Oct 26 2008
Sunday Meditation: Jah Cure
We are living in a new age ladies and gentlemen. We see so-called artists out there in popular music making a living selling gangsta tales that turn out to be more fiction that fact. They create an alternate life history in order to bolster their street cred. Meanwhile, real criminals struggle to try and reform their identity in order to achieve some sense of normalcy in regular society.
One such former convict who is trying to reshape his image is Jah Cure. Born in Hanover Jamaica in 1978, Siccature Alcock was raised in Kingston, and named Jah Cure by Capleton. His debut came in 1997 on the duet with Sizzla entitled “King of the Jungle.” He began working with Beres Hammond, and had a real buzz growing on the reggae scene. Then in 1998, he was arrested and convicted of gun possession and robbery in Montego Bay. He maintains his innocence to this day, but none the less he was sentenced to 15 years. He went on to serve 8 years, all the while releasing albums via access to an old recording device in prison. When he was released in 2007, he dropped an album three days after being paroled entitled Reflections…A New Beginning. His music is always reflective of his experiences, and shows the insight that only troubling times can give a man. In this day and age of fake gangstas and konvicts, take time to meditate on the story of someone who has really been through it.
