CUTTY
RANKS WITH STEREOMARS SOUND - SLENG-TENG PNP
(1986)
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May 2008 - Even though Reggae Music
isn't quite your average political
propaganda mechanism, Jamaican politicians
will always try and get some Reggae artist
to back them up. Twenty-two years ago, DJ
Cutty Ranks tried to raise votes for the
Jamaican PNP.
Jamaica -and especially Kingston- has the highest
murder rate of the world, or close to that. In
other words: in Jamaica you have a bigger chance
to get killed than in let's say New York City.
When it's election time in Jamaica, violence
increases significantly. Gangs of "gun
men" killing each other with guns provided to
them by...
When it's election time in Jamaica, the
politicians all of a sudden begin to show some
interest in Reggae Music. They hire artists and
thing to help them in their propaganda.
The video reviewed on this page is a 1986
recording of such an event.
As he rides on the Sleng-Teng riddim, brand new
and kind of revolutionary in those days, Cutty
Ranks bigs up the PNP. The selector doesn't take
his hand of the mixing board and the people love
it too.
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Jerry, Charlie Chaplin, Josey Wales -
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