Kurt Riley Goes PrimeTime

Kingston, Jamaica – If you thought you could escape the musical enchantment Kurt Riley casts every time he goes around a turntable, you’re wrong. The acclaimed ‘party animal’ has hit prime time, with his 1:00pm – 5:00pm slot on hottest radio station, FAME 95fm.

Easily, the most sought after disc jocks in the island, Riley has been locking down the lucrative and busy afternoon slot on his station since April 2011 this year. “I’ve been in this time slot since April, and for the four hours i’m on air so listeners get a daily dose of musical medicine.

Trust me, it's combination of radio meets uptown mixed with the energy of the streets,”. "It just maaaaad!!!!!!!!"Riley says with a big grin on his face. If there was ever any doubt that Riley could handle the expectations of afternoon listeners, his standing as a dynamic and capable disc jock would only add to his unblemished record as a DJ on radio. Riley has been a DJ at FAME FM since 1999.

Also known as the ‘soca king’ of the turntables, Riley has slowly been increasing his catalogue of work as a producer, and needless to say artistes are not shy about recording for him.

So far, he’s scored vocals from Beenie Man, Beres Hammond, Morgan Heritage, Buju Banton,Shaggy and several other big names that have come to respect the brilliant DJ over his 12 year career. If you’re wondering where Riley developed his potent love for music, you would have to look to his father and mentor, Winston Riley – who himself was a pioneer in Jamaica’s music industry, serving as a song writer, producer and founder of Techniques Records.

For now, the ‘party animal’ is focusing on thrilling his listeners and planning his annual birthday events, which will be held in St Elizabeth and Kingston respectively, plans for which are well advanced. So 1-5pm, monday to friday, Jamaica, the caribbean and the world now listens to dj Kurt Riley "the party animal" on the eva blazing Fame95 fm. By the way everyone, listen up today at 3pm when he will announce his blackberry pin number live on air for all the party animals of the world to stay connected to him.

Chapter 2: Dollar Sign

I start the song, by repeating “hustle the money” “me a hustle the money” almost to make the message subliminal. Careful. Read again. Haters, critics, read again and listen carefully - its hustle the money not steal the money, not take a gun and rob the money, not start a ponzi and con the money- just hustle the money.

I stress the point repeatedly because there is a sector of society that believes when ghetto youths acquire ambition for financial success it means that we are going to begin to embark on some unscrupulous or illegal behaviour to rob people money.

I often wonder why the elite of society don’t think us ghetto youths don’t want the same for our family as they do. NEWSFLASH, we waan go big school, drive nice car too, we would like ac in our house, we want our mother retire young and yes we want to be rich, there, I said it, Vybz Kartel want Ghetto people to be rich. Babylon, deal with it.

Society, likes to blame us poor people for Jamaica’s weak economy. Not true, not fair. The only thing I have heard creative where government is concerned is how to increase and make new taxes. That does not make sense, in fact, there is a term for it – we have a regressive tax system where the poor is forced to bear the biggest burden and the rich keep getting away.

They recently tried to tax patty and pad hard. Rich man don’t eat patty for lunch and rich ladies shop in foreign. Our government so good at taxing, they found a way to tax Jamaicans overseas by putting over a 100% levy on calls coming in on a landline, even the US companies begged for us but our government said no, tax them. The Custom’s Department just celebrated 7.7 billion dollars in collections above the 98 billion they projected for 2010.

Now, say what they want, we know most of that money come from people who work overseas and struggle to send little things for their families or our Informal Commercial Importers or “higglers’ who hustle little buying and selling.

The tax man now open an informer line and stop people from travelling over taxes which is confusing because if you want a deejay to pay his tax bill, why prevent him from earning money to pay you Mr. Taxman? How does that make sense? How you punish a man for not paying his bills and then kill his livelihood at the same time? You sure you not trying to kill his livelihood and using the tax issue as a cover? Pon the Gaza, we don’t take anything Babylon do simple, them always preeing the Dollar Sign, so we say Ghetto people must pree it to.

I am not naïve, I know a country needs taxes to run but have we not gone too far when we want to tax patty and women “necessaries?” We know that without vision the people perish and trust me, poor people perishing really bad every day. We pree the real numbers pon the Gaza, our debt (poor people never borrow any of it) is over 125% of our GDP, put it another way, we owe at least a 1/4 more than what our economy produces. Congratulations Jamaicans, even though the bank never lend you any money, you owe more than $500,000 per person when you divide the total debt of Jamaica by its population.

Hence, every man, woman and child even the baby on his mother’s breast, born half of a million dollar in the hole. By the way, in case you never know majority of that debt is what Society used to bail out their rich friends when their businesses failed and could not pay back the bank. When poor people can’t pay back the bank, bailiff come to take your things – so the thing set Jamaica.
(N,B. PATOIS INTENTIONAL)