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TAMPA, USA (CMC) — A United States federal judge in Tampa, Florida has pushed back the sentencing date for Jamaican Grammy Award-winning reggae star Buju Banton to June 23.

Banton was originally scheduled to be sentenced on June 16, but federal district Judge James S Moody Jr said, without any explanation, that the reggae artiste will now be sentenced on the new date.

Banton, 37, whose real name is Mark Myrie, faces up to life in prison.

Last month, a 12-member federal jury found him guilty of three cocaine-related charges. The jury found him guilty of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute five kilogrammes or more of a mixture and substance containing a detectable amount of cocaine.

They also found him guilty of attempting to possess five kilogrammes or more of cocaine, and for “aiding and abetting others in using a communication facility in the commission of a felony”.

The jury, however, did not find him guilty of “knowingly and intentionally possessing a firearm in furtherance of and during the course of a drug-trafficking crime”.

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Students and visitors packed the auditorium of University of West Indies since 4pm to get a glance and listen to “Di Teacha”  Vybez Kartel do his presentation entitled, “‘Pretty as a Colouring Book’: My Life and My Art.” Kartel was invited as a guest of the Department of Literatures in English and the Centre for Gender and Development Studies.

Vybez Kartel compares himself to Shakespeare because of his poetic ability, talks about Bob Marley being the rebel of Reggae music and now he is the poster boy for the jamaica tourist board possibly hinting that he wil be the poster boy for Dancehall. He also says that his style of rhyming was a breath of fresh air to dancehall because Dancehall music was getting a bit dull. Di Teacha touches the topic of how the media uses him to sell magazines and papers etc pointing at all the negative that is does instead of acknowledging the positive that he does for the jamaica people. He also takes about his tattoos and what each signify and talks about his skin color.

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Veteran Deejay Bounty Killer has to wait 3 more weeks before he goes to court for Marijuana charges.

Killer drug related charge is once again postpone until March 31, 2011.

Killer was caught outside the First Caribbean Banks along Grenada Way in New Kingston in October 2009 smoking Marijuana. Police searched the deejay and found a small quality of weed on him. He was arrested and charged with smoking and possession of drugs.

Linda his attorney suggested that the trail be pushed back since she is busy working on another trail.

They need to get this case over with. Just throw it away already.

Having avoided a clash with Vybz Kartel in 2005, Assassin says his latest song, ‘Run Di Place’, is not in reference to the artiste and he still has no intentions of being in any lyrical confrontation with him.

In the song that was recorded on the weekend and released yesterday, Assassin uttered some lyrics that on the surface seemed to be directed at Vybz Kartel.

The song says: “How dem a gwaan like Assassin caan done the place/ Memba seh a wi have the fire tune dem weh a bun the place/ Oh? A mussi true mi nah bleach out mi face/ And true certain things you caan give mi fi taste/ Mi nah buy di chart dem/ Nah cheat the race/ Wi nah pick up no freaky ways/ Mi nah follow nuh bwoy mi a di boss fi miself/ Is like a big man deh school in a class to miself/ Dem all a seh mi mad so mek mi talk to miself/ But certain things mi nah do fi market miself/ Mi nah put out no freaky photographs wid miself/ The music haffi share, mi tek a part fi miself.”

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However, Assassin said the song is not about any particular artiste. Instead, he said he is voicing his disapproval about many things that he believes are immoral.

“It nuh have nothing fi do wid Kartel. When since Kartel have the monopoly on bleaching?” he questioned.

Assassin said he spoke about bleaching in his song, Hype Up, years ago, but “all of a sudden yuh caan seh bleaching and a nuh Kartel yuh a talk.”

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Jah no star them a deal wid gargamel a way star. i really dont want them to send him away i would rather they just ban him from the us other than lock him up and take our own from us only to release him then ban him still. This system in which we are living is a really tricky and twisted one. I wish the man all the best in his appeal star and to just stay strong and to all the other DJ them to just use this a sleep to mark death.

Just something to listen to…. this the Artist they want to tell me that has drugs sales.
Songs By: Buju Banton
Buju Banton – Before The Dawn by Jamrockvybz