Soca Chronicles
Soca Chronicles
Celebrating 3 Years of Soca Chronicles & Advocating for Women's Safety
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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Welcome to the Soca Chronicles. Soca Chronicles with.
Speaker 2:Sharns 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 3:Yo, yo Yo.
Speaker 2:If 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 1:Uh huh.
Speaker 2:We're gonna talk about Carnival, nothing Hill Carnival, and.
Speaker 1:Miami Carnival, uh huh.
Speaker 2:And 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 3:Oh yeah, a little discussion. Yeah, wait, what accent was that I?
Speaker 2:don'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 3:Oh I'm dead, I am dead.
Speaker 2:Wow, before you really die let's just get into the show, shall we?
Speaker 3:Oh, please.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we should.
Speaker 3:Let's go.
Speaker 2:This 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 3:I'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 2:Imagine 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 3:Yeah, it just. It's a myth.
Speaker 2:There's always hope and trying right.
Speaker 3:I guess so, but I wouldn't hold your breath because you would die yeah fair enough, fair enough, fair enough.
Speaker 2:But 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 3:That was really good, for sure.
Speaker 2:Obviously 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 3:They're easy to find exactly soundcloud as well, don't forget that's on my soundcloud. Yeah, exactly on dj charles.
Speaker 2:Yeah, 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 3:That'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 2:no, 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 3:Time 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 2:If we can, I am ready for it as well, yeah that would be A proper epic. Epic episode.
Speaker 3:I'm working on it, though. I'm working on it.
Speaker 2:I'm curious on how you're working on it, but I'm excited.
Speaker 3:Yeah, boy.
Speaker 2:So 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 3:my 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 1:Now, exactly, it's 2025 now, yeah, sorry.
Speaker 3:My favourite song. Apologies, guys. My favourite song, I'd say, is Mole Pete Back yeah.
Speaker 2:And 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 3:Oh 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 1:do? 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 3:Peek 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 2:It's still destroying.
Speaker 3:Barbados. 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 2:Oh my lord, yikes, it's causing problems yikes problems, yeah, man problem is a problem, so yeah, problem is a problem.
Speaker 3:So yeah, problem is a problem. So, rko, mr Nadelhans, what's your Favorite song Of this season?
Speaker 2:I'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 3:Ay she holler out sir.
Speaker 2:Should we have a listen?
Speaker 3:I think we should RKO.
Speaker 2:Let's go.
Speaker 1:She 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 1:She 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 2:Yes, fucking love that tune man.
Speaker 3:Yeah, big tune, big tune.
Speaker 2:You 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 2:Exactly, 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 3:She lick me in the eye. That doesn't even make sense, yo.
Speaker 2:Oh, my goodness, singing it in my car, singing it in the fence, lick me in the eye Like Wild. I was feeling it.
Speaker 3:That 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 2:I'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 3:I say we play it at the end of every episode I hear that literally and just that sentence.
Speaker 2:She sit up on the cookies oh my goodness, let's see what I can do oh my god, that's so funny.
Speaker 3:That's so funny, I can't even lie. You can love again listen, I was convinced.
Speaker 2:I was convinced you, yell, was convinced you gal over there. No, no, no, I thought it was. You can love again.
Speaker 3:Yeah, time to make a movie. That's crazy. Make a movie.
Speaker 2:I can love again, yeah, but make a movie About what that's crazy, but you know what?
Speaker 3:I'll let you off because English isn't your first language.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but no, s is still not great Fired on. Monday Fired on Monday yeah, whoa, this is the year of love.
Speaker 3:Fired on Monday oh, you need to stop. You need to stop.
Speaker 2:Yeah, let's actually, because I feel like I'm not doing the social community In any honour at this moment.
Speaker 3:You're just You're doing An absolute mad thing.
Speaker 2:Let's talk about Carnival, then Shall we.
Speaker 3:We 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 2:Wild Wild.
Speaker 3:I went international.
Speaker 2:You are international DJ Sharns.
