Soca Chronicles
Monthly Soca Podcast - Hosts Arkayo and Sharnz explore the people, history, and unforgettable moments behind Soca music and the Carnival experience – from legendary artists and DJ's to personal stories from the road.
Soca Chronicles
Celebrating 3 Years of Soca Chronicles & Advocating for Women's Safety
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Join us as we celebrate three years of Soca Chronicles with Sharnz and Arkayo. This episode we relive the atmosphere of Notting Hill and look forward to Miami Carnival, share our Songs of the Year, and reminisce about unforgettable artist interviews with stars like Jus-D, Added Rankin, Christo, and Tevin Hartman.
We also tackle serious issues within the Soca community, focusing on the safety and treatment of women at events. Sharnz shares a distressing incident during a soca fete in New York, highlighting the urgent need for better behaviour, accountability and enhanced security measures. We discuss the importance of respecting boundaries while dancing and call on men to hold each other accountable.
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Soca Chronicles Three-Year Anniversary Celebration
Speaker 1Welcome to the Soca Chronicles. Soca Chronicles with.
Speaker 2Sharns and RKO. Welcome to the three-year anniversary of Soca Chronicles, the podcast that brings you everything Soca. I'm RKO and I'm digitally sitting next to the one and only Sharns.
Speaker 3Yo, yo Yo.
Speaker 2If that isn't a three year anniversary, yo I don't know. What is this episode? We'll be doing a lot of talking, we're going to look back at the previous year as Soca Chronicles. We're going to talk about our favorite songs, because Soca is life, so we need to have some Soca Chronicles. We're gonna Talk about our Favorite songs, because Soca is life, so we need to have Some Soca in this episode.
Speaker 1Uh huh.
Speaker 2We're gonna talk about Carnival, nothing Hill Carnival, and.
Speaker 1Miami Carnival, uh huh.
Speaker 2And after that we're gonna have some Some little discussion, you know, oh, yeah, a little Little discussion, yeah, wait, what accent was that?
Speaker 3Oh yeah, a little discussion. Yeah, wait, what accent was that I?
Speaker 2don't know, just allow me. Okay, I'm trying this new accent thing, but it's not working out for me, so I'll stop doing it. Right now. I thought new year, new try, you know. No, it's not happening.
Speaker 3Oh I'm dead, I am dead.
Speaker 2Wow, before you really die let's just get into the show, shall we?
Speaker 3Oh, please.
Speaker 2Yeah, we should.
Speaker 3Let's go.
Speaker 2This is year three finished for Soca Chronicles. We've had three years of episodes, three years of interviews, three years of Song of the Month. We have done a lot this year.
Speaker 3I've enjoyed this, to be honest. Yeah, boy crazy, three years already. It feels like just yesterday. We decided to pick up a microphone and laptop and ting and ting, and you know I mean even the first episode. I didn't even have a microphone, I was just talking into my iPad.
Speaker 2Imagine Into your iPad you say Into my iPad Crazy. For the child, and then we got banned From Spotify Because we played too much music. Yeah, oh, you know what the three anniversary Also means. I'm gonna send my third email, no, my second email, asking them to unban us At this point?
Speaker 3Yeah, it just. It's a myth.
Speaker 2There's always hope and trying right.
Speaker 3I guess so, but I wouldn't hold your breath because you would die yeah fair enough, fair enough, fair enough.
Speaker 2But this year was full of new interviews. We had artists, Yep, just D. Edit Ranking Christo Tevin, hartman, sinsway C, tara Dan and Robulus Damn All these very talented artists just joining our humble show and talking about how they started and you know the story behind their music. And, yeah, man, I really enjoyed these sessions, learned a lot Yep For sure.
Speaker 3That was really good, for sure.
Speaker 2Obviously if you haven't heard those episodes. You can go to our website, to our YouTube accounts, anywhere you want to listen to Apple Podcasts, or whatever it's called these days, and you can look back at all these episodes. We have named them, that there's an interview with someone, so if you want to look for, a specific episode.
Speaker 3They're easy to find exactly soundcloud as well, don't forget that's on my soundcloud. Yeah, exactly on dj charles.
Speaker 2Yeah, yep, if you are really enjoying an episode and you're listening back to it, don't be afraid to leave us a comment.
Speaker 3That's always nice makes us happy, exactly, and it's a nice way to celebrate a three-year anniversary right exactly exactly what did we do last year? We did the, the instagram live and the youtube live, didn't we?
Speaker 2no, that was the year before. That was the first anniversary no way yeah, time flies, man. Damn daniel, yep, yep yep that's what I mean.
Speaker 3Time flies, but yeah I'm telling you, I'm excited to see what artists we can uh interview this season. I mean all now. I'm hoping that we can get problem I'm waiting for it.
Speaker 2If we can, I am ready for it as well, yeah that would be A proper epic. Epic episode.
Speaker 3I'm working on it, though. I'm working on it.
Speaker 2I'm curious on how you're working on it, but I'm excited.
Speaker 3Yeah, boy.
