Paradise Redemption is part of the movie soundtrack Redemption of Paradise which features Macka Diamond, to be released late this summer in the Caribbean. I was also able to track down the movie trailer, more after the jump.

Funny ass movie trailer inside…

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Here is the video off of Major Lazer’s album “Guns Don’t Kill People, Lazers Do”, Pon De Floor. The video is pretty interesting has a lot of daggering in it so it’s probably NSFW. It also features deejay/dancer Skerrit Bwoy.

I thought I would post some of the type of dancing that has caused the ban on sexual music in Jamaica.

Junot Díaz & Jamaica Kincaid recently sat down with a group of NYC high school kids to discuss their careers as writers, with hopes to inspire some of them to pursue their own careers and The New York Times was there to cover it all. Check out a excerpt from their article below…

Candor and profanity flowed freely among Ms. Kincaid, Mr. Díaz and the students. Conversation quickly turned to transplanted childhoods — Ms. Kincaid emigrated from Antigua as a teenager and Mr. Díaz left the Dominican Republic as a young boy.

“If your past was somehow different, would you still be writers?” asked Nikeeyia Howell, a senior at DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx. Students from Long Island City High School in Queens and Riverdale/Kingsbridge Academy in the Bronx sat at nearby tables.

Ms. Kincaid described her first years in New York as an “emotional Siberia” and said that if she had stayed in Antigua, she likely would have “been a woman of many children, of many lovers.”

One of the students, Yessica Mañan, 17, a senior at DeWitt Clinton, said she felt a personal connection to Mr. Díaz’s short stories. Like Mr. Díaz, she was born in the Dominican Republic; her family moved to the Bronx when she was 2. “I’ve been there, I’ve felt what he felt, I’ve seen what he saw,” said Ms. Mañan, who described herself as an aspiring writer. “With other authors, you’re not always a participant, you can’t always relate.”…

It’s a good read throughout….Check out the full story here: Before Their Eyes, Writers Profane and Very Much Alive.

The internet never fails to provide me with some interesting stuff to post. Check out this documentary on Skerrit Bwoy, a selector and dancer.

Check for the rest of the series inside

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