Amaziyah The Great in Rhode Island, Caribbean American Heritage Festival

At first, I was only granted 10mins, then the organizers told me to go for half an hour, check out #Jamaican #poet #author #AmaziyahTheGreat #spokenword Rhode Island, #CaribbeanAmericanHeritageFestival Please watch, https://youtu.be/VUxqDS3M1BI like, comment, and share this... thanks

Jamaican Author Releases First Book, Don't Cry by Craig A. Kirkland

A positive Jamaican artist, poet, filmmaker, now a published author, #AmaziyahTheGreat who's real name is Craig A. Kirkland first book "Don't Cry" is officially out, buy now on Amazon SUPPORT! Thanks

This book of poetry "Don't Cry" Kirkland's first official novel. "Yes! I am now an author. (lol) It is indeed a poetic collection of my art from my heart, dedicated to my children Ny Ashia, Ajani Kirkland, and both my parents Enalee Allen and Albert Kirkland. A gift to the world which allows you to get a small peek at what's inside this mind of mine."

"Consists of 102 amazing poems some of which are my personal experiences, since my existence on earth I had quite an interesting journey, some of which I share here. There are no doubt readers will be empowered by the words I write as I ignite light and insights, some might see some of my compositions somewhat controversial but it's all right, with words I fight and not violence."

"Of course, there is a section for the beauty queens of the earth, this book would never be a complete book if I never get sexy with you elegantly created work of art God has blessed the land with, it's not only that but also to inspire and motivate. At times it's certainly not all about intimacy I find interestingly, but to teach you how to value yourself and know your worth, especially the ones who might have encountered domestic abuse. No female should be treated like trash, I have always supported women in a positive way, a lot more is in this book. My ladies let them see the goddess in you and don't trick yourself into thinking you are a dumb doll."

"In spite of how I had to put out "Don't Cry" as an adult book, it's mainly because minor mature arguments are there but a lot more family-type content is among these pages that you can indeed share with your kids, to the rate of how people nowadays are behaving in our society, not many are influencing our children in a positive way, this is a book they can learn stuff from. A high school teacher in Jamaica suggested I should hurry and make a version for schools all over the world."

"I am from Spanish Town, Jamaica, from a community called Frazer's Content, some would refer to it as ghetto or the garrison. I proudly declared my place of residency because at times some people seem to think there is no good there, that is a fat lie! I am a living testimony of being someone great and loved by people all over the world. Parts of this book talk to the youths who might have got caught up in this wicked system, violence is not something I would not talk about, because it exists all over, be kings of the earth and not warmongers"

. "In final I am saying to you the fans/readers, go get this book of inspirational messages, how could I forget to say you also will see poems about great black leaders and legends, something great for Black History Month and all season, support the author... the journey continues, I love you #TellDemPrecisely!"

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LEARN HOW TO TALK LIKE JAMAICANS - COMEDY SKITS

Learn How to Talk Like Jamaicans Comedy Skits and Merch created by a Jamaican for Jamaicans and the lovers of Jamaican people, foods, music, movies, beaches, rivers, arts, etc. Whether you are locally or internationally located, support this amazing designer, artist, poet, filmmaker Craig Kirkland aka Amaziyah The Great.

Talk Like Jamaicans Merchs are available online, visit Amaziyah The Great Collections store here FIND US ON: Instagram and Facebook @amaziyahthegreatcollections TikTok | @artistcraigkirkland

An Evening of Spoken Word With Amaziyah The Great (Jamaican Poet)

An Evening of Spoken Word With Amaziyah The Great (Jamaican Poet) this video is a very powerful and positive art from the heart many people all over the world can relate to... crammed with educational stuff, very motivating, romance, nature, the reality of life, etc. you will love and enjoy... please share.

#AmaziyahTheGreat is #JamaicanPoet, delivering almost 2 hours of #SpokenWord live while he was at home in New York. All written by himself, poems like bitterness, holiday inn, focus, wedding cake, good sex, just to name a few. He is originally from Spanish Town, Jamaica but at this time here in the United States completing his first book which he hopes to release soon.

Mr. Craig A. Kirkland (Amaziyah The Great) is also a multi-awarding winning filmmaker and entertainer. Thanks for your support, now have fun and enjoy. #TellDenPrecisely!

Koffee Scores Big With Title Track On The Harder They Fall Soundtrack

From Spanish Town Jamaica, young , consistent, beautiful and black, she's scorchingly blazing with amazing musical tracks, a Grammy Award-winning singer yeah a Koffee me a chat... now added to her growing list of accomplishments, a major movie soundtrack, The Harder They Fall, people so excited fe go watch... There is more to this story so nuh badda ignore me, Poetic News Jamaica will be right back.

