Chorus:

Be my Valentine… Be my… Be my Valentine

Be my Valentine… Be my… Be my Valentine

I have a boyfriend F Bizzy (I know)

I have a boyfriend F Bizzy (So what)

Verse 1:

Your boyfriend is a loose guy

He doesn’t love you – and yet you’ve tried!

You’ve done everything but the guy is so dry

It’s okay baby I’m here so please don’t cry

Maybe in future, there will be an improvement..

…he’ll be devoted to you and …you’ll forget the money the fool spent…

…on all the other girls – that were not you

Maybe he’ll realise – you’re his true boo!

But in the meantime, he’s still being a player

He’s playing with your feelings, as If he don’t really care

Valentine’s round the corner – and he’s not even there

So this is where I come in, I’m the answer to your prayer!

Chorus:

Be my Valentine… Be my… Be my Valentine

Be my Valentine… Be my… Be my Valentine

I have a boyfriend F Bizzy (I know)

I have a boyfriend F Bizzy (So what)

Be my Valentine… Be my… Be my Valentine

Be my Valentine… Be my… Be my Valentine

Damn it I have a boyfriend!

But he hasn’t made any plans has he?

So, what are suggesting we do?

Verse 2:

Hehehe… slow down sweetie

Let me break it down for you – real nice and easy

I’ll be taking you to a really nice place and you will be very happy coz you’re out with F Bizzy

Yeah, you know I’ll make you feel nice

I’ll go the extra mile so please don’t think twice

I have a big budget set aside for tonight coz I fully understand that love has a price

And When it comes to drinks I’ll apply my manouver..

I’ll buy “Black Ice” – Panty Remover!!!

Yeah, and then we’ll go to my house…

…where I can be the cat and you can be the mouse!!

Chorus:

Be my Valentine… Be my… Be my Valentine

Be my Valentine… Be my… Be my Valentine

I have a boyfriend F Bizzy (I know)

I have a boyfriend F Bizzy (So what)

Be my Valentine… Be my… Be my Valentine

Be my Valentine… Be my… Be my Valentine

I have a boyfriend F Bizzy (I know)

I have a boyfriend F Bizzy (So what – that’s irrelevant)

Verse 3:

So what’s the deal with your man?

What’s his excuse for not giving you a plan?

Valentine’s day is a day for sweet couples

If he has no plan then he should be in trouble!

He says he’s broke…… That’s just pedantic.

If he really loved you he’d try to be romantic!

Bank loans and money lenders, are all there, man I would spend a..

fortune to please you

I’m not tryin to tease you

but your boyfriend misleads you

I’m down on my knees – you…

should be with me let me squeeze you!

So take a chance on me

Instead of spending Valentines lonely!

Chorus:

Be my Valentine… Be my… Be my Valentine

Be my Valentine… Be my… Be my Valentine

I have a boyfriend F Bizzy (I know)

I have a boyfriend F Bizzy (So what)

Be my Valentine… Be my… Be my Valentine

Be my Valentine… Be my… Be my Valentine

I have a boyfriend F Bizzy (I know)

I have a boyfriend F Bizzy (So what)

Related Posts:

• F Bizzy – Be My Valentine (get free mp3s of the song here)
• Be My Valentine – on YouTube

UPDATE:

Related Post:

• F Bizzy – Be My Valentine (get free mp3s of the song here)

Hey fellas,

Make sure you treat your woman to an exquisite night on Valentine’s Day, because if you don’t….!!

Download:

• F Bizzy – Be My Valentine
• F Bizzy – Be My Valentine (Extended Version)
• F Bizzy – Be My Valentine (Acapella Version)
• F Bizzy – Be My Valentine (Extended Acapella Version)

REMIXES:

• F Bizzy – Be My Valentine (featuring ENYGMA)
• F Bizzy – Be My Valentine (Swangz Avenue Remix)
• F Bizzy – Be My Valentine (Romantic Remix) NEW! 

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• F Bizzy – Be My Valentine (LYRICS)
• Be My Valentine – on YouTube

[Link to the mp3 of the debate at the bottom of the article]

Background:

On December 18th 2012, I posted a status update on Facebook in which I argued that the antics of Martin Ssempa and his fellow anti-gay activists were creating a climate of tolerance for homosexuals due to the increased exposure they were giving the subject:

Whether knowingly or unknowingly, the likes of Martin Ssempa have become top ‘promoters’ of homosexuality in Uganda – in other words, they have become the very things they despise. The way he goes on and on about it, the ridiculous stunts he pulls in public (e.g. screening hardcore gay porn in church), making a fool of himself on TV today, etc. His efforts have done nothing but ‘advertise’ homosexuality. Even my mother was like "can’t he just STFU already, because now all the kids are curious about homosexuality!" Many people have told me the same thing (and the people telling me this are staunchly anti-gay, mind you).

