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I have been going to Live Reggae show for a little while now and I must admit I enjoy them a lot more than the Dancehall Shows or Street dances. There’s much more music, little talking and the backing band is just awesome. But despite the magnificent performance shown by the performers, Reggae is slowing drifting off course. It is slowly turning into Dancehall, not many of these Reggae artistes are spreading the positive message now-a-days and only handfuls are practicing what they preach.

Dancehall on the other hand is completely disgusting, it is dividing Jamaica in half and it seems as if no one realizes it. What is with this Gully and Gaza hype? When will these artistes realize that Jamaica isn’t selling as much as it used to? People are barely interested in us because of these so called “artistes” who go about teaching violence and hatred. How on God’s earth can Dancehall cause positive effects on Jamaica?

Dancehall used to be something that almost anyone could listen to, well most of the songs at least, but now there is barely any song playing on the radio without “bleeping.” This feud between Gully and Gaza is damaging Jamaica than it already is. Beenie Man and Bounty Killer had been at it for so many years and they have never been restricted or banned from any other country (well, Beenie Man at least). And in less than five years these dark-hearted, filthy mouth artiste can’t even perform outside of Jamaica or the Caribbean.

Does anyone see or hear of such thing happening in the world of Reggae? One of the few downfalls I notice with Reggae is that non-Jamaicans are producing some exceptional “Reggae Music,” but because we are so caught up in our own little world we don’t even recognize it. I’ve heard Reggae artistes living out side of Jamaica music and it is many times better than what the artistes living in Jamaica are producing. Take Mystic Bowie for example, I got both his albums (“Rebirth” and “Nevah Kiss and Tell”) and I’ve seen him perform twice and both performance was wonderful.

For those who have been to the Dancehall and streets dances, have you ever not see the DJs begging for the crowd’s appeal? Can’t the get the crowd to move if the don’t throw words at people? It’s none of my concern, but why do people have to subject themselves to this? Why do the younger Jamaicans gravitate to such negativity? All these dancehall songs portray is: hate and kill informers, homosexuals, and “bowers”; how to treat women like they are trash; and recently – getting money by any means.

This destruction dancehall music is causing needs to be fixed and quickly. And you know what the worst thing is; the perpetrators are denying having anything to do with what is happening. But it is the same as a gun shop producing the guns, and us buying them to kill each other. That’s what is happening in the Dancehall industry, and a lot people seem to like.

Reggae is having trouble reaching Jamaicans, because only a few seem to be thinking of good for Jamaica, the land everyone claimed they love. I wonder.

My dream car has been and will always be a Dodge Viper no matter what, it sucks when something unexpected happen to something you love. Why the hell is the Dodge Viper logo an upside-down Daffy Duck (the fangs become the eyes. The viper's head become Daffy's beak), for-crying-out-loud? Daffy is the boss but come on man, this stinks, will someone freshen this up with a Lysol Disinfectant please.

After leaving High School and realizing how expensive my tuition fee would be for university and not wanting to borrow hundreds of thousand on dollars, I thought about the easy way to make that much money. So I decide it would be music, then I started making beats with fruity loop (which suck by the way) and write song (can you believe it). But since I will never sell my soul to join the music industry and I have nothing to do with these song I'm just gonna post them on here along with the instrumental. Just for the hell of it (not really, I just want to see how much ratings I'd get). Don't thinking I'll be making music for a living, I am a damn ARCHITECT.

If we should ever try to sell Jamaica (not that we would), would we be able to persuade anyone to buy it? Sure we can boast about our nice beaches, exotic food and livelihood, but what about our culture? Reggae is a great start but what would happen if we should mention our Dancehall? The Dancehall we love so much; the Dancehall that preaches hatred and violence, and how badly to treat women? I can bet not many Jamaicans know the only bird that can fly backwards. I bet some doesn’t even know much about our National Flower. Too many Jamaicans are straying from “OUR” culture, “OUR” heritage.

Why does it seem like the devil is building an empire in Jamaica even though every where you turn you see a church? I am sure there are others who think badly of the reputation that Jamaica now has. We should be building and uplifting Jamaica, not sit and watch it wither away.

Many Jamaicans living in foreign countries are afraid to come home or even a shamed to mention that they once lived here. The once chirpy Jamaica is now almost completely shrouded in darkness. Where is the LOVE; the PEACE; the tranquility; the FREEDOM our ancestors left us? Why are we destroying each other?

Yet, I think somewhere beyond this dark cloud there is a beautiful sunshine awaiting us. How we get there is up to us, we have to be the ones who starts the change. We have to make Jamaica save for the children of the future; we have to bring back the once beautiful Jamaica. We must me the change.

I create 3d models (.3ds) for my Interior Designs and I am sharing them with you. I thought about selling them but them I say, “What the hell, who in their right mind would purchase them?” Not that I doubt my self but I think it’s better off being free.

