The Minions attack Bunji; Mr Live Wire joins racist letter exchange

You have purpose…

People see you trying hard to prevail in life,

Make you feel that without them you going to fail in life,

As you start to grow your strength and you making strides,

Their minions come to crucify like they nailing Christ,

Look at all of them and laugh out loud…

(Excerpt from Bunji Garlin’s 2015 Soca song ‘We Up Dey’)

The following is an exchange of correspondence on Bunji Garlin’s chorus:

Allan Karim: Bunji what RACIST Bullsit is this??? Bunji garlin new offering to soca 2015 “we up dey” lyrics: “as soon as yuh start to build yourself and yuh making strides, dem INDIANS come to crucify like they nailing Christ…”

Photo: Trinidad and Tobago soca star Bunji Garlin. (Courtesy Vivo.com)
Photo: Trinidad and Tobago soca star Bunji Garlin.
(Courtesy Vivo.com)

Bunji Garlin: Let’s ATTEMPT to clear the air here… Again. I posted the correct lyric a few days ago so people can see but bad news travels faster than good but np we just have to learn as we go along. Again here I post the correct wording is “Their MINIONS come to crucify like they nailing Christ” NOT INDIANS.

Some people got it mixed up but before jumping up too quick let’s take our times (sic) and make sense as we proceed. Naturally if anyone was caught off with this lyric I humbly apologise but the race card is not in my deck. That is one issue that I am exempt from. One love to all and to those who will call these people haters please do not. They genuinely thought it was something else but fear none for it is not. God bless.

 

Allan Karim: Dear all. My comments last evening on Ian Anthonio Alvarez, (Bunji Garlin) song “We up dey” has generated a lot of public discussion. My intention was never out of malice or ill will, I had a genuine legitimate concern for the content I heard in the song and I expressed it on my fb page as most people would do.

In Mr Alvarez clarification to my post he (Mr Alvarez) also apologized to those who interpreted the contentious part of the song to mean “INDIANS”, that indicated to me that Mr Alvarez acknowledges the genuine, legitimate concern that I have about the song.

Therefore a public apology from me will not solve the problem that was created by Mr Alvarez poor choice of words when he wrote the song. I have listened to the song over 10 times since this morning and I’m not totally convinced that “MINIONS” was said but in fact “INDIANS”. I’m still concerned about the discomfort this song could bring to a large section of society when played in public.

Mr Alvarez should reconsider the contentious part of the song and make the necessary changes to ease the discomfort that this has brought to himself and members of the public.

I thank you. Sincerely, Allan Karim

Photo: Riddle me this, Allan.
Photo: Riddle me this, Allan.

Mr Live Wire: Dear Allan. I have chanced across your moving letters and was touched by the anguish of a tortured soul and an obvious soca aficionado.

Although I do not and cannot speak on behalf of Bunji Garlin, I have listened to his soca song and can tell you with no ambiguity whatsoever that the hit is not aimed at you. Please listen again to the song’s opening sentence, which goes: “You have purpose…”

Sir, I was surprised that you did not immediately hit pause on the youtube rendition—you don’t seem to be a man who puts his money where his mouth is—and find something more to your taste.

But I suppose you are a man of more resolve than that and you made it to the chorus in which Bunji explained that, as soon people to start prosper, minions try to crucify them.

And, in the best case of life imitating art since the North Korean government attacked Sony over “The Interview”, you promptly set off to do just that.

What next, Allan? Would you say that Iwer George’s “Bottom in the Road” was a racist stealth attack on the right of Indian women to have buttock implants?

Is Sat Maharaj on vacation? Or are you muscling in on his turf?

Allan, do you realise you have asked Bunji to extract lyrics that were not there in the first place so as not to offend a man who is desperately seeking to be insulted?

How much of your time do you devote to fighting phantoms of your own creation? Or looking for imaginary bullets to dive in front of?

How should Bunji get rid of your own feeling of inadequacy? Would that require the skills of Leonardo Di Caprio and the rest of the crew from “Inception?”

In closing Allan (you’re an idiot), please don’t think (you’re an idiot) that everyone (you’re an idiot) is subconsciously (you’re an idiot) trying to mock, ridicule and insult you because (you’re an idiot) life would then become too miserable for words.

Maybe Bunji might be nice enough to write out the entire song for you and you might find some comfort there. You’ve got his attention now, so go for it.

I close with the words of former Britain Prime Minister Winston Churchill: “A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.”

Yours sincerely, Mr Live Wire.

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153 comments

  1. Lasana, suddenly everyone waking up from a deep sleep..

  2. So Bunji was writing about the assassination of…? Let me get ready to go to work. I will leave the entertainment. Mark Bassant might want it for a follow-up story. :-/

  3. I realize some here really hope that I’d only call out UNC bobol. Trust me when I tell you integrity is not just a word for me. Have a good one.

