DJ Knockz Dot Com: May 2007

News: 'Who killed Bob Marley' - poet asks

In a fusion of film on a large screen set up on stage behind him and real life in which he was in constant motion, song and speech, rhyme and reasoning, Roger Guenveur Smith opened the 2007 Calabash International Literary Festival with the intriguing 'Who Killed Bob Marley'.

After an hour he had not specified who had done in the Gong, but repeated the ubiquitous "they, they, they did something to Bob". He identified why, though, as the planned tour of the US with Stevie Wonder was too much of a threat ("they couldn't have it like that. They couldn't let that happen").

As for the method, the all black-clad, slow-moving Smith ran through a number of possibilities, "a laser beam in the spotlight", "iodine in his food", "put a boot on his right foot, put a needle in it and the cancer just come up", rejecting the first two with a staccato "no, no no". "It's a conspiracy, it's a conspiracy," Smith said, using his voice like a reverb sound effect, and, as a child wailed under the large tents that sheltered a near two-thirds capacity audience, Smith said "let the baby cry".

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Event: Reggae to the Max!

If your in the Toronto area next week Saturday May 24th you must check out Reggae to the Max. Featuring from England ... BIG JOHN and from Toronto RICHARD BANTON.

If you ever listened to any of these DJ's on the radio or over the internet then you know this dance is going to be a MUST for any reggae loving fan.

Click on the flyer at the side to get all the details.

--Knockz

News: Akon apology for Zen dance with Danah in Trinidad

I'm a little shocked that this keeps popping up in the press. I thought it would be dead by now but it seems like Trinidad just won't let it go. After reading this article it sounds like things are going to be wrapped up and we shouldn't hear more about it.

I was also shocked that somebody actually registered the girls name and put up a site dedicated to this. I recieved the link in my email this week to http://www.danahalleyne.com/. Come on.. just let it go!

--Knockz

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Akon has finally come forward as a man, and offered up an apology for his dance with 15 year old Danah Alleyne at Zen recently in Trinidad. In a statement released to the Associated Press Akon apologizes to "the teen and anyone else who was offended by the display".

The apology from Akon comes a short while after Verizon Wireless pulled lucrative sponsorship deals to both Akon and the Gwen Stefani Tour, on which Akon is the opening act.

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News: Is 'Glamity' a bad word?

Red Rat banned? Dancehall fans have been stunned by the latest move by the Broadcasting Commission to ban Red Rat's popular It Good song because of the use of the word 'glamity' in one of the verses.

"I just got word that it was banned from Hitz and FAME because they said that I used the word 'glamity'. I can't believe it all now, they ban my song because of that word and yet you have man ah kill people inna song, mi nah call no name, and yet he is not banned," an incensed Red Rat told One876Entertainment.com.

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