Speaker 3:But it's crazy Because I went international Before I played at home. That's mad.
Speaker 2:No, you're just International, international DJ Sharns.
Speaker 3:Oh for goodness sake. Okay, don't do that, you're not.
Speaker 2:Domestic DJ Sharns International. Here we go.
Speaker 3:Put some respect. You're not domestic DJ Sharns International. Here we go Put some respect on my damn name.
Speaker 2:I've just called you international DJ Sharns.
Speaker 3:I got you. Thanks, appreciate that.
Speaker 1:Anyway.
Speaker 3:Moving 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 2:I 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 3:So 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 3:So 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 2:She won't get fucked, no I played that.
Speaker 3:I 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 2:Oh my god.
Speaker 3:As 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 3:But 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 2:No, that's. That's like saying I'm going to play Famolay Until the day I die. That's not 100%.
Speaker 3:I'm going to do that as well, and I play Famolay.
Speaker 2:Oh my god, we're not friends anymore. I play Famolay. I'm sorry.
Speaker 3:I'm so over that song. Well, good now this is true.
Speaker 2:This is true. Can I, can I come back, please, as your friend?
Speaker 1:it's too late yo it's too late.
Speaker 3:I replaced you already, oh wow I tried, I guess.
Speaker 2:Well, 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 3:It 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 2:Like it's so easy yeah, because they don't have egos it's not even about egos.
Speaker 3:It's just like anything that a kid considers fun or whatever they're're going to do it.
Speaker 3:So, 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 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:So 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 2:And the parents are like no, no, yo, I'm not bringing my daughter To fucking Nothing Hill. Call it home, you're playing.
Speaker 3:She's gonna get home, bro. What did I tell you?
Speaker 1:Running 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 3:That'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 2:I'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 3:That 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 2:No vagina songs, no tornadoes, there we go yeah, no tornado, no vagina songs. I got it covered? Yeah, I got it covered.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:So it was a massive Learning curve for me and initially I left there Feeling really disappointed.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Because 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 1:I need to stop focusing on the negatives facts and focus.
Speaker 3:Yeah 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 3:If 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 2:246? I'm kidding. I am kidding.
Speaker 3:Wow, you're supposed to be an honorary Bajan. Imagine that.
Speaker 2:I 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 3:Please, please, please Please.
Speaker 2:Please, 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 3:I 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 2:I mean the.
Speaker 3:Rebidi boat ride was really good.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:Always. 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 2:I 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 3:It'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 1:Yeah, it didn't take that long.
Speaker 3:It 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 2:So 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 3:So looking forward to next year and also remember this year Was the year where they were strict On the music policy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because we had a big discussion About that last year.
Speaker 3:There 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 2:How did it go I?
Speaker 3:am 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 2:Yeah, makes sense.
Speaker 3:Yeah, 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 2:They want to come.
Speaker 3:Yeah, 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 2:I haven't complained.
Speaker 3:You haven't complained.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:What's your complaint?
Speaker 2:I wasn't there.
Speaker 3:Next 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 2:As your MC? Definitely not there, right next to me as your mc?
Speaker 1:definitely not.
Speaker 3:You'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 2:This is true. It happened before already, so I understand.
Speaker 3:I'm not going to allow that to happen.
Speaker 2:Come on, fair enough, fair enough, fair enough, there we go.
Speaker 3:So 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 2:Guyana Carnival.
Speaker 3:Ay a lie. I do you tell a lie.
Speaker 2:I do, it's Florida Carnival.
Speaker 3:Miami 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 2:Go on. Yeah, I'm not jealous, just go on.
Speaker 3:There we go. I am now going to Miami Carnival Fair play, fair play, fair play. Yep, yep, so flights booked, airbnb is booked.
Speaker 2:Nails done, hair done.
Speaker 3:Fits, the nails aren't done, the hair's not done yet.
Speaker 2:But it will be done it will be, done.
