Rihanna – Rated R
RiRi has been able to have some great writers on tap after happening to be in the right place at the right time to launch her career… yeah she landed in HOVA’s lap and that’s even better than being found by Diddy… but she also had to come out from behind Beyonce who has been tearing up the charts like no other female before her… i dunno if its the thunder thighs or if they really have talent but something certainly has people interested in seeing and hearing them both…
RiRi has certainly grown up since we first heard her asking the DJ to play it Pon de RePlay… allegedly having nude pics Pon de Internet… grown up so much now that its Rated R… after being bludgeoned by Chris Brown… she has emerged with this new album… making an appearance on the tele to speak about her own personal ‘domestic affairs‘ will certainly not hamper album sales coz it tends to get your name out there… any publicity is good publicity… especially when playing the role of victim… anyway we eh dealing with ‘domestic affairs’ here… album review time… just know that i sometimes get it wrong but generally am right… but they way i done see ppl reacting to Destra’s Fireworks i may be wrong… or just honest like WuzDeScene… song may be crap but the piper called Urban Radio will soon convert me…
- Mad House is some trippy DubStep… as an intro…
- Wait Your Turn… damn RiRi using expletives… chatting in patois… or as we say dialect… well kinda… choon kinda slow pace but me think the lyrics aight…
- Hard with Jeezy… this choon i find it HARD… prob cause I had it fuh about a week b4 and was banging it… kinda choon that would be banging in the CLUB… infectious beat…
- Stupid in LOVE… sound like a choon of reflection… i feel the ladies will be playing this when they break up with they fella… i not really feeling the emotion in the choon… just singing lyrics… will be playing on the overnight sessions tho…
- RockSTAR 101 with Slash… a next slow pace song… if the BPMs were a bit faster i could get into this… “Neva played a Victim”… have some kinda ‘racy’ lyrics in a verse… guess this is waiting for the DANCE remix to become a big choon… it has that potential…
- Russian Roulette… unno know this choon done big already… i kinda feeling the emotion lil bit… have to play this some more… it kinda reminds me of a choon Sting sang… watch it here…
- Fire Bomb… me likey this choon from its intro… it have things i look for… strings… piano strings… this should be a big choon… and it should also be a crossover hit… mening across genres… this _ish aint Hip-Pop… madly… so far my fav choon… “coz this thing is ready tuh BLOW“… real MTV/VH1 track…
- Rude Boy… was waiting for the track to bring RiRi back to the West Indian roots… Southern Style riddim with the Caribbean term… and lyric structure… nothing to hard to remember… kinda like Wave Wave Wave… hmmm… Beyonce Soldier choon just pop inna me head… seeing the dance steps everything… dang… you go RiRi… this will be playing in the Clubs in T&T…
- Photographs with Will.I.Am… did i mention that choons that start off with strings immediately grab my attention… album definitely getting better for me… “all i got is nothing without you“… one of my favourite lines ever… nice choon about memories… its a kinda tabanca choon but the beat has its pace to not be too sad.. another DANCE remix that i would wanna get…
- G4L… the strong ladies choon… here it is… lets roll ladies… we Gangsta 4 LIFE… the other song with an expletive… “Revenge is SWEET“…
- Te Amo… a kinda weak attempt at reggaeton or any other latin music… “somebody tell me what she say“… thats how i feel about this track… maybe my least fav on the album… yes i like the Mad House intro more… even if it have string…
- Cold Case Love… what TOFLO said… while i was listening to the album… the choon has proper structure… and _ish i like… piano, strings, beat drop… orchestra kinda thing…
- the Last Song… finally… was now starting to get bored… great title… its like the song that plays when the credits are rolling at the end of a really good movie… one of the better choonz on the album… me likey… me likey much… the lyrics are damn good… and it have a real nice guitar solo… kinda song i would LOVE to hear LIVE… with a FULL ORCHESTRA… not a five piece band…
album flows well tho… nice overall pace… tracks move into each other very well… kinda album that could get played whole day and you might not realise it… but it isnt Rated R… more like PG13… more info here if you want it…
13 track PROMO on Friday 13th…
T&T populace DUMB
I dont normally wade into ppl personal business buh this one struck a cord… is only cause scene point it out… i kinda was sleeping fuh d day… REAL MESS… i wonder how many ppl are afforded this opportunity or is it only reserved for Govt Ministers who own their own profitable businesses and could pay… cause i still waiting for a lil something… is more than a year now a note went tuh Cabinet with meh name pon it… like it get lost in all the paper work…
HUNT’S WIFE IS DEAF
By Andre Bagoo Thursday, November 12 2009HUNT'S WIFE IS DEAF
A SUDDEN and dramatic deterioration of her hearing has left Carolyn Hunt, the wife of Sports Minister Gary Hunt, deaf.
Yesterday, Hunt confirmed his wife’s diagnosis but would not comment on information reaching Newsday that the Government paid $324,069.13 in medical expenses to help Mrs Hunt get treatment related to her condition.
The Minister and Mrs Hunt’s medical and travelling expenses were taken-up by the Government to cover the period from when Mrs Hunt suddenly experienced hearing loss in December 2008 up to June of this year when a procedure for the insertion of a cochlear implant was scheduled.
