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[CAP - PORT MARGOT]

Ever since the release of the poster BAN'M BUZZ, I've had something lurking in the back of my head, a question: " WHAT IF IT WAS A MAJOR RAP KREYOL BAND (Rock Fam, B.C for example) WHO CHOSE TO PROMOTE THEIR ALBUM WITH THE ALBUM/SINGLE BAN'M BUZZ BY DOING MAJOR CAMPAIGN$ PROMOTING IT, HOW WOULD THEY HAVE BEEN RECEIVED BY US, THE HAITIAN SOCIETY, THE MEDIA etc ?

This would be the part where I say "I have nothing against Carimi yadi yada, but, I know everyone reading this knows this isn't about Carimi, but US.

*Please, please please, don't mention the anti-drug campaign. <---This may make it seem like I have something against CaRiMi but I don't (lol I said it), actions simply speaks LOUDER than words.

CaRiMi @ COCONUTS (For example, this banner says BUZZ, no "ANTI" drug messages being relayed there to the youth.

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Neg Port Margot - Okap wrote:

Ever since the release of the poster BAN'M BUZZ, I've had something lurking in the back of my head, a question: " WHAT IF IT WAS A MAJOR RAP KREYOL BAND (Rock Fam, B.C for example) WHO CHOSE TO PROMOTE THEIR ALBUM WITH THE ALBUM/SINGLE BAN'M BUZZ BY DOING MAJOR CAMPAIGN$ PROMOTING IT, HOW WOULD THEY HAVE BEEN RECEIVED BY US, THE HAITIAN SOCIETY, THE MEDIA etc ? This would be the part where I say "I have nothing against Carimi yadi yada, but, I know everyone reading this knows this isn't about Carimi, but US. *Please, please please, don't mention the anti-drug campaign. <---This may make it seem like I have something against CaRiMi but I don't (lol I said it), actions simply speaks LOUDER than words. CaRiMi @ COCONUTS (For example, this banner says BUZZ, no "ANTI" drug messages being relayed there to the youth.

When i heard Buzz i thought boz but when i read it and i saw buzz... i was like oh okay.... u see buzz everywhere, somtehing is buzzing... i even have a buzz channel on cable....

But i live here in the US... so with that being said .. I am not sure how it is being perceived in Haiti... and being that the Rap movement is always looked at as IN A NEGATIVE LIGHT, lets not lie to ourselves here in the US its no different... Rap is always associated with violence and drugs, not rightfully so... but it does have that tag...

So its easy to see why the double standard... its a prejudice against the rap movement.

A gun shot in konpa would be a nice sound effect, in rap it would be an invitation to violence

[metbeton]

I know couple haitian americans see Buzz as buzzing not Bòz like the drug. I know in Haiti that B.U.Z.Z might see as the drug because they might not see it as BUzzing.

[metbeton]

Pa bliye that in the song Shabba said se pa bòz nou femen an ti frè.

[SIROMYEL]

It might be a double standard. But some of these have come to be accepted. And I think this is one of them.


It is a fact of life that one thing coming from someone might mean something totallt different than the same thing coming from someone else.

If McCain supports bail outs he wants to save the economy. If Obama suppors bail outs he wants to socialize the country? feel me?

If ansito plays a racist in a movie it's perfectly ok. People will see it as a role, nothing more nothing less. If roberto plays a racist in movie some people will say " I told you so". They will see it as a way to prove something that is not even there.


When we see RAP we see a lot of negative things... and everyone can understand that since historically we have gotten a lot of negativity from RAP for a while now. So if a RAP kreyol were to come up with the BUZZ concept... we might look at it as something negative even though that might not have been the intent.

So that would not have been a good marketing move on their part. The same way I am sure that ROBERTO Would NEVER EVER play a racist role in a movie.
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