Speaker 2So over the last years Year even sorry so the year of 2024, and if you look at that carnival season because luckily our anniversary somehow drops right between the 2024 and 2023 season, sort of in 2025, so you know we had most of the carnivals already. Um, there's now music coming out for training that 2025, so they label it already as 2025 so that's crazy. Yeah, I know right, but that's the industry, I guess yep, yep, yep when we're talking about 2024 Sharns. What is your favorite song of the entire season?
Speaker 3my favorite song. I'm gonna say so far, just because we've not reached the end of the, actually no, but it's 2025.
Speaker 1Now, exactly, it's 2025 now, yeah, sorry.
Speaker 3My favourite song. Apologies, guys. My favourite song, I'd say, is Mole Pete Back yeah.
Speaker 2And I believe you should have a listen for the people who you know haven't listened to it before, because then they know what kind of person you are and what kind of music you like.
Speaker 3Oh for goodness sake, but they already know if they've been listening to the podcast, they know what kind of music you like. Oh for goodness sake, but they already know if they've been listening to the podcast, they know what kind of music I like. This is true exactly right, let's get into it. Yeah, I don't want life. I don't want life. What to?
Speaker 1do? Reach back, reach back. Reach back. What to do? Reach back and grab my throat and let me jerk, jerk, jerk and stroke girl. Peep back and grab my throat and let me work up, work up, work up all in it. Go up there, Reach back and grab my throat and let me jerk, jerk, jerk and stroke girl. Beat back and grab my chota. Let me walk up. Walk up, walk up. Question what type of man you looking to let in? What type of boys you looking to get in? What type of cash you looking to bet in? Not, if I throw these balls, never hitting anything, you bubble, you catch your heart, you take, you talk, you drop, you wind up on this part and you now leave the parking lot. Reach back and grab my throat and let me jerk, jerk, jerk and struggle. Peek back and grab my throat and let me work up, work up, Work up all in it, go play. Reach back and grab my throat and let me jerk, jerk, jerk and struggle.
Speaker 3Peek back and grab my throat and let me work up, work up, work up. So yeah, that Was Peep Back by Mole. Now that is an Absolute big tune, and that song Destroyed Barbados during Cropwave Age.
Speaker 2It's still destroying.
Speaker 3Barbados. Now. It's now reached the UK Fets, and when that song comes on, you just see bare girls bending over, grabbing a guy's throat, a girl's throat, grabbing a wall like whatever they can grab.
Speaker 2Oh my lord, yikes, it's causing problems yikes problems, yeah, man problem is a problem, so yeah, problem is a problem.
Speaker 3So yeah, problem is a problem. So, rko, mr Nadelhans, what's your Favorite song Of this season?
Speaker 2I've had a standoff, I'm not gonna lie, so I have two favorites. I will pick one, but my two favorites Was A Little Jam From Problem. Child, because that's groovy and Even though the lyrics Are quite simple, I love that song. Yeah, yeah, yeah, man, but the winner, the winner for me is same artist as you, I'm afraid, but it's just. It's just. The vibe is just yuck and I like it. It's toxic, also from more.
Speaker 3Ay she holler out sir.
Speaker 2Should we have a listen?
Speaker 3I think we should RKO.
Speaker 2Let's go.
Speaker 1She tell me that I toxic, sir, the girls call me daddy, sir, but when she see me, sir, she call me Sir. She holler out Sir, you toxic. Sir, yeah, she call me daddy, but when she see me, she callin' me, sir, she on the road, you talk. Sad she on the road, you talk sad, you go fuck a wrong. I love it here. You go fuck a wrong. I love it here. She sit up on the key and she look me in my eye like she on the road, you talk, sad. She on the road, you talk, sad Me and my eyelash. She all her rope, you toxic. She all her rope, you toxic. She pull it like sir. Can she ball it, sir, I cry for it, I cry for it.
Speaker 1She coughed her jip man, she lost both she eyelashes. She toxic as fuck. She torn his pit white and they all panicked. Changed his back, shot man, she balled All do. We got that girl. She wanna bounce money dicky all the time. Yes, she left me in my oil. Sir, she on a rope. Sir, you toxic. Sir she on a rope, sir, you toxic.
Speaker 2Yes, fucking love that tune man.
Speaker 3Yeah, big tune, big tune.
Notting Hill Carnival Kid-Friendly Set
Speaker 2You know, you know what's funny, by the way, you know how he says I'm gonna be X-rated, by the way, guys. So just, if you're under 18, just turn off the episode right now, please. Thank you very much. But If you're under 18, just turn off the episode right now, please. Thank you very much. But I mean, you've heard the song already, but you know, now I'm going to say it. That's the thing. Now I'm going to say it. The line is at some point she sit up on the cookie and she look me in the eye like Sir.
Speaker 2Exactly, I thought he said she sit down on the cookie and she lick me in the eye Like, oh my lord, and I was Feeling that line. I was like, yeah, lick me in the eye, what?
Speaker 3She lick me in the eye. That doesn't even make sense, yo.
Speaker 2Oh, my goodness, singing it in my car, singing it in the fence, lick me in the eye Like Wild. I was feeling it.