That’s the exact question I am asking my self. I know what I want to do, but how do I go about doing it? I know where the starting point is, I’ve already planned out all the steps to be taken and all the obstacles I’d have to overcome. Some of which I haven’t find a solution as yet. It’s not because of fear why I haven’t started yet. Well, I won’t lie to myself, it is fear and that fear is ‘what would happen after I’m done?’ There can be only two conclusions: either a negative or a positive, and the negative would be hard to recover from.

I must now face my toughest challenger, SUCCESS, and believe me when I say its ass will be sore when I am done with it. Getting my butt kicked by Success is not my therapy. For now it is laughing at me, but “who laugh last laugh the best.”

So it must be obvious that what I am doing now is chasing success and when I catch I'll make it my hostage. I'll tell the ransom when I kidnap the sucker.

Life is almost always about falling on the face and getting up. Seriously, I burst my lips twice; lost a toenail once and if you look closely at my picture you’ll see a scare on my forehead. The funny thing is, I wasn’t being clumsy, but I am not going to blabber about my cuts and bruises. Instead I’ll take you on “The Journey toward Success”, even though I haven’t been there yet I can see it smiling at me (“I’m coming baby”).

Throughout my school years, I didn’t show my true potential, come to think of it I didn’t even try ( maybe a few time) and only one teacher could see through me and he called me a damn pervert (practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive). Well, everyone in the class have their laughs because no one seems to know what he meant, other than me of course. So, I am going to take you through my school years – from primary to high school graduation (I am not that old, so, I can remember most of it).

When I was in primary school, for each grade I was very good at one or two subject. When I was in first grade I was very good at Phonics; in the second grade it was English; in third grade it was…… uhhhh………………. well, lets just say I didn’t do the third grade (I’ll tell why some other time). In the forth and sixth grade I was splendid in Math (I was nick-named ‘math head’), I fell behind in English a little but was above average in Science. In the fifth grade it was all about Mental Ability, Science and Social Studies. But, the real deal started when I hit first form (7th grade), high school cuts like the katana that was folded 1000 times.

Your probably thinking that my high school days were all about getting “A’s”, the only thing I would get an “A” for is breaking school rules but I was smart enough not to get caught . The only thing I didn’t do is: fight (on campus), steal, be disrespectful to teachers (I’ve always respected my elders, and show respect where it’s due). When I was in 9th grade something took me over (probably puberty) and it’s like I went nuts. I still didn’t do anything I’ve mentioned before, but it’s like my mind lost a screw – please don’t think I did drugs, not unless you call “ALCOHOL” a drug. Well, I did smoke some cheap cigars (it’s about 3 or 4 times more expensive than cigarettes). I did the tenth grade twice but that was on purpose and I am surprised I wasn’t kicked (expelled). I thought the Vice Principal would have given me the boot for sure, seems like I was lucky.

My Last year in High School was the bomb. I was hustling back then. Getting paid to do others homework (especially Technical Drawing) and selling copies of my math homework and my research - that was the life. I didn’t make a fortune from it though. Anyway, I didn’t show much interest in my school work and everyone was expecting me to make it on graduation list. The criteria was to pass at least 5 subject including Math and English; Guidance Counseling; Dance and Drama (I had no grade for the first semester but I got 63% overall); 50hrs of work experience (I was a farmer) and I “MUST” be in a school club. The only club I’ve been to is the late night ones. I thought I wasn’t even close to meeting all those requirements and I know what you’re thinking, I really know what you’re thinking and I’d be thinking the same thing too, “I DIDN’T MAKE IT” on the graduation list.

Well guess what, you are WRONG. Yeah baby, I did make it (it’s still kind of puzzling) but I did it. I got my burgundy gown, my graduation hat and my High School Diploma. YEAH!!!!!!! Now it’s college.

I am Warren, an aspired Architect in Jamaica. My nickname is Fudgy (I have no idea why people calls me that), but I haven’t been called Fudgy since I left the community where I grew up.

On social network websites my nickname is either Crypton or Koneck, I mostly use the name Koneck these days.

I mostly sit around the computer trying to do projects to earn money. The first thing I started with is music. I used to write songs and make beats. I mostly made beats which you can check on the music page in the ”More“ tab. These I started making a few years ago with a software known Fruity Loops and now I'm using a software named Reason Propellerhead. None of the beats I created with Reason is posted online yet.

When I am not making beats I design house plans, as I said before – I am an aspired architect. The first house I designed was very faulty because I had no Idea what I was doing as it was all pencil work, so the measurements were way-off. Then I was introduced to AutoCAD which I found quite amazing, but was quite difficult to learn by myself, so I didn’t bother to use it.

Now I'm experimenting with 3D Home Design Suite, this software gives me plenty ideas, which I’ll put into action once I’m through with my studies. I have designed a lot of house plans so far, dimensions are all correct, the blueprints are almost complete and the only things missing are the detailed notes.

3D homes aren’t the only 3D work that I do, I also design 3D objects, such as furniture, electronics and cars. I am learning how to create 3D human and animals, and soon after I’ll be learning how to do 3D animation. So in a few years I’ll be making short 3D films and I have a WONDERFUL lady by my side who works in the field of electronic media, who will help me with the storylines.