New York-based Trinidadian soca artiste Yankey Boy has gone on a hunger strike as he hit out against having Jamaican dancehall superstar Vybz Kartel performing at a concert at Trinidad Carnival next year.<\/p>\n
Yankey Boy says carnival should be a time for only Soca music and local culture.\u00a0 In photos shared\u00a0on his Instagram, the artiste, whose real name is\u00a0Kevon Heath, is seen with a placard covering his body.<\/p>\n
It reads, “Since Vybz Kartel is set to perform Carnival Friday Feb 28, Yankey Boy Hunger Strike Day 1.”<\/p>\n
The placard also says the strike will last until Kartel changes the date of his performance, suggesting Ash Wednesday on March 5, 2025.\u00a0 Yankey Boy also wore a blue beanie, and his mouth duct taped.<\/p>\n
In another post he wrote, “There are 52 Fridays in a Year, pick another Date!! You people are killing SOCA\u00a0and continuously making excuses.”<\/p>\n
“CARNIVAL SUPPOSED TO BE ONLY SOCA, CALYPSO, CHUTNEY, STEEL PAN & TASSA,” he continued.<\/p>\n
This is not the first time the Soca\u00a0entertainer has voiced is disdain for dancehall being in Soca spaces.\u00a0 On\u00a0September 2, he shared on his social media pages a video\u00a0expressing his frustrations over masqueraders playing mas to dancehall and hip-hop music.<\/p>\n
And on October 2, he released a song titled\u00a0\u2018Only\u00a0Soca\u2019<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0saying\u00a0only\u00a0genres native to Trinidad and Tobago\u00a0should be played at carnivals in the diaspora. This sparked a debate among many stakeholders in the industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" New York-based Trinidadian soca artiste Yankey Boy has gone on a hunger strike as he hit out against having Jamaican dancehall superstar Vybz Kartel performing at a concert at Trinidad Carnival next year. Yankey Boy says carnival should be a time for only Soca music and local culture.\u00a0 In photos shared\u00a0on his Instagram, the artiste, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":9796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[260],"class_list":["post-9804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-breakingnews"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9804","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\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9805,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9804\/revisions\/9805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}