The expenses broke down into: $53,160.85 for a trip to the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, United States, between December 8 to December 13, 2008; $42,758.28 for another trip to the same hospital between March 8 to March 15, 2009 and $228,150 for the cochlear implant procedure done at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex in June, 2009.
Cabinet gave approval for the costs of the two trips to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore which saw Hunt accompany his wife on one of them.
In February, Cabinet was informed that Mrs Hunt had suffered sudden hearing loss in late 2008. The Cabinet was also informed that Mrs Hunt had been advised by her doctors that the treatment required to deal with the problem was not available in Trinidad.
As a result, Cabinet agreed to pay for her expenses for a trip she made three months earlier in December to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. That trip, totalling $53,160.85, saw her incur $38,519.90 in medical expenses, $6,991 for airfare, $5,935.41 in accommodation for the five-day trip and $1,714.54 for medication.
In April, Cabinet approved funding for another trip for follow-up medical attention incurred in March when Hunt accompanied his wife to the hospital in Baltimore. That $42, 758.28 trip broke down into $15, 828 for airfare for the couple, $6, 667.47 for accommodation and $20, 262.81 for Mrs Hunt’s medical treatment.
Newsday understands that the procedure at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex was done by a team of doctors flown in from Johns Hopkins in June. The medical procedure in respect of the cochlear implant for Mrs Hunt cost US$36,000 (TT$228, 150). The procedure, done by the team from Johns Hopkins, also involved a local team of doctors.
A cochlear implant is an electronic device that provides a sense of sound to a person who is profoundly deaf or severely hard of hearing by directly stimulating any functioning auditory nerves inside the cochlear with an electric field. Mrs Hunt would not be able to hear without this implant.
According to the Eighty-Ninth Report of the Salaries Review Commission (SRC), a government minister is entitled to medical care once it occurs within Trinidad and Tobago. The SRC notes that ministers have an entitlement to medical attention or treatment and prescribed drugs for themselves, spouses and children at any health care facility under the Regional Health Authorities, including the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex.
“My wife is deaf,” Hunt said yesterday. “Please understand that. I am a political target, but I do not want my wife to be attacked.”
Mrs Hunt’s medical troubles will remind many of a line of successive government ministers and their spouses who have had to endure medical troubles while in high-pressure public office. Among them is Opposition Leader Basdeo Panday whose wife Oma Panday last year underwent treatment for heart problems in London. Panday himself has a history of medical and heart troubles. As does Prime Minister Patrick Manning who last year flew to Cuba for surgery to treat a cancerous kidney in Havana at the expense of the Cuban government.
Expressions of sympathy and compassion for Mrs Hunt were given yesterday, particularly as her husband is now the subject of public criticism for expenditure by his ministry of $2 million, the cost of a giant national flag at the Hasely Crawford Stadium.
i not attack the wife but the system that she has allowed to be abused… i wonder if she go hear bout this… SMH!
Destra Garcia – Fireworks
you guys/gals could say if you like it or not…
my comments…
typical hollow chorus… Hands Up, Jump Up, Wave Up…
intro reminiscent of Shurwayne Winchester…
and thanks for the photo credit…
Destra Garcia performing at TRIBE Ignite 2007
Konshens – Jamaica STAR Artist of the month
if u not familiar get familiar
NAPA… not just for Auto Parts
the National Academy for the Performing Arts… NAPA… was unveiled yesterday in a handing over Ceremony that was broadcast by GISL, Government Information Services Limited, on channel 4… the former AVM, then NCCtv now completely rid of anyone who stood in the way of Government’s version of events… it was simulcast on PNMG CNMG… i always make that mistake… up until news time… which coincidentally was right after PM PM finished his speech…
National Academy for the Performing Arts
i tuned in a little late and heard Calder Hart, Chairman of UDeCOTT and at least 3 other Govt Entities say he was proud to be handing over this Complex to the Govt… wait nuh is Taxpayers funds pay for it so wasnt it already ours… the place look nice… PM PM compared it to someplace he went in Hong Kong back in he first stint as PM… when yuh could get fired by fax… talk about pipe dreams… it come like holding a grudge… not that he holds any for anyone… it was also being touted as being as good as or even better than the Sydney Opera House… i dunno how he could make that statement… like he went and see a show there sometime… probably on one of his many Executive Jet trips… thats why he fixing up the Old Airport… sry the Southern Terminal at Piarco… which will be used for Executive Jets…
moving along… Gay Dick also came on and talked some mess… and the CEO of SunWay came to make a speech… he also walked with someone who could speak engrish… yes its not my usual typo… the fella was nearly as bad as who he was translating for… cause he had the paper right in front he face whole time… why didnt he just read it on behalf of the CEO boggles my mind… had more blabbing, presentations and unveiling of a plaque… insert Theme from “The Jeffersons” here…
entertainment sucked… well the National Steel Symphonic Orchestra didnt but they were the lanyap… if the ppl couldnt sing cause they were tone deaf ppl were playing wrong notes… them cheap microphones didnt help either…
