Mavado still has worries

KINGSTON, Observer - Entertainer Mavado is to be tried next year February on allegations that he assaulted a police officer at a New Kingston night club in June of last year.  
The February 12, 2013 trial date was set when the deejay appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court today.
Attorney Peter Champagnie was successful in having the court vacate a warrant that was issued for Mavado's arrest, when he did not appear on his previous court date.
Mavado, whose real name is David Brooks, is charged with assault occasioning bodily harm, stemming from the incident in which a member of his entourage, Conroy Edwards, was fatally shot by the policeman on the steps outside the nightclub.

Vybz Katels tells Tommy Lee to Stop?

Fans deface the greatest of all time

Vybz Kartel is urging his protégé Tommy Lee to end his beef with dancehall G.O.A.T Bounty Killer.

Bounty Killer ignited a heated debate in dancehall over Tommy Lee’s use of dominic lyrics and branding himself Sparta. A few days later Tommy Lee hit back hard with a diss track “Goat Head,” where he took several shots at the Alliance Next Generation head.

Sources close to Vybz Kartel who is currently behind bars, exclusively told Urban Islandz that he is against the beef.

“Despite their differences Vybz still have a lot of respect for Bounty Killer,” the source said.

“He spoke with Tommy Lee via a phone call and told him to resist from engaging in a beef with Killer. Worl’Boss genuinely feels that the beef is not good for Tommy Lee career which he should more focus on building,” the source added.


Tommy Lee has also indicated that he has no interest in a continuous beef with Bounty Killer. The source also revealed that Tommy Lee did not want to do a diss track but feels he needed to defend himself.

“The sudden attack from Bounty Killer was not necessary and Tommy Lee feel like as a younger artist him need fi defend himself,” the source.

Bounty Killer has yet to respond to Tommy lee’s diss track at least musically.

Busy Signal out before Buju Banton and Kartel

Busy Signal To Serve Two Months In US Prison

Jamaican entertainer Busy Signal was today sentenced to six months in prison for one count of failure to appear in court in the Minnesota Court in the United States.

Signal will only serve two months, as he has already served four months.

The artiste, who whose correct name is Glendale Gordon, was arrested in Minnesota in 2002 on drug charges.

He was subsequently granted bail, but fled the US and returned to Jamaica shortly after.

Busy was arrested at the Norman Manley International Airport in May, after returning from a European tour.

After one court appearance, he waived his right to an extradition hearing and agreed to go back to Minnesota to answer the charge of failing to appear in court.

The drug charges still remain, but under the extradition treaty US authorities do not currently have the jurisdiction to prosecute him on those counts.

vYBZ kARTEL bOOK rEJECTED bUT...

KINGSTON - Star    Since the release of Vybz Kartel's book 'The Voice Of The Jamaican Ghetto', many Jamaicans have greeted the book with objection. However, merchandising manager at Whirlwind Entertainment group limited, Aisha Stewart, says persons should read the book before being judgmental.

Stewart, who holds the responsibility of dispersing the books to stores globally, says many local stores have rejected the book without knowledge of its content.

However, the orders have been coming in from overseas.

"The progress is good, we are getting a good feedback in Germany, Switzerland, Japan, Bulgaria, Chile and Amsterdam. A lot of orders are coming from the European side. I have friends who have also expressed that the books should be in the schools," Stewart said.

"People say negative things about Vybz Kartel because of the bleaching; however, bleaching existed before Vybz Kartel so he should not be held accountable for that. A few local stores have said they don't want the book in their stores because it's Vybz Kartel and he is a bad person," Stewart said.

According to Stewart, the action of some store owners reflect a narrow way of thinking.

"I think that it is just being small-minded. Just because you don't like the person and the situation, you are fighting the book. Some of them haven't read the book and are making a judgement based on ignorance. You have to be open-minded, pick up the book and read it because we are not gods, and only God should judge us," Stewart said.

Co-author for the book, Michael Dawson, believes there exists a huge misconception about the book.

"They think it's about lewd lyrics, violence and pro-devil messages, however, the book rejects those things. He speaks of putting in place mandatory age restriction for dances and music censoring. He apologised for singing a particular song, he calls for more research to be done about Tacky and the Rodney riot and other things, so it's mostly Jamaican history," Dawson said.

The co-author also encourages locals to look past the negativity and read the book objectively.

"I wish people would try to look past the negative aspects and just read. That would correct the misconceptions because the book is contrary to the preconceptions," he said.

Dawson also expressed disappointment in the local schools.

"The book sold more in Europe than in Jamaica and it's more successful in the US, than Jamaica. I thought the schools would have taken on to this being that it's the place where these developments would be interrogated," he continued.

"There has always been criticism that Kartel has not used his notoriety for positivity and now when he has done that it is being greeted with reject," he concluded.

In capitalising on the international success of the book, Dawson disclosed that there are ongoing plans to distribute translations in languages such as French, Dutch, Spanish, German and Portuguese

Local stores currently hosting copies of Adidja Palmer and Michael Dawson's book include Kingston Bookshop, Sangster's Book stores, El Passo in Montego Bay, Bookophilia and the national airports.

