BOO-YA KA-SHA !

Dancehall Reggae megastar Sean Paul and distant cousin of Canadian rapping legend Snow*, is back at his grindin' bass thumpin' music with The Trinity. He has that nack of making hypnotic music to the point that you can't help but move to it. In the presense of skilled dancers it's exceptionally entertaining to watch. Look no further than the "Get Busy" video. Equally entertaining perhaps might the PUMA dancing with a different kind of skill to the same song. I always knew that I liked Sean Paul, but the Puma was the one who would pay true homage by bumping the SP in my room every Friday night at 2am.

I'll save the full review for the Jo-Tel but I will say it might be a good thing that you can only understand every third word, or if not, the last word of each line he rhymes. A portion of a verse from " We Be Burnin' " :

Dis purple haze it mek mi crazy
mek mi write nuff tune and dat's what pays me
But i'm not di only occupation
Going' to get some I give yuh education
When a farmer grows it he knows to close it
Economical benefit help wit dose who have fi deh yah pon di hard jugglin
Cau di system only keep man strugglin
Studyin people a use it don't abuse it
Cau di concentration well reputed
Dat's why herb man dem a di wise one
And it found on di grave of king Solomon
And weed good fi di eye sight and di chest sight
And it give nuff insight gust gimme di light
and mek we blaze it da roof we a be raisin'

Holy crap they get some great stuff in Jamaica. Who would have known SP would make such a great educator. He has my nomination for director of the Department of Education. Just think what he could do with the 71.5 Billion Dollar Education budget. Talk about no child left behind. How happy would the youth today be? Yeah, they might be a few minutes late for class, or forget an occasional social science diorama but according to SP, as long as they don't abuse the trees, they will be excellent students and futher wise when their old. I'm sold.

After reading this verse, I think Sean Paul is saying the more you smoke, the less you make sense, but if you sing with a rapid fire, fluctuating Jamaican accent- no one will notice.

* The relationship between Sean Paul and Snow is purely speculation.

~ J-Dub