It seems like gay people have convinced themselves that dancehall lyrics are the reason why people hate their sexually unorthodox activities. The reality is that a great many totally straight and heterosexual people find same sex relationships abhorrent and even offensive.

And, they do not like to see such things in their faces. These people are au fait (cool) with the idea of freedom of speech and expression but have a problem when other individuals or groups exercise of that freedom, tramples on their own.

When it comes to some dancehall artists they are expressing their feelings towards this in the manner with the same passion and in the same manner in which dancehall music expresses itself: rough, gruff and raggamuffin style!

Some artists are particularly articulate and anti-homosexual without using sentiments that can be misinterpretted as being liable to incite others to kill gay people. Others, simply do not care what they say as to them the message is the most important and not how it is conveyed or who it upsets.

Banning dancehall artist Sizzla from entering the UK to peform on the basis that his lyrics would incite others to kill gay people, is utter rubbish. For nearly 20 years modern dancehall music has been happily co-existing with gay culture, even embraced by it, without one single death as a result. Yet, the shortsighted propagandists gay media and their supporters, have suddenly concluded that the reason for all their troubles is dancehall music! Yeah right…

Firing Line

Of course the dancehall artists who write and perform lyrics liable to put themselves in the firing line of legal precedents are entirely to blame for their own demise or failure to secure the right permit to perform in terrorities where their music is played heavily. Or even to railroad their careers. It is obvious that if one feels strongly against homosexuality, or any other matter for that fact, the form of protest and how (or delivery) also has to be a factor that should be taken into consideration.

Just going into a studio and delivering the message “Fire Bu’n Batty Man” or “Batty Man Fi Get Boom” on record clearly isn’t working! Another, better constructed approach is needed. And, a well constructed argument against homosexuality is not that difficult to structure and there are legitimate grounds where one might want to voice their opinion against it. These include the following:-

• Homosexual groups are most prone to AIDS/HIV so their activity can be said to be a potential death sentence.
• Homosexual couples cannot naturally give birth to their own children.
• In many places around the world, particularly in Muslim and highly religious areas, homosexuality is illegal.
• According to the teachings of Rastafari, Muslim and biblical communities, homosexuality is strictly forbidden. The Bible use the term “it is an abomination…”

It is important in all of this to highlight the fact that gay people, however odius or divine you may think their sexual activity, have as much right to practice their sexuality as any other.

So, which route the argument will now take is up for speculation. Will danechall artists bend over backwards, to coin a phrase, and compromise by refocussing their message for impact but without the elements that can put them in the dog house? Will some of them apologise in person like some gay groups say they want? How will this affect new anti-gay songs? Your guess is still as good as mine.

One thing is certtain: the gay groups seem determined to make their point. And in places like England they now seem to have the law on their side. So, unless anti-gay dancehall artists are smart they will be shut out of that territory and deprive their genuine fans access to seeing them live. Unless they handle their business smartly that is.

Watch this space.

1. Bigotry
   Eminem is famous for rampant anti-Semitism. His recent hit Without Me complains “…well the FCZ won’t let me be,” apparently referring to the Founder’s Conspiracy of Zionists, a supposed secret jewish mind-control plot often mentioned in Neo-Nazi literature. Why doesn’t somebody take him to task on this?

