Sizzla, Foota Hype In Meltdown Mode Over Spice Headlining ‘Toronto Pride’ Festival
Contending that ‘righteousness, Reggae and homosexuality do not go together’, Reggae star Sizzla Kalonji this morning joined forces with Dancehall producer Foota Hype to denounce Spice‘s headlining of the Toronto Pride LGBTQ festival which is set for June 2022.
In addition, the No Apology singer, also like Foota, though insidiously, took aim at Reggae singer Lila Iké who recently declared publicly that she had been engaging in same-sex relationships.
“None a dem nastiness bout yah unu gweh. You’ll not corrupt our children any more,” Sizzla wrote.
“Jamaican artistes already knew that our indigenous music bashes against homosexuals and lesbianism. We Jamaicans bash against anything that is corrupt and misleading to our nation if people. Do not mix reggae and Dancehall with your evil nasty ways; no to guns; no to gays; no to lesbian; no to paedophilia; no to all what’s wrong and going against our culture,” Sizzla wrote on Instagram, in what was his first post, echoing the sentiments Foota reiterated on Tuesday on YouTube.
In addressing Spice’s participation in the Pride event, Sizzla reposted DancehallMag‘s report on the festival, featuring an image of the Queen of Dancehall, and superimposed the words “don’t do this show”, on it.
He then captioned the post: ” We nah sell out, we nuh hungry, Jamaica full a good food and very nice people our African heritage and culture is rich.”
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Sizzla, so far, has been the only male member of the Rastafarian religion to join Foota on his one-man crusade, turning it now into a three-person anti-homosexuality army, Foota having been given the full backing of Queen Ifrica from 2019.
On Tuesday, a day before the announcement was made of Spice’s participation in the Pride event, Foota Hype had come out swinging at Protoje and other members of the Reggae revival movement, following the revelation made by Lila Iké, that she engages in same-sex relationships.
As usual, he argued that Reggae which is regarded as the core of Rasta culture and is the means of spreading the Rastafari religious beliefs and doctrine, had been infiltrated by undesirables, whom he said made up the new Reggae Revival movement.
On Wednesday, he too, commented on Spice’s participation in the Pride event and said he was ashamed of what she had done.
“In all my 20+ years as an established product of Jamaica and dancehall and reggae music this is the first time I feel completely defeated ashamed embarrassed weak betrayed,” Foota had written.
“In my subconscious mind I was confident that two ppl i would never live to see do this was @spiceofficial and @grunggaadzilla,” he added.
On Tuesday, in the aftermath of Lila Iké’s confession, Foota had issued a stern reprimand to Dancehall and Reggae artistes, whom he said had ‘taken sides with Satan, and pushed God and righteousness aside’ in a monologue which he posted on YouTube titled “All Females In Jamaica Music On The Devil Side”.
In continuing his Wednesday post, Foota said he had all but given up on the Dancehall artists.
“This now drives a serious fear in my consciousness that all hope is lost this submission to the devil has become the new thing for dancehall artiste the new norm for our culture based on what I see going is that moral values are no longer important the only thing that matters is MONEY; the preservation of our music , culture and righteous values don’t count,” he said.
“Honestly on the name of the almighty I was banking on hope that no matter what @spiceofficial would never give in to something like I guess I was dead wrong. This is a big L for the ancestors of Jamaica and the music given to us by the almighty money has officially poisoned and crippled our industry, we’ll maybe this is a band show if not it would be sad that @spiceoffial wouldn’t consider the wellbeing and career of her dj after this, shame a kill mi God know,” he wrote.
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However, last night Spice shared the headline regarding her participation in the Pride event, and said she was excited.
“Toronto Canada 🇨🇦 finally gonna see you 2022. I can’t wait LGBTQ 🏳️🌈 Festival,” she said.
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She gained huge support from her fans, as well as Jada Kingdom who wrote: Try nuh guh leff mi, du mi ah beg yuh!😭🎉”.
“This is MAJORRRRRRRRRR for a Jamaican top, A-list artist to get this position and to even accept it is MAJOR / great job @spiceofficial,” khyle_e added.
However, on Foota’s page, most of his followers differed.
“I feel if we the collective tru followers of native dance hall reggae we should black ball her music stop supporting her tune her out. She is dragging dance hall into slack Ness that it doesn’t support. When will our people stop trying to do every duty Ness dem see America do,” one fan said.
“The lgbtq mafia has literally beaten some of y’all into submission all in the name of money!” another noted.
“Wow dem gone wid har😢,” another commenter added.
However, there were others who came to the defence of the Ten artist.
“Not because she made the decision to take parts that means she’s with them she’s in the music business money ofto Make….. everybody live their life how they want to live it…,” shevilles__home_essentials stated.
“Make your money spice don’t judge a the end a the day a 1 life everybody got stop live fi please other people. You think the girl go turn down that fi please dancehall? Kmt,” lexybaddi urged.
However, her comment was repudiated by kushna_reggaeboyzsound who retorted: “Ummmm who put spice where she is today? Who gay clubs and shows she perform at? Who fan music she a live off of? Don’t you ever utter dem Fuckry again. Ah Dancehall Music and Dancehall Artist made her”.
Across the spectrum there were comments from amused Dancehall fans who pointed to the anti-gay lyrics Spice and Vybz Kartel had used as the intro to their hit song Rampin Shop, and wondered whether she would sing the song at the Pride event.
“Man to man gyal to gyal dat wrong scorn deeeeem😳 I wonder who said that?🤔,” while a.little.bit.of._.lalibella noted: “didn’t she say man to man, gyal to gyal dat wrong, scorn dem? This gwine be you fall!”
“Wait till the Americans discover these lyrics she been homophobic in her lyrics more than once,” nova_rouche declared.
They were rebuked by shaniqueimari who said Spice had undoubtedly edified herself.
“To all the ppl with the ‘romping shop’ commentary: you do know you’re allowed to grow up, educate yourself, and change your perspective on something right? Just support the fact that she doing something major and move on!” she said.
Amid the hullabaloo, dropinout10 sought to introduce humour. “😂😂u better get your rainbow flags,” he quipped.
There were some who jeered Foota.
“Wutliss footah get content now lol,” ja_sustainwi2030 mocked.
Several months ago, Foota Hype had accused some international record labels and their agents of insidiously using Reggae and Dancehall icons and the Rastafari culture as pawns, against their wishes, to promote what he says is the LGBTQ agenda.
At the time, he said these companies and their ‘project people’ were intensifying their drive to get Jamaicans to conform and embrace the LGBTQ movement, by using the island’s music, its most powerful medium, and its artistes, its most powerful messengers.
Foota said Reggae and Dancehall, were being targeted because the music from Jamaica was specially “chosen by the Almighty as his Uninterruptible Power Supply” for getting his “messages of righteousness” to the people of the world.
“Yuh notice dem naw try infiltrate Calypso, den naw try infiltrate Jazz, nuttn else more dan Reggae and Dancehall. Yuh know why dem a chase dung Reggae and Dancehall? Because we have di gifted music: we have di music of God Almighty. Reggae and Dancehall is like the UPS of God Almighty. A we deliver di message dem from di Almighty. Das why these demons are after di music,” he stated.