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Bally thanks fuh de info, ah was just ringing on ah thread earlier, fuh match report, ah nice now.Dennis Lawrence wore the 'C' after Yorke came off.Ah see Yorke was replaced by Latapy, who took over de captain of de warriors, was it de Magician, Stern, who was it?
ballfever, yuh doh feel that the music now seems formulaic(sp) in that every year is de same jump and wave kinda thing. Few kaisoians can hold their own against Rudder when it comes to lyrics and melody etc(ah ent no music man eh so forgive me) but as a saco/calypso/kaiso aficionado ah have to say that the quality of music now is , to me, poor compared to a few years ago. Ah also hearing more and more ah meh pardnahs saying the same thing too.Which is exactly my point...in making comparisons,we need to understand the nature of the beasts that we're dealing with.Our soca music(i'll deal with calypso later) is right now evolving into something that the die hards like the late Kitchener commented,"Call it what you want, but don't call it soca." Right now whether we want to accept it or not,the younger artistes are 'competition oriented', because that's where the money is for them....no huge following or recording contracts yet....and they look to what worked in the past...Superblue, Iwer, etc. for the formula, instead of trying to create something new, hence the proliferation of the 'jump and wave' in all its forms.(Bear in mind, I don't agree with it, but we need to understand why it is happening before we can chart a way forward.) Calypso is somewhat different, in that there was a period in the early 80's when very few true calypsonians were emerging, until the revolutionary Rudder arrived. We've just come through another such period, but in these cycles we seem to be losing the tact and wit that characterised the artform from its genesis.What we have now are calypsoes that are chucked full of information and worthy material, but not written in that delivery style to make us shout 'Kaiso Kaiso!' Believe me,we are on the way up, but have quite a way to go still.
Den too there is a lot of reggae influence in the soca that at times ah cyar tell which is which. and den this backside Beenieman come with he assness at WE soca monach show and gehing on...Only in Trini oui.
... having two artists like rudder and shadow only performing in tents and not releasing is not progressive for we music, while you have Sherwyn and other artists winning the road with music which in many ways is not quality material, quality calypso where time is spent on making lasting music.Let me first tell you that I am speaking here as a calypsonian. Yes, I have been composing and singing calypso and soca for the past 8 years, and listening to it from as early as I can remember.My high point thus far came in 2004 when i walked away with $3000 cash and trophies for 1st place,Best Lyrics and People's Choice at a Calypso competition organised by my employers.The very Shadow you speak of was a guest performer at the show, and his advice to me after hearing that i copped the People's Choice award was, "Keep singing for the people. That award means much more than the 1st place trophy." I say all of this to tell you that comparing Rudder and Shadow's music to Shurwayne's is chalk and chesse in terms of the reasons for the compositions: Shadow and Rudder's music is people oriented, Shurwayne's and a number of other soca artistes are competition oriented (a different topic by itself that we can take up at another stage).
I don't think alot of people are noticing that are calypso tradition is dying... Calypso in itself is a dying tradition among the youths... Who will replace we great calypso artists like shadow and rudder?Does the name Brian London mean anything to you? How about Roderick Gordon? Karene Asche? Stinger? Skatie? All young calypsonians who made the Dimanche Gras finals last night...d Big Yard...alongside legends like Chalkdust,veterans like Bro.Mudada and past monarchs like Singing Sandra and Luta.
...while you have Sherwyn and other artists winning the road with music which in many ways is not quality material...I would really like to know which one of Shurwayne's road songs was not "quality material" in your estimation...
finally beating Bunji Garlin into 2nd place in the Soca Monarch (Neil 'Iwer' George was 3rd!), and walked away with prize money, a car and a Germany World Cup package all totalling about TT$800,000.00!
CARNIVAL 2006 IS HERE AT LAST!!!
Hmmmph, I begining to believe That Men Real Scared yuh know .. Men Likeoooooh gorm! ah jus run away for a 2 weeks an man ha' mih name in all kinda 'fraid talk. ah ain't no spanna specialist an mih fadder didn't name mih diego, or edson or nuttin like dat, buh say wha....shombuddy hadta...monitta de...outtake ov d incohol, unnastan?
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I remember all them men say " Yea yea yea yea " I in dat.. now they hear morvantman commin wid he spanner, they backing down . Wheeeys sar .. morvantman you DAT GOOD ?..
FIFA vice-president Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation (T&TFF) special advisor Jack Warner has an appointment with FIFA's Committee for Ethics and Fair Play in February to discuss his involvement with the country's World Cup ticket sales.himself investigating himself....clearly an attempt to "deal" with the matter before E&Y auditors are called in.who dey tryin tuh fool?
The FIFA Media Department insisted that the meeting was arranged on the initiative of Warner. However, Warner's decision to inform the world organising body for football of his business ventures within the game came after FIFA declared an intention to have "potential conflicts of interest in relation to any ticketing constituent groups"investigated by "independent external auditors" Ernst & Young.
whey bunji an david rudder when yuh need dem? LYRICS TO MAKE A POLITICIAN CRINGE.....or turn TI body into jelly! we know yuh jus come, buh fellas in here doh babysit, yuh does get welcome wit fire if yuh ain't careful! 
