dances are mainly light skinned and the thing is the ordinary Jamacian very rarely if ever complain about it cheap memphis the musical tickets they just except it, infact what you will find is that, for those who can afford it skin bleaching is common and those who ain't light skin

Katel has brought down the moral and ethical standards of dancehall to an unpresidented low level. He has sold out his soul to the devil and all you can ever get from kartel is just devilish works.Its judt natural for anyy man who come from a poor back ground like him to have some boundaries of moral responsibilites to his peers and the youths.But when you are working for teh devil anything goes as he is out to steal,kill and distroy.

Shaggy aint jelous of him he just puzzled that a former ghetto youth can behave this wasy

just to remind that person who is saying shaggy is jealous.does kartel have any album that sold over 14 mill copies?not even sean paul and he is next to shaggy.with the exception of this generation of jamaicans,our blackness was always being looked upon with pride despite what society projected.we taught other blacks in the diaspora to be proud and not think of themselves as second class.compare the lyrics of reggae music then and now.

@Sun, 2011-07-24 03:51

"On their one free tv station, the prime time national news is majority of the time presented by light skin male and female presenters.
Their national air line Air Jamaica, all the Air hostess's are light skinned, their beauty competitions are 90% dominated by light skinned models, their dancehall/reggae fliers are nearily always have light skinned females on them and on stage female dance troops at dances are mainly light skinned"

Rubbish - at least get your facts right - there are actually 2 "light skinned" as you called it news reporters on TVJ, Micheal Sharpe and Simon Crosskill who presents Smile Jamaica and CVM is the same. Flight attendants - which Air Jamaica flight were you on where they were all light skinned because all the ones I've been on 90% were dark it must have been a while ago as Air Jamaica is no more and my cousin who worked for them certainly wasn't light skinned. There are varied shades of race used on the the dancehall fliers and with regards to the colour of polititians in both political parties - I doubt they were elected on their skin colour alone! For your information the majority of black people in Jamaica are quite happy not to bleach and I live and work here as well as travel to and from the UK - I hate it when people troll out this rubbish sucking up whatever the press spew out as the truth without doing any real research and/or using their common sense! Jamaica is made up of various cultures and races hence our motto "Out Of Many One People" and Black doesn't necessarily mean very dark or light skinned so Kartel can do what he likes and bleach and tattoo himself to his hearts content if that makes him happy I don't really care, it's not going to have any kind of impact on my life....

The fact is that Vybz Kartel lives in a country that is obessed with light skin black people, where it is still seen as being more advantageous to be light skinned than dark skin.
Most of the top politians and top business men and women in JA are light skinned.
On their one free tv station, the prime time national news is majority of the time presented by light skin male and female presenters.
Their national air line Air Jamaica, all the Air hostess's are light skinned, their beauty competitions are 90% dominated by light skinned models, their dancehall/reggae fliers are nearily always have light skinned females on them and on stage female dance troops at dances are mainly light skinned and the thing is the ordinary Jamacian very rarely if ever complain about it they just except it, infact what you will find is that, for those who can afford it skin bleaching is common and those who ain't light skin, crave light skin partners, so it was only a matter of time that Jamaica would produce some one like Vybz Kartel.
Ryon Christie Victoria London

Let him do what he wants - he looks awful but it's his choice. If young people have well rounded people around them - issues like Vybz self-hating self won't be a problem. I hate how we all think that celebs, musicians and sports stars are the only role models around - why are we looking to them for guidance? For many the reason they are where they are is because they aren't educated - they had raw talent which they pursued - good on them, but why we expect any common sense to come from most of them is beyond me. For every self loathing black person out there, I know there's a whole bunch of others that are black and proud.

Vybz's skin bleaching is a terrible thing. He looks abnormal and very scary. But i don't think Vyby is doing it for stardom. Come on Shaggy, don't be jealous, Vybz Kartel is a massive star and will be bigger and more popular in the dancehall world, much more than Shaggy will ever be.

@Mon, 2011-07-18 15:09 absolutely agree with you. Kartel keeps trolling out the tired old lines of he's not a role model for anyone but you are right, there are many of his fans wanting to be like him and he won't take responsibility. So desperate for even more attention, he's about to do a reality show called Teacha's Pet to try to find himself a wife and the saddest thing is that there are some pathetic, desperate, fame hungry goldiggas more than happy to do it. He looks terrible and is doing himself no favours but to be honest, he doesn't care what people think about him he's still getting rich and it's keeping him in the public eye because here we are talking about him now! In my opinion he's believing his own hype to the point he doesn't what is real and what isn't and where will these Gaza followers be when he's not so popular anymore.........

True words Shaggy! I saw that interview Vybz did and I was disgusted that he refused to accept his position as a role model. After seeing the influence he and Mavado had over young Jamaicans with their Gaza/Gully foolishness, Vybz should know by now that a lot of young people look up to him. But instead, he's chosen to ignore his position as a public figure and instead chase after fame by any means, no matter how desperate or irresponsible his actions are. Sad and pathetic.