According to a press release from Beenie Man's PR team, the artiste is offering his humble public apology to the members of the St. Andrew Parish Church, the Christian fraternity, and relatives of deceased whose remains are entered in the church's cemetery.
The entertainer says he's emphatically sorry about the misunderstanding that has arisen and wants the Christian fraternity who are incensed about the videotaping to know that he would never knowingly do anything to offend the Christian or no other doctrine.
Mr. Davis says he along with the video crew takes full responsibility for their actions and regrets that they hadn't gotten the necessary permission and even after agreeing to pull all the video clips after an injunction was taken out to stop it bring shown.
Unfortunately, after the injunction was filed on Friday (September 28), a late miscommunication between the hosts of the popular entertainment programme ER aired on TVJ and Beenie Man's production team which resulted in the video being shown the same night.
Prior to the airing attempts were made to remove sections of the footage showing the church and the tombstones, but at the time they were unable to find the right person to do the editing.
The video was recorded for Beenie Man's singles Mama's Cry/Gangsta's Prayer and is a depiction of the crime and violence now taking place in the society. Beenie Man said he was tired of seeing how many people and friends of his are ending up in the grave and it is his way of showing his condemnation of the murders and violence.
The church took out an injunction that effectively bars the defendants from publishing, broadcasting or releasing for publication or broadcast in any audiovisual media the music video films or other visual images recorded by Beenie Man's production team.
The matter is scheduled to be heard in the Supreme Court on October 11.
Crazypickney said
13:11 10/05 2007
It hard pon both the church and Beenie cause 1. if the church mek him keep the video, people a go start cuss sey the church a hold "dancehall thing" etc and 2. since the church nah give him the thing, people a go sey the church people dem wicked cause a good image him a sing bout.
But overall, i think the church right because the church has an image to protect and once they support even one positive message from that genre (dancehall) that cuss out women and men and have badwords in them and promote all kind of sin, it seems like they are supporting everything from that genre.
So its a good move from the church i believe
Casino said
15:37 10/05 2007
dying , by mavado was done in a cemetary, i guess its jus that particular church. But Beenie the King ago sort out him thing still, like tru royalty
Glitch said
15:40 10/05 2007
Your Damn if you do and Damn if u don't........ *kiss teeth*
Mr. Davis says he along with the video crew takes full responsibility for their actions and regrets that they hadn't gotten the necessary permission and even after agreeing to pull all the video clips after an injunction was taken out to stop it bring shown.
Unfortunately, after the injunction was filed on Friday (September 28), a late miscommunication between the hosts of the popular entertainment programme ER aired on TVJ and Beenie Man's production team which resulted in the video being shown the same night.
Prior to the airing attempts were made to remove sections of the footage showing the church and the tombstones, but at the time they were unable to find the right person to do the editing.
The video was recorded for Beenie Man's singles Mama's Cry/Gangsta's Prayer and is a depiction of the crime and violence now taking place in the society. Beenie Man said he was tired of seeing how many people and friends of his are ending up in the grave and it is his way of showing his condemnation of the murders and violence.
The church took out an injunction that effectively bars the defendants from publishing, broadcasting or releasing for publication or broadcast in any audiovisual media the music video films or other visual images recorded by Beenie Man's production team.
The matter is scheduled to be heard in the Supreme Court on October 11.