Stewart disclosed that the airports are the main sellers locally, noting that every month there are requests for restock.

Jay Z had nothing to DO with Sean Paul and Beyonce not being together

Sean Paul didn't squash the rumour about him not being in any scene with Beyonce, he just milk as much out of it for the profit over the years by saying nothing.. in relation to that Baby Boy video and why he didn't appear in a scene with Beyonce. Rumour had it at the time that Jay-Z didnt want his wife to be in any scene with Sean Paul as he feared that Sean Paul would take his girl away. Its now years after Sean Paul just ready to spill the beans..

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Popcaan Can't Believe what Vybz Kartel is Doing to Him

Popcaan Cant Believe what Vybz Kartel did to him... he cant believe that Vybz Kartel would bad mine him, grudge him for his success bad mine to the point where Popcaaan Had to make a song about it.. listen as the boy grieve in this new song
Popcaan - Can't Believe It - Reservoir Riddim

Jah Cure Collabs with Tupac Shakur

Jah Cure on cyber world on computer screen

Singer Jah Cure has a new single which features slain rapper Tupac Amaru Shakur.

Music News understands that the project was organized by US based record label, Sobe Entertainment. Jah Cure who is currently in the Bahamas gives us the 411.

Jah Cure’s publicist Claude Mills confirms that the singer is gearing up for the release of his new album World Cry this fall.

Bounty Killer Lead ANG Endorses D Angel?

D ANgel with Beenie Man and Marco Dean

Dancehall fashionista, D'Angel's weekly party, An'so Thursdays, held atop Cookies roof, Port Henderson Road in Portmore saw a full house and then a few unlikely guests, as the members of Bounty Killer's Alliance Next Generation (ANG) turned out to party and show their love and support for D'Angel.

In addition to ANG being in the building, and a brief performance from them later on, patrons were also treated to a selector sound clash between Bumpy Cash and DJ Nerro, the latter walking away with the title of the first winner of the An'so Thursdays selector clash.

Vybz Kartel's Teachas Pet ...Replaced..

KINGSTON -Star: With their main star still behind bars, film director and producer Jay Will has thrown in the towel, as he says there will be no 'Teacha's Pet' season two.

According to the executive producer of the much-talked-about television series, there can only be one protagonist and that would be Vybz Kartel himself.

"Whenever people are doing TV shows they don't like to say it before time, they like exclusivity. So it's hard to tell you what we have coming up. But as it relates to Teacha's Pet ... there can only be one Teacha and that is Vybz Kartel," he said.

Jay Will disclosed that the production team had hoped to embark on a season two for the Teacha's Pet series, however, that was not to be.

"Originally we wanted to go to season two, but we didn't anticipate that Vybz Kartel would be incarcerated so that was unfortunate," he said.

In the meantime, however, Jay Will disclosed to The STAR that there were plans being put in place to produce a new television show called Puppy Love which is expected to feature the top-eight girls featured in Teacha's Pet, excluding the winner.

"As a director I have other reality shows in the making, I can't disclose much about them right now but I am meeting with sponsors. There might be a spin-off show from Teacha's Pet called Puppy Love but we are not ready to give information about who will be featured on it as yet. It is going to be on a bigger scale than Teacha's Pet but Puppy Love is not artiste based," he said.

love after being rejected

"This show is expected to do well in the dias-pora because that is where most of the Teacha's Pet supporters came from. The girls will be quote and quote looking for love after being rejected by Vybz Kartel," Jay Will explained.

Jay Will and his team recently released a music video for the Teacha's Pet theme song, shot in high-definition quality. The video features scenes from the reality show along with appearances by the majority of the cast and Vybz Kartel.

Shortly after Kartel's arrest in 2011, telecommunications company LIME announced that a decision was made to discontinue the broadcast of the reality series on its mobile TV with immediate effect.

The show, however, continued to air Friday nights on CVM television.

Tommy Lee Disses Bounty Killer in New Song Badly - wants sting 2012 clash

Tommy Lee diss bounty really badly in this new tune. He calls bounty killer suck p u s s y mouth and goat head ....woman beater and all manner of things.

We now await a wicked reply from Bounty Killer...perhaps to end Tommy Lee career

CHeck out the latest tune from Tommy Lee called Goat Head...

Bounty Killer and Kiprich Disss Tommy Lee setting up Sting 2012 Clash

Bounty Killer and Kiprich Disss Tommy Lee setting up Sting 2012 Clash

Bounty Killa Chicken out of Clash with Tommy Lee

The people dem who were anticipating a clash between Bounty Killa and Tommy Lee at Sting 2012 forget about it.

Earlier this week, Bounty Killa issued a statement taking obvious jabs at Tommy Lee. According to the release Bounty Killa said “Christmas is 4 christ so nuh demon or devil cyaah win we a bloodclaath all a dem a dead a sting!!!”

However, Bounty yesterday threw a curve ball to those who were expecting a faceoff with the war lord and Tommy Lee. Bounty Killa took to Twitter to downplay any speculations of a clash.

Bounty Killa Tweet