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Sizzla Kalonji: caught up with God, Girls and the GunFriday, August 15, 2008
Conscious deejay Miguel Collins, more popularly known as Sizzla, has advocated murder in at least 35 songs, that's more than Ninja man, Mavado or Munga, yet he still considers himself righteous.
SizzlaHis victims include, Pope John Paul II, politicians, policemen, informers, gunmen, gays, and even an innocent taxi driver. He's the "baddest mother***** ever seen".These songs are all gun tunes and don't include Sizzla's vast catalogue of fire-burning tunes.
Splash analysed 34 of Sizzla's albums, which covers much of his known discography of over 300 songs. The music tells of a man deeply prolific but equally at odds, caught between God and the gun.
From Dis Gangster on his first album to Clip Pan Dem
re-issued on his latest, he is a lyrical gunman - country & western style.
Songs
His lyrical murders are sometimes as basic as the 7 o'clock news, "pump[ing] your f***ing head full a lead/ .yeah that's me," Born in a System (Rise to the Occasion).
Other times it's against agents of the state. In A Better Way (Waterhouse Redemption), he praises Haile Selassie then kills policemen and a taxi-man.
"Pop out my gun in a drama/ . boys in camouflage and blue/ mi tun it pon dem/ kill a dozen or two". It continues, "Mi juggle a taxi cab./ frowns him a frown/screw him a screw/ mi just bus up him head/ pure blood start to spew". And in Revenge (Jah Protect) politicians are victims, "politician we a go dun him to/ prime minister Rastafari bun him too".
God and Gun
Sizzla's Rastafarian faith separates him from deejays Ninjaman who has some 29 gun tunes and Bounty Killer who has about 60 gun tunes. It makes him a militant Rastafarian, whose lyrical murders are immoral but not necessarily irreligious; because his killings are God "sanctioned". "Emanuel seh, never forget to kill Babylon," Clip Pan Dem (Rastafari 2008).
Sizzla threatens those who do not adhere to the Selassie's doctrines. "You must be silly/ mi guns will kill you/ in de broiling day or when the night chilly/.from you dis Selassie I, mi cut you off swiftly," Kill You (Ain't gong to 2006).
Sizzla's goal is to destroy Babylon (the western democratic state), which he considers oppressive and replace it with a Rasta theocracy. And in Street-side Knowledge he sends the state an ultimatum and calls for freedom. "Free-up di youth out of di slum to b**b*cl**t/ or mi a go bus mi gun to b**b*cl**t,"
He has no compassion for gays, who are lyrically slaughtered on about half of his gun tracks: "I am no pretender/shot mi shot de boy who a climb another man fender/ cleanliness a godliness, a judgement me render," Gi Dem Gunshot,(Blaze Fire Blaze).
Gun and Girls
Sizzla recently started mixing girls and guns in singles. In Woman Can' Too Much, it is a woman who instructs him to kill policemen and gays. "Hail Selassie I and praise-up the most high/ Sizzla Kalonji shoot de police-boy and tek di gun from him holster/ dem say me wanted, me si it pon di poster/ black woman seh fi shot di b*tty boy/ and di sodomite"
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/lifes...ND_THE_GUN.asp
what a diseased, confused, tortured soul.
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