With the election just days away, songs dealing with political issues are taking over the airways.

(PRWEB) October 31, 2004 --From JadaKiss to Eminem, they are all taking political Jabs at the current administration. One songs that stands out however is 'Stepping Razor' by Bookman which holds nothing back and lay it all on the table.

First Michael Powell had it out on the air with radio disc jockey Howard Stern. Then before that could cool off, the song ‘Stepping Razor’ by Bookman began picking up a lot of steam on all the major music download sites including Itunes, Napster and NetMusic. The song refers to Colin Powell as a republican who ‘…went from a strong Black man to George Bush’s little slut.’

While the song is critical of the entire administration for their blunders and quick to shoot mentality, it seems to take a harsher stance on Colin Powel than it does on the other major players within the Bush administration.

When ask why such a harsh stance was taken against Colin Powell, Bookman replied: ‘Well I am a Jamaican and he is of Jamaican heritage, so I hold him to a much higher standard than I do Cheney, Bush, Rumsfeld or Rice. When that high standard is compromise then it is only natural that he be shown the errors of his ways through words, powers and sounds. As a matter of fact the Bush administration refers to John Kerry as a flip flopper but if you look at how Colin Powell as change his stance on major issues to fit in with the administration or to try to show the media that he is in agreement with Rumsfeld and Cheney, he is probably the biggest flip flopper of all times. He makes Kerry look like a stubborn bull.’

Bookman disagrees that the song is just jumping on the latest political bandwagon, which has entertainers taking sides with either the Democratic or the Republican Party. ‘Actually this song was released in December of 2003 on the album ‘Any Type War’ but it was only known in the reggae community. It is lately that people are seeing that what is now being talked about daily on CNN and Fox was already mentioned in the song’. The song was released by TCOOO productions which has just released a new album entitled ‘18 Karat Reggae Gold’, Bookman is also on this album, but this time he is in a much calmer mood and is not taking any political jabs. He leaves the political commentaries to his label mates Zego Zaro with songs such as ‘Babylon leave me alone’ and ‘Ring like Bell’. There is also Afayah and Attorney with political songs called ‘That’s how the story goes’ and ‘Heathen no like’ respectively.

Both ‘Any Type war’ containing Stepping Razor and ’18 Karat Reggae Gold’ is available at Amazon and CD Baby (www.cdbaby.com/reggaegold, www.cdbaby.com/anytypewar). The single Stepping Razor along with the other songs from ‘Any Type War’ can be downloaded from Itunes, Napster, Netmusic and almost all other major digital download sites.