I don't understand the hullabaloo being created in wake of the ban placed on sexually explicit and violent music. In a country where moral values are fast decaying and vulgarity seems to be the norm, something had to be done to restore decency in Jamaica, land we love, and this is a start in the right direction.

If it had to take this daggerin' phenomenon to bring it to light, then so be it, but this was a move to be made as far back as Lady Saw's raunchy lyrics and Ninja Man's and Supercat's rude-boy rhymes. Personally, I got so tired of listening to bleeped songs that I only turn on my radio to listen to sports nowadays.

If Jamaicans don't wake up and see the destructive influence of such music on the society, then we will one day wake up to the stark realities that will confront us: a nation full of gun-toting, promiscuous, covetous, inhumane indivi-duals even worse than today. I wonder if they would be making so much of a fuss then?

I am, etc.,

ALRIC REID

alricr@gmail.com

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Glendevon

Montego Bay