Speaker 3That is hilarious. That's what I'm going to sing now. That's the lyric 100%. I'm still singing it now, even though I know better I'm campaigning to get Mo to change the lyric To that, because that's some freaky shit.
Speaker 2I'm going to ask him for, like a dub. He doesn't need to mention RKO, I don't care, just change that word from look to lick, please. Thank you very much if I get that if I get that dub. It will be played on this show oh 100, 100.
Speaker 3I say we play it at the end of every episode I hear that literally and just that sentence.
Speaker 2She sit up on the cookies oh my goodness, let's see what I can do oh my god, that's so funny.
Speaker 3That's so funny, I can't even lie. You can love again listen, I was convinced.
Speaker 2I was convinced you, yell, was convinced you gal over there. No, no, no, I thought it was. You can love again.
Speaker 3Yeah, time to make a movie. That's crazy. Make a movie.
Speaker 2I can love again, yeah, but make a movie About what that's crazy, but you know what?
Speaker 3I'll let you off because English isn't your first language.
Speaker 2Yeah, but no, s is still not great Fired on. Monday Fired on Monday yeah, whoa, this is the year of love.
Speaker 3Fired on Monday oh, you need to stop. You need to stop.
Speaker 2Yeah, let's actually, because I feel like I'm not doing the social community In any honour at this moment.
Speaker 3You're just You're doing An absolute mad thing.
Speaker 2Let's talk about Carnival, then Shall we.
Speaker 3We should, shouldn't we, arkeo? We definitely should, yeah, man. So what month Are we in now? We're in September now. Last month was Notting hill carnival yes, how was that it? For me it was epic because, as I explained in the last episode, this is my first time playing on a truck at notting hill, which is nuts. So I did barbados twice but had never done notting hill. Make it make sense.
Speaker 2Wild Wild.
Speaker 3I went international.
Speaker 2You are international DJ Sharns.
Speaker 3But it's crazy Because I went international Before I played at home. That's mad.
Speaker 2No, you're just International, international DJ Sharns.
Speaker 3Oh for goodness sake. Okay, don't do that, you're not.
Speaker 2Domestic DJ Sharns International. Here we go.
Speaker 3Put some respect. You're not domestic DJ Sharns International. Here we go Put some respect on my damn name.
Speaker 2I've just called you international DJ Sharns.
Speaker 3I got you. Thanks, appreciate that.
Speaker 1Anyway.
Speaker 3Moving on. So, yeah, there we go. So I played on the truck for the first time. It was absolutely epic Sunday as we. Yeah, there we go. So I played on the truck for the first time. It was absolutely epic. Nice Sunday, as we know, is kids' day. At Notting Hill, nobody actually said to me Shans, you need to play clean music. However, my common sense kicked in, because you know I'm not stripping all the time, just sometimes.
Speaker 2I am. But I'd say most of the time I have sense yeah, yeah, or I'd like to believe I have sense so yeah.
Speaker 3So I was like all right, there's kids here, I'm not really going to be playing. What she wants, she won't get, she won't get she, you know, because I can't swear. So, yeah, I'm not gonna be playing with them. Do you know what I mean? I can't be doing that in front of like four or five year olds and all of that yeah plus, I'm a teacher and I know better, yeah, anyway.
Speaker 3So I was like yeah, cool, you know, I'm playing my clean music, you know. But then I let slip one song what she wants.
Speaker 2She won't get fucked, no I played that.
Speaker 3I played the clean version of that, so that was fine everything was clean. The instrumental, you mean like literally everything was a clean version and I let slip um black boy china no let that slip, because I completely forgot. He says China Vagina.
Speaker 2Oh my god.
Speaker 3As soon as China Vagina dropped, I was like Damn, I just let it play. I was like I hope nobody noticed Ten minutes later, yo, one of the people from the team, because I played on the Mangrove Chuck. One of the people from the team was like the parents are mangrove chuck. One of the people from the team was like, oh, you know, the parents are complaining. They're saying you're not playing child friendly music. I'm like, damn so then they're like you know, can you just play old school soca? So I'm like, oh, my god, this is just completely derailed the trajectory or the journey that I was on exactly so I was like, alright, no problem.
Speaker 3But I cannot lie to you, I was bare annoyed. Just that one song, one song and they're bare complaining. So anyway, I just started playing old school. So I started playing like Jump Togetherness, palance. I know Palance is like frowned upon Within the circle community, but I don't care, I will play it. Until the day I die.
Speaker 2No, that's. That's like saying I'm going to play Famolay Until the day I die. That's not 100%.
Speaker 3I'm going to do that as well, and I play Famolay.
Speaker 2Oh my god, we're not friends anymore. I play Famolay. I'm sorry.
Speaker 3I'm so over that song. Well, good now this is true.
Speaker 2This is true. Can I, can I come back, please, as your friend?
Speaker 1it's too late yo it's too late.
Speaker 3I replaced you already, oh wow I tried, I guess.
Speaker 2Well, we reached the three years. You know, there's something there. We go exactly different host next year, next month can you imagine it wouldn't be the same without you, bro.
