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Roots, Reality & Culture

Our third contribution to the Blogariddims podcast series after An England Story and last year's Spanish-language mix La Ola De Calor.

Roots, Reality & Culture is another themed mix, focusing on dancehall with a social conscience: positive, political, uplifting and thought-provoking music on themes including ghetto sufferation, guns, drugs and politics. There's more where this came from - in Volumes 2 and 3 of this series, other themes covered will range from rape to terrorisim, religion to domestic violence, safe sex to race and feminism to murder. For the full blurb accompanying this mix, visit our blog.

Tracklist

1. Bounty Killer - Roots, Reality & Culture
2. Bounty Killer - Look
3. Bounty Killer & Bunny Rugs - Down In The Ghetto
4. Bounty Killer - Sufferer
5. Richie Stephens - Jamdown Riddim
6. Copper Cat - Tings Tuff
7. George Nooks, Beres Hammond, Bounty Killer, Junior Kelly, Richie Stephens, Morgan Heritage, Nitty Kutchie & Tony Rebel - Peace Cry
8. Kezi - Ghetto News
9. Beenie Man - My Wish
10. Assassin - Visa Line
11. Kiprich & Wesley Diamond - Gun Ting
12. Buju Banton - Opportunity
13. Sean Paul - Next Generation
14. Sean Paul - Sufferer
15. Yellowman - Orphan
16. Pinchers - Desperate Scenario
17. Capleton - No War
18. Super Cat - Too Greedy
19. Top Cat - No Coke Pipe
20. Clement Irie - Koloko
21. Tanya Stephens - What A Day
22. Gyptian - Serious Times
23. Admiral Tibet, Shabba Ranks & Ninjaman - Serious Time
24. Chuck Fender - Serious Time Now
25. Assassin - Serious Time
26. Queen Ifrica - Peace & Love
27. Little Hero - Put Down De Gun
28. Tony Rebel - Guns & Ammunition
29. Busy Signal - Too Much Gun
30. Twins Of Twins - Bridge My Light
31. Wayne Marshall - Peace
32. Vybz Kartel - Emergency
33. Vybz Kartel - Rise
34. Suncycle - Somebody
35. Sizzla - Live And Do Right

Some quotes from the lyrics:

• "Mama she a sufferer, papa him a sufferer, can't mek mi children grow up and turn sufferer" - Bounty Killer, Sufferer
• "Killing off we brothers and sisters could never ever help us now" - Copper Cat, Tings Tuff
• "Poor people can't afford good food to eat while the rich man giving dog expensive meat" - Kezi, Ghetto News
• "No disrespect to the leader of finance but all now ghetto youth no give him real thanks. You give man big guns and big bombs and every day ghetto youth kill another one" - Beenie Man, My Wish
• "Politics and poverty, corruption and crime make every man go join the visa line" - Assassin, Visa Line
• "Gas price gone to the sky, every day a ghetto youth head fly, fi hunger the kids dem a cry, nuff a di youths give up and nah try" - Kiprich, Gun Ting
• "Every day a next man lose dem head dem find a next baby dead in a di bed. What gonna happen to we next set a yout dem? What gonna happen to we next generation?" - Sean Paul, Next Generation
• "You see di crack a dangerous ting dat: it mek you sell off everything dat you got. Leave all the drugs alone, I beg unno leave all the drugs alone" - Clement Irie, Koloko
• "I want you listen to the tune, crack it a mash up the future in the youth" - Super Cat, Too Greedy
• "I'm tired of life and death being sold as a pair and politicians who keep saying they care" - Tanya Stephens, What A Day
• "We need some more peace and love" - Queen Ifrica, Peace & Love
• "It is funny how the gun was created by man and the biggest victim a them same one. Them not stop contribute to them destruction" - Tony Rebel, Guns & Ammunition
• "Two party but ah di same sad song dem a play: Poor People, Money, Lean Back and Rock Away. Question: Kingston mek no AK, how gun come inna JA? Who run the wharf and the airpot, the docks and the bay?!" - Vybz Kartel, Emergency
• "First thing: get some work fi di youths - every single one of them" - Vybz Kartel, Rise
• "I can be somebody, you can be somebody, and we can be somebody - say I'm somebody, you're somebody" - Suncycle, Somebody
• "Too much cholesterol in your food - vegetable is good for your health. We got to live and do what's right - we got to put the war aside" - Sizzla, Live And Do Right

Feedback

• "Another superlative reggae/dancehall mix from the Heatwave crew" - Droid (WEAREIE)