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Linton Kwesi Johnson - Bass Culture - 1980

https://friendica.world/display/84b6ef2b-1068-1e34-8b10-c2b236077989

New album of French dub producer Brain Damage available now.
It's a collaborative album co-realized with Mad Professor and the Japanese singer Emiko Ota mainly inna dub-poetry style.

https://braindamagedub.bandcamp.com/album/oide-oide

#braindamagedub #madprofessor #emikoota #ariwa #dubmusic #dub #emodub #dubpoetry #reggae

🇯🇲 Linton Kwesi Johnson "Want Fi Goh Rave" Long Version - 1979 (Generic sleeve)
#dubpoetry #reggae #dub #dubmusic #vinyl

Time Come - Linton Kwesi Johnson
#warningsunheeded #dubpoetry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fN0i5KMlJ-8

Linton Kwesi Johnson, “Sonny’s Lettah”. I lived in Streatham and would catch the tube from Brixton to get to work. I would see the SPG vans regularly. Horrible, horrible policing.

#nowPlaying #DubPoetry #LintonKwesiJohnson

https://youtu.be/7uvY5qU7ayg?si=BtOKE9lFwSRgDDh0

New Sonic Poetries today was maybe the coolest thing I've ever been to!!! If you're near OCAD tomorrow, you should see if you can get tickets.

https://www.ocadu.ca/event/new-sonic-poetries-toronto

#BrockUniversity #NiagaraON #NiagaraArtistsCentre #STC #Poetry #SoundPoetry #Dub #DubPoetry #SpokenWord #Music #CanLit #Toronto #BrockUniversity #BrockU #OCAD #LillianAllen

Black "petit bourgeois" :)))
_____

"Dem a black petty-booshwah
Dem full of flaw
Dem a black petty-booshwah
Dem full of flaw

Dem a run-up dem mout' an' a shout all about
Tru dem have a lat a dou't 'bout di stren't af blacks
Dem a run-up dem mout'
An' a shout all about
But w'en wi launch wi attack
Dem wi' haffi dress back"

"Di black petty Booshwah"
(LKJ. 1980)

#MMRplaylist #PouetRadio #DubPoetry #Patwah #BassCulture_LP #LKJ #LintonKwesiJohnson #BlackMastodon

https://video.liberta.vip/w/cTHsHyR7pNtdXDa35hYyLj

Chronique ordinaire de violences policières dans le quartier jamaïcain du Londres des années 70.

Celle-ci finit très mal pour celui qui a osé relever la tête.

"Sonny's lettah"
( Linton "Kwesi" Johnson. 1978)

#MMRplaylist #PouetRadio #SpokenWords #DubPoetry #Dubwize #LKJ #ACAB #BlackMastodon #Resist

https://video.liberta.vip/w/3Nja4ibFGMVdRetUqZ2Wns

RIP Benjamin, you were unique. #DubPoetry #reggae

The album cover of Rasta by Benjamin Zephaniah on a turntable

Benjamin Zephaniah - Rasts (1982) #Reggae #DubPoetry
https://open.spotify.com/album/6bsKtIjwDGomzkY0tQATkH?si=i6RMaalhR6axNH_j42rwag

https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2023/dec/07/british-poet-benjamin-zephaniah-dies-aged-65

#BenjaminZephaniah has died of a brain tumour aged 65. He was diagnosed 8 weeks ago. I met him twice in school settings

#poetry #dubPoetry

People can endure oppression but for so long.
_____

"I did warn yu
when yu fling mi inna prison
I did warn yu
when yu kill Oluwale
I did warn yu
when yu beat Joshua Francis
I did warn yu
when yu pick pan de Panthers
I did warn yu
when yu jack mi up gainst de wall, ha didnt bawl
but I did warn yu

now yu si fire burning in mi eyes, smell badness pan mi breat,
feel vialence, vialence, vialence,
vialence burstin outta mi look out!
it too late now."

"Time come"
(LKJ. 1979)

#Opression #Violence #Racism #Apartheid #DubPoetry #Colonialism

https://video.liberta.vip/w/3jMe3j2GXT4Fm4GGHG78oN

but I did warn yu

Time for some Reggae and a bit of Dub Poetry from Linton Kwesi Johnson. From his 1979 album Forces Of Victory a song about the UK Sus law, Sonny's Lettah (Anti-Sus Poem)

https://youtu.be/uKt2piV6U6s

Linton Kwesi Johnson at Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linton_Kwesi_Johnson

Don't forget to listen to The Groove Yard at:
https://www.accessmedia.nz/ProgrammePage.aspx?PID=bd513235-08f8-4f47-a358-02a2230dd55e

#Podcast #Podcasts #Music #TrackOfTheDay #Reggae #DubPoetry #1970s #LintonKwesiJohnson #SonnysLettahAntiSusPoem

Linton Kwesi Johnson: Selected Poems

#LKJ #DubPoetry #LintonKwesiJohnson

The Veranda Poems by Jean 'Binta' Breeze - how I hear the poems in her voice.

"I have sat on Jamaican verandahs in my two visits to the birth country of my parents. I have never sat on Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze’s verandah. Yet, as I read through this book of poems I could imagine being with her on her verandah, hearing the poems in her voice."

https://open.substack.com/pub/marjoriemorgan/p/the-verandah-poems-by-jean-binta?r=lvl6h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

#Poetry #JeanBintaBreeze #Jamaica #DubPoetry #Poet #Newsletter #MarjoriesMusings #Friendship

Book cover of The Verandah Poems by Jean 'Binta' Breeze showing Jean sitting on her verandas with a view through an open gate to a bar across the road. There are several green trees framing the image, and to the right are glimpses of a bright blue sky that indicates the heat of the day in the Jamaican countryside.

"Want fi goh rave"
(LKJ. 1979)

Great song about the hardness of life and how broken youth dealt with it.
LKJ sings it in jamaican patwa but it's easily understandable, or at least guessable.
Enjoy.

#MMRplaylist
#Reggae #DubPoetry #LKJ #Patwa #Creole

https://video.liberta.vip/w/xyfYTxAmXbTkZrkXDx8qFs

"Fite dem back"
(Linton Kwassi Johnson. 1979)

"Fashist an di attack
Wi wi' fite dem back

Fashist an di attack
Den wi countah-attack
Fashist an di attack
Den wi drive dem back

We gonna smash their brains in
'Cause they ain't got nofink in 'em
We gonna smash their brains in
'Cause they ain't got nofink in 'em"

#MMRplaylist #DuBPoetry #Dub #Reggae #Patwa #LKJ #Antiracism #antifascism