Drawing for Bounty Killer lyrics, dash legend Usain Bolt appears to have mentioned all he wanted to amidst the continued multibillion-dollar fraud debacle with Shares and Securities Restricted (SSL).
In posts to Instagram and Twitter yesterday, Bolt shared a black and white headshot of himself staring immediately right into a digicam, and quoted lyrics from Bounty Killer’s 1999 hit Look, the enduring track as soon as described by the Archbishop of Kingston as having “nice philosophical which means,” to register his disgust with the state of affairs.
“Look into my eyes, inform me what you see, can you are feeling my ache? Am I your enemy? – Bounty,” Bolt wrote.
He added: “The true ones see by means of all of the PR distractions. #Focus.”
Given the dash icon’s well-known affinity for music, which sees him generally moonlighting as a music producer, letting the music do the speaking for him, as a substitute of his attorneys this time round, is way from an unfathomable transfer.
The caption is probably going one other subliminal shot fired by Bolt, who has largely remained tight-lipped because the SSL fraud scandal deepens.
It got here on the heels of a press release from former Chief Govt Officer (CEO) of SSL, Zachary Harding, who mentioned that in his tenure on the firm, it was by no means shared with him that Bolt was a consumer of the funding agency, in line with the Jamaica Gleaner.
The posts yesterday are the most recent in a string of cryptic messages shared by the Trelawny native, who has been utilizing social media sparingly, solely posting hints right here and there for his tens of millions of followers to infer what he could be considering.
On January 16, he referred to as out these answerable for the fraud with a five-second snippet of his 2022 observe Cryptic World.
The 36-year-old was much less delicate with this newest publish, given the message in Look, which was launched on Dave Kelly’s Bug riddim.
The track is an impassioned observe in regards to the pure desperation of a person in poverty, and the lengths he’s prepared to go to flee it, even when which means turning to a lifetime of crime. And, although Bolt is way from being impoverished – that’s, assuming his lacking two-plus billion {dollars} weren’t all he had left – he might be able to relate to the track’s core message.
One among Dancehall’s most poetic and impactful songs ever, Look takes you into the thoughts of the determined, and is a chilling reminder of what individuals could be able to when their backs are towards the wall. It’s each a message Bolt is attempting to ship, in addition to a reminder that dealing with adversity shouldn’t be unusual to him.
The track’s first verse, proven beneath, appears extremely apt for the observe legend’s present state of affairs, because it highlights the absence of wealth, alludes to the reluctance of these accountable not proudly owning as much as it, and clearly spells out what could occur in the event that they don’t.
Look into my thoughts
Are you able to see the wealth?
Are you able to inform that I
Wanna assist myself?
But when it occur that
I stick you in your ring
Don’t be mad at me
It’s a survival ting
Look into my coronary heart
I can really feel your concern
Take one other look
Are you able to maintain my stare?
Why are you afraid
Of my youthful face?
Or is it this factor
Bulging in my waist?
The track isn’t quick on references to abandoning one’s higher ethical judgement. Amongst highlighting the concept that the necessity for survival transcends all rational sense, the track additionally doubles because the testomony of somebody prepared to die for what they imagine in. That sentiment is captured within the traces:
“Nicely I’ve made up my thoughts
To finish up within the morgue
Proper now I moderately die
‘Trigger man a stay like canine…”
Final 12 months, Archbishop of Kingston, Kenneth Richards, after remixing Bounty Killer’s gun-toting track Ms Ivy Final Son, with lyrics calling for gunmen to show their lives over to God, had declared himself a Bounty Killer fan, and mentioned that believed the controversial Look had “nice philosophical which means”.
The archbishop had additionally mentioned that within the days of his youth, he had a sound system in his automotive and was fairly conversant in the lyrics of artistes like Bounty Killer. “It’s a philosophical assertion that individuals want to listen to as a result of the society is so divided and alienated from one another. We have to recognise that all of us are one, we’re all brothers and sisters, whether or not we’re born uptown or downtown etcetera, so we have to see one another,” the priest had mentioned.
In line with Damian Marley, it’s a “very highly effective track. The way in which it’s written could be very poetic. There’s one thing about the way in which he talks about all the main points within the lifetime of a so-called gangster in Jamaica that makes you are feeling the whole lot. It’s very actual, the track brings the whole lot that he’s speaking about to life.”
Marley added: “I bear in mind when this track got here out. It was actually talking to what was occurring within the streets on the time.”
Because the information broke that Bolt had reportedly been fleeced of roughly US$12 million (J$1.8 billion), which the William Excessive Faculty previous boy had invested at SSL, a number of members of the Dancehall trade have given their ideas on the matter, amongst them Cham, DownsoundEntertainment producer Skatta Burrell, Christopher Martin, Ce’Cile and Devin di Dakta.
In line with the Monetary Providers Fee (FSC), SSL reported the $3-billion fraud, which was dedicated towards 40 individuals together with Bolt, to that the regulatory company on January 10, after taking a press release from an implicated ex-employee on January 7.
Reviews are that as of October 31, 2022, the overall quantity within the Bolt’s account at SSL, stood at US$ 12,758,181.74. Nonetheless, that quantity was diminished to a mere US$12,047.65.
Bolt’s authorized staff Frater, Ennis & Gordon, in an official letter to the supervisor at SSL, had given the establishment an ultimatum to repay the monies by Friday, January 27, 2023, failing which the agency will proceed to take civil and legal actions towards the corporate and its administrators.
Over the weekend, Bounty Killer had been vocal in regards to the matter, throwing verbal jabs at, and jeering the administration of Shares and Securities Restricted (SSL), the funding firm the place the dash kingpin’s cash went lacking.
The Coppershot artiste had taken to Instagram the place he demanded to know who was answerable for embezzling the billions of Jamaican {dollars} belonging to Bolt and different shoppers.
“A WHO RESPONSIBLE we wish know we’d like solutions🤔,” he had demanded in his first publish, and added: “Dem say a conspiracy however me stay fi see dem system nuh actually take into account we FRAUD DI ACCOUNT BETTER TEK ACCOUNTABILITY dem system nuh actually take into account we👈🏿”.
Hours later he shared one other publish of a photograph of the SSL headquarters, with an audio clip of a person mocking the corporate describing it as a society of scammers.
“Scamming Society Restricted😊😂🥲😁😅,” Bounty captioned his publish.