Welcome back to my channel, GreatAmaziyah if you haven't subscribed yet, nuh badda forget, please dweet now and hit that notification bell. Reading from the website of Dancehall Mag, me see seh big things a gwaan fe dis adorable Jamaican, Koffee you always bring such an amazing vibration... The people of this great land and yours truly Amaziyah The Great One, saying congratulations.

Koffee joins her compatriot Barrington Levy as Reggae/Dancehall stars, whose voices will be featured on the soundtrack for the action/adventure all-black Western film The Harder they Fall, which stars Jonathan Majors, Zazie Beetz, Idris Elba, Regina King, LaKeith Stanfield and Delroy Lindo, and others. Levy’s Here I Come hit track from his 1985 album of the same name, was remixed to feature in the film, his voice dominant in its trailer which was disseminated a few months ago. The remixed song has since been released on streaming platforms.

In a Tweet yesterday, Koffee teased a 30-second clip of her original title track, The Harder They Fall, produced by Jeymes Samuel. The full soundtrack, which will reportedly also feature Jay-Z, Jadakiss, Lauryn Hill, and others, which by now should be out by now. The title of the film appears to take from the film 1956 The Harder They Fall, which was an adaptation of the 1947 Budd Schulberg novel of the same name. The director never said that still enuh, so that's just assumption, so nuh badda go say me or DancehallMag did say, but it might also have been influenced by the 1972 Perry Henzell-directed film The Harder They Come which starred Reggae icon Jimmy Cliff and the hit song of the same name which was also recorded by Cliff in 1972.

Netflix summarises the film as surrounding an outlaw bearing the name Nat Love (Jonathan Majors) who is “gunning for revenge”, saddling up “with his gang to take down enemy Rufus Buck, a ruthless crime boss who just got sprung from prison”. The various reviews of the film by critics have been coming in over the last few days. The Guardian described it as an enjoyable, “face-splatteringly brutal, gonzo revenge western… which aims to reclaim the often erased African American side of this genre and history” featuring the gun-toting gangsters of the old west wearing old-timey hats of all shapes and sizes”, while the Chicago Sun Times called it a “dusty 19th century gangland where men brawl and women do, too”.

As for the BBC, it described the Western, as opening with an intriguing disclaimer (that): “While the events in this film are fictionalised… These. People. Existed.” “Without it, viewers might assume the movie is an imaginary tale, one of several cases of Hollywood re-casting historical periods and events with more ethnic minority characters than there were in reality… Except in this case, the opposite is true. A large number of cowboys were black, and yet traditionally the film industry has cast white men in the leading parts of Westerns, with black actors generally in deferential roles,” the BBC noted. The $90 million budget film is out now in theaters and will be available on Netflix on November 3.

Koffee’s hit song Toast was previously featured in Jordan Peele’s horror film Us (2019) and more recently in the Netflix thriller Fatale (2020). Throne, which also appeared on her Grammy-winning Rapture EP, was used on the soundtrack for the film Rocks (2020). The new developments come ahead of the release of Koffee’s first full-length album via RCA Records which is set for 2022. The Spanish Town native recently released visuals for the first single titled West Indies, which is her first release in a year, the previous being the Pressure (remix) with Buju Banton in October 2020. Her 2020 summer banger Lockdown, had created history, surpassing one million streams on YouTube within two days. It had also debuted at the top of the global iTunes reggae chart and the Jamaican YouTube charts and shot to number on in more than six countries on Apple Music. In February this year, the Spanish town native had said she was coming with “something new and unexpected” for those familiar with her music and that she wanted to promulgate unity in her upcoming body of work.

“It will be a very interesting twist for people who knew my music before, and also for people who will discover me. I think it will be really awesome,” the Ardenne High School graduate had said. more from original source : DANCEHALL MAG

