After last friday's destructive earthquake and tsunami in Japan, members of the entertainment industry have been lamenting with the country which they have had a close musical relationship with.
Now, the One Blood family, which consists mainly of Junior Reid, and his two sons Andrew and Wada Blood, has decided to show their support to the Japanese community through their weekly Japanese Thursday event held at Club View on Eastwood Park Road.
The disasters took place on the second outing of Japanese Thursdays and Reid has now opted to partner with Yumi, one of the many Japanese natives who frequent the club to give the proceeds of yesterday's event as well as next week's to the Japanese.
"The Japanese are probably the nation that support reggae music the most. We just want to show the Japanese that we are here for them. No, not just me Junior Reid and the One Blood family but the whole industry."
He continued: "As foreigners, you don't have no one else in the world who come to Jamaica to get involved in music like Japan. Nuh American, nuh Englishman can compare to them when it come to musical relations to Jamaica. Wi want them to know that the One Blood family respect, and love goes out to them. They support our music, so we affi support them."
They have also been constantly contributing to Haiti since the island was hit by a 7.0-magnitude earthquake last January.
The trio recently released the medley video for their songs, Nah Bow Fi Money and Roll Wid Mi Bredda on Notice Productions' Currant rhythm.
The video was done by overseas-based director Duke, who came to Jamaica specially for the video shoot which was done in areas across Kingston and St Andrew such as Half-Way Tree, Cassia Park, at the One Blood Plaza and in Waterhouse.
"Wi just a deal wid naturality cause naturality is beauty. Wi a deal wid family as usual. In the video wi a show the concept of the songs seh wi nah bow fi nuh money wi rather drive a old Nissan Sunny an yuh see mi a drive the Sunny," said Reid.
The video has thus far attracted over 54,000 views on popular hip-hop website worldstarhiphop.com after only two weeks of being released.
"We have even had videos that got 13 million views in no time. People from overseas have been calling me and asking who are the two young artiste that mi have in the video, dem seh dem bad! When mi a seh those are my two sons, them cyaan believe," said Reid.
Bomb A Drop, another artiste within the One Blood camp, is also aiming to further his musical career this year.
And as for the remainder of the year, Reid says, "A just more music."
Among the other events held at Club View include Look Out Tuesdays, Ladies Fridays and Dancing Neva Die on Saturdays, where a number of popular dancers frequent.
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