Andreas Herren, FIFA's Media Department head, insisted that his employer had not used its influence to block the Express reporter and followed up by allowing Liburd to apply directly to FIFA-eight days after the global accreditation deadline. Herren confirmed yesterday that FIFA would grant the reporter a press pass.dis look like dey bend over backwards to prevent further embarassment, bcuz ah all d hype dis story get arready.
Today is officially the Hardest day for this forum.
I think is about time Hardest talk for heself. Come on Hardest get yuh ass off Nelson St, quit gapin and come on the forum and speak for yourself.
If Ato an accomplished professional could come on here surely you could find the time out of your busy schedule to speak for yourself.
Enough is Enough
I have done this because I have always felt inferior to be a Vice President of FIFA and to be a deputy chairman of a FIFA finance committee among my colleagues in FIFA as someone who comes from a country that has never qualified for FIFA’s highest competition.
All this tells me is that JW has a problem with occupying second place in anything....so look out FIFA and UNC!
As such we went on to qualify and as we qualified, we had two weeks of honeymoon. I was King, they said Jack for Prime Minister and so on and then it was felt that this kind of popularity was of course catapulting the opposition and I was being seen as a threat (as also deputy leader of the Opposition Party), bringing all the people together. To fast track it, it just went on to the local newspapers who got one of their journalists to carry on the task.
Felt by whom? Wha f*ckin planet dis man on boy?
”Its allocation came only last week but this was done to destroy Jack Warner in some way. They believe I am close to Mr (Sepp) Blatter, which I am, and they are bringing out this book, but let FIFA deal with that. I sleep very sound at nights. They have also spoken about scandal and corruption. He (The Writer from T&T) had applied for accreditation and he was turned down and there’s a big story in today’s papers and again they are attacking Jack Warner. How could you attack the FIFA, Jack Warner and Blatter in the worse way and then want to cover the sport that these people administer,” Warner said.
Finally, he admits that Lasana is being victimised for doing his job. Notice JW makes no distinction between himself, Blatter and the beautiful game itself, so tuh ass wid a man who want to cover de actual footballers dem because he expose yuh slackness. How much more ah disgo flow between now an June boy?
He say he would take de team to de WC, he did.ah see yuh logic dey fishs, it take ah criminal tuh ketch ah criminal, ent !!!!!!
If he say he going tuh solve de crime situataion..... f**k dat , ah go vote fuh him.
hahahahahahaAssociated Press, L.A Times an God alone knows who else in d international media is all some people goh listen to TT. men right here apparently not credible enough fuh dem to take on...buh say wha?let dem support d empire at dey own peril...who ha eye to see done see arready.
All the Jack defenders could jump in ah lake ah FIFA (shit)!
de man is ah crooked business man and he pardners ta the FIFA mafia is de same.
Ah notice ah lot ah de Jack fuh de Trinity Cross campaign gorn missing?
Allyuh lorse allyuh net or what?
and den dey have some who changing dey tune as de trute comes out..not from me and others here becasue we jes haters and sour grapes fellas...but from de world at large now.
Jack right, trinis doh love dey own.
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! I living tuh see de day yes!
everytime Jack talk is pure falsiloquence or mendaciloquence pure deceit and lies!
yuh aint making no blasted sense.after ah read d first 5 lines, ah steups.
right now yuh sounding like de back of ah potspoon
It have a lil thing called grammer and punctuation, look up d meaning of dem tings and post what yuh find here. Dats yuh homework.
yeah and i is port of spain general hospital.meh middle name is ward 4allyuh makin we sound just like dem blasted americans.italian american this,native american that,african american.way yuh born dat is wuh yuh is.so am i a morvant?
so if ah rub de salt butta on meh tolee ah could tell meh wife she bullin with ah creole.not sure about that, but she will definitely taste the "rich creole flavour"Quote
Soca chutney warriors...please! Everything that put Trinidad on the world stage has been done by people of Afrikan descent. The origins of carnival is based upon Afrikan struggle for liberation. The steel drum was made by people of Afrikan descent. Alot of people in foreign and in Trinidad feel that all races in Trinidad developed carnival and the steel drum as a collective. But that is not true. Carnival and the steel drum originated because of the oppression experienced by Afrikans in Trinidad.prof, dis post ain't no better dan wha anil write...yuh still tryin tuh hold brief for a particular race, instead ah focusin on nationality. nobody will discount what people of either race have done to contribute to the nation, but that is just not the point!
To call the team soca chutney warriors is a punk off to the Afri-Trinidadian. Soca already emphasizes Trinidad. So soca chutney would only emphasize indo-trinidadians.
Qualification for the world cup is a Trinidad accomplishment , but most of all it is a Afri-Trinidadian or Afri-Caribbean accomplishment ! If anything the Afrikan presence of the team should be emphasized because the whole team is of Afrikan descent (with the exception of one).
I have love for all humans, but to suggest that the team should be called soca chutney warriors is an example of bootlegging. For people who feel that this is racists, this is the truth. Check your history!
