From a gangster to a social commentator, singjay Mavado has been on a peaceful streak in recent months with a slew of conscious songs.Hitting the public in 2006 as the self-proclaimed 'gangsta for life' with lyrics that involved 'marrow flying' and other tales of death, Mavado has slowly changed from a warrior to a proponent of peace. This week Mavado released Can't Believe from Romeich Records, which throws harsh words at politicians as he sings, "unnu think ghetto people nuh have no brains? dem sey change/tings remain di same/now mi see sey sum a cheat to lead di game/mi beg yuh nuh kill di yutes."
Prior to Can't Believe, was the Stephen McGregor produced Change Right Now in which he sings, "to see a yute die and mi know him for years/When mi look round nobody care and di people dem a live inna fear/ Di system need to change right now/too much yute a go down inna grave right now." In 9 Life and Starlight Mavado also pushes positivity, something he told THE WEEKEND STAR he believes is needed in Jamaica at this time.
di country a mash up
He said, "well yuh done know wha really inspire da songs are di whole ting wha gwaan right now inna di country and in di people. And yuh done know more time is like di goverment dem just a do some ting, and dem more haffi a tink bout di people dem, yuh undastand ... a just di cry of di people dem and we a hear it, we deh out deh wid di people dem, so we just put it inna di music and put it out dere fa da people dem caw we haffi talk to di people dem."
He added, "di country a mash up and at di end of di day we as the citizen and as even di star dem fi di country, we cyaan really depend pon only di government to save di country, we haffi try see waan we can do to, which is music. Yuh know how it go when dem ready dem bun Mavado and sey boy we sing bout di most gun and di most dis and dat. So we a show dem sey bwoy we can tek it pon a different course to fi a time and gwaan uplift di yute and gwaan try uplift di country, sing some nice song and try set back music."
According to Mavado there is a time "fi di good and di bad", so fans can still expect his gangsta persona to show up in his music, but it is not his intention to incite violence. Speaking on the government in Can't Believe, Mavado is hopeful that politicians will help the music to give the stars from the ghetto a time to shine. He says thus far that fans are loving his new attitude.
The artiste has done his part in recent times to assist his Cassava Piece community. Since year he spoke to Rev Al Miller to bring peace between the warring 'Big Yard' community off Mannings Hill Road and Cassava Piece. Since then he says things have been going good with plans in the making to do more for Cassava Piece.
In the meantime, he has a number of songs including girls songs such as the upcoming I Was Meant For You from Stephen McGregor, When You Feel Lonely for DASECA which will be out on iTunes on June 29, Hold Me and Messiah for Chimney Records.
COURTESY OF THE JAMAICA STAR
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