Buju Banton – Arrested on Coke charges – hmmmmm (Buju take your own advice, uses the driver) lol
by venomfireworld uk on Dec.13, 2009, under Dancehall, News
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First, reggae singer Buju Banton was in the news this month because of his best reggae album Grammy nomination. More on that later.
Now Banton, a Jamaican performer whose real name is Mark Anthony Myrie, is in federal prison in Miami, the Miami Herald reports.
He’s been in custody since Thursday, arrested on a charge of conspiracy to possess, with intent to distribute, more than 5 kilograms of cocaine, a DEA spokesman said.
Why the controversy — one of many for the singer — over the Grammy nod for his ninth album, “Rasta Got Soul”? Because of lyrics from the early part of his repertoire that advocated violence against gays — an idea that’s not anywhere close to new in Jamaica.
His reps told the Herald in September that criticism against Banton wasn’t valid, because he’d stopped singing the song “Boom Boom Bye” — but in an October sit-down with members of San Francisco’s gay community, one activist saw “little movement on his part.”
Though Banton is being held in Miami, the case in question is based in Tampa, Fla., where he will be transferred.
If convicted, he faces as many as 20 years in prison.
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December 13th, 2009 on 11:40 pm
Madd i was listening not a easy road the other day