{"id":4419,"date":"2022-09-16T09:21:40","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T09:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=4419"},"modified":"2022-09-16T09:33:19","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T09:33:19","slug":"snappa-chef-flies-the-dumpling-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=4419","title":{"rendered":"Snappa Chef Flies the Dumpling Plane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On his new song, <strong><em>&#8216;Dumpling Plane&#8217;<\/em><\/strong>, Snappa Chef reminisces about the good old days when Air Jamaica was Jamaica\u2019s pride in the skies. Although its title suggests humor, the New York-based artist insists the topic is serious business.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&#8216;Dumpling Plane&#8217; <\/em><\/strong>is produced by Betty Luv Entertainment and will be released in September.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s just a social commentary type a song, yuh nuh. The fact that Air Jamaica, dem sell it out, we need back our airline. Just going home sometimes yuh feel like yuh not in the right place. Yuh want as yuh jump on the plane yuh get a taste of the culture, so yuh dream of that,\u201d he explained. \u201cSo, wi put that in the song. It bigger than jus\u2019 a dumpling plane, it\u2019s peace and love wi bringing on the plane.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Jamaican government sold Air Jamaica to Trinidad and Tobago\u2019s Caribbean Airlines in 2011, after incurring decades of financial loss. Air Jamaica was launched amid much fanfare in 1968, six years after Jamaica gained independence from Great Britain.<\/p>\n<p>Despite hemorrhaging financially for years, Air Jamaica was extremely popular with Jamaicans at home and the Diaspora, especially North America. Snappa Chef, who is from Spanish Town, Jamaica\u2019s first capital, was a regular flier during the airline\u2019s heyday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the singjay, <strong><em>&#8216;Dumpling Plane&#8217; <\/em><\/strong>covers a lot of ground.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s also a song to say, \u2018these songs are needed\u2019. It\u2019s a next way to talk to the audience that wi don\u2019t have to sing violence. It\u2019s spiritual, it\u2019s everything in one but it\u2019s social commentary,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On his new song, &#8216;Dumpling Plane&#8217;, Snappa Chef reminisces about the good old days when Air Jamaica was Jamaica\u2019s pride in the skies. Although its title suggests humor, the New York-based artist insists the topic is serious business. &#8216;Dumpling Plane&#8217; is produced by Betty Luv Entertainment and will be released in September.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s just a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4424,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4419\/revisions\/4424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}