AlozadeENTERTAINERS who choose to do x-rated songs are not likely to get support from all sound system operators. Some of these operators are prepared to dump these songs because they have too many expletives.
One of the latest songs causing controversy is Alozades' X-Rated.
A few of its lines are:
"Pass mi b.....r.....c.... cutlass
Meck mi r... some chop pon some b.....b...."
Already sound system operators like Mr. Dennis Chambers of Changez has decided to ban X-rated from its collection. According to Chambers, "I am not prepared to play Alozade's song although it is popular. The song has too many badwords. It is badword after badword after badword. It is just too raw."
Chambers explained that as manager of Changez it was his duty to decide which songs are suitable to be played. "Entertainers need to understand that some people do not appreciate this lewdness so we have to protect them."
The operators of Rebel T, another popular sound system feel songs like X-Rated are just not fit to be played in the dancehall. According to Mr. Kirk McCormack, manager of Rebel T, "Sound system operators are trying to keep it clean and so it is not our policy to play any songs with a lot of indecent language. Even if these songs are requested by teenagers I would have to tell them we do not have them in stock."
However, not all sound system operators take this stand. According to Mr. Jason Gibson, spokesperson for Millennium Sound System, "We are definitely going to play X-Rated because it is a popular song. It is a hit among the adults and it is usually requested several times when it is played."
Only recently students attending a Teen Jam concert at the Doctor Bird Night Club requested X-Rated several times. The promoter of the show told THE STAR that while the song might be considered lewd it was very popular among the teenagers.
D.J Rash of Code Red Sound system feels, "No matter the expression-explicit or not, once the song is sending out a clear message that I agree with there is no problem. People express themselves through indecent language and this is accepted by many and as far as I can see who is it to dictate what is indecent?"
Alozade admits X-Rated is lewd but explained that it was expressing his feeling against gays. "What I am doing in my song is not strange. Jamaicans express themselves in this way by cutting a few bad words."
Alozade added that he was not forcing anyone to listen to his song. "I think it is sending a clear message that gays are not accepted and that this is not the will of God."