Speaker 3It wouldn't be the same. So I'll let you come back, but don't make that mistake again, you know, because this is your second chance I'm not giving you another one, I'll take it, give me anyway, back to it. So, anyway, I started playing all that old school stuff and what I realized is that, playing music for kids, you can literally get them to jump around and do whatever you want.
Speaker 2Like it's so easy yeah, because they don't have egos it's not even about egos.
Speaker 3It's just like anything that a kid considers fun or whatever they're're going to do it.
Speaker 3So, kids love to jump around, they love to run around, they love to do like foolishness, they absolutely love it. But an adult audience, it's harder to get them to move, way harder. So I had the kids. Yeah, I had the kids jumping, I had them waving, I had them doing all sorts and I have footage on my instagrams. If you want to check that out, go to at dj shans. That's dj s-h-a-r-n-z. You probably already know by now if you've been listening, but if you've not been listening, it will be linked in the description as well. So, yeah, had them jumping and waving. And then at one point we decided to do tornado. So super night, yeah, so super nitro took over from me and I went down into the crowd of kids, got them into a circle and then started the tornado. So it was like, all right, we're just gonna walk in a circle first, yeah, and then we're going To start getting Quicker and quicker and quicker.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 3So we're doing it now, and then all of a sudden, bear kids just start Tumbling onto the floor. I was like oh, I was like Yo you. So I stood there With my hands on my head Like, oh gosh, what have I done? What have I done? What have I done? And then Nacho goes Again, again, oh shit.
Speaker 2And the parents are like no, no, yo, I'm not bringing my daughter To fucking Nothing Hill. Call it home, you're playing.
Speaker 3She's gonna get home, bro. What did I tell you?
Speaker 1Running in a circle Singing vagina songs Damn, she's got to get home, bro, when I tell you Running in a circle Singing vagina songs Damn Yo.
Speaker 3That's crazy, the way how I just stood there Hands on my head and then I slowly Walked away and went back on the truck Just left. Left all the kids there on the floor Probably scraped up Knees and stuff. I was like I can't be dealing with this.
Speaker 2I'm out, bye, not my problem Bye probably scraped up knees and stuff. I was like I can't be dealing with this. I'm out.
Speaker 3That was me, that little girl, when she's stepping out the car going to school oh, see it happening, jesus christ yeah, so that was mad, but yeah, that was an experience. But obviously now that I've finally played music To children like that, next time I'll be much more prepared. Yeah.
Speaker 2No vagina songs, no tornadoes, there we go yeah, no tornado, no vagina songs. I got it covered? Yeah, I got it covered.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 3So it was a massive Learning curve for me and initially I left there Feeling really disappointed.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 3Because I felt like I flopped my set because the parents were complaining. But then looking back at the footage that people caught of it and seeing the kids jumping, waving, getting on crazy, it made me think like yo, the majority of the set was great. It was just that one little part that I kept focusing on, and I need to stop doing that.
Speaker 1I need to stop focusing on the negatives facts and focus.
Speaker 3Yeah focus on the positives, a lot of things. Yeah, man, but Monday that was, there were no children. I was like, yeah, lego, bare dirty songs, push your hand in your and push it in my mouth All of them songs and it was like. It was like Dutty song after Dutty song after Dutty song, and I was saying on the mic I told you I slackness today on the road, bare slackness.
Speaker 3If you want to listen to the audio From that that world best likeness. If you want to listen to the audio from that, that is on my soundcloud so just go to my soundcloud, soundcloudcom. Forward slash dj chance notting hill carnival live audio. It is there, you can listen to it I had fun on monday. I I loved that I could just play what I wanted yeah, I hear that there we go and I played a lot of beijing music as well, because, you know me, I love to rep for the 246. What is?
Speaker 2246? I'm kidding. I am kidding.
Speaker 3Wow, you're supposed to be an honorary Bajan. Imagine that.
Speaker 2I am Sometimes when I'm actually going. You're a arsehole, are you? Yeah, I know, I'm not even going to try this.
Speaker 3Please, please, please Please.
Speaker 2Please, not. You mean right. No, please, not. You mean right. No, no, no, please do it. No, oh man, you rascal, I'm finished. I'm not allowed in Barbados anymore. My visa has just expired.
Speaker 3I love it. I absolutely love it. But yeah, notting Hill Carnival for me was really good. I ended up going to a few FETs as well.
Speaker 2I mean the.
Speaker 3Rebidi boat ride was really good.
Speaker 2Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3Always. Yeah, I think I went on like three boat rides, Like literally. It was like the Thursday I went on a boat ride, Friday I went on a boat ride and Saturday I went on a boat ride Friday I went on a boat ride, and Saturday I went on a boat ride.
Speaker 2I don't think I've ever been to so many boat rides in the space of a week in my life nice but yeah, yeah, I didn't end up going to Dreamland because it was pissing down with rain. That day so I opted to stay home yeah, and the venue was really far as well, so I was like I remember, I remember there nah, it's too much, yeah, especially when the rain no but the one that we went to together.
Speaker 3It's not that same venue and that was. That's not even that far, because, remember, we went from my dad's house, so it was pretty close to my dad's.
