Skip to playerSkip to main content
CCNTV6
  • 1 year ago

Vybz Kartel, the world boss of dancehall- was recently released from jail and is set to perform in Trinidad on Carnival Friday, in what is being dubbed 'The One Caribbean Music Festival'. The concert has been met with oppositon in some quarters- as some stakeholders and citizens believe that Carnival should only promote Soca, chutney and calypso music.

The concert has sparked a firestorm of debate as many believe it will take away from the Soca Monarch competition which returns on Carnival Friday, as well as other events.

Today, TV6's Mark Bassant caught up with Vybz Kartel at the Angostura Launch of Kartel's new run Str8(Straight Vybz) and asked about the rationale for having the concert on Carnival Friday.
Transcript
00:00so you're gonna be back here in February next year for for your show yes no
00:05comment and you know there's been contention of course about the fact that
00:09the show is in the middle of Carnival and Carnival Friday and I just wanted to
00:14talk to those detractors who might be saying that it's not a good time to have
00:18the show no cannot speak about the show because now I'm just here promoting the
00:23Angostura vibes cartel collaboration no disrespect
00:27fair enough I respect that but I just wanted you to kind of like give an
00:31insight was it that the schedule didn't permit you to have it later on in the
00:36year at all and that's why you will have to do a collaboration to have it we call
00:41a kind of a Caribbean music festival you're a very determined interviewer as
00:46I am a very determined interviewee no comment well we know we still have to
00:52ask because you know carnival is very near and dear I love carnival remember
00:57Jamaica carnival is huge so we love carnival I love carnival but yeah I
01:05cannot speak to that right now because you know I mean we're just promoting the
01:09straight vibes wrong to the Trinidad people to the Caribbean people because
01:13this is a Caribbean effort you know I mean it's a joint collaboration between
01:18Jamaica and Trinidad so big up the Trini's big up the Yardies big up the
01:22entire Caribbean what what what message would you have for your fans who are
01:26coming to the show next year no comment I still have to ask you know and I still
01:33have to say no comment and I respect that but thanks so much for your time
Be the first to comment
Add your comment