2. Get the man a therapist
   Eminem brags in his lyrics that he has named his penis “Haley” and refers to it constantly in his latest songs. And we pay to listen?
3. Get the man a therapist part 2…
   The “Haley” references include this bizarre and deeply disturbing threat toward his mother:
   “Ma…. Haley’s getting so big now, you should see her, she’s beautiful!
   But you’ll never see her, she won’t even be at your funeral!”
4. Get the man a therapist, part 3…
   Did you notice that the famously homophobic Eminem refers to his genitalia as “she?” Why can’t we get help for this man?
5. The backwards mask
   When played backwards, several of Eminem’s songs reveal curse words, including several instances of the word cr*p.
6. Sexism
   Women are nothing but mindless receptacles for sex in Eminem’s world, as evidenced by his current hit Hot in Here where he issues these commands: “It’s getting hot in here… so take off all your clothes.” In the chorus a female voice responds in submission, “I’m gonna take my clothes off.” A terrifying look into a misogynist fantasy.
7. Read between the lines, part 2
   If you listen closely to Without Me Eminem threatens another man that “you could get your ass kicked.” At best this is a reference to vindictive animal cruelty, at worst it’s a curse word and should not be allowed in music. If you interpret it as the latter, replace the “a” above with an asterisk.
8. Why isn’t he in jail?
   Eminem repeatedly brags about his criminal background, even stating in one early song that he would “rock the mic like a vandal.” Is this the role model you want for your children?
9. Worse than stealing
   Enormous sales of Eminem albums in recent years have detracted from those of far superior artists, such as Elvis Costello and Indigo Girls. There are rumors that they will file a lawsuit.
10. Bigotry, part 2
    In his hit film 8 Mile (which sources tell me is a reference to the supposed length of Eminem’s penis) the star issues this shameful “battle rap” tirade toward an African-American opponent:
    Get yo’ negro rhymes out my white face
    You don’t try to mess with the master race
    I’m gonna use rap to bring back slavery
    Then I’ll shave your ‘fro in my shavery
    I bust Aryan rhymes from the phrase to the letter
    ‘Cuz anything blacks can do, whites can do better.
11. Entertainment takes a brain
    In his song The Real Slim Shady Eminem commands followers to “circle the parking lot” in their cars, and in the next line commands:
    …please stand up.
    Put one of your fingers on each hand up.
    This would be impossible to do while driving.
12. The numbers don’t lie
    Eminem is rap’s most popular artist; but a 1998 University of Chicago study proved rap is the least enjoyable form of popular music, probably due to its horn deficit. Rap scored an 8.6 on the Henderson Audiological Good Scale. By comparison, the study found that Classical music scored a 16.9, Christian Rock a 19.6, and a spectacular 22.4 for ska.
    So why do rap fans pretend to enjoy it?
13. Why isn’t this man in jail? Part 2
    Eminem confesses to several murders in his lyrics (see Bonnie and Clyde ’97) and after more than five years of an intensive homicide investigation, police still have no evidence that Eminem did not participate in the murder of rapper Tupac Shakur.
14. What century is this?
    Did anyone else find it disturbing that all of the black characters in Eminem’s hit movie
    8 Mile were played by Caucasian actors in blackface?
15. He’s a fraud
    Listen closely to the beautiful chorus of the song Stan. Do you hear it? That’s not Eminem’s voice. Why don’t you give credit to whoever really did the singing, Mr. Eminem? I guess he’s too young to have heard of Milli Vanilli.
16. It’s not true music
    If you listen closely, you can hear that Mr. Eminem’s background music is generated by a machine, and in fact Eminem does not know how to play a musical instrument. Isn’t it strange that we have made this man a millionaire, when he is an inferior musician to even I, who learned to play the tuba in High School? Further, music theorists prove that true music must contain a horn section. To quote Greek philosopher Asquintas:
    Oh horn
    The sword with which thou sad is shorn
    Men hath no frown when their world is horned
    Your golden blowsong, which demons hath hated
    Like a brass flaresnake, longing to be inflated
17. Read between the lines
    Some of the lyrics in another recent hit, Closet, could be interpreted as being insulting to his mother (his mother being Michigan Senator Wilma Shady) and to his father (Leave it to Beaver star Jerry Mathers). Eminem relates an apparently traumatic experience when his father “split” but in reality his father returned just two hours later.
18. Why isn’t he in jail? Part 3
    Eminem’s song from a few years ago, Cop Killer, encouraged violence against police and is considered one of the ugliest pieces of music ever written.
19. Did I mention he should be in jail?
    In Closet Eminem proudly declares, “I got skeletons in my closet.” It is widely thought by me that this is the skeleton of Tupac Shakur. Have the police not heard this recording? Wouldn’t this song be grounds for a search warrant?
20. Cinematic Idiocy
    Speaking of 8 Mile, the final scene had the audience I watched it with howling with laughter. There is almost no way to disarm a nuclear device using only rap.
21. Original? Hardly
    The song The Real Slim Shady is a cover of the Roy Orbison song of the same name, released in 1976.
22. The occult connection
    In the lyrics of Without Me, Eminem confesses he “created a monster.” It is widely thought that he performed a ritual of Jewish mysticism to raise a Golem. From the text, it was apparently constructed of chopped liver, wheat, and hard liquor.
23. The occult connection, part 2
    It is widely thought that the aforementioned Golem went on to become Andrew W.K.
24. Know the Man
    Eminem’s hair is not naturally yellow; he dies it chemically. Such physical dishonesty has long been an indicator of weak character. To quote Sartorius:
    Beware the man with a tinted mane
    For it is theft thou soul doth contain
    He longs for your brother’s oxen
    He longs for your boy’s ass
    When he is near, keep both well-chained!
25. Bringing out the worst in us…
    Eminem glorifies cold, unfeeling amorality with the lyrics:
    Ice, ice, baby.
    Too cold, too cold.
    Ice ice, baby. Too cold, too cold.

