NYC Forum on Anti-Gay Lyrics in Reggae Music

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Reggaeton is even worse. I say we ban all music from third world nations with with overly religiously zealous populations.

my understanding is that freedom of speech doesn't apply to music with guitars or organs played on the up beats. Can someone site precedent ?

The problem isn't anti-gay lyrics in reggae music, but rather the widespread (and accepted) homophobia in the west indian and african american communities, which is a far bigger issue.

my understanding is that freedom of speech doesn't apply to music with guitars or organs played on the up beats. Can someone site precedent ?

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Anon 12:45 - THAT'S RACIST! OMG! LOL! WTF!

most of the comments on this site are sad to read. incorrect spelling, nothing positive to say, nothing even remotely intelligent on any of the topics... kind of takes the fun out of reading blogs.

Reading blogs isn't supposed be fun. You sound like a batty-boy bamba klatt.

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How could anything on the internet be done in anyway but remotely?

Andrew,

I believe that in The State of South Carolina vs. James Brown the downbeat was also found to be exempt from constitutional protection.

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Well, the anti-dicrimination-war takes just another round. But you won't get the problem out by discussion. Maybe for a few weeks.

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*especially Anonymous 4:54 January 21, 2008

I made a whole website about homophobia in dancehall. It includes: songs & lyrics, history & news, roots of jamaican homophobia, comments from the industry, the Stop Murder Music campaign that was able to make over 100 concerts canceled. The Reggae Compassionate Act and much more information.

The link is:

http://www.soulrebels.org/dancehall.htm

Hi,

I'm not aware of this event (i'm leaving in france - so please appologize my english), I n I just wanna say that reggae music must carry good vibrations of peace and tolerance. Singing untolerant lyrics is a crime against reggae music.

ONE LOVE!

The question is not : Can we sing anti-gays lyrics without being censored? or can't we?
The question sould be : Do those lyrics respect people?

Though I respect homosexuals, and think they are entitled to every right any person should have, including marriage and such - I also see why people are scared and alienated by them. The sexual act of male to male fornication is strange to most people. The idea of one man sleeping with another man makes many people sick - though I could care less what people do in the privacy of their homes. The religions of the book, and the true word of god, and apparently Jah also deem homosexuality to be unnatural. Thus the whole thing will probably never be resolved, much like the bigotry and hatred between Jews and Palestinians.

We just got to learn to live with each other without getting upset. Dont worry, about a thing. Because everything little thing, is gonna be all right.

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rudeboy nah promote dem nasty man dem haffi dead!
two man hitch up and ah hug up and lay down inna bed
hug up one another and a feel down lead
send fi di matic and the uzi instead
shoot the batty bwoy come mek we shot dem dead

oh yeah and the jamaican djs talk about killing each other all the time but nobody seems to care at all about that

My take on the matter is that freedom of speech in songs should be allowed in all aspects. American rappers talk about killing each other all the time, and the N word is used constantly, which is racist word regardless of who uses it. Yet they arent censored for this. Plain and simple.. if you do not like the music then dont listen to it. Obviously the people that would attend the concerts of these Jamaican artists enjoy their music, and those that are offended by it are in no way obliged to attend and listen.

The problem however is when idiots with no sense in their head act on these lyrics and attack homosexual people. However, can we blame the violence on the lyrics? Or on the uneducated ones that decide they want to be "gangsta" and lash out against homosexuals. If people are going to ban these types of songs then certain rock songs which encourage psychopathic things should be banned, all rap songs and hip hop songs with violence and guns should be banned, and we will be left in a world with very shitty music.

So essentially, the music isnt to blame. =)

LEVITICUS 18:22. DEATH TO ALL SODOMITES. NO APOLOGY. IT IS GOD'S LAW, NOT MEN'S. MAN SHALL NOT LIE WITH MAN AS WITH WOMAN. SIMPLE. IF YOU VIOLATE THE LAWS OF GOD WHAT DO YOU EXPECT? NO PROTECTION FOR THE WICKED. BLAZING CONSUMING FIRE TO BURN THEM OUT!

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I hope they will minimize such kind of music.

I don't see how anyone's right to freedom of speech is violated when people organize to prevent other people from performing songs with lyrics they find offensive - in this case, lyrics that promote harming and murdering people who are gay. I haven't heard anyone suggest making it illegal to write a song with lyrics that condone violence. I haven't heard anyone suggest that musicians who write lyrics that condone violence should be arrested and charged with a crime. If I heard people suggesting doing these things I would think that was a danger to free speech. But I don't. What I hear, or see happening, is people mobilizing to prevent people who condone violence against gay people, or who at the very least write lyrics that condone violence against gay people, from performing in their cities or countries. Even if it's partly just a matter of venues concerned about controversy and losing money, what is happening is still that people are speaking with their voices and their wallets about the kind of music, or lyrics, they want to hear, and the kind they do NOT want to hear. I think it's a great thing that, in many places, people aren't willing to work with performers who discriminate against gay people because they're worried that they'll lose money or become unpopular because it means that discrimination against gay people is, in many places, becoming less acceptable.

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