Speaker 3:Yeah, buddy, but yeah, so so far I'm looking to go to SSS. Yeah, always Already got the ticket for that.
Speaker 2:Nice.
Speaker 3:Soca 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 2:Sounds like a plan, but I'm excited.
Speaker 3:I'm definitely excited. I'm not jealous.
Speaker 2:But I'm envious.
Speaker 3:You don't need to be jealous.
Speaker 2:You'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 3:There we go. So why are you jealous? Why are you jealous?
Speaker 1:You're not making sense.
Speaker 3:You're not making sense.
Speaker 2:No, 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 3:I hear it.
Speaker 2:I am an official addict Like I have checked into a detox place and they said they couldn't help me.
Speaker 3:Oh damn, you know, is that bad.
Speaker 2:It is pretty bad.
Speaker 3:Damn Daniel. Well, I have a remedy for that. Just listen to Gels mixes on SoundCloud, or listen to Soca mixes On Soundcloud.
Speaker 2:They've got Miami. When you said remedy, I thought about the Marsha Montano song.
Speaker 3:Oh Remedy yeah.
Speaker 2:Exactly, that's what I mean.
Speaker 3:You can listen to that song If you want.
Speaker 2:Thank you, I appreciate you.
Speaker 3:Yeah, people are putting out their Miami Carnival mixes now.
Speaker 2:So you can listen to those You'll be on a beach.
Speaker 3:You can have a rum punch in your hand.
Speaker 2:And I'll be singing Bitch. Do you miss me? I'm sitting on the beach drinking whiskey.
Speaker 3:Love 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 2:Come on. Well, you know that's a joke, but yeah, thank you.
Speaker 3:Let us focus On the positives.
Speaker 2:This is true. The positives this is true.
Speaker 3:Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2:If 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 3:um, 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 2:Let'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 1:What 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 2:That was Farber Nappy with, would you? I like that song. It's nice, groovy, beautiful, a real song of the month.
Speaker 1:Yeah, buddy.
Speaker 2:But it is now time to talk about some serious business in Soka.
Speaker 3:Soka.
Speaker 2:Oh wow, that's actual ad-libs to my speech. I like it. No, all seriousness aside, no, hold on.
Speaker 3:All jokes aside, that's it All. Seriousness aside, yo.
Speaker 2:It'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 2:We'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 3:oh, 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.
Speaker 3:You 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 3:Like, 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 3:I 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 2:Wild and tried to push his fingers inside.
Speaker 3:No, 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 3:That'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 3:That'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 3:Patreon, 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 3:So 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 3:His 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 1:I mean, yeah, exactly, they're not doing any of that.
Speaker 3:And 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 3:yeah, 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 3:or 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 2:That's nonsense, it's crazy Think better than that man, Jesus Christ.
Speaker 3:That'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 3:I 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 3:They'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 2:no, 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 3:Let'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 3:Um, 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 2:So 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 3:To allow it.
Speaker 2:Yeah 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 1:Yeah, that's okay, it's safe, but again.
Speaker 2:Like, 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 3:Exactly.
Speaker 2:But it fucks with your head.
Speaker 3:No, 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 2:Find 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 3:Yeah, 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 2:I think it was like two years ago. Yeah, plenty of those pictures probably.
Speaker 3:And another one of your moves Is you put your hands behind your back and whine. I've seen you do that.
Speaker 2:I'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 1:Listen, 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 2:I 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 3:But, as we said, there's the minority that carry on with their efferies. And that needs to stop.
Speaker 2:Yep.
Speaker 3:It 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 2:exactly, it's wild, it's long it's exactly, it is very wild.
Speaker 3:So, 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 3:yeah, 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 2:But 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 2:that 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 3:I 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 2:We 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 3:There we go, there we go. So be excited for us people.
Speaker 2:Please, because we are there, we go, there we go. So be excited for us people, please, there we go there we go.
Speaker 3:So 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 2:Exactly exactly. We shall make it up to you another time.
Speaker 3:Definitely for sure.
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