26. Excuses, excuses
    Eminem claims in Cleaning Out my Closet that he is a victim of “Munchausen’s Syndrome,” apparently as a way to defend his anti-woman attitudes (Derrick Van Munchausen was the real name of troubled 80′s pop star Rick James).
27. As further evidence…
    In his hit Mongrels, Eminem states:
    Impure races
    In nonwhite places
    Gonna rearrange your face
    Like Trading Spaces
    See anything wrong with those lyrics? That’s right; they’re stolen word-for-word from the hit Unwhite Holocaust by Simon and Garfunkel.
28. Verbal filth
    To quote the song Kill You:
    Bitch I’ma kill you! You ain’t got the balls to beef
    We ain’t goin’ never stop beefin’ I don’t squash the beef
    Why would we let our money support this growing and malignant anti-vegetarian movement?
29. The incomplete performer
    Hey, Mr. Eminem. Standing still and moving your arms slightly is not dancing.
    There is no question in my mind that any performer who won’t take the time to learn the art of dance should not be allowed to sign a record deal. To quote Farquitheus:
    The rod of joy smites the male
    Whose limbs hath flail
    Jump! Flail! Jump! Flail!
    I have soiled myself.
30. Conspiracy of silence
    It is widely thought that Eminem was one of the key players in covering up the faking of Tupac Shakur’s death.

On Wednesday, October 22nd, 2003 while preparing for the start of the “Return of the DJ Tour” an agent from the United States Secret Service visited my home address. I was not home at the time and he left his card.

When I called him he told me that [url=http://www.cheaptickets.com]cheaptickets.com[/url] claimed that I made threats against George W. Bush while on the phone with them checking on my flights. I assured San Francisco field agent William Killgallon that I made no such threats. When I asked what cheaptickets.com was claiming that I said he would not say.

He then took some info such as my age, weight, height, birthdate, social security number (which I didn’t give – never give out your ssn) and if I owned a firearm. He then mentioned that cheaptickets.com claimed they had a tape of the conversation. I told them to get a copy of the tape and call me back because I didn’t say anything about the president or anything like that. I figured cheaptickets red flagged me because of my company name and that I booked four flights to Oklahoma City.

About a couple of hours later agent Killgallon called me back and said that him and another agent wanted to come out an interview me in person. I was in a rush getting ready for the tour and the show that night in San Francisco and explained that I really didn’t have time for this nonsense. He explained that their concern was that I was getting on a plane that next day and that they had to do this. So I agreed for them to come interview me in 30 minutes. I made sure I was outside when they arrived cause I didn’t really want them snooping around my place as this all seemed very suspicious to me.

The Spies Arrive

They arrived and we all checked each others identification (DJ T-Rock was there and witnessed everything). I showed them one of my business credit cards to prove that I had a business called “Bomb Hip-Hop Records”, showed them a CD, a flyer for the S.F. show (even invited them down but they didn’t seem like they were into hip-hop) and the tour itinerary. They asked for a copy of the itinerary and I gave them one since I had nothing to hide. They asked why cheaptickets would claim that I said something against George W. Bush and I explained that I did not and if cheaptickets provided the tape they would see that I didn’t.

They still did not tell me what cheaptickets claimed I said. They then asked me the name of who I spoke to at Cheaptickets.com which I didn’t know. I was just calling to get the total amount charged to me since it wasn’t on the email. Wouldn’t cheaptickets know this if they were making these claims?

They then asked to come into my place and check my room to make sure there were not any “targets of George W. Bush on my wall with targets drawn on them.” I hesitated for a brief second but then figured why not, all they are gonna see is graffiti photos on my wall and records. Note – one agent had a big USA pin on his tie… I bet it was a camera taking photos of my room.

Here are some tips for the Secret Service. A terrorists wouldn’t be so dumb to actually have a business with the word “Bomb” in it… would they? Bomb Hip-Hop has been in business since 1991, I’ve always paid my taxes and the tour information is posted on the official Bomb website – they have internet access at the Department of the Treasury don’t they?

So was it really cheaptickets claiming that I made a threat or was that just a lie by Secret Service so they could investigate me? No worries, I’ve just mailed complaint letters to the United States Secret Service and my California Senators Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein. Maybe they can help me. As for anyone calling me on the phone… assume my phone is tapped.

[b]Story Update[/b]

So far Cheaptickets only response has been :

Sincerely,
Brian Rittenberg
Internet Service and Support Team Leader