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City Hall homage to Marley & RasTafari ~ Toronto Reggae & Canadian Reggae World

1/21/2019

Toronto Reggae YYZ, Jason McLean tweeted City Hall from November 2018 to present {weekly} to change the colors of the TORONTO sign, on the 6th February, Bob Marley’s earthstrong, to the colors of the Jamaican flag

When The Hall decided to agree with the change of color, they chose those of the red, gold and green of RasTafari, which was Jason’s first choice but he never believed that they would change it to that

They did

Will

On the Wednesday, 6th February, 2019, the colors of RasTafari will be on the TORONTO sign, starting at dusk where the colors will stand out nicely against a dark sky to signify Bob Marley’s earthstrong and homage to Reggae as well as RasTafari

Ites up Jason McLean

PHOTO OPPORTUNITY

We will be on hand to shoot pics of Toronto reggae lovers from 7:00pm – 8:00ish, {if it aint too cold}

Our hope is to get a HUGE shot of reggae Toronto, so reaching out to all reggae heads to come out and share in this historical moment in Canadian reggae history, standing in front of those colors

We have also decided to resurrect The Lion’s Den for a night {an after party of sorts} with some of the amazing DJs / Selectas that have played through the years at the popular Monday night jam

Line up is African Star, Spicegad, Briggidier Kingsley, Xixgon and Friendlyness

Pure love

We will have a limited number of “coupons” for $10.00 off the cover charge of $20.00 to give away at the photo shoot

If you can’t make it for a coupon, bring a non-perishable food item for the Daily Bread Food Bank Parkdale and also will get you a $10.00 discount at the door

Our location for the after party is Remix Lounge ~ 1305 Dundas Street west

Doors open for 9:00pm

Our host and guest of honor will be Michie Mee

9:30 – 10:00pm Ras Xola Lololi will blessing the room along with the Nyabinghi Drummers

10:00pm ~ close, dancing recommended

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Feel Reggae ~ Dub Chronicles ~ 26th January, 2019

1/19/2019

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Coolest vibe is look through the historical lenses, I met the Dub Chronicles when they were playing with a much bigger band {totally forgot that we all hooked up at The Cage years ago}

Always rootical conscious, the different variations of bands, no matter the size, played good roots, conscious reggae music and a blessing to watch them morph into what seems to be their first love, "dub"

Many conversations, trial and error, many performances since and now they come to a Feel Reggae Seminar, to perform and play their music, answer a few questions on the history of dub and will do some jamming with Canadian veteran Carol Brown, the lyrically sweet Nkrumah and the soulful stylings of Tréson

Honored to work with this crew

Always blessed to have photo evidence of time served together along this reggae journey

Not sure what year but this is at least 4 - 5 years ago

The Chronicles Dub Trio at the time performing with Nkrumah

Tréson here performing with The Human Rights

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Reggae Value

1/13/2019

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Reggae a Toronto / Canada as I see it

Everybody want freeness

The fans, the artists, the promoters... all want reggae for free

Fans don't want to pay cover

Artists want free promotion

Promoters want artists to perform for little and nothing and don't want to shell out for promotion

I get it

The die has been cast

Reggae is a less valued commodity in the eyes of the community that buys it

It is so because we practitioners have no respect for the true value of the music, the art and the culture

We have accepted the limited value babylon puts on reggae

There is an old adage that poor people don't know how to ask for money {in my case it has been true for a long time}

But now, not so much

I love reggae and reggae culture... obviously

I try my best to pay those that work for me and I won't work for free for those stuck in an archaic culture of expecting freeness

We should actually create commerce among ourselves

1. If I have a show, there is no guest list. Every artist MUST put something in the pot. When I come to your shows, I pay cover, even when I am on the guest list

2. All artists and 'friends' must pay cover at ALL artist's shows

STOP ASKING FOR GUEST LIST

Support your artist friend's talent and pay them for said talent

3. There is a pricing guide on CRW. Don't send me a flyer without payment

CRW receives 300 - 600 hits per day on average

You decide if that works for your event

4. Think consciously of how to raise the fiscal rewards to those within our own communities

Those thoughts will lead you to purchase the talent that you came to see / listen to

For too long freeness a run tings

Not I

I n I am not reliving slave mentality

I respect the value of the talent and the culture around me and will charge or pay accordingly

I n I know the value of what reggae provides

I implore conscious fans to protect the integrity of the art

Bless

JuLion

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R Kelly Benefits From Original Sin

1/7/2019

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Hurt my heart to see a quote, "because it is black girls, no one cares"

Surviving R Kelly

A talented pedofile

The statement is true

Black girls / women believe this as a truth

It is true

The abuse to black women is real

It is also true for lots of girls... children

Some are having a difficult time separating the musical genius from the sick individual

There are women today defending R Kelly, saying, "he's just a freak... my kind of freak"

Our system of abuse towards women have women defending abusers

I liked NUFF of his tunes too and if they come on at a jam I'm at, before I catch myself, I start dancing

That is also a spiritually entity

Music

Hence the conflict with the morality for some

I Believe I Can Fly, for me is one of the greatest songs of hope in the history of song. How can one not love the author?

I did

R Kelly is proven sexual predator of underaged girls

Yet the spotlight has been on him for a while and nothing has changed

EVERYONE heard, saw, gossiped, rumors of his exploits with teenage girls for years yet he sold millions of records on hundreds charts

Predation is rampant in black and white homes

Daily

Don't get caught up in media hype about a high profile sexual predator and lose sight of the predators sitting next to our children at all family gatherings

No one cares if it is any girl

Men don't care

It's a man's world

Some fulljoy the power the construct gives us so we turn our heads when it happens to our daughters and sisters

We will maintain this masculine power at all costs

I have written about this in the past yet I will do so once again

Some of these bible toting clowns blame Eve {women} of original sin saying that Eve being tempted to sin was the easier target hence she is weaker, so she must be dominated for her own good

Cowards

Bible cowards

When you all go to church next Sunday, ask the pastor boy why Adam was such a coward and didn't tell Eve to put down the apple or whatever metaphor, tree of knowledge, serpent, satan, whatever...

Ask why the benevolent religion has excluded women as pastors, preachers for centuries

Coward ideology

Adam was a coward as are the law makers today

Adam takes no blame for his part in the "first sin"

Coward ideology

I don't want to be ruled by cowards

It weakens our children

We need Lions to rise

The cowards are killing the race

Many cowards run the planet

Men cowards

Bill Cosby, R Kelly, Harvey Weinstein and millions of men in our own families

Predators

What are we doing for the victims globally?

Who's identifying the pedofile{s} within the family and protecting the children from them?

What are we doing today to protect our daughters?

Lions / men need to step up

There must be balance of the masculine and the feminine within each individual. We need the correct amount of interaction from both for humans to be whole

We NEED masculine and feminine in balance and a coward cannot teach this

Man have to stand up to the abusive system weakening humanity

Balance

RasTafari

Recognized the mind fuck of these images to the psyche of humans for centuries now

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City Hall homage to Marley & RasTafari ~ Toronto Reggae & Canadian Reggae World

Feel Reggae ~ Dub Chronicles ~ 26th January, 2019

Reggae Value

R Kelly Benefits From Original Sin

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