Level mek we settle the argument!

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Level mek we settle the argument!
The February 18, 2017 staging of the celebrated Youth View Awards has found itself in an inelegant situation because its selection process awarded the Favourite Local Artiste of the Year (Male) and four other awards to someone who corrupts public officials in the field of national security.
Level mek we settle the argument about whether illicit commercial recordings have been smuggled from high security correctional institutions and into legitimate business activities. I have set out what I believe to be three instances during 2016:
Las May Feb 25 Daily Gleaner
June 2016, Boomshots Magazine reviewed the Dancehall album King of the Dancehall which had dropped that month. The writer begins with a quote: ' So all my time just gone ?” Vybz Kartel intones at the start of the tenth track on his thirteenth album, King of the Dancehall. “All these years—them waste it. If me rob every watch inna the jewelry store, me can’t get back the time.” This is the closest Adidja Palmer comes to addressing the five years (and counting) that he’s spent behind bars on his new album King of the Dancehall, which debuted at No. 1 on the iTunes Reggae chart today;' Justin Beiber’s international hit on the Sorry riddim was released in October 2015, and in April 2016 the imprisoned one released the off-album single  All I Wanna Do  on the same riddim;The off-album single Round Corna was released in October 2016 as a diss track insulting the current leading artiste "blind bwoy” (time code 1:51) who was not popular in 2011.
I agree with the reviewer of the Boomshots article which closed, "Despite the impossible odds, he moves with complete confidence, secure in the knowledge that his loyal subjects would follow him all the way to the gates of hell."
The Youth View Awards' defence to the public outrage is "we support all artistes", it is the responsibility of the Broadcasting Commission.

February 23, 2017 The Jamaica Observer, a sponsor of the event, says in its Editorial  "We find it difficult to argue with that view from the organisers." The Editorial ends, "Only the young can enjoy youth."

February 23, 2017: The Broadcasting Commission sends out a news release saying that it met with its fellow public agency, the Department of Correctional Services, and concluded that " as it concerns convicts, their privilege or ability to create music whilst incarcerated is governed by correctional rules".
February 28, 2017: The Minister of State in the Ministry of National Security said "What now exists is a dysfunctional system,where we have to contend with contraband entering our correctional facilitiesand the allegations of complicity of our staff in this matter. This poses apotential threat to our national security and to our efforts to redefine andtransform the Department of Correctional Services”.
Clovis, March 2, Jamaica Observer
March 2, 2017: Despite the minister taking acceptance, the Gleaner publishes the Commissioner of Corrections saying, "These are allegations that you hear, I would have heard them on the news, and there are suggestions that it could be happening, but in terms of pinning persons down, having concrete evidence, we don't." 

We can recall that the case of who was responsible for the killing of Lizard relied a lot on digital , perhaps even more so than physical evidence. (WARNING DISTURBING VIDEO)

The ministry with responsibility for national security has publicly confirmed that illicit recordings have made their way into the society, so the legal economy should consider the album King of the Dancehall for what it is, a creation aided by corruption. Giving the creators awards and selecting tracks for playlists in dancehalls and on bandstands is watering and fertilizing the ground for more crime to flourish. Airbrushing criminality at a youth event by saying we "support all artists" can be compared to looking the other way while crime photobombs your selfie.
In 2013, the collaborator of the autobiography of the artiste in an open letter to the then Minister of National Security said  'scamming” has been reported as a problem in Jamaica since 2006, whilst the little known song “Reparation, ” only started being played in the public domain in the summer of 2012'.  The collaborator also said in that letter "a potential juror may be influenced to convict Adidja Palmer for a song Vybz Kartel did about an aspect of Jamaican life."
The artiste on the track  Don't Know Someone is upset, "So all my time just gone, all these years, them waste it; me can't get back the time?" Through corruption, he is finding a way to get back his time, and without the support of the legal economy, we can expect that many, many others will follow, and be celebrated.
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Mark 4A Lamp on a Stand21 He said to them, “Do you bring in a lamp to put it under a bowl or a bed? Instead, don’t you put it on its stand? 22 For whatever is hidden is meant to be disclosed, and whatever is concealed is meant to be brought out into the open. 23 If anyone has ears to hear, let them hear.”
24 “Consider carefully what you hear,” he continued. “With the measure you use, it will be measured to you—and even more. 25 Whoever has will be given more; whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them.”