Anti-gay reggae singer gets Big Day Out invite
November 10th, 2009 Filed under: News/Calendar/Industry by admin
(Photo- Ajani Charles)
(GayNZ) – A reggae singer notorious for lyrics which incite the murder of gay people has been invited to perform at Auckland’s Big Day Out music festival in January.
Beenie Man, from Kingston, Jamaica, was frequently under fire with gay activists for lyrics such as “I’m dreaming of a new Jamaica, come to execute all the gays,” and had elsewhere sung about wanting to cut the throats of all gay men, killing gay DJs, and hanging lesbians.
The lyrics to his song Bad Man Chi Chi Man (Bad Man, Queer Man) say in Jamaican dialect: “If yuh nuh chi chi (queer) man wave yuh right hand and (NO!!!)/If yuh nuh lesbian wave yuh right hand and (NO!!)/Some bwoy will go a jail fi kill man tun bad man chi chi man!!”
His hateful songs meant Beenie Man was excluded from the 2004 MTV Video Music Awards and even turned away from England the same year.
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