Buju-Banton

Buju Banton direction team issued a lengthy statement condemning ABC News for releasing the video footage showing him tasting cocaine in a warehouse.

The controversial video is causing Buju Banton a footling headache and now his team is questioning the motives of releasing the video when he is but months away from being released from prison house. The Grammy-winning reggae star'south release date is prepare for December 8th when he will return to Jamaica and continue his music career. He is currently serving his 10-year sentence at the McRae Correctional Facility in Georgia.

"The timing of the ABC report raises many of import questions: What purpose does this study serve?" Buju Banton management said in a argument sent to Urban Islandz. "Why unseal this dated footage at present, when Myrie is preparing to resume his life and career? And finally, why did a American news network that has previously shown piffling interest in Buju Banton's life and career choose to run a lengthy article that omits crucial and readily available information nigh the example against Mark Myrie?"

Buju Banton has maintained his innocence and was fifty-fifty offered a bargain during the trial where he could've gone home but declined it because he insists that he is innocent. The video footage was shot on December 8, 2009 in a warehouse in Sarasota, Florida where Buju Banton met with government informant Alex Johnson and an secret police force officer posing as a drug dealer. The singer says he was entrapped in the situation and wasn't planning to become through with whatever drug deal. As a thing of fact, on the day the deal went downwardly, he was at his abode 2 hours away in Tamarac, Florida, sleeping.

Buju Banton, whose real name is Mark Myrie, as well thanked his supporters for their support over the years and pledged that he is coming back with some new music when he is released afterward this year.