Thanks to all this anti-gay crusading and hysteria by Ssempa, Bahati, et al.. homosexuality is now everywhere. Its featuring prominently in our newspapers, on our TVs, and is the number one subject highlighted by politicians and clergymen alike, at public functions. It is one thing that literally everybody is talking about now, and YET before all this bullshit drama was started by the anti-gay activists, it was a taboo subject that remained outside the realm of public discourse.

Let’s talk about the anti-homosexuality bill.

The bill, even if it does get passed, will be ineffective (at best) and unenforceable (at worst) in curtailing homosexuality activity. There will simply never be a successful prosecution of a person charged under that law, and if anyone is ever charged, it is also highly likely that the law will be repealed in the constitutional court (seeing as it violates several already existing constitutionally guaranteed rights).

So guess what… I actually now WANT this bill to pass. You know why? Because I can’t wait to see the confused looks on people’s faces as they realise that not a damn thing has changed. Meanwhile, gay activists like Pepe and Frank Mugisha are going to be swimming in gay rights activism money from overseas thanks to all the sympathy that has been generated by the actions of local hate mobs here. Pretty soon people will stop caring (and many already have), and this will become a long-forgotten issue. People will eventually just get on with their lives to focus on more important things. Gay people will simply continue to exist, as they always have since time immemorial. Nothing will have changed, except that now homosexuality will have been completely demystified, thanks to all the free ‘promotion’ the anti-gay crusaders gave it.

If ever there was a worse case of people shooting themselves in the foot, I am yet to hear of it.

At the end of the day, what two consenting adults do in their privacy should be no one’s business but theirs. In case you didn’t know, the Penal Code Act was amended in 2007 to make defilement gender neutral offense. Girls and Boys in Uganda are protected equally under the law, from defilement. Of course, that’s something these anti-gay bigots never tell you, because they believe you are ignorant (and for the most part most of you have proven them right, I’m sorry to say).
If homosexuality is against the wishes of ‘God’, then let ‘God’ deal with them on judgement day. You have your own shit to worry about – after all, no one is "without sin", according to your very own bibles. Remember the story of Jesus and the adulterer in John’s Gospel? Try and remember what Jesus told the angry mob that wanted the woman stoned to death in that story.

Right now, YOU are that angry mob.

Stop the hate. Hate never wins.

[Full post, with comments, here.]

A few days later Andrew Mwenda wrote in the Independent, echoing my views with regards to the unintended consequences of the continuous exposure that homosexuality was receiving in the media, courtesy of those that worked incessantly to publicly vilify homosexuals:

As Red Pepper continued its publication of Mubiru’s pornographic pictures, the anti gay lobby was ridding unprecedented momentum. With a tidal wave of public anger on their side, the bill may now sail through parliament easily. Pastor Martin Ssempa took the initiative to launch his foray against gays – again making no distinction between sex acts between two consenting adults and those of adults with minors. To many inside and outside Uganda, the cause for gay rights seemed lost as the pictures incite the worst homophobia in years. Yet I think the best thing to have happened to the cause of gay rights in Uganda was Red Pepper publication of Mubiru pictures.

The best way to fight bigotry and prejudice is to generate public debate about the issue under contention. Constant conversation and debate about a contentious issue promotes the spread of knowledge which in turn fosters tolerance leading to acceptance. When any new idea is suggested, it is initially rejected, then debated, later accommodated and, sometimes, finally accepted.

This is what we learn from Galileo, when he first suggested that the world is round; or from Charles Darwin, when he published his theory of evolution. In both cases, their findings produced condemnation with the church leading the attack. After heated debate, people began to listen more, learn and understand. Today, most enlightened people believe the world is round.

It is for this reason that although the subjective motivation for MP David Bahati to introduce his anti-gays bill was bad for the gays, the objective outcome of his action will be good for gay rights in Uganda. The Bahati bill has generated the most debate on gay rights. With time, it will lead to tolerance and acceptance.

[Full article here.]

Martin Ssempa got wind of my widely circulated Facebook status update and also read Mwenda’s article. He then invited both of us to participate in a debate with him on Kingdom FM (where he hosts a regular talk show) to challenge us on our contention that the efforts of anti-gay activists like himself, rather than ‘curb’ homosexuality, were instead serving to promote tolerance of it.

I was in the studio with Ssempa during the debate. Andrew Mwenda participated via Skype (he was in Kigali at the time).

Download: Pastor Ssempa, James Onen & Andrew Mwenda Debate Homosexuality on Kingdom Radio – Jan 2nd 2013 (21.6mb)

[Episode Duration: 1:34:44]

Related podcast:

• FBUP Episode 012: Evaluating the Case Against Homosexuality in Uganda

 

I’m the guy on the left walking off the plank

In this week’s rant I talk about people and their over-dependency on the government. And why I’ve chosen to opt out of the never-ending debate on how to improve it.

