No opinion

Almost every second to third word out of a typical Jamaican's mouth now is "cool like me wash me face with the cake soap"..."OHH"... "a whoa"... we have been kartelized over the past few months, to an extreme where it has become annoying.

The last guy I heard with the cake soap argument, I asked him if cake soap was a normal soap to wash underwear? He said yes. Which led me to the other side of the fence (the gully side) where Mavado bleats out lyrics of it being against the law for men to wash panties... which not only imply that men should not wash female underwear, but you would be an outcast. So, what I'm really trying to put together is... if a bad man lives with his girl and she washes her undies with cake soap, should he get his own or do they use the same one? Also, if he has his own, how will he know if she has or hasn't used it?

We have become little guinea pigs in the demented mind of a lyricsis who uses his body and slick tongue as tools of PR. When he dropped the 'Clark's' song, every bruk-pocket handcart man went downtown to try get a Clark's. http://likkleblackgyal.blogspot.com/2010/05/clarks-phenomenon.html Clark's, arguably, became the number one selling shoes during that era.

Straight Jeans and Fitted hats couldn't stay in stores when he landed that one on us also... Rosaries became an overnight sensation (and I'm not talking about among the nuns). People were walking like they were in a trance trying to find these 'well sought after' trends in fashion... all because of Kartel. We can look at the positive side where he has made an impact on the economy by providing jobs for persons (those in the buy and sell industry - higglery) and our cash flow in the Jamaican market to free up, but can it also be said that we do not have an opinion of our own? No man could be found in a long foot jeans... cut off foot a dweet... and if you nuh inna dat something wrang wid u. A man going to a funeral had on a black cut off foot jeans, black Clark's, white tee shirt, fitted black cap and he made damn sure never to leave his rosary.

It seems like these people just sit and wait on Kartel to tell them what to wear, what to eat, how to bleach and how to behave. The era of own opinion has ended effective 2010.