Carisa Lee

Re­porter

cariss.lee@guardian.co.tt

Some Trini­bad artiste have de­cid­ed to take a 90-day hia­tus from re­leas­ing mu­sic, ef­fec­tive to­day.

This, their record la­bel “The Go­ing Glob­al Team” said, is their so­cial con­tri­bu­tion to the fight against crime.

“The Go­ing Glob­al along with the gen­er­al pub­lic recog­nis­es the re­cent up­surge of crime and vi­o­lence in our coun­try,” the la­bel wrote in a me­dia re­lease.

Go­ing Glob­al said their mem­bers recog­nise the up­surge of crime in the coun­try and while they don’t sup­port the nar­ra­tive that their mu­sic is part­ly re­spon­si­ble for some el­e­ments of the crime wave, they be­lieve that the lyri­cal con­tent of mu­sic can in­flu­ence the thoughts of lis­ten­ers.

“Trini­bad mu­sic is pro­duced sole­ly for en­ter­tain­ment pur­pos­es,” the re­lease said.

Ac­cord­ing to the record la­bel, they unan­i­mous­ly agree that bet­ter can be done with the lyri­cal com­po­nents of the songs and in the next 90 days, will re­lease three Trini­good Ex­tend­ed Plays (EPS) along with oth­er pos­i­tive mu­sic.

“#DOIT­FOR­TRINIDAD­CAM­PAIGN that in­fil­trates our lo­cal mu­sic in­dus­try with pos­i­tive mes­sages,” the re­lease said.

One artiste who work with the la­bel is Young Star 6ixx, who re­cent­ly re­leased a song (Be­reaved) in mem­o­ry of his col­league Wacko Dan, who was mur­dered ear­li­er this month in St Ann’s, Port-of-Spain.

One Trini­bad artist, Kalon­ji, was in­jured and his girl­friend Brid­get James mur­dered in Sep­tem­ber last year, af­ter gun­men shot at their car at the Brix ho­tel.

Go­ing Glob­al added that the hia­tus will al­so pos­si­bly pro­hib­it their artiste from earn­ing in­come, as they ob­served that pos­i­tive lyrics in mu­sic were not lu­cra­tive. They al­so asked mem­bers of the pub­lic to share so­lu­tions on how they can keep the mu­sic pos­i­tive and still earn an in­come go­ing for­ward.

“We would like to thank all our sup­port­ers of our mu­sic thus far and en­cour­age you to sup­port our Trini­good EP that will be launched soon, as we to­geth­er to do bet­ter for our artiste and our coun­try,” the re­lease said.