Download: Fatboy Unplugged – Episode 014 – Weekly Rant 06/05/12 (3.82MB)

[Episode Duration: 16:40]

• Rising youth unemployment in Uganda

• Ebinyebwa

• Where have the ‘real’ men gone?

• Beyoncé

Download: Fatboy Unplugged – Episode 013 – Weekly Rant 29/04/12 (9.54MB)

[Episode Duration: 41:40]

Many among us have declared homosexuality to be ‘unnatural, and this ‘unnaturalness’ being one of the reasons we say homosexuality is to be resisted. Some among us also like to argue that homosexuality is un-African – being a Western import – and for that reason it too should be resisted in order for us to preserve what some call our African traditional values.

There are those who say homosexuality will lead to the extinction of man if it were accepted, the worry being that people would no longer be reproducing since they would marry members of the same gender. It is further alleged that homosexuals ‘recruit’ children into homosexuality – and are targeting them in secondary schools. It is also the case that according to most people’s religious beliefs, ‘God’ hates the act – and thus in the interest of fulfilling these moral demands of ‘God’, homosexuality should never be condoned in society.

For these and other reasons, most people in this country feel that homosexual acts should (be) remain a criminal offense (as is currently the case). In 2009 a bill was introduced that sought to put people to death for being a homosexual person. Today in Uganda there is what might best be described as hysteria about the purported dangers of homosexuality.

In this podcast, I want to  discuss the reasons I have heard people give for considering homosexuality to be a threat to the country, and why I think those reasons fail. I will also proceed to make a case for why laws criminalizing consensual sex between adults of the same sex should be scrapped.

Download: Fatboy Unplugged – Episode 012 – Evaluating the Case Against Homosexuality in Uganda (27MB)

[Episode Duration: 1:55:41]

• The Uganda Constitution
• Penal Code Act of Uganda
• Penal Code Act amended in 2007 to make defilement gender neutral offense. Girls and Boys in Uganda are protected equally under the law, from defilement.
• According to a 2008 study funded by the World Bank, 43,000 girls in P5 to P7, roughly between 10 and 14 years old, have been sexually abused by their teachers. (New Vision – August 2nd 2008)
• The Indian Penal Code (1860) drafted by Sir Thomas McCaulay was later reproduced in most other British colonies – and to date many of these laws are still in effect in former colonies, including Uganda and Singapore. Laws classifying ‘sodomy’ a criminal offense in Uganda originated from this adopted code.
• Oral and Anal Sex decriminalised for HETERO-sexuals in Singapore in 2007.
• Natural law, is a system of law which is purportedly determined by nature, and thus universal. Many theologians and churches argue that oral sex between men and women is a violation of natural law. Here are two examples, the Global Catholic Network, and Presentation Ministries.
• Unnatural act “is the term, once common in legal parlance, for certain sex acts, including anal sex, oral sex, other non-procreative sexual practices, incest, or procreative sexual acts in the wrong position or without procreative intent.” So according to this definition, oral sex between a man and a man, doggy-style sex, woman on top of man, masturbation, as well as the use of any contraceptives (or even condoms) constitutes an unnatural act. Shall we lock up everyone, then?
• Biblical passages denouncing fornication: (Lev. 21:9; 19:29; Deut. 22:20-11, 23-29; 23:18; Ex. 22:16, Matt. 5:32; 19:9; John 8:41; Acts 15:20, 29; 21:25; Rom. 1:29; 1 Cor 5:1, 6:13, 18, 7:2; 10:8; 2 Cor 12:21; Gal 5:19; Eph 5:3; Col 3:5; 1 Thess. 4:3; Jude 1:7; Rev. 2:14, 20-21; 9:21; 14:8; 17:2,4)
• Biblical passage advocating the stoning to death of girls found not to be virgins on their wedding day: Deuteronomy 22:13-21
• Biblical passage advocating the stoning to death of children who disobey their parents: Deuteronomy 21:18-21
• Scientific consensus on sexual orientation.
• Pastor Martin Ssempa claims that all homosexuals  ‘Eat Da Poo Poo’.
• Canyon Ridge Church (Las Vegas, USA) and the financial support it gives Martin Ssempa.
• Canyon Ridge Church later issues a statement distancing itself from Martin Ssempa’s and his efforts to push the anti-homosexuality bill, and says they ‘condemn acts of violence against any person regardless of sexual orientation.’
• David Bahati’’s link with ‘The Family’ (a.k.a The Fellowship), a secretive religio-political organisation based in the United States.
• George Oundo confesses, in an interview with the New York Times, to having been bribed to lie about homosexuals to the Ugandan public.
• The experiment that shows that people who are extremely homophobic paradoxically tend to be  much more highly aroused by homosexual imagery than those who are not, suggesting they might have yearnings they may be in denial of. (My own take on this is that the hatred such people show towards homosexuals is probably an external projection of their internal self-loathing arising from the inner conflict as revealed by this experiment. They are taught to denounce homosexuality as an abomination, yet they find themselves with naturally arising cravings they cannot seem to shake off. By being seen as staunchly opposed to homosexuality, they might feel they are vindicating themselves and assuaging their self-inflicted guilt. Evidently, many end up giving in to these urges, which is why we see that very many vocal anti-gay religious crusaders eventually tend to be exposed as being secretly gay themselves. This has happened far too many times for it to be simple coincidence).
• Abstinence-only campaign leads to increase in HIV prevalence in Uganda.
• Rwanda’s Minister of Justice, Tharcisse Karugarama, on how Rwanda has no plans to criminalize homosexuality.

