The Rounds - August 13, 2006

Good Evening Soca Lovers,

I’m nurse Karen and these are Doctor jay’s rounds.
The end of caribana unofficially marks the beginning of the end of Summer in Toronto, if you ask me. You’ll notice the weather is still sunny, but cool…and the days are getting shorter ever so slightly.
While it’s true that most of the hottest summer events have passed, there’s no reason to hibernate just yet. You think yuh Doctor Jay start to slow down?
This Weekend the carnival revelry continued in the prairies for Edmonton’s CariWest. And Doctor Jay was making some rounds out there. It rained all day yesterday for the parade, but one masquerader was quoted to say “It takes more than a little hail to done THIS party”. SHE MAD OR WHA…? Hail!?! My eyes are far too pretty to get juk out for a little jump up in de street. She betta than me!
There were brighter skies closer to home for the annual Hamilton Mardi Gras Carnival. 2006 makes it five years since they started bringing mas to steel town…and so, in honour of the anniversary, I would like to propose a wee suggestion. Before there was Crop Over , Spice Mas and Vincy Mas…it was all just carnival. Before there was Toronto Caribbean Carnival…it was all just caribana. When times change, names change…and that my friends is ok. There’s nothing wrong with mardi gras. There’s nothing wrong with carnival..but hear nah…Mardi Gras mean FAT TUESDAY…and neida Sat’day nor Sunday is Tuesday…TALK DONE.
There was another notable name change in GREENZ recently. That’s Grenada for those not in the know. The artist formerly known as Baby Killa, has altered his ego to Mr. Killa for Carnival 2006. Like I done say, I have no problems with updates for the sake of modernity BUT…Mista Killa. You ain’t find you change de wrong part of your name? I was hoping you woulda dash wey de KILLA ting. But who am I really? When your songs sound that sweet, you don’t have to answer to a soul. Just ask R. Kelly…
Welcome to de rock…Mr. Killa lived up to his deadly name this week when he murdered the competition at the groovy monarch show Wednesday and the soca monarch competition Friday night in the isle of spice. Last year’s King Boogie B wasn’t clearing any kind of smoke this year and had to swim away with a 3rd place finish.
Claudette Peters is celebrating too. She rang in her birthday while celebrating her second consecutive Party Monarch Title in Antigua. And I really wish her the best in all regards. Ah love to see it when us ladies step out and leave all dem man scrambling to catch up. Not like it’s anything new, but still…
I’m nurse Karen and those are Dr. Jay’s Rounds, send your comments to soca at Flow 935 Dot Com. Now back to de doctor!