Any one hear the NPR piece Friday about Beanie Man? Lounge version

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

I posted this in GD but thought I'd put it here too.
The piece points out Beanie Man's new song Dude which says "I am dreaming of a new Jamaica. Come to execute all the gays". This will remind dancehall heads of Buju Banton's Boom Bye Bye where he syas that a gay man needs to die on principle.

Anyone familiar with Dancehall knows that it is RABIDLY anti-gay. I love the genre except for it's mysoginy, glorification of violence and its anti-homosexual content. People may remember that No Doubt did a song with Bounty Killer (who has a famous feud with Beanie Man.) In the video for the song there is a flash of a naked man. Beanie Man ridiculed Bounty Killer for this scene and Killer actually LEFT the tour with No Doubt over it to save face at home. This type of "saving face" is exemplified in this article by Beanie Man's manager publicly stating that there is no need for Beanie Man nor his label to apologize for his content. Jamaica needs to wake up and join the rest of the world here. This will not stand! The concept that a nation could promote gay-bashing to a level of near national pride is disgusting.

I call on people NOT TO BUY THIS ALBUM.

E-mail Virgin records and call on them to do something about this, be it to pull the records, drop Beanie Man or to apologize, at the very least. http://www.virginrecords.com/home/feedback.html

Here's the story: http://www.npr.org/rundowns/segment.php?wfId=3837073

here's Amnesty International's report on the death of Brian Williamso, a gay rights advocate in Jamaica: http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGAMR380102004?op...

[sui generis]

1. what makes this so evil is

that if a so-called artist had a song about killing Jews or killing "niggers", it would be an entirely different story.

It's deeply shameful that anyone could possibly defend this. This needs action - it IS a slippery slope.