Pop music in simmers with the winding grind of dancehall. Yet this week, it has now been five years since Kartel — year-old Adidja Palmer — was last free to enter a studio.
In September , he was arrested by Jamaican authorities for marijuana possession, and subsequently charged in two separate murder cases. New music from Kartel turns up weekly; more than 50 tracks this year alone have been released to iTunes, including the 14 on King of the Dancehall , his third LP in four years.
A tally of songs issued during his incarceration would total well into the hundreds. How, exactly, Kartel has maintained such productivity while behind bars remains something of a mystery.
Many dancehall fans presume he must be recording in prison, covertly cutting vocals through a cellphone app. Others have even suggested certain songs were voiced by an impersonator.
Musicians usually become engimas by disappearing or holding back, but Vybz Kartel has become one by being impossibly present through his incarceration. He launched a clothing line, the Official VK Line; and created a literacy program which recently sponsored a robotics camp in his hometown of Portmore, Jamaica.
In an interview conducted through his lawyer, Tom Tavares-Finson, Kartel denied that he is recording in jail. The new releases, he insists, are the fruits of a massive deposit of unreleased vocal material left behind before his arrest, updated for the moment by a cadre of trusted producers.
His expansive catalog is a confounding mixture of the profane and the poignant: Coarse strip-club anthems, heartfelt love songs, troubling revenge fantasies, scathing social critiques and earnest etiquette lessons for schoolkids, all bound together by a wily, quick wit.
As humans, we have a dark side and a light side. The fact that he articulates both, and all emotions, to the degree and to the depth that he does, makes him outstanding.
The concern was less that the feud might inspire violence between the two artists than among their fans. Around this time, as his influence and the controversies surrounding him grew, he began to attract negative attention from other Caribbean governments.
Soon deejays — MCs who toast over previously-recorded tracks, or instrumental riddims — became the stars themselves. But few have captivated this audience — or offended the sensibilities of its detractors —as consistently and thoroughly as Kartel. According to court papers, the case against them was based on a combination of direct and circumstantial evidence. The appeals court judges decided that, despite the absence of a body, the jury considered the prosecution's evidence of an orchestrated plan along with the technology evidence and witness testimony in making its guilty finding.
Search term. Billboard Pro Subscribe Sign In. Top Artists. Top Charts. Hot Songs. Billboard Top Videos. Top Articles. Spotify to Acquire Audiobook Platform Findaway. By Rania Aniftos. Copied to clipboard. Click to copy. Search on for y-o girl and her younger brother in St Catherine.
Police and family members have launched a search for two children, a year-old girl and her nine-year-old brother from Old Harbour, St Catherine who have been missing since Monday, Novembe. Amid Maroon community rift, Currie denies connection with wounding. Richard Currie, the leader of the Accompong Maroons in St Elizabeth, is being accused by some members of the community of using force in leading them, this after a man was wounded during an altercatio.
Platelet fibrin therapy: treating the cause of most back pain. There is a field of medicine referred to as regenerative medicine, which offers a new perspective on debilitating issues such as back pain. Gone are the days where pills and medications are the only s. Game-changing technology in Jamaica to treat erectile dysfunction. There is now a drug-free solution for erectile dysfunction ED treatment in Jamaica. The technology is called ED and is the gold standard for treating all cases of poor erections due to poor circ.
Conducted by the. Lucia Caribbean News. Thursday Nov News current Videos. Create Account. Expect traffic delay on Chesterfield Drive, Kingston - police. How to level up your money game. Consumers to pay more for eggs. The Ashe Company goes stargazing with new Christmas campaign.
School administrator attacked, shot at Excelsior College.
0コメント