3 Month Exhibition for Gregory Isaacs in The UK

Inna Jamaica, we celebrate Black History Month in February, but in the United Kingdom, it's celebrated in October, now as of tomorrow, in North-West London, a place called Harrow where there's The Headstone Manor and Museum, there will be a three-month exhibition on The Cool Ruler himself, the ledenday Mr. Gregory Isaacs's his impact, on reggae music, worldwide... fans still can't refuse it. Blessings and good day, whaagwaan? Welcome back to my channel, GreatAmaziyah. if you nuh subscribed yet, please dweet now and hit the notification bell. I am Amaziyah The Great with Poetic News Jamaica, me deh yah fe today fe talk about Issacs to go on showcase in the UK so mek me jump inna da story yah without further delay The exhibition comences October 26 of this year and ends January 30, 2022. June Isaacs, his widow, says she is super excited, quite delighted with the iconic and historic recognition... yes, she's happy wid dem decision. “It's an honour to know that Gregory can be recognised during Black History Month. The people highlighted during this month are ones who shone in their respective fields. It is indeed a great honour,” she told the Jamaica Observer. 11 years ago today, Mr. Isaac passed away, in Harrow dem say cancer took his life away. The lovers' rock singer had a massive following in the UK. The house where he lived on 59 Weald Lane was honoured with a blue plaque in 2016. The symbolic blue plaque has been placed at homes of famous people in Britain since the late 19th century. Among them are Bob Marley, Dennis Brown, John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix, poet Lord Byron, and authors Charles Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson. June Isaacs also mentioned, the reggae singer's son, Gregory Isaacs Jr who resides in the UK and who is a director of the Gregory Isaacs Foundation, was the one contacted by the museum. According to the museum's website, Gregory Isaacs was an icon. Pon de website it reads... “We are celebrating a musical icon, the legendary Jamaican reggae singer Gregory “Cool Ruler” Isaacs, coinciding with his memorial day. We're delighted to be able to co-curate a small exhibition in our community cupboard within the Manor House and a digital exhibition,” It will be the 11th anniversary of Gregory's passing, Mrs. Isaacs I am so sorry for your lossing... but the question I am asking, will Jamaiaca be honoring The Cool Ruler same way like how me see England endorsing? Well the truth is, some a dem will honor this, while some will be waggonist. It was also Due to C-19 restrictions, no activities are planned, but his widow, however, is hoping local radio stations will be promoting Isaacs's music to mark the day... yeah mon, play some Gregory Isaacs's songs all the way She said her late husband's music is still relevant today. “He recently got silver for the album Night Nurse. His music is long-lasting and everyone can relate to [it] — middle age, old age, young. With Night Nurse's silver certification, it shows it's the new generation that is discovering it now, so we have bridged the gap,” said Isaacs. Night Nurse, the 1982 album by Isaacs, was recently certified silver in the United Kingdom by the British Phonographic Industry for sales exceeding 60,000 copies. Recorded at Tuff Gong Studios in Kingston, the set features songs including the popular title track Stranger in Town, Cool Down the Place, Material Man, and Sad to Know (You're Leaving). Born in Denham Town, west Kingston, on July 15, 1950, Isaacs made his recording debut in 1968 as Winston Sinclair with the single Another Heartache. He teamed up with two other vocalists, Penroe and Bramwell, for the short-lived trio The Concords who recorded for producers Rupie Edwards and Prince Buster. In 1973 he and another young singer, Errol Dunkley, started the African Museum label and soon had a massive hit with My Only Lover. His songs, including Love Is Overdue, Rumours and Hot Stepper, continue to dominate the airwaves. In 2016 he was posthumously awarded the Order of Distinction (Officer Class) by the Jamaican Government for his contribution to the country's music.

Seani B from BBC 1Xtra Laptop Stolen in The UK, Big Reward if Returned

Jah know star, me hear dem thief out Seani B 2 lap dem outta him car this really sad, me nuh love waah gwaan... Ragga Ruggi reporting live from the UK, tell the world what u have to say... When you talk about a Seani B, unnu a talk bout BBC 1Xtra producer and disk jock, a bredda with a genuine heart, a bredda from the UK who a push not just Jamaica, but Caribbean music especially, skyrocket high... an no lie nuh inna dat so check the facts, Amaziyah The Great done tell dem precisely! Seani B is back and fort visiting Jamaica on regualr occassion, doing what him do best, music... interviewing and promoting many dancehall and reggae artiste, driving them to millions of views on his platform. Now the sad part of my message, some of unnu might head it already some might not, but some likkle junky seem to thief the boss laptop outta him car because it was probably wasnt properly locked, before me elaborate more on that, let hear what the British Producer/DJ have to say... So the location where is was at was in Regent Park area, Camden inna London... a money reward is there for anyone who turns it in because people the hard drives with the interviews, priceless and precious personal pictures, information, etc. etc. Please bring back the general laptop dem, if anyone buy dem yet, bring it in... nuff import stuff on the harddrives. You stopping a good samaritan food its like stopping nuff artist from rising including myself who him nuh interviewed yet, so do de right thing... tell dem precisely! The matter have already been reported to the police but at times they do take time... but hey Chronic Law, if you and the 6 team was to roll out inna de UK to defend Seani B's laptop... what would it be like... No violence Sir, please... I knoe your name has law in it but lets leave that in the hands of the law officers.... I will ask a Christian friend of mine, LT. Stitchie, how do you fell about Seani B loosing his laptop?