Foota Hype Says LGBTQ Pride Flag Hoisted In ‘Pressure’ Is A Disrespect To Buju Banton
Veteran music selector Foota Hype, says the display of a large LGBTQ rainbow pride flag hoisted in the Pressure remix music video in which Buju Banton is featured alongside Koffee, is disrespectful to the Gargamel and is not in keeping with the Till Shiloh artiste’s principles.
Foota made his comments a few days ago, on his YouTube channel Suhvyva Godcast, which he titled Buju Banton Needs Help And I Am Going To Help Him, and directed his comments to the Grammy-winning artiste, whom he claims has been acting very contrary, since his release from prison in December 2018.
“Di song weh yuh do wid Koffee is OK, but di video spark awareness inna my brain. Because there are a lot of red flags in that video where a Buju Banton is concerned. Inna di video, dem obviously disrespect Buju, becaw dem have protest a show; protest all over di world, but dem a show yuh protest wid a big gay flag inna di protest,” he stated.
“One big rainbow gay flag inna di video. Despite dem a show seh a different-different protest, dem inject dat fi show di world seh: ‘dis is Buju Banton, one of di major anti-gay activist. We now have him in a video wid dis’,” Foota argued.
According to the Cassava Piece native, he is also demanding an explanation from Buju, as to the reason why he allowed the video to be released, featuring both covert and overt LGBTQ imagery, which he contended could cost the African Pride singer many of his hard-core fans.
“One a di scene pon di step is a butch an har gyal havin two kids. Dat mean seh dem a show you seh is a gay family dis, caw di girl pon di right a butch an di one pon di left dress like a woman… now when did Buju Banton become a part of di movement projecting and displaying dis kinda behaviour?” he questioned.
“How Buju end up inna dat? An nuhbaddy don’t tell mi seh Buju Banton don’t know seh dat inna di video. Becaw mi know Buju, and mi know seh yuh cannot put Buju name, imagery, nuttn fi Buju pon nuttn at all, weh him nuh approve of. So I don’t know what kinda pressure system dem have Buju unda zeen. I don’t’ know if Buju a overlook dese tings becaw him waan get back a visa…or him feel like him need a international look. But Buju, it don’t look good. Buju Banton, do you want to win these new fans and lose yur hard-core fans? Because yuh kinda a lose me as a fan enuh,” he warned.
In continuing his admonition, Foota said the 47-year-old is “human and allowed to falter and make mistakes” and that it was not too late for him to withdraw from any music deal which requires him to appease the LGBTQ movement, as he is already rich and ‘will never run out of money as long as he lives’.
“It’s not too late. Yuh rich. You mighta nuh want tell people, but me know seh yuh rich. Yuh nuh need Roc Nation contract; yuh nuh need Koffee, or any adda international artiste fi mek Buju Banton nuh bigga! These are not needs; these are wants… Rememba a you seh inna di interview ‘who fi dead a guh dead and who fi live fi live’. Suh why are you doing these things?” Foota said.
“Why are you submitting to these things? What is your reason? I need answers,” he reiterated. “Yuh can guh whole heap a odda place dan America. So what is your reason? What is so dangerous? What is your pressuring that yuh a subdue yuh own spirit? Fi complememt who? Fi complement what? Wha dem have a swing ova yuh head? Wha dem have a threaten yuh wid? Tell wi! Wi can help yuh. Wi ready fi help yuh fight di fight. Yuh haffi tell wi, caw suppm nuh right.”
Foota said he cannot fathom how Buju chose to collaborate with Koffee over his own sons Jazeel and Marcus, who are also musicians. According to him, in all his almost-30 years as a public figure and a mainstream artiste Buju was very choosy about the artistes he collaborated with.
“Now, mi si dis big collab wid Koffee, makes me wonder ‘what is so special?’ What drive Buju Banton to run and do a collab wid Koffee when yuh have so many soldiers and artist around you dat you have never given di time of day to do a collab before prison and even after prison. So it have mi a wonder,” he lamented.
“Da video deh wid you and Koffee, I want you to look carefully back at di video. Mi nuh know if oonu think wi neva a guh si di flag or wi neva a guh realize the lesbian couple pon di step wid di kids. And is something that Buju Banton is hundred percent against. How now you are the product of promoting this? How yuh involve inna dis?” he questioned.
He added: “Notice seh from yuh start reason wid dem enuh, a pare destruction inna yuh life enuh. Yuh guh a Canada and yuh siddung and yuh dialogue wid dem and reason and shake one a dem hand and from yuh shake dem hand, pure f__kery start reach yuh. Yuh pure; yuh too much of a soul weh di Almighty need. Yuh fi disassociate yuhself, disassemble yuhself from dem…. Yuh hafi continue bun di fire till yuh lef di flesh. Yuh cannot compromise. More problem a guh come once yuh compromise.”