Speaker 1Yeah, it didn't take that long.
Speaker 3It would have taken me, I think, two hours to get to where dreamland was. Yeah, I said, nah, not doing that, not doing that, not in that weather. But from the videos that I saw, it actually looked pretty good, to be honest, like the vibe looked really good. But, yeah, stayed in my house yeah, yeah, I hear it.
Speaker 2So sorry, you don't have to apologize to me, sis I also stayed home but yeah, I enjoyed notting hill this year, definitely enjoyed it.
Speaker 3So looking forward to next year and also remember this year Was the year where they were strict On the music policy.
Speaker 2Yeah, because we had a big discussion About that last year.
Speaker 3There we go, there we go. So it was supposed to be 100% carnival music, so that could have included Soca, bouillon, zouk, samba, anything like that.
Speaker 2How did it go I?
Speaker 3am not going to lie to you. I heard Dancehall play. But, it was one truck, though I can't remember what song it was, but I heard a Dancehall song Playing Other trucks. They were playing Remixes, so they'd play a Soca Beat and put the Dancehall lyrics over it Because that's a loophole. So there were a lot of people doing that.
Speaker 2Yeah, makes sense.
Speaker 3Yeah, but mostly I think that was the only instance that I heard the dancehall. Was that one truck? And it was this one song I heard, but I think I was on my way past the truck or whatever. But yeah, other than that, it was Soca, soca. Beyond All of that that I heard, which was fantastic. But there were complaints on Twitter, where people yeah, people were complaining on Twitter, saying that the music For Notting Hill this year Wasn't as good as last year. But these aren't Soca fans that were complaining, those are the people that want to hear dancehall.
Speaker 2They want to come.
Speaker 3Yeah, all of that. It's them people, but they can. They've got sound systems that are playing dancehall, sound systems that are playing afrobeat, sound systems that are playing house, so you don't need to be hearing that sort of music on the road like on the trucks. You can go to your sound systems and hear it so you're not missing out yeah, but you know people just love to complain anyway, that's it, yep. Love to complain.
Speaker 2I haven't complained.
Speaker 3You haven't complained.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 3What's your complaint?
Speaker 2I wasn't there.
Speaker 3Next year though. Yeah, yeah, definitely we're going to make it happen and obviously, if I'm playing on a truck, you're going to be there right next to me.
Speaker 2As your MC? Definitely not there, right next to me as your mc?
Speaker 1definitely not.
Speaker 3You're going to be my videographer because you're actually you're very good at that, not so good at mcing, but I mean, I mean as a friend, if I'm a good friend, I gotta be honest. I can't this is true lie to you, make you think you're a great mc, and then you go up and embarrass yourself.
Speaker 2This is true. It happened before already, so I understand.
Speaker 3I'm not going to allow that to happen.
Speaker 2Come on, fair enough, fair enough, fair enough, there we go.
Speaker 3So yeah, next year for sure we outside, we outside. There we go. But then there's also another carnival coming up. What carnival is that? Rko.
Speaker 2Guyana Carnival.
Speaker 3Ay a lie. I do you tell a lie.
Speaker 2I do, it's Florida Carnival.
Speaker 3Miami Carnival there we go, there we go. Yeah, buddy. So I was not supposed to be going to Miami Carnival this year. However, after not in Hill Carnival and after speaking to Freeze Internacional, One of my favorite DJs.
Speaker 2Go on. Yeah, I'm not jealous, just go on.
Speaker 3There we go. I am now going to Miami Carnival Fair play, fair play, fair play. Yep, yep, so flights booked, airbnb is booked.
Speaker 2Nails done, hair done.
Speaker 3Fits, the nails aren't done, the hair's not done yet.
Speaker 2But it will be done it will be, done.
Speaker 3Yeah, buddy, but yeah, so so far I'm looking to go to SSS. Yeah, always Already got the ticket for that.
Speaker 2Nice.
Speaker 3Soca Brainwash. I've already got the ticket for that, yeah, that works Booze and Bacchanal oh yeah, I've already got my ticket for that. I don't know what else I'm doing. I've not sorted out a package for Juve. I've not sorted out anything for Carnival Sunday. Yeah, at this point I don't know, but we'll see what happens.
Speaker 2Sounds like a plan, but I'm excited.
Speaker 3I'm definitely excited. I'm not jealous.
Speaker 2But I'm envious.
Speaker 3You don't need to be jealous.
Speaker 2You're going to be in Aruba, I'll be lying on the beach for three in Aruba. This is true, so you're going to be in the Caribbean.
Speaker 3There we go. So why are you jealous? Why are you jealous?
Speaker 1You're not making sense.
Speaker 3You're not making sense.
Speaker 2No, this is true, but you know there's less soca on Aruba Than there is in Miami. I hear it, I am an official addict. This is true, but you know there's less Soca on Aruba than there is in Miami.
Speaker 3I hear it.
Speaker 2I am an official addict Like I have checked into a detox place and they said they couldn't help me.
Speaker 3Oh damn, you know, is that bad.
Speaker 2It is pretty bad.
