Popcaan Hits The Studio For ‘Jungle Justice Pt 2’ After Murder Of Khanice Jackson
Dancehall star Popcaan took his frustration to the studio after his Instagram post calling for a special brand of justice for Khanice Jackson was deleted by the platform for violating its community guidelines.
Jackson, an accounting clerk, went missing last Wednesday, March 24 and sadly her body was discovered yesterday in a state of decomposition. Popcaan was among several popular Dancehall artists who were appalled by the murder and called for a change in Jamaica with an end to violence against women.
In the now-deleted video posted yesterday, Popcaan expressed his outrage and wrote in the caption, “Tired a them dutty bomboclaat bwoy ya Government of Jamaica hang these rapist please and thanks!!”
During the video, he suggested rounding up a crew to deliver real justice to whoever committed the crime. He also said that the crew should “set an example” out of rapists and pleaded for the violence to stop questioning: “Who ah go protect the women dem? Who ah go protect the women dem in ah Jamaica and all over the world?” In one part of the video, he added: “rapist fee get RIP.”
After Instagram deleted the post for “violence and incitement”, the Unruly Boss took to Twitter to voice his displeasure, but not before he blasted the platform in another IG post: “delete the whole account and suck unu muma.”
“Look like ig support rapist to unu go delete the whole bloodclath account and not just the video, and go suck unu muma!!!!!”, he wrote in one Tweet.
Look like ig support rapist to🤔unu go delete the whole bloodclath account and not just the video, and go suck unu muma!!!!!😐
— Popcaan (@PopcaanMusic) March 26, 2021
In another tweet, he called for a march for justice for Jackson. “A march now, so let the march begin!!!!”
A march now, so let the march begin!!!!💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿
— Popcaan (@PopcaanMusic) March 27, 2021
The deejay returned to Instagram a few hours later, to share the work in progress on “Jungle Justice Part 2,” a follow-up to his track, Jungle Justice, which was released during a surge in violence against women in 2017.
With an assist from beatmaker Dane Ray, the song, like the original, strongly rebukes rapists, pedophiles, and child molesters. He captioned the video, “No apologies to them😐.”
Popcaan makes mention of 18-year-old Ashanti Riley, whose murder in December 2020 sparked a nationwide outcry for justice and an end to violence against women in Trinidad and Tobago. A 32-year-old driver was charged for her murder.
Visually-impaired Jamaican university student Jasmine Deen, who has been missing for over a year, was also mentioned in the new song.
Popcaan is not the only artist to address this hot button social issue in Jamaica in such a manner. Vybz Kartel scorched men who have committed acts of violence against women and children in his 2019 track, Protect Them. Jada Kingdom‘s Execution also got praise for taking aim at perpetrators of rape and child molestation.