Dancehall great, Bounty Killer has resurrected an age-long conspiracy theory surrounding the death of iconic Reggae singer, Bob Marley.
Bounty brought the subject to perspective while rubbishing claims that there’s a high correlation between Dancehall music and crime in Jamaica and beyond. According to Killer, crimes have been present from the day of old in Jamaica including the time Bob Marley was shot which he squarely attributed to politics. He reminded Winford Williams about crime in the island being historically rooted in political strife.
“How did the great legendary Bob Marley got shot in the mid 70s,” Bounty Killer asked in a post to his almost 1 million followers, Was it bcuz of musical or political influence on the ppl???”
His post was accompanied by a video of an interview done in 2009 on On Stage, which shared him asking Winford Williams several rhetorical questions about horrible crimes that have been happening since the early days of post-independence.
“A nuh music a do nuttin’ to nobody, everything a happen and a happen over the years…When since ah dancehall ah do nuttn? Inna 1980 ah dancehall artist did ah do it? Ah di political indifference an di tribal an di turf war weh dem teach di people dem,” he said as he laid blame on “political indifference and tribal and turf war.”
Bounty Killer argued that the main agents of crime in the country includes guns, drugs, illiteracy, unemployment and poverty —was to be blamed for the country’s greatest social dilemma. He said the terrible state of affairs is further compounded by the “selfsh people dem weh rich an nuh give weh nuttn an nuh help nobody.”
He noted a man like himself has been able to do much, and if others wanted to, they could have done much more. “Picture if you did have all ten more Bounty bout yah weh like bring people an help people an drag up people outta di trash.. How much more yutes woulda get help inna dancehall?” the ‘Poor People Governor’ said.
He mentioned Bob Marley’s name in his theory as there was an assassination attempt on the life of Marley on December 3, 1976, when gunmen attacked his home while he and members of his band, including his wife Rita Marley, were rehearsing for one of his first major public shows on home soil. The attack left Bob Marley wounded with a bullet to his upper left arm and Rita Marley narrowly escaping a bullet to the head as her tough dreadlocks blocked the bullet from penetrating her skull.
SOURCE: www.Ghgossip.com
