ALKALINE. PUTTING A BLACK EYE IN THE GAME?

PUTTING A BLACK EYE IN THE GAME?

By. Amero

Wow it seems as if time just whizzes by it already the end of the first month

in 2015. I know I shouldn't bring it up because it just makes me feel older

but anyway. When it comes to youth its kinda hard to understand what the

heck drives them to do what they do. I mean I can't explain why I did the

things I did as a youngster but we as adults tend to wonder. The reason I

say this is because of Jamaican dancehall sensation Alkaline. The young

artist is gaining momentum in his career and his new song “Wul Di Claffy

Dem’ has the young crowd pumped up. His youthful voice and rapid fire

lyrics are his penchant. The song has a catchy hook that makes it easy

to follow and Alkaline like his name seems to rap like he's full of batteries.

But why do the youth love him so well? I think its because of his off the

record antics that they are attracted to. When you look at the Alkaline all

you can notice is his blacked out eyes like some vampire from the movie

Underworld. No really he has no whites in his eyes.

At first you think wow such creepy contacts he has but when you get

into the meat and potatoes of the story it seems that he has tattooed his

eye balls. Yes its not a typo. Stories have floated around that his eyes

are tattooed black. When asked about his eyes Alkaline says, "its for the

attention but also because I'm calm and contented this way". "Any artist

or entertainer of any caliber wants to maintain the spotlight". I guess so

but I’ll pass myself. To make this story even more strange is that a fellow

Jamaican artist named Mace tried to follow suit and get his eyes tatted

black and wound up in the hospital. So I think that its safe to say that

those are not contacts in his eyes. Young people (not all youngsters) like to

follow crazy and different ideas so think that's the draw but in this case doing

something that's not normal. Alkaline does have major talent and in some

weird way knows how to market himself so i cannot say hes right or wrong

for his actions. I just hope nobody goes blind doing this type of stuff. Well

then again instead of writing his lyrics he can use talk to text app. So go

ahead with your bad self Alkaline keep making headlines. Alkaline and

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