Mo­ments af­ter be­ing named na­tion­al Ex­tem­po Cham­pi­on for the sec­ond straight year, and for the third time over­all, Bri­an Lon­don and beat­en fi­nal­ist Win­ston ‘Gyp­sy’ Pe­ters both be­moaned the lack of di­verse top­ics in the com­pe­ti­tion.

The top­ics gen­er­al­ly stuck to lo­cal events and trends, with one of the top­ics; ‘It’s not a horn, it’ s a help­ing hand’ be­ing com­plete­ly re­cy­cled from last year’s com­pe­ti­tion.

“Coro­n­avirus? Se­ri­ous not a top­ic? Trump im­peach­ment? Se­ri­ous not a top­ic? And those are in­ter­na­tion­al things. Li­onel Mes­si, Cris­tiano Ronal­do, Kobe Bryant, se­ri­ous not a top­ic? These are things that are trend­ing in­ter­na­tion­al­ly and it shows if we sing those things,” said Lon­don, “ When I get top­ics that just re­lat­ed to here and here and here alone, you not re­al­ly test­ing my in­tel­lec­tu­al ca­pac­i­ty to see if I’m read­ing. If I un­der­stand world is­sues.”

Gyp­sy added, “I would like to see some of the top­ics be more in­tel­lec­tu­al. Some of the top­ics be more chal­leng­ing in terms of the in­tel­lec­tu­al­i­ty of the whole thing. Not just these bland top­ics.”

Lon­don ded­i­cat­ed his win to Leroy Cal­liste, the Black Stal­in, whom he vis­it­ed be­fore com­ing to the com­pe­ti­tion.

“I ded­i­cat­ing this to Black Man be­cause for me right at this mo­ment un­less mo­ments like these come up where we talk about Black Stal­in, it’s like he’s a for­got­ten man dred,” said Lon­don.

He al­so said he would aim to win the Ca­lyp­so Monarch for him as well.

“Most times when I talk­ing to him and I talk­ing Kaiso he does cry, I know the tears is be­cause he not see­ing him­self here again and wish he could, may not be com­pet­ing but just wish he could be on stage do­ing what he does.”

Lon­don made his way to the fi­nal af­ter beat­ing an­oth­er for­mer Ex­tem­po champ Black Sage as the duo took turns shar­ing barbs through the top­ic “Span­ish Take Over Town”.

Sage at­tempt­ed to be­lit­tle Lon­don’s in­abil­i­ty to con­nect with the Venezue­lan women and took a dig at his pref­er­ences, but Lon­don eas­i­ly re­buffed while win­ning the crowd by stat­ing he was good with his Tri­ni food and Tri­ni woman wine.

Gyp­sy al­so took on a for­mer cham­pi­on, as he trad­ed barbs with Lin­go on the top­ic “Leak in Par­ty Boat”

The round quick­ly went po­lit­i­cal as Lin­go wad­ed in­to Gyp­sy’s tenure as a Min­is­ter un­der the Peo­ple’s Part­ner­ship. Gyp­sy coun­tered well to get a mas­sive ova­tion as he an­nounced he had jumped ship to the PNM.

In the fi­nal, the po­lit­i­cal tac­tic was re­vis­it­ed, by Lon­don when he threw the first jab at Gyp­sy’s po­si­tion as Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion Chair­man.

Re­pur­pos­ing the Mighty Spoil­er’s “Mag­is­trate Try Him­self”, Lon­don asked his op­po­nent if he would be pay­ing him­self for the com­pe­ti­tion with NCC’s mon­ey.

Gyp­sy shot back stat­ing the event was host­ed by TU­CO and in­sist­ed the crown would not be go­ing to Fyz­abad, but his home­town Ma­yaro.

This set up Lon­don’s clos­ing shot, as he quipped a lot of mon­ey dis­ap­peared un­der the Part­ner­ship and it may have gone to Ma­yaro be­fore de­liv­er­ing the fi­nal sting sug­gest­ing Gyp­sy was lucky the PNM took him back.