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Buju Banton is a Rasta in a deep hole

Since Sunday, since Jamaica's international reggae artiste Buju Banton's arrest by the DEA for involvement in a cocaine drug deal, speculation has been rife. Given his run in with the homosexual community, some wondered if it was a set up by members of the community. Other persons are simply in shocked that Banton could be mixed up with cocaine and not marijuana(weed). The interesting thing is, according to DEA someone tipped them off about the Buju's interest in purchasing the 'stuff'. According to the Gleaner they have the tape and another newspaper expounds on how Buju and his co-accused got caught. The interesting thing about this was a few years ago he did a song "Driva" that ironically seem to be about drug running and the Driver was told to deliver a package and not to stop at all. This time the 'Driva' got caught. For those who have read the affidavit related to another case in Jamaica there is a interesting similarity. In both case the