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Senate President Dropped ‘F’ Word In Upper House. Dancehall Fans Want Him To Resign Since Artists Were Charged For ‘Same Thing’

Almost two years after the Montego Bay police pulled the plug on Jahvillani’s expletive-laced performance at Reggae Sumfest, his father-in-law Tom Tavares Finson, who is president of the Jamaican Senate, is being pressured, to resign after using an expletive during a sitting of the Upper House of the Jamaican Parliament two Fridays ago.

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The Six G’s Of Dancehall

Dancehall music is governed by different modes of performance, ritual and spectacle. Music industry insiders often point to the lyrical rite of passage undergone by a dancehall act, like a production about badmind, another about marijuana, one about gangsterism, and others coined “reality tunes”.