KINGSTON, Jamaica – In an interview the Miami Times, reggae star Shaggy said his music, including tracks such as 'Boombastic' and 'It Wasn't Me', is so emotional that Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) would immediately stop carrying out their brutal beheadings if only the songs were pumped into jihadi strongholds.
The 46-year-old Jamaican who served as a United States marine in Iraq during the first Gulf War suggested that Western armies should find a way to pipe his music into ISIS terror camps as a way to inject some emotion into the terror group's dead-eyed killers.
“If you’re able to cut a man’s head off, you’re sick. But right music evokes emotion. So if they’re listening to Shaggy music or reggae music, they’re not going to want to cut somebody’s head off,” he said.
Shaggy contended that there are two things that an individual would do when they listen to reggae music: “You want to get somebody pregnant, or you’re high.”
“High people don’t want to kill nothing; they want to love,” he explained.
“They need to bag some Jamaican weed and distribute it amongst ISIS. I guarantee there won’t be any more wars out there,” the reggae artiste suggested.
Shaggy went further to say that if ISIS recruits were to listen some of his songs, they would turn away from terrorism altogether and embrace peace.
My black brothers and sisters come first and foremost.
Your gimmick is getting tough to understand/tolerate. Like, really fukking tough.