Shyne speaks for the first time.

“In life, you are what you are and this is what I am,” he said. “I don’t want to be like Michael Jordan. I want to be like Moses or King David or King Solomon. Those are the guys I aspire to be like. I didn’t want to be like the kingpin on my block; I wanted to be like the guy who parted the sea, that’s why I chose that name.”

These were the words of wisdom  from Moses Michael Levly(birth name Jamal Barrow ) AKA  Shyne shared with  his old school in Belize. Encouraging them to stay in school  and get educated rather than hanging at the corners of the street which he stands as an example and the outcome.  “I came up on the streets with guys that gangbanged and were into criminal activity, and those tools never worked… Those tools, you either end up spending the rest of your life in prison or sleeping in a grave. But with the tools that you are getting here as far as education is concerned, that is the ultimate tool and with that tool you can transcend any situation because I am just like you. I grew up on Curassow Street. When I was coming up we didn’t even have toilets. But one of the things my Uncle Finnegan and my father, Prime Minister Barrow, implored upon me was education, education, education, education.”

“Listen man, I am on a gangster roll…No, listen: Look what gangster roll got me. Look where it led me. And I am not telling you what to do because I am not a preacher and I am not everybody’s father, but I am exhibit A of what’s going to happen if you don’t stay in Wesley College. If you don’t go to that sixth form, if you don’t try to go to the university you’re going to spend the rest of your life in the cooker or you’re going to be in the grave. That is what this is about.”

Will Shye make music again? I know that is what you are thinking about, kinda like Ma$e…well this is what Shyne confirmed that he will still be here in the rap game but in a different tone not whats beef, but eductaing people and his community. “I make music about life…One of the greatest musicians was Bob Marley. There was nothing misogynistic about him. But his music, he talked about some harsh realities some time. He was tough. I would like to make that type of contribution, that kind of Marvin Gaye contribution, you dig? But at the same time we curse, at the same time life is violent, life is troublesome sometimes — so don’t expect my music to be sanitized. I am just going to talk about what’s going on in the world.”

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