It's funny, Buju has a lot of really good, really poitive lyrics and then there's that wierd homophobic streak in his earlier stuff.
Glad he signed.
He was always too aware to stick with those hateful lyrics for long...

Yeah - indeed, in general, I've always felt the disconnect between reggae's traditional lyrical focus on injustice and the virulent anti-gay violence was ironic and very sad.

Well, to me its not about hate or music. This is about homosexuals trying to force their lifestyle on the world and stop the free speech of those who say homosexuality is wrong. Well, lets face it -how could homosexuality ever be right. It deserves condemnation.

Andrew: you know how much that kind of talk turns me on. Tease!

Oooh, andrew, yes! Ignorance will set us free! Hate speech is a human right! Sing it from the mountains, brother.

This article is not accurate. I live in Jamaica. The incident regarding attacking gay men, that incident was provoke by gay men. Another incident in which a prominent Jamaican citizen was killed by his lover, this incident was some how blamed on dancehall artist lyrics. Why don't you write about, European and American tourist visiting Jamaica preying on homeless children, having sex with them and giving them small fees for sex. I have notice that gays are coming to JA to prove something, trying to provoke violence... i.e; kissing in public, prancing around, instead of walking. As for the group outrage... They give the gay community a bad name, their simply seeking attention. Like the time they came to Montego Bay to demostrate against our dancehall artist, holding pictures of them dressed in drag, trying to provoke violence,and still NO ONE LAID A HAND ON THEM.

Stop telling lies on Jamaica. Why don't you boycott against governments. Sodomy is still against the law in most countries. The reason JA is a target for the gay groups, in my belief I believe it's just easy.. But guess what time will tell and good shall always conquer evil.

The other thing about these homosexuals is that as soon as you say that a man and a woman compliment each other perfectly, they accuse you of preaching hate. What nonsense. For me I want my children to have decent solid families but these folks want us to teach sodomy to our children. Well, you have made your choice to be a homo. We will make ours. To be decent and upright.

I love your vitriolic semi-sentences, andrew. So terse. So rugged. Such sweeping generalizations about a subject so feebly grasped deserve a real platform, not the ephemera of the blogosphere. You should be published, man. File under: "Anthropology, early 21st Century homophobia and misplaced anger."

Andrew, I must concur with JA... dude you have to try and understand that your way of thinking is very narrow. People are the way they are and it's the differences that make this trip worth taking. Just be. And try tolerance and humility... you never know you might like it.

Well, some things are meant to be narrow. You know I hear the same propaganda and name calling from gays all the time - people don't understand homosexuality, they are ignorant, they are intolerant etc. well any hard facts apart from saying the way of thought is narrow? whats narrow about it ? That a man should be with a woman is a narrow ideology ? Well thats the foundation of humanity.

Okay andrew, you’re asking why saying that "homosexuality deserves to be condemned" is narrow-minded.
Here's a primer:
You see, andrew, no species has uncoupled sex and reproduction as conclusively as humans have.
You want hard facts? I respect that.
You're already familiar with human reproduction I'm sure, so let’s move on:
Google: "human estrus".
Okay? Have you read some articles?
You want harder facts? Read some scholarly articles by doing the same search at http://scholar.google.com/
Once you've got a firm grim on that (prepare to have your mind blown), google, "human sexuality."
Read some blogs. Read some scholarly articles. Study the material.
Do you now see that homosexuality is all about sexuality?
And do you see how an intolerance of homosexuality as a way for a fellow human being to express themselves as a sexual being is narrow-minded?
No?
You might just have a bad case of ethnocentrism with your stance on cultural variations of sexual practice and identity. And no, you can’t look that up on WebMD; but it can be remedied.

Nice. well written Mr Appleseed.But its still wrong. A deviation from normality. Unnatural. Immoral. No spin can change that. Of course homosexulaity is something that exists in the realm of human sexual activity but because something exists or is popular that doesn't mean its right or moral to practice such an act. We have to exercise moral judgement in life and that means saying that certain sexual acts are wrong and not simply that anything goes and simply do as you urge. You may seek to justify the act but all this research you have done have you considered the relevant merits as to why a man and a woman are meant for each other. I certainly don't have ny hatred for any human being but to pronounce homosexuality on the same level as husband and wife relations is just an act of willful blindness.

Your premise that homosexuality is "immoral" just doesn't fly.
I mean, it still does in distressing frequency, but it's really just a hanger-on from a less-evolved human morality.
You may have noticed, in your studies of human history, a certain evolutionary trend in human morality. What was once considered upright and moral--say slavery, or denying women the right to vote--is now considered to be immoral.
What one should reasonably conclude from this lesson is that human fallibility applies to moral judgment: we justify decisions, as individuals, with commonly held cultural norms of morality (this is called cultural relevatism)--only to find out later that those norms were actually immoral, and all too often, despicably so.
In light of that, what is one to do?
Intractably regress to the least common denominator of morality?
Or humbly make the best moral decision using the tools we have?
That latter option is the best considering that descriptive ethics continually shows that what people actually believe to be right is often seen as wrong in hindsight.
Dust off your copy of Kant's "Groundwork on the Metaphysics of Morals." Take John Stewart Mill's essay, "Utilitarianism" on a long bus ride. Refer to your collection of Judeo-Christian-Islamic texts. Ponder the Tao of andrew. Throw Salt-'N'-Peppa's "Let's Talk About Sex" on the stereo. Get down and dirty with some meta-ethics. Apply value theory to your own psychology and figure out how you developed and came to believe your values.
After that take a deep breath. Why not, take 10. Give your moral compass a little shake and humbly set off towards moral evolution.
The normative ethics of human sexuality won't seem so monolithic anymore; you'll be astounded by the depth of variety and variance in the ways people merrily and morally make love.

Thanks brother andrew for telling the truth about law of natural nature. When we say bun out the battyman it is not a literal fiyah. Fiyah bun is just a word sound and power for spiritual cleaning.

Its funny how Jamaican society is regarded as very homophobic when in these peoples countries people have the same thinking but these people arent the ones who these people go after. If Jamaican society dosent want to accept that type of lifestyle so be it, its there choice as long as the gays can continue with their lives. What isnt reported is that yes Jamaica does have a gay community and a lot of the times when you see mob attacks or a brutal killing of a gay person. Its other gay people who are behind these acts of violence. Look up the unsolved case of Peter King, a gay lover(s) are the ones behind his demise but because these people are in high society and they want to keep their reputation. This things are silenced to protect themselves

And Just why is homosexuality immoral? I don't get it. why would god make something that is immoral?

because he wanted the person to grow up being tortured and laughed at?

Do you want a gay child to grow up alone in a hatefull cold world with no one to protect him? or tell him its not his fault? With sexual feelings he cant control no matter how hard he tried, and no matter how many people tell him its wrong he can't do anything about it.
do you even know what thats like? or are you just shooting your mouth.

Its like being born with blonde hair and then having everyone tell you blonde hair is immoral, if you pretend you dont have it it'll go away.

Imagine if straight marriage was immoral. think of the person you love the most then think of an angry mob ripping them away from you and telling both of you your going to hell because your love is wrong before violently beating you. Thats gay life every day because of these monsters.

you may think your preaching god's word, but look inside you, its satans work, satan's game is hate. Gods is love.