Nathi Prince upset about ‘fully dunce’ slang
Reggae artiste Nathi Prince has taken aim at new slang ‘fully dunce’, which has gained popularity among teens who love dancehall music.
“How can we endorse being dunce? It start becoming a hip ting, a swaggy thing to be dunce. Education is something that the patriots before us fought for ... . The oppressors never wanted black people to be educated. There is power in the word and tongue. How can we endorse something that is so poisonous to our future as a black race?” he said.
He added, “Money is not all; power to an uneducated fool is worthless. When you say yu dunce, it is not fun, it is nothing to be swaggy, it is not cool. You are just encouraging youths in the school that we don’t need education, who may say, ‘This artiste is doing good based on what he is doing and he is dunce, so why bother?’ That is dangerous and defeatist thinking. It is not cool to be dunce.”
Nathi Prince recently released a single called Protection that has been getting favourable airplay on major radio stations in Jamaica and Internet radio stations in the United States.
He has unreleased songs such as Better Days and The Most High, which will be on a seven-song EP that will be distributed online in early 2019.
“My EP will tell the story of my journey. My name keeps me grounded; mi just keep focused on the Most High. Knowing that He is with me, it eradicates fear. I know I am not alone when I hit the stage because I am coming with a message ‘cause God is with me,” the artiste, whose name is Trevor Boyd, said.