{"id":3623,"date":"2010-06-17T23:40:56","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T22:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/?p=3623"},"modified":"2012-03-08T22:04:40","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T22:04:40","slug":"2005-ugandan-dancehall-video-of-the-week-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/2005-ugandan-dancehall-video-of-the-week-3\/","title":{"rendered":"2005 Ugandan Dancehall Video of the week #3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next up is Jamila by Jose Chameleone:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"730\" height=\"548\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6WP2E1Od_WU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is a bit more lightweight and summery than my previous offerings, a nice combination of African pop and reggae stylings.<\/p>\n<p>But don&#8217;t let the easy skanking fool you! This tune seems to be about wife-beating and has a disturbing statistic about its prevalence buried within the footage. I think the issue is dealt with in a less heavy handed (if you&#8217;ll pardon the expression) way than some other reggae tunes. &#8220;Don&#8217;t Bax Your Lady&#8221; by DC Ninjan on Unity Sound is a particularly excruciating example.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Jose-Chameleone.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3633\" title=\"Jose Chameleone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Jose-Chameleone.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jose seems a bit more media savvy than Master Parrott and DJ Micheal too, he even has his own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/officialjosechameleone\" target=\"_blank\">myspace<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chameleone\" target=\"_blank\">wikipedia<\/a> entry. Unfortunately they don&#8217;t give away too much biographical information, but there are some tunes to check out on the myspace and I did learn that Jose has scored an appearance on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qeKZXXNAuoc\" target=\"_blank\">some kind of official world cup tune alongside Kelly Rowland<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Which even <em>I<\/em> realise is a big deal, but it seems like there is disquiet in\u00a0 Uganda about his success! Check this out from <a href=\"http:\/\/ugandanmusicians.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Uganda Musicians dot com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">All Ugandans are  happy for this but our local musicians  may think that its a lie and if not this guy uses witch doctors to be a  star. Think no more but just thank God that Uganda has a talented  artiste who sings what touches broken hearts. Infact we should consider  Chameleone as Uganda&#8217;s  Export since he fetches tax for the government  in all his local and international concerts.<\/p>\n<p>The accusations of witch-doctor bizness is a refreshing change from implications of casting couch scenarios anyway&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>People with more patience than I have can figure out whether or not Uganda actually qualified for the world cup this year, but the rest of you might enjoy checking<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BOSHJg3PAok&amp;feature=related\" target=\"_blank\"> this topical tune from the Ugandan all-stars<\/a> instead.<\/p>\n<p>Me? I&#8217;m waiting for the first punch in the smacker when I say that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roots-archives.com\/release\/1426\" target=\"_blank\">Scientist is going to win the world cup<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next up is Jamila by Jose Chameleone: This is a bit more lightweight and summery than my previous offerings, a nice combination of African pop and reggae stylings. But don&#8217;t let the easy skanking fool you! This tune seems to be about wife-beating and has a disturbing statistic about its prevalence buried within the footage. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/2005-ugandan-dancehall-video-of-the-week-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;2005 Ugandan Dancehall Video of the week #3&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reggae"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5044,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3623\/revisions\/5044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}