inate resort hotels from the Cayman Islands to St. Lucia. The calypsonian performing the song usually grabs his crotch as he sings the refrain, eyeing his white audience suggestively. The tourists seem enthralled, if abashed: males look away, embarrassed, while their female companions titter nervously. The black staff glance at one another knowingly. Meanwhile, in contemporary danceall and reggae, lyrics boasting of sexual performance and hood size are more common than ever. The sexually explicit songs of popular DJs like Shabba Ranks (Stamina Daddy), Lady Saw (Wining Skill), and Little Lenny (Nine Inches Long and Coming) propagate the myth of the big bamboo at home and abroad.
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