna chi chi man bar
Blaze di fire mek we dun dem!!!! (Dun dem!!!!)

Verse 1:
Craigy:
So mi go so, do yuh see weh I see???
Niggas when your doin that
Nuff a dem a freak dem a carry all dem dutty act
Thug nigga wanna bees nuff a dem a lick it back
It dem bring it to we, hold on nuff a cop a shot
Cop a shot rise up every calico go rat tat tat
Rat tat tat every chi chi man dem haffi get flat
Get flat, mi and my niggas ago mek a pack
Chi chi man fi dead and dat's a fact

Chorus:
From dem a par inna chi chi man car
Blaze di fire mek we bun dem!!!! (Bun dem!!!!)
From dem a drink inna chi chi man bar
Blaze di fire mek we dun dem!!!! (Dun dem!!!!)

Verse 2:
Flexx:
So mi go so la la la la la la la la la la la
Nah go mek nuh chi chi man walk right a so
>From a bwoy a deep we ago dun dem right now
Leff him whole family dem a blow wow

Alexx:
I see it from far mi and dem nah go par
A nuff a dem bwoy mi a smoke man cigar
Mi and dem coulda never inna wrong bar
Dem bwoy deh flex too bizarre

Chorus:
>From dem a par inna chi chi man car
Blaze di fire mek we bun dem!!!! (Bun dem!!!!)
>From dem a drink inna chi chi man bar
Blaze di fire mek we dun dem!!!! (Dun dem!!!!)

Repeat intro twice
Repeat Verse 1 till song end

Best word evah!

this is an interesting topic,i'd love to see more discussion on this,although i'm not sure what i think myself

i don't see a huge difference between this and some of the more misogynist elements of rap- (wildflower by ghostface killah)

smgdh

it got kind of buried under the anderson cooper and frank ocean stories, but diana king ("shy guy") came out of the closet this week, too

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/05/diana-king-comes-out-jama_n_1652189.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular

cool.

I like her description of homophobia as a "heavy burden".