Foota Hype Cautions Jahshii

“Don’t get me wrong people, I am not against the Jamaica Constabulary Force for doing dem job but mi know how Jamaica police work.  When dem ignorant and upset wid yuh – problem,” Foota said in an IG post titled “Save Jahshii” on Wednesday night.

 Dancehall artist Kiprich at one point had to hide in a jerk chicken pan, and Bounty Killer had to similarly flee to the top of a mountain in order to escape the wrath of police officers, Foota Hype has advised Jahshii to “move extra-extra careful”.

According to Foota, his advice is coming in the wake of the killing of Tadmar, a 28-year-old producer aligned with the Shift Change artist, who was shot and killed by the police in Grants Pen, St Andrew on Tuesday evening, during a confrontation.

“Mi memba one a di time when dem want lick weh Kiprich wicked-wicked ova one song weh Kiprich did sing.  Wi deh a Fully Loaded and Kiprich haffi hide inna one jerk pan fi come outta di venue, to how dem waan hol him,” Foota reminisced.

“Again, wi guh outta St Thomas again, when dem waan klu-klux Bounty Killa.  Memba a my car Killa did inna… a me and Baby G did a drive… and dem exit an go inna different vehicle, and den him guh up inna di mountain, dem did guh up deh guh ketch him,” Foota said about the police officer’s hot pursuit and subsequent apprehension of Bounty Killer in St Thomas several years ago.

Foota also said that following Jahshii’s Entertainment Report interview, in which he labeled the Jamaican police as the epitome of corruption, the Grants Pen native should recognize that he was now in their bad books, and was seen as an ‘Enemy of the State’ of sorts.

“Jahshii.  A close dem a close in poan yuh fi kill yuh… Either dem a guh kill yuh or dem a guh gi yuh a case… Suh Jahshii, don’t get mi wrong enuh.  Nuttn weh yuh seh inna di interview nuh wrong, because you are being brutally honest.  But yuh si right now, dem afta yuh yute,” Foota said.

“Jahshii hear wha mi want yuh do now, caw we as di elders haffi tell oonu di ting, caw wi experience it already.  Wha yuh seh and wha yuh point out inna di interview, you an no police nuh safe.  Every police inna Jamaica a pree yuh.  Zeen,” he added.

In the half-hour monologue in which Foota issued instructions to Jahshii to follow to prevent himself from becoming a hot target. He said the Cream of The Crop artist should now bolster his personal security, by, among other things, moving to a gated community, going incognito when not performing, and hiring bodyguards from official close-protection security companies to ensure he comes to no harm.

“Yuh a guh hire armed security guard… Yuh si like how Andrew Holness have armed security round him at all times, Tufton – di whole a dem.  You can do it to.  An yuh armed security fi know seh anything weh come fi harm yuh, dem haffi kill wedda a lawman or regular man.  Dem job a fi protect you.  Zeen,” Foota stated, noting that Jashii should recognize that he was a star and no longer an ordinary person.

Citing himself as an example Foota declared: “Mi always have armed security round mi.  Although yuh si dem dress inna regular jeans and look like some thugs, a armed security dem weh a get pay.  Di man dem weh have di guns dem weh round me, a hired security weh mi pay mi money.  Every night mi guh a road mi haffi pay dem.  An mi nuh like have one a dem round mi; mi like have two a dem round mi, or more.  With firearm – no joke ting.”

“Jahshii yuh si if yuh nuh start move di right way, dem a guh trick yuh and kill yuh.  Jahshii, yuh nuh stand a chance,” Foota said.

The Dark Knight producer said that Jahshii should also jettison some of the drinking and other habits that he saw him carrying on with on Instagram.

“Wha day yuh do video and yuh a drink champagne an a drive; stap dem suppm deh.  If you a guh drink, do not drive.  You and police nave no luck.  Di whole police force hate yuh right now bredda.    Suh yuh have to move different from di regular people dem.  You haffi know she you are an enemy of di state right now just because yuh talk di truth,” Foota said.

“Right now him fi just ease off a di road likkle bit.  Him glory a gwaan.  If yuh have a show, no go nuh weh,” he added.

He also admonished the 21-year-old not to travel with anything illegal in his vehicle including weapons or ganja as this would provide arrest fodder for the Constabulary.

Even as he asked Jahshii to heed his advice, Foota then said he was begging the police for Jashii not to be harmed as nothing he said about the force being corrupt was wrong, and that the police themselves knew that many of their members were corrupt.

“Yuh know seh now, every police vex wid Jahshii now cause no police caan guh round Jahshii.  An any police gun roun Jahshii, dem a guh seh is a corrupt cop, caw Jahshii seh a corruption him a deal wid and corrupt police him a use.   Suh now every police look pon Jahshii as a enemy, because Jahshii put dem ting out deh and a meck people look pon dem a way.  Suh some a dem might even want guh round Jahshii and caan guh round him,” Foota said.

“Suh yuh si di bag a man dem weh round yuh an a guh waan tell yuh seh ‘a whappen to yuh, deejay?  No bwoy caan guh round yuh we wi kill off di whole world’ and ray; all a dat a talk yuh hear.  Afta yuh dead dem keep nine night, an dem shoot two innocent people and dat’s it,” Foota Hype said.