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THE SUB-TITLE OF Saturday night's Star Jam 2K5 concert at Pier One in Montego Bay, St. James, was 'Unfinished Business' and closing performer Bounty Killer settled a few matters, to the delight of the audience. And, while there was not a continuous frenzy during his 50-minute performance, there was certainly keen attention to several segments. Coming to the end of his time on stage, Bounty Killer declared: "Me a real artiste ... All who want piece a de hype go tek it. I am beyond the hype". After doing a touching song for the fathers without the services of his Anger Management Band, he said "words with meaning, you don't have to have music. De jiggy jiggy, weddy weddy they nice, but words with meaning will last". In addition to the songs that spanned nearly the length of his deejay prominence, from the 1991 Lodge to the 2004 It's OK, at one point saying he was taking the audience back to 93 and also 'back to basics', Bounty Killer had plenty of words on a variety of topics, one of them being the current trend for men to wear pink. "Dis a get outa hand," Bounty Killer said, asking the ladies what the colour for boy babies was, and then the colour for girls. "Speak loudly, tell the men," he said, and it was clear that pink was for girls. "If yu see a pink bathroom an' a blue bathroom, which one yu gwine go in?" he demanded. Again the women said pink. "Don't if yu put a boy in pink yu embarrass him?" Bounty demanded. "I am a pimp, but I don't know about them and them pink," Bounty said, adding that there were many men who wear pink who were not gay. "We tek a mani an a pedi, cause yu wi get fungus in yu nail. We tek a facial, cause we all got pores and blackhead in our face," Bounty Killer said, but he definitely drew the line at wearing pink, demanding what happen to white, black, green and other colours. "De one colour girl get fi wear an man want to share?" he demanded, to a collective roar from the huge audience. "Me want oonu warn de bway Beenie Man," Bounty Killer said, emphasising that he should "stay far from bad man". He referred to Beenie Man going on stage before his time on Dancehall Night of Red Stripe Reggae Sumfest 2004, as well this year's 'Unite The People' concert at Cinema 2 in New Kingston, where Bounty voiced his objection on stage. "Me step pon stage to tell him my mind, not to confront him, cause I already black blunt him," Bounty Killer said. "Beenie, a yu a go pon radio an sey yu no sey nutten gains' no gay, yu a talk bout' child molester," Bounty Killer said, referring to Buju's Boom Bye Bye'in illustrating how plain the matter is. He then looked at when Beenie Man said "no two man no fi li dung inna bed", which is followed by the refrain "chi chi man fe dead" and said "yu a turn yu argument fi suit b...m.n", before deejaying, to extremely enthusiastic response. Bounty passed over the long contested line from 'Sim Simma' and examined a line which talks about feast. "What is the word feast? What it meant? It is higher than to eat. It mean eat till yu belly burst, till you get colic," Bounty said, launching into "a restaurant dem a create unda gal". He said that he was over the wars, that he and Sizzla were alright, as was the case with 'Barhead' (Merciless) and he and Lexxus had an understanding. He was critical of politicians using his song Sufferer ("yu neva born as no suffera Seaga, yu an PJ, oonu go some good school, Harvard an' all dat") and was critical of the men who express themselves more to their 'brethren' than their girl. "Yu have some bway a tell dem fren sorry, but when them fi tell dem girl I hurt you, I am sorry, dem no waan dweet. Yu a silent b...m..n!" Bounty Killer said. TAKEN FROM THE JAMAICA STAR |
