FREESPEAK BY JOHNNY SPANONE

Mary Magdalene is a Kenyan song by Johnny Span-one and Kunta. The song is a fictional story about a girl who gets defiled and defamed by her boyfriend when she leaves him to pursue a new relationship with the character portrayed by Johnny Span One in the song. The artists go on to name the girl Mary Magdalene in the chorus. This is done to relate her predicament to the circumstances that befell the biblical character she is named after. The Biblical Mary Magdalene is a woman whose character has been defamed falsely. All through later history, the very spreaders of the gospel claimed she was a prostitute. Surprisingly enough, the claim is not supported nor implied in the Holy book. The clergymen only propagated the rumor because the Bible also shows her close relationship with Jesus, which rubbed them wrongly. The preachers did not favor the idea of a woman being too close to their spiritual father. Kunta in verse 3 takes the role of the jealous boyfriend and tries to explain the chara...

Let me first say that without Dancehall Reggae, Hip-hop would never have existed. In the late '60s and early '70s,  many Jamaicans migrated to the US for the prospects of a better life. As they migrated, they took with them the culture of the Jamaican sounds and neighborhood music festivals. Some of these migrants and their offsprings later became the pioneering fathers of Hip hop in the US. These are pioneering DJs like Cool Herk, African Bambata, and others. This point is important to note in order to fully understand this story. During the early beginnings of Dancehall Reggae in Jamaica, in the '60s and '70s, Dancehall Reggae was a mostly male-dominated industry. Female DJs and artists were discouraged from pursuing their ambitions in this musical field, but this never stopped the legendary and first female dancehall artist from taking steps to further her musical ambition. In 1976 Sista Nancy recorded her legendary tune  'Bam Bam'  with the Stalag riddim( ba...