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Passa will never die

By GERMAINE SMITH, Staff Reporter

Scenes from Wednesday night's Passa Passa Pool Party. - germaine smith photos

WHAT A PASSA Passa!!

Just as how it was in its early stages, Passa Passa's special pool party edition on Wednesday night did not have the large number of corporate sponsors gripping on to its name. The television stations were not there, and neither were the hordes of 'uptowners' who drove down to visit.

It was just Passa Passa, the hundreds of girls, the street, the video light, the artistes, the market trucks passing, and the dance crews, all alone with the music.

The brand-name street dance, which suffered earlier this year due to tension in West Kingston, laid out a whopping party this Wednesday as if nothing happened, and it couldn't get much better.

Half naked women strutted their stuff around and splashed away in the tiny inflated pools that were scattered about towards either side of the street.

'Wifey pool'

These were the 'swimming pools', and for the purposes of the dance, there was a 'Wifey pool', a 'Matey pool', and a 'Tek a man' pool, plus the 'Madusa pool', specially reserved for Passa Passa's resident character. She avoided her pool, but was her usual self, aggressively patrolling the busy street and looking wildly about.

The splashing, the bathing suits, the camera crew lights and the dozens of dance crews prancing about for them, plus the skylight from the Digicel truck, placed the image on Spanish Town road right in the middle of any Hollywood movie set. It brought back memories of its happier days in 2003, when sheer love for music brought the women out and the sheer love for the women brought the men out behind them.

There was also the usual celebrity turnout with Macka Diamond, John Hype, Mad Michelle, Keiva, and others all involved in the Passa Passa street carnival.

Wednesday night had everything going for it. Nothing was missing.