Controversial preacher Passion Java has once again lined himself to up compete against dancehall chanter Winky D after he appeared at the recent launch of his album dressed in a similar but rather comical outfit that Winky D wore at the Castle Lager Braai festival.

 Winky D’s outfit sent tongues wagging with people debating what message the dancehall king was sending.

Java, who is not new to emulating Winky D, with his sidekick DJ Towers, went on to dress in similar fashion in Mbare.

 The self-styled prophet took his obsession with Winky D a step further by hiring designer Jay Tee, the same fashion designer who dresses Winky D to make the exact outfit he had made for the Zimdancehall chanter just a fortnight ago.

 Winky D wore a steampunk; a subgenre of science fantasy or science fiction that uses aesthetic design and technology inspired by 19th-century steam-powered machinery.

In fashion, steampunk is a design style inspired by Victorian-era industrialism. It’s embedded with themes and topics such as racism, classism and slavery. 

 Winky D has always sent a message through his music or dressing denouncing classism and social injustice in the country filled with gross injustice, massive corruption and looting and a high rate of inflation and unemployment.

 Winky D first wore the steampunk in the musical video for Happy Again, which highlights how class and race came between his love relationships with the…