Feelin Addi Masculinity and Male Sexuality in Jamaica
1. “Feeling Addi”
Masculinity and Male
Sexuality in Jamaica
Afifa Badiliko Nzinga Aza Phd
Co-founder/creative director
Di Institute for Social Leadership
/SO((U))L HQ
www.amedjafifa.wordpress.com
@djafifa
djafifa@gmail.com
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3. Objectives of the Presentation
• To use the Life and Work of Vbyz Kartel to
discuss masculinity and male sexuality in
Jamaica
• Ask questions about men and sex and their
relationship to women
• See if there is anything we can learn about
male sexuality from Kartel
11. Vbyz Kartel body of work ?
1. Sex
2. Money
3. Guns
4. War
5. Men
6. Friends
7. Life
8. Gaza
9. Jamaica
10. Girls
11. Women
12. Education
13. Working hard
14. Succeeding against all the odds
15. Male Sexuality
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/jul/18/male-sexuality-desire
“Male sexuality is no less diverse, complex and wonderful than women's or, for that matter, no more base,
coarse and animalistic. Sure, most men might be slightly more likely to let our gaze linger on eye-catching
curves, and slightly less likely to giggle about our lovers' proclivities with our friends, but in the grand picture
women and men are surprisingly similar, in this respect as in so many others.
Women have been entirely justified in asking that we blokes respect their rights, autonomy and wishes, that
we respect them as sexual beings. It shouldn't be too much to ask for a little of the same in return.”
17. Female Sexuality
• Express sexual
desire
• Own sexual desire
• Open about sexual
interest
• Attractive
• “wicked innah
bed”
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20. Azealia Banks
“Sit in that lunch if you're treatin'
Kick it with the bitch who comes from Parisian
She know where I get mine from and the season
Now she wanna lick my plum in the evenin'
And fit that tongue tongue d-deep in
I guess that cunt gettin' eaten”
21. SPICE- Jamaican Female Dj
“This is a di new backshot…one foot out deh cocky
stiff up innah dat…..watch mi a skin out mi fat
clum….push it in when mi tun back way my pussy
pretty when mi tun back way” - Bend Ova
“Skin out mi pum pum pon di buddy mi a wine and
bum bum bumbum bum… have mi batty just a
jump…”- So mi like it
22. Lady Saw
“It was under the Sycamore Tree a bot waan
mi boy and mi tell him fi flee”….
“A food alone guh innah mi mouth”
23. Tanya Stephens
“….Me jus live off you boom wuk
Love de way you have me pum pum stuck
Pon de big buddy, pon de big stick
Tell me tan? When me bum flick
Love de long ding dong, boom wuk
Love de way you wuk you mek this gyal stuck
Climb up on de cab inna de big truck
Have me a let off even thou' you bruk
Love de long ding dong(4*)” – Boom Wuk
24. • “Mi star blue movie the thuggy
thuggy way cause mi live innah
Jamaica nuh Holywood”
Gal bend down low mek me tell u weh mi
know mi know seh u pussy fat it a
show……pon di cocky pose like dominoe - u
know bout me
U a mi baby shift the panty partially mi buddy
and u pussy in harmony …. Freaky gal mi waan
fi see…mi love u a nuh like u got me coming
home every night…mi nah bow cause mi nah
pray- U a mi baby
“full a gal like netball heng up nuh baby mi deh pon a next call
shout mi tomorrow man tired u nuh hear that nah diss you baby mi
wouldn’t play that pitty she nuh know she when mi deh pon di
phone Stacey deh pon mi cocoky mi a feel up simone…..”- keystone
Baby yo skin smooth
But you love it rough
Touch yo body so soft
But the c**key tough
Hey girl yo punanny a paradise
Hey girl yo punanny a paradise
Down in a yo ears mi a tell you supn
Baby mi a go come paw yo belly button
Hey girl yo punanny a paradise
Hey girl yo punanny a paradise- Enchanted
U pussy come in like bible
when it open up mi see
heaven you punnay bless my
angel- Everbless
Black/African Erotic Male
27. Feeling Adi- Black Erotic Man
Some Reference Erotic
Songs
• Enchanted
• Happy Pum Pum
• Ever Bless Pum Pum
• Paradise
• Goods
• Freaky gal
• Beg u a fuck
28. Problems with Male Sexuality
• Dysfunctions in Relations between Men and Women
• Sexual Violence- Rape/sexual assaults/
• Promiscuity
• Dishonesty
29. 1.Vbyz Kartel ? Who is he
2.Men and Male Sexuality what do we know?
QUESTIONS
30. 3. How can we know more about the “emotional lives of black/African males?”
31. 4.Through Sexual Intimacy how do we
feel about Adi? Can you feel Adi?
5.How do we women see themselves
through their engagement with him?
6. Why do they like or don’t like him?
7. What do men feel about Adi?
8.How does he reveal something deep
about himself or about them?