Teino Evans, Entertainment Coordinator

Artiste Lady Saw

Following Buju Banton's call for other artistes to clean up their music">music, some have answered the challenge and are in agreement that some change in lyrics">lyrics need to take place.

Buju issued an appeal to his fellow entertainers">entertainers to clean up their lyrics in order to help Jamaica to recover from its present social decay.

The deejay, who posted a message in his newsletter, The Gargamel Gleaner, said, "We are suffering a social decay yet not one, not a single one of our entertainers, has seen the need for a change in the lyrical content they are selling."

However, that estimation may not be entirely accurate. Veteran dancehall artiste, Lady Saw, although admitting to performing "raw songs">songs" in the past, told The STAR, "I'm down with cleaning up the music."

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New York-based D.B. Zwirn & Co. may wind with an unusually diverse roster of employees next month.

The hedge fund is favored to wind up in control of TVT Records, the rap- and hip-hop-heavy independent record label trying to battle its way out of bankruptcy. D.B. Zwirn could even wind up as the label’s majority owner after a scheduled June 12 auction, which could attract up to 30 bidders.

But D.B. Zwirn, which manages some $4.2 billion, is said to have something of a head start, as the holder of $9.7 million in secured loans to TVT, the New York Post reports. TVT went into Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in February after losing a $9.1 million court verdict over another record label’s release of early recordings from its top act, rapper Pitbull.

TVT, which was named Billboard Magazine’s top independent label from 2001 through 2006, has at one time or another been the home of such hip-hop icons as Snoop Dogg and Lil’ Jon, as well as reggae superstar Bounty Killer and other top acts, including Jurassic 5, Nine Inch Nails and Sevendust.