Speaker 3Damn Daniel. Well, I have a remedy for that. Just listen to Gels mixes on SoundCloud, or listen to Soca mixes On Soundcloud.
Speaker 2They've got Miami. When you said remedy, I thought about the Marsha Montano song.
Speaker 3Oh Remedy yeah.
Speaker 2Exactly, that's what I mean.
Speaker 3You can listen to that song If you want.
Speaker 2Thank you, I appreciate you.
Speaker 3Yeah, people are putting out their Miami Carnival mixes now.
Speaker 2So you can listen to those You'll be on a beach.
Speaker 3You can have a rum punch in your hand.
Speaker 2And I'll be singing Bitch. Do you miss me? I'm sitting on the beach drinking whiskey.
Speaker 3Love it. Love it so yeah, you'll be cool, man, you'll be cool. And then I'm going to be like bare, tired and worn out from going to all these fets. And you, I'm gonna be like Bare tired and and worn out From going to all these fets and you're gonna be nice and relaxed and Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 2Come on. Well, you know that's a joke, but yeah, thank you.
Speaker 3Let us focus On the positives.
Speaker 2This is true. The positives this is true.
Speaker 3Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2If you are going to miami, carnival, let us know maybe you can meet up with sharns see how she is actually if she's actually a good dj or if she's just, you know, using spotcast to promote herself and she's actually shit. So if you want to judge for yourself, just uh, you're obviously playing there, right, wow?
Speaker 3um, I have no plans to play in miami yet but who? Knows something, something might come up exactly I don't know, but you guys will find out on the next episode because I'm gonna do my make my Miami carnival review there, we go there we go. So yeah, let me know. Guys, you feel free to inbox us a chronicles page, inbox me whatever you want to do. Let's link, let's party, let's have a good time.
Speaker 2Let's do it. I hear it, I hear it. All right, it's time to start the topic of the month. Um, but before we do because it's gonna get serious I think it's time for some music I think so too the song of the month. This is the song of the month. Song of the month. This month is the song of the month. Song of the month. This month is brand new. At the moment of recording the new Farmer Nappy with Wooju.
Speaker 1What you want me to do. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's into the soul. You keep pushing back. I come into you. Plus, I'm watching your bumper rolling back. It's thicker than a milkshake. Not one mistake. You have everything I want. That's a fact. Only so much I could take. So could be said I could be your nice vice girl. Would you go home with me? Would you go home with me? I giving you life spice all night. Would you go home with me? Would you go home with me? Would you go home with me? Say, girl, you have everything I want, every single thing I want. It's wrapped up in you, wrapped up in you. Pressure when you hold me from the front. If I only tell you what I going through, I going through.
Speaker 2That was Farber Nappy with, would you? I like that song. It's nice, groovy, beautiful, a real song of the month.
Speaker 1Yeah, buddy.
Speaker 2But it is now time to talk about some serious business in Soka.
Speaker 3Soka.
Speaker 2Oh wow, that's actual ad-libs to my speech. I like it. No, all seriousness aside, no, hold on.
Speaker 3All jokes aside, that's it All. Seriousness aside, yo.
Speaker 2It's a new thing. It's a new thing. It's before I go into the vet. Anyway, topic of this month is a serious topic. We have seen a lot of posts recently on Instagram about venues talking about women feeling unsafe or being treated not as one should treat a woman. So today we're going to talk about, yeah, women in a soca fete and not so much. You know, we're not going to talk about how you should dance or how you shouldn't dance.
Speaker 2We're going to talk about male behavior yeah acceptable behavior, unacceptable behavior, what we can do, what measures are being taken, that sort of stuff yeah charles, do you have like experiences on this topic?
Speaker 3oh, for sure, for sure. So the whole topic about women feeling unsafe in fetts. But the thing is, it's not the majority of men, it's a minority.
Ensuring Safety at Soca Events
Speaker 3You see what I'm saying, but very good to mention that, yep there we go, but it's still a very serious problem because it happens to a lot of women. So a woman will be whining in a fit and a man will come behind her. He'll start whining on her or whatever, and it may start off Innocent, whatever. But then he starts getting really touchy Feely maybe, starts Feeling her up in ways she doesn't want To be felt up and it's just like, yeah, allow it, please.
Speaker 3Like, don't do that, like it's happened to me before. And I See me. I don't like To, I don't like confrontation. I don't like to put myself in problems. So yeah I'll just like walk away. Just walk away from the guy yeah, I'm not gonna cuss him or hit him or whatever. Do you know? I mean I'm not gonna do that because I don't want to potentially put myself in a worse situation where the guy might turn around and punch me in my face or whatever, um, but obviously there are other women who've experienced worse.
Speaker 3I mean, there was a fet. I read about this on on instagram. There was a fet in new york, I think it was I'm not gonna name the fet or whatever, but a lady was there and she was whining with a guy and he actually put his fingers inside her underwear and he touched her underneath.
Speaker 2Wild and tried to push his fingers inside.