thing is Parking isnt available on site… the Government used the Queen’s Park Savannah… amm i thought that was illegal but who is me… i aint any MP or member of Cabinet… or CoP even… Philbert wah yuh say… so when you going to the real opening… if you was one ah dem who fight up fuh FREEness… doh worry bout yuh car… being towed/stolen/broken into… it safe… it a lil walk away…
UDeCOTT has also gone into the fete promotion… they see how much money can be made after that Jah Cure incident last weekend… they say more FREEness to come… plenty more drapes and light in this NAPA… I for one glad that it have a building that will last over 100 years… even if we cyar cash in on he promise cause da man eh go live so long… but i wonder what they gonna have there that the majority of Trinidadians/Tobagonians could enjoy…
next on the cards for the Administration is one set ah Highway all over Trinidad… then when that finish… if the Oil & Gas doh finish before is the President’s House… sounds like it would be just in time for the next General Election… i feel PM PM promise Silver Fox at least that much…
oh yeah and PM PM only said “My Dear Friends” once… unless i missed others… it stood out so much… well i was actually waiting for it…
i apologize
coming on the heels of blame it on me… i have to apologise to a representative of T&T who some believe tainted T&T in some way… A Young Chee Woman… Person…
I am sorry because I clicked and downloaded files sent to me… and i gave them brief overview… my apologies… i shouldnt have… i invaded your privacy… im sure if you wanted me to see it you would have sent it to me directly or even asked me to participate myself… neither have ever happened and i have to say that at this point in my life if you offered participation i would have to decline…
for the person who actually sent out this initial file… i apologise on your behalf… whether it was a bitter photographer friend… thief… or Computer Repair person at the same place where I send my machine to fix and it was there just a couple of months ago… please accept our cumulative apologies…
thing is ive participated in similar acts myself… but thing is it wasnt for any and/or everyone else to see… since i was small i always believed that what consenting ppl do behind closed doors is their own business… when those actions relate to them and only them… we not talking about PM PM and Silver Fox here… those two should never meet behind any Speakers Chair or otherwise…
I would also like to apologise for the person who deemed it fit to upload the video to YouTube… it not there again… i reported it… yes i informed… chuh… its probably up on some seedier websites and well i apologise for those as well but i aint superman to track em all down…
what was portrayed in the files is nothing that hasnt been done and wouldnt ever be done again… it wasnt anything so special… i really dont understand what all the hullaballoo is about… its not as if the country’s treasury was being plundered and hundreds of millions of dollars were being blown all over the place… so please accept my apology for this invasion of your privacy… it wont happen again…
PS in future if you have anything you would like to share with me please feel free to send it to
bandwagonist /at/ bandwagonist /dot/ com
i wont share it unless duly authorised to
JMC 3Veni – Catch Meh Lovah
Bally – Maxi dub
i wont get into the whole DUB thing which this doesnt reference… but if allyuh want i would…
The VP Records Story
old thing but still informative…
read, white and blah
been tough during the last few months… have things to live for but when I see the nonsense that keeps going on on a daily in sweet T&T i get more and more despondent…
if i dont have to work i stay indoors… i dont even like to visit my family for fear of being targeted simply because I am out and about… making rent has become a serious challenge and i truly wonder how many other people survive… may be a life of crime really does pay… just long enough for the dependents to lose their dependance…
its not fear but the harsh reality that i see everytime i observe the current state of the nation… PM PM, Mr. Big Stuff, MOWT Man and Mr. Cunt doh care bout me… dem bizness fix…
i prayed in the same line on Eid-ul-Fitr with Abdul-Hamid and then the flicking man go talk some $hit n Parliarment bout doing thing fuh we… wah d arse u do fuh me… my mudda an fadda pay tax fuh dey whole life… fill up d treasury like everybody else fuh allyuh to go and plunder it on what…
Smelter that isnt viable cause we eh have gas fuh the 20 years needed for it to be viable… while ignoring the environmental concerns…
Stadium… that eh necessary again… already had wah 5 that are underutilized…
d man from Petrotrin… a company that losing billions… and investing billions at the same time… say that they have proven reserves only fuh d nex 15 years… dat go take we to bout 2025… five years afta 2020… so in the nex 10 years d Govament hoping that all ah de money go be well spent…
i does keep hearing them say that they teaching people to fish… you know na… it better to teach tuh fish than give the fish… buh my arguement to that is that there even if i learn tuh fish all ah we cyar fish in d same pond… and what they doing now tuh ensure that it have fish… or will continue to have fish… yuh know nah fuh d future genahrationz…
the work i do does come and go real easy… a client go call u in d morning to say ting cancelled… they eh get enuff money fuh all ah dat… mind you some ah dem wah go HYATT… d most xpensive place in T&T… so that alone shows the mentality…
last ting is dat i see plenty collective bargaining agreements settling… da just telling me dat an election may be close by…
Steups… mess… outta meh head… frustrated…
and then Bas and PM PM go shake hands like everything honky dory… i done dey…
no i not talking bout the flag and the bogus figure that the MYSA release…
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