Bjorn Burke, Staff Reporter

A decision by dancehall artiste Furtyle Brain to have goat horns protruding form his head has not gone down well with a member of the entertainment industry and at least one pastor.

The controversial entertainer has been getting a second glance wherever he makes an appearance, whether it is at the drive-through window, a local fast-food restaurant, shopping at the supermarket, or at a dance promoting his latest single, because of the goat horns.

The artiste claims that the goat horns are not some sort of indication of his involvement in any cult.

"Is a culture. A new look for dancehall. When people see it, dem say it shot, it bad. Nuff people keep stopping me, taking pictures with me. It shot. Dem ah ask if a Halloween. Some people think it ah implant, some people think a hairstyle, and some people say a cult. The way we brain fertile, horn grow through it. Ah Furtyle Brain, yu know!" he said

Furtyle Brain is known for the singles Wickedest Lyricist and Moneyology, among others.

While the artiste has been busy promoting his singles, not everyone is pleased with his horns.

Pastor Bobby Wilmot of the Joy Town Community Development Foundation in Kingston, suggested to THE STAR that the artiste was using the horns as a publicity stunt and warned him of specific Bible verses in Leviticus and Deuteronomy, which presumably speak to modification of the body.

"One of the things is in the scriptures. You must not make any engravings on yourself, or mark yourself up, or do certain things to your body," Pastor Wilmot said.

He said artistes who have taken to using spiritual external forces for promotion may be in danger.

"These young men are playing with dangerous stuff. I would say that any promotion using things I'd refer to as being abnormal, in other words, to attract attention [is of consequence]," he said.

Dub poet and radio personality Mutabaruka also believes the move to be another publicity stunt which many artistes use to garner the attention of the masses.

"The publicity of curiosity is what dem feed pon. Dem don't do nothing to deserve it. As a man come up with a gimmick, everybody jump on it," Mutabaruka said.