Health Minister Sparks Viral Hashtag Exactly One Year After Kranium’s ‘Gal Policy’ Debut: #LetThatSinkIn
Kranium’s Gal Policy is enjoying renewed buzz on its one-year anniversary thanks to the Jamaican Health Minister’s viral response to the alarming surge in COVID-19 cases.
“723 Positive COVID-19 cases reported in the last 24 hours…let that sink in”, Dr. Christopher Tufton tweeted, prompting the comparison by keen Dancehall fans to Kranium’s cold one-liner on the 2020 track.
The hashtag has been at the top of trending as Jamaicans weigh in on the Minister’s snide sentiment and the lax, lightweight measures that led to this point. Call it luck or divine timing, but Kranium’s casanova cut on the Soul Survivor Riddim dropped a year to the day before the Minister’s comments.
“Gal policy one year anniversary. If you loved it or still love it I wanna see you hit that repost button,” the Melody Gad tweeted, but it seems the Universe had bigger plans to put the song back in the spotlight.
“Everytime I see #LetThatSinkIn I remember Kranium song “Gal Policy”, one amused Twitter user said while another hilariously chimed in, “Christopher Kranium Tufton 😂😂😂😂 #LetThatSinkIn 😂😂😂😂😂”.
Before long, the Nobody Has To Know crooner caught on and entered the chat with a remixed follow-up line, “And try know Covid a the real kingpin.”
And try know Covid a the real kingpin pic.twitter.com/p98dEKujGH
— Kranium (@therealkranium) March 7, 2021
Gal Policy is a cocky gyallis tale told through Kranium’s sharp lyrical prowess and signature melodic tone. “Treat yuh gyal bad she ah go cheat as you blink/ Now yuh mek a prick get di link/ F— yuh gyal inna di kitchen, wash me d— inna di sink/ Let dat sink in, and you cyaan’ violate/ Man ah born kingpin.” the New York-based deejay spits on the vivid second verse. He admitted that the eye-brow raising bars were formulated intentionally for shock value.
The track appears on the piano-tinged Tru Ambassador riddim, also featuring Alkaline’s Ocean Wave, and was wildly successful despite limited promotion due to its lockdown release. It racked up over 1.5 million Spotify streams and Kranium told the media last year, “it’s humbling during tough times worldwide that people are finding peace and solace in streaming a song of mine.”
Producer Jahvel “Jahvy Ambassador” Morrison told DancehallMag in October, that inspiration for the beat came after a serious car accident. “I had a conversation with Alkaline after the incident and he suggested that I make a beat that would express the ordeal,” Morrison said.
Meanwhile, the Dancehall flavored comments on the COVID crisis kept pouring out as cases soared to a new record of 878 the very next day. “Wicked man Chris said y’all won ✌🏾#letthatsinkin”, read one tweet, while another user wrote, “Brogad said it’s my turn to wash my hands #LetThatSinkIn”.
The hashtag has been populated with many condemning the nationwide indiscipline that seems to be driving the numbers: “Even if the infection rate is 10,000 cases a day as long as it doesn’t affect you or someone close to you nothing will change. Indiscipline is at the heart of all of this. #letthatsinkin.”
Others also noted the plethora of problems compounding the issue: “In Western Ja only, 8 killed in one day. This cannot be true. A crime problem completely out of control and a world-leading COVID-19 crisis, and to date no vaccines. #LetThatSinkIn”
The opposition PNP wasted no time coining a hashtag of their own to capitalize on the viral effect of the Minister’s remarks: “We need vaccine against rising #CrimeCOVIDCurrency #LetThatSinkIn,” read the tweet on their official account.
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