Speaker 3No, I didn't know it was that bad, Jesus Christ yeah like it's actually nuts and apparently the woman said that she went and she complained to security, but security did nothing about it which I think is absolutely wild yep so. So after that this woman's in a party a guy has basically just sexually assaulted her she's tried to report it and nothing's happened that's why so it's just like that's a mad feeling. She must have been feeling so upset like wow, I've got nobody to defend me exactly tries it again, or he follows me home after the fit or something like that.
Speaker 3That's actually wild. So that experience I saw on instagram. Then I started seeing other women commenting saying, yeah, I experienced that in this fit, no, or this fit, etc. Etc. Like a lot of women started to come forward.
Speaker 3That's insane and it is very insane, and even in the uk, like in london, there was a guy who was filming women dancing in parties so he might be filming them in juvies or whatever, where obviously they're not wearing as much clothes and he was uploading it onto oh my god, there's that not OnlyFans, but it's a site a bit like OnlyFans. No, he's uploading it to Patreon, sorry, oh, wow.
Speaker 3Patreon, yeah, and then he would have like wild titles like half naked white woman whining seductively on a black male, or something like that. Like he'd have, like really like sexual titles yeah so it'd be like a clickbait. So he actually had I think it was maybe like eight people or something subscribed to his patreon and he just kept going to to bear different fets in london, filming these women and just uploading their videos without permission that's wild.
Speaker 3So that is crazy. So then I can't. I don't know who it was, but somebody outed him yeah and it was all over twitter like people were like ripping him to shreds and he's now been banned from almost every soca fete in in london. Yeah good and um, yeah, I used to see him at every single socafet that I went to. He's actually been to, uh, most of our fets that we used to do the soca parties. Yeah, he actually used to come to our parties, so he goes to every soca party yeah I've not seen his face since yeah, yeah, yeah, well, and it's crazy yeah and his.
Speaker 3His reasoning behind it is that pages like obviously the Back In Our Boys page, We've got Dem Boys, which is a UK page. We've got Beige Tube. He's like they're uploading videos of women dancing, so why can't I do it? But the difference is Beige Tube, they're posting it on their page. They're not doing it in like a sneaky way, they're not making people subscribe to it and pay for these videos. You know what?
Speaker 1I mean, yeah, exactly, they're not doing any of that.
Speaker 3And if a woman comments or says, oh, do you know what? Can you take this video down? They're gonna take it down. Yep, exactly, you've this guy's uploaded the videos onto patreon. A woman can't now be like, oh, take that video down, he's not going to take it down, you're making money off these women exactly without their permission that's a lot, and it's like how did he not see that?
Speaker 3yeah, no, but obviously he saw it, but he's trying to get away with it yeah, so then I think, he ended up posting some stuff on his instagram stories like oh, um, like, um, I don't know, like posting these cryptic messages about people hating him, and blah, blah, blah. I was just like this guy, bro, this guy like it's actually crazy. And then, obviously, there's another argument. I don't agree with this argument, though, but there's people arguing saying well, the women shouldn't be dressed like that or they shouldn't be, whining like that
Speaker 3or whatever, whatever it's like they're inviting the attention, that's the old rape fucking issues, right. That's what I'm saying, that's wild.
Speaker 2That's nonsense, it's crazy Think better than that man, Jesus Christ.
Speaker 3That's what I'm saying. It's like just because a woman is dressed in a certain way doesn't mean that she's inviting you to do whatever you want with her, exactly do you see what I'm saying control yourself exactly so. Um, obviously a lot of um.
Speaker 3I started seeing like a lot of promoters post stuff saying um, we don't tolerate anybody uh recording against people's wishes and if we see it happen you'll be barred from all our fetts etc, etc. And then to do with um women being sexually assaulted in these fetts I saw some promoters say that you know we don't condone it and if it does happen, report it straight away and anyone that um, any perpetrators, will be banned from our fetts, etc. Etc yeah, exactly um, I even saw like one promoter for their party.
Speaker 3They've introduced women only zones all right, that's a measure yeah, so, um, obviously, if a woman decides, you know what, I don't even want to potentially put myself in a position where a guy could potentially do what he's doing. They could just go into this zone. Obviously, no women are I mean. Only women are allowed in there, do you know? I mean, and they can dance with other women if they want to they can dance by themselves blah, blah, blah. But in my head obviously that could work very well for an outdoor event yeah but if it's a club situation?
Speaker 2no, well, you have a different room, then whole different like area yeah, but if there isn't a designated area when that could happen.
Speaker 3Let's just say I don't know, the event sold out and there's not enough room. Or the way the club set up doesn't allow To have that particular zone, I don't know. But then again they could maybe Cordon off a part of the party, like put railings or something there. Yeah it's possible, potentially yeah, they'd have to have that manned by security yeah, to make sure there aren't extra investments that a club needs to make outdoor that makes sense yeah, definitely, but even if it's outdoors there, you would still need security to man it, because I guarantee you there's going to be men that will try and sneak in there or whatever.
Speaker 3Um, the same same way VIP areas are manned by security. They would need to do the same for these areas. So what it means for a promoter is that they need to spend more money on security yeah, yeah, yeah and the thing for me is I'm not a woman first of all, so my opinion is of a male.