• MPs trying to restore presidential term limits
• The Arab Spring – a revolution that wasn’t
• Corporate urban women in Uganda opting for artificial insemination
• Kids are into NIcki Minaj’s music, apparently
• Titie cohabited with a guy and she says they abstained?
• Rihanna
• Etc

Download: Fatboy Unplugged – Episode 011 – Weekly Rant 22/04/12 (12.4MB)

[Episode Duration: 52:49]

• Resumption of Fatboy Unplugged podcasts
• The death of Professor George Wilberforce Kakoma (the composer of the Ugandan national anthem) and the opportunistic politicians trying to leech off his legacy
• Mugabe ain’t dead yet
• Kanye West, Kim Kardashian  and her on-going divorce
• How the internet is killing you
• Etc

Download: Fatboy Unplugged – Episode 010 – Weekly Rant 14/04/12 (6.7MB)

[Episode Duration: 37:54]

• There was no medicine in the national referral hospital
• The roads were shit
• The schools were shit
• Everything was shit

And guess what? NOTHING HAS CHANGED SINCE.

Someone had to do a song about it at the time, right? Who else, but FATBOY!!!!!

Download: Fatboy – Are We On For CHOGM (3.94MB)

(This song is a satire about the ridiculousness of the government blowing money on useless things yet there is so much else to do with the meagre resources this country has)

Lyrics..

Intro

Young boy: Hey fatboy!

Fatboy: Yo, what’s up?

Young boy: Its 2007 the year of the CHOGM. Are we ready or what?

Verse 1

It’s 2007 and the country is excited

With everything happening you can see this town is united

Now you can see everybody’s trying to keep Kampala clean

But what does CHOGM mean?

5,000 delegates are going to be flying into this town

For 2 weeks they’ll be around for this big thing going down

Its a big conference for the people of the Commonwealth

The Queen is coming to town

Bridge

They said that they would fix the potholes

They said the roads would be so smooth

Just look around, you’ll see that, they didn’t mean that

I wonder if we will be on time!

Chorus

So are we on for CHOGM?

(Yes, as you can see)

Are we still on for CHOGM?

(Maybe we should all just pray)

So are we on for CHOGM?

(You better believe)

Are we still on for CHOGM?

Oooh uhuh…. it’s okay

Verse 2

All the money they’ve spent trying to make Kampala look like Chicago

Yet they can’t pay doctors, and there’s no medicine in Mulago

Why can’t somebody tell them how they should spend all this money

Do we know our priorities?

They told the kids of Shimoni “Sorry, you guys gotta go..”

“See, we’re selling your school but meanwhile you can go to East Kololo..”

“Some guys have bought thins land coz they want to build a hotel..”

“So bye bye – we wish you well!”

Bridge

And up to now the place is empty

There’s no hotel and there’s no school

Well its absurd but it seems that, you if try and think back

Was what they did with it really cool?

Chorus

So are we on for CHOGM?

(Yes, as you can see)

Are we still on for CHOGM?

(Maybe we should all just pray)

So are we on for CHOGM?

(You better believe)

Are we still on for CHOGM?

Oooh uhuh…. it’s okay

Verse 3

Let’s make the most of the conference underway

The whole world will say that Uganda is okay

We’ll get so many tourists who saw Uganda on TV

They’ll see that even us we can also host the Queen

Be good.. be nice… and remember to always smile, baby

Let the delegates see that Uganda is really worth their while, baby

So my people don’t say that CHOGM has nothing to do with you

Its your country so just do what you have to do

Bridge

I know they said they’ll fix the fix the potholes

They said the roads would be so smooth

And things are not so perfect, but we should respect

What they’ve been able to do

Chorus

So are we on for CHOGM?

(Yes, as you can see)

Are we still on for CHOGM?

(Maybe we should all just pray)

So are we on for CHOGM?

(You better believe)

Are we still on for CHOGM?

Oooh uhuh…. it’s okay

Young boy: Uhuh, so?

End