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The Teacha Speaks at UWI The topic of the lecture "Pretty Like a Colouring Book: My Life My ART" pulled out many to see the young man whose "cake soap as (his) suntan". They all watched as he in true lecturer fashion used notes to solidify his points about his "style". Yet still I wondered why there were notes, he didn't reveal anything, nor did his perspective change. He remained adamant that he was no social leader while still recognizing that he was a shepherd and his fan base merely sheep. Already much has been said about this guest lecture some associating it with the various lectures by individuals within the Dancehall industry such as Bounty Killa, Capleton and Buju Banton. Below is the first of a series of five (5) video clips of the entire presentation by Vybz Kartel. FIRST VIDEO: The lecture is tittled by YOU TUBE as "who is Addija Palmer?" the question he answered was "who is Vybz Kartel?" There seems to be rum...

Vex-Poems-FB edition "vex"- poems   published on facebook 2008-2010  Word-Smith  Tuesday, December 21, 2010 at 3:42pm We grew up on dishes of television sets laid across a table of family suffrage cause children should be seen and never heard, learnt disappearing acts with superman skills of flight breaking skin, cancelling cartoons tunning into news reports of mothers screams, and wagging fingers of Lord Jesus beginning lessons of fear for these were last days But first nights meant you never got a rewrite just more lessons tied up under placard disputes and you learnt cynicism from words at 7 and 8 now these words have Hiroshima effect turning life into still photography have no commercial base no censorship, no pultizer prize to recognize that these words transform these pages into death pellets heavy doses of structured language organizing riots for this poet is the pawns sent into the front line hand tools that tear at guts of th...