Shaggy Says Jamaica Is Still Struggling After Hurricane Melissa

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Shaggy was one of the handful of musicians who rushed to aid Jamaica with resources and awareness to the destruction caused by Hurricane Melissa ... but the country isn't out of the danger zone yet!!!

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00:00First of all, how are things currently in Geneva?

00:05Not good.

00:06Okay.

00:07Not good.

00:08As far as, let's be real, there are aid that is coming in, a lot of people are helping,

00:14but people are still in bad situations.

00:17Right.

00:18You're looking at probably around 60 or 70% of the islands still without electricity

00:23and still no water.

00:25That's not going to probably be back until maybe around, from what I'm hearing,

00:29maybe around February.

00:31Wow.

00:32So no power until February.

00:33Yeah.

00:34So you're not, people won't be in Christmas with electricity.

00:36You know what I mean?

00:37So it's tough.

00:38I think, you know, they're issuing out generators and stuff like that.

00:41That eases it a little bit, but it's tough.

00:44It's not that easy, easy one.

00:46Whatever you're seeing on pictures and videos, it's 100% worse.

00:50Now, we didn't even ask you, why are you here today?

00:52We should have started with that.

00:54Well, I'm here because we're putting on a benefit concert called Jamaica Strong.

00:58Right.

00:59I'm partnering with a couple of our community leaders and a couple of media partners here,

01:07including Sirius XM, including iHeart, you know, including Odyssey Radio, you know, Amazon,

01:15a whole bunch of people coming together.

01:17Right.

01:18To literally do Jamaica Strong on the 12th of December at the UBS Arena.

01:23With all proceeds going to Jamaica?

01:25All proceeds.

01:26Well, we're trying to definitely go over a million dollars.

01:30Nice.

01:31Anything over that, we'll also donate all proceeds.

01:35But, of course, that's net of expenses.

01:38Right, right.

01:39Yeah, yeah.

01:40Pains and expenses.

01:41Expenses, right.

01:42So we're looking for it.

01:43But the main thing we're trying to do is raise their awareness.

01:44Yeah.

01:45And there's a lot of great artists, myself, Sean Paul, Kess, Chronic Law, just to name a few

01:50that's going to be on this bill.

01:52What's next?

01:53For you, for anything you have gone on?

01:56It's bittersweet, this whole thing, because I'm doing, I'm promoting a new single with

02:03Akon called Boomba to Me, Akon and Idonia.

02:06But at the same time, I have this hurricane situation and I have to be using the press to

02:13really do that.

02:14Right.

02:15So it feels bittersweet.

02:16But then I realized that part of the healing process is music.

02:18Right.

02:19When I was down there giving out some of the stuff, even though people lost everything

02:23they had, they were dancing, singing, you know, to music.

02:27So I understand that part, you know.

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