Queen Ifrica does not mince words on “Predator’s Paradise”, her song that tackles male sexual exploitation in Jamaica. It was recently released as part of the “The Redemption Project”, a 11-song compilation album by Nuh Rush Records.
Though she has tackled issues such as issues on the 2009 song “Daddy”, Ifrica notes that sexual harassment and molestation has no gender bias.
“I have noticed a trend of male predatorship in Jamaica. For example, there’s this term called men who have sex with men, and we notice that a lot of youths in Jamaica now that they call ‘gully homosexuals’. You see hundreds of youths loitering claiming to be homosexuals, and it’s clear that those youths were abused in many different ways,” she said. “None of them will claim that they are out there on their free will living in the gully and living dirty and in squalor.”
A long-awaited Sexual Harassment Bill targeting sexual harassment in areas such as the workplace, schools and correctional institutions, passed in Jamaica’s Senate in October. That’s around the time Nuh Rush Records released “The Redemption Project” which also has songs by Tony Curtis (“Power of Fear”), Nature Ellis (“Say A Prayer”), Busy Signal (“Never Get Tired”) and Lutan Fyah (“Game is Over”).
Written By Howard Campbell