  4. I don’t care who you refer to really….stop pelting stones to get a reaction…yuh actually spoiling the thread eh

  5. Dear Savitri Maharaj please don’t let my comment fall in your garden as I wasn’t referring to you. But the response might make me change my mind 😉

  6. Bunju make.a.verse and.put them to rest. Fire burn all them minionssss the socall elites not the ones on the ground.

  7. Camile darling….I knew you were joking

  8. First come as your real self nah Jimi, you have so many name changes, the deed poll man mussee rich now

  9. Good observation Debbie Espinal, perhaps a tutorial is required, Ruth Marchan you do yourself a disservice by not leaving room for persons of east indian descent to support your calls for an investigation into Lifesports funding of paramilitary groups

  10. Hard to make a joke in here boy. Tough crowd…

  11. Allan “the Troll” Karim vs Bunji: (Sesame Street Style):
    Bunji: Woo Woo Woo
    Allan Karim: Hey Bunji that is not how a Minion sounds
    Bunji: How do you know how a Minion sounds
    Allan Karim : Cause I’m a Minion

  12. I call a spade a spade who vex loss..

  13. Umm I was referring to a popular cartoon. Did everyone realize that O.o

  14. What are you on about too Jimi Silverstone?! You like ting eh!?

  15. I see the PNM sycophant complaining that’s always good

  16. Ms hunte, them minionssss is who crucify DANA SEETAHAL and many more yuh ent know bout. Is stupid anil them use. What f…k apology. Let them run way and apologise for killing innocent people and make attempts with them dead brains yo plot on the dj boy and myself. Boy best name ever MINIONSSSS THEIVING ONLY MILLLIONNNN AND BILLIONSSSS. BOY BUNJI MAKE A NEXT VERSE ON THEM.

  17. Just ignore the songs folks it will soon pass

  18. U know what is the amazing. The majority of comments were from individuals who didn’t even listen to the tune before commenting.

  19. Ah wonder if Ruth willing to buss de mark about ah certain high profile killing?

  20. i still trying to figure out who is the dem

  21. Let them try another viking not this one

  22. Lawd…now Camille acting as advocate fuh d #minions

  23. BOY…… Karim, I would ah still believe that Bunji’s 2014 soca said ” and d cows now waking up!”
    instead of ” the crowd now waking up!” I googled and realised my mistake… It was my own interpretation.. because it made grammatical sense does not mean it was what the artist coined
    I remember calypso Rose’s song ” hold on to the balance wheel” was interpreted as ” hold on to the banaswee” by a friend.. it did not make sense, grammatical or otherwise so she laughed at herself and dropped it… shame Karim.. leave BUNJI… AND DE COWS AND DE MINIONS ALONE..GROW UP JE SUIS BUNJI JE SUIS MINIONS

  24. Lemme show allyuh why Allan Karim is a real caca hole. Read the lyrics:

    People see you trying hard to prevail in life,
    Make you feel that without them you going to fail in life,
    As you start to grow your strength and you making strides,
    Their minions come to crucify like they nailing Christ,
    Look at all of them and laugh out loud…

    So the possessive pronoun “their” actually own Karim’s “Indians”. The noun that “their” is replacing is “people”. So in effect, “people” actually own Karim’s “Indians”.

    Doesn’t that backward thinking troglodyte called Allan Karim know that indentured servitude has been over long time now, and nobody can own an “Indian” in Trinidad…not even the wheelchair badjohn.

    Ah boy Allan CacaRIM, yuh really step in yuh own excrement with this wun.

  25. I’m speaking on behalf the minions in this matter. They tell me that they have never EVER tried to crucify anyone and they demand an apology from Bunji Garlin.

  26. Is this Ruth Marchan for real?? One would think someone who held her position could write and spell and put together a proper sentence.

  27. Check meh i will give u a venue on them minionssssssss. Is minionnssssss them be for true.

  28. Not me, it was Allan Karim that UNCeelebrity who thought he owns the rights to all words rhyming with “Indian”!

  29. Forget that.
    We can use any word we like to convey an idea, regardless of what it rhymes with!

    How dare he?

  30. nah man….we must live and let live…even allow con men like Karim to have his bray…ah mean say

  31. It is sad that Bunji actually took time out to respond to this racist. He shamelessly requesting that the lyrics be changed to make himself happy. Wired 868 is about healthy discussions…block this idiot.

  32. Yea because in the bible the Indians nailed Christ to the cross -__-

  33. “Although I do not and cannot speak on behalf of Bunji Garlin, I have listened to his soca song and can tell you with no ambiguity whatsoever that the hit is not aimed at you. Please listen again to the song’s opening sentence, which goes: “You have purpose…”…..yikes!

  34. Lawd put a hand in this land of my birth. If u replace minions with Indians then the verse eh make sense, because we know Indians eh crucify Christ.

  35. Anthony Morgan Beach hashtagged #oildown2015

    I am hashtagging #yellowminions

  36. Is de “COWS now wakin up” all over again!

  37. One jackass named Allan Karim created this unnecessary furor.

  38. Allan Karim not familiar with the term education required.

  39. ” Sir, I was surprised that you did not immediately hit pause on the youtube rendition—you don’t seem to be a man who puts his money where his mouth is—and find something more to your taste. ” Bwhahah! I wish someone can pass this on to him!

  40. Race-Coloured Glasses! Get yours now while stocks last!

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