Speaker 2So you know, take it with a bit of salt please. But my struggle would be I would like to dance. I'm enjoying dancing with women in a sense, but if potentially any male you know as a woman you dance with is going to do this fuckery. You're. Even though you want to enjoy it, You're might like hesitant.
Speaker 3To allow it.
Speaker 2Yeah With fair fucking reason Hearing these stories. But yeah, I mean. So the woman only zone, that's a good step. I would say, yeah, but then I know I'm not going to dance With anybody Besides women.
Speaker 1Yeah, that's okay, it's safe, but again.
Speaker 2Like, sometimes you want to dance with a man, but then you're taking a chance. Basically, and luckily, as you said, it's the minority.
Speaker 3Exactly.
Speaker 2But it fucks with your head.
Speaker 3No, definitely, I definitely agree with you. But as a man I would say If you're going to whine on a woman, obviously don't be doing the whole touchy-feely thing. No, you'll go behind her. You'll start to whine If she turns around and she's thinking, yeah, I don't want it, she's just going to move away from you. Don't pursue it, just walk off.
Speaker 2Find someone else to dance with, because there's going to be somebody in that party that is going to dance with you. Yeah, 100 I'll tell you what my favorite whining move is uh, shines what it is both my hands on my head, whining like I'm going insane because I know my hands are not touching anything else.
Speaker 3Yeah, I have no issues still move my hips and I'm good yeah, there's a picture of you doing that actually On the road of colours.
Speaker 2I think it was like two years ago. Yeah, plenty of those pictures probably.
Speaker 3And another one of your moves Is you put your hands behind your back and whine. I've seen you do that.
Speaker 2I'm going to be honest Because not to Not shine light on this topic we're discussing, but there's also by accident. I don't want to have any situation when you know my hands are on're discussing, but there's also, I like, by accident. I don't want to have any situation where you know my hands are on the back, but there's a movement and something changes.
Speaker 1Listen, I'm not shaking as a man I'm not taking chances either, so that's why you see my hands on my back, my hands on my head or up in the air, I don't know um yeah I'm just careful like that.
Speaker 2I don't want to end up in a situation that might change from a nice dance into some weird, complicated, non-intended situation. There we go, there we go, and obviously the majority of men in these parties will behave accordingly and respect women as they should Exactly, and respect women as they should Exactly.
Speaker 3But, as we said, there's the minority that carry on with their efferies. And that needs to stop.
Speaker 2Yep.
Speaker 3It needs to stop, because they need to be outed, removed from vets Banned from vets 100% 100% because, as a woman, I shouldn't be Going into a fit and feeling unsafe and I'm feeling on edge and like constantly, like looking around oh my god, is somebody gonna sexually assault me today?
Speaker 2exactly, it's wild, it's long it's exactly, it is very wild.
Speaker 3So, yeah, I think this is this is a very, very important topic, 100 very important topic, but I'm curious to see what measures other promoters are going to put in place yep to help women, because I know I'm not, we're not going to name any promoters or name any fetts, but there's one super big fet where the promoter said that they're gonna uh, they've paid for extra security, they, they fired their old security team and they brought in?
Speaker 3yeah, because the old security team were just letting people in. They weren't searching people properly so people could get in with knives, guns all of that stuff yeah, they weren't searching them properly, so they fired that security team. They've um hired a new one and they've hired extra security as well. Just to make sure that people feel safe, and I respect that highly, so I really do hope that other promoters are going to follow that trend because, yeah, we need to sort this 100.
Speaker 2But there is one thing that we haven't mentioned yet that I do want to mention uh yes, security is important. Uh, fats have responsibility, but male between each other have uh responsibilities as well. So if you see your friends doing this or if you see people you don't know that do this, at the very least, report them to security and best remove them from, from whatever situation they're you know in. Yeah tell, talk to them like what the fuck are you doing, bro?
Speaker 2that sort of stuff like I'm not saying start a fight because that's not what we want, but you know we should not tolerate this in our well, in the soca community in general yeah, definitely, not, definitely not.
Speaker 3I agree with that man yeah, man that's crazy, absolutely crazy. But yeah, I will let you know because obviously when I go to miami carnival I'll let you know if I see anything like this or if I experience it, or if I notice that promoters have put things in place to make people feel safer. That will be discussed in the next episode I cannot wait yeah, man, because I think I've been doing a lot of chatting this episode, so I feel like we should wrap this up.
Speaker 2We should, yes, we should. It's time for us to go. Well, for you to go to Miami, for me to go to Aruba. Enjoy some late year sunshine.
Speaker 3There we go, there we go. So be excited for us people.
Speaker 2Please, because we are there, we go, there we go. So be excited for us people, please, there we go there we go.
Speaker 3So yeah, man, thank you very much for tuning in this episode. This is our three-year anniversary episode. We do apologize that we didn't have anything special, or do you know what? I mean? We had things planned, but life gets in the way. And we just ran out of time. So, we do sincerely apologize for that, but we really do hope that you've enjoyed listening to this episode regardless.
Speaker 2Exactly exactly. We shall make it up to you another time.
Speaker 3Definitely for sure.
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