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Feel Reggae ~ Michie Mee ~ Bad Gyal Revenge

12/27/2018

http://michiemee.com/

As we grow and gain momentum I am focused on not only earning for I self, but to also to generate income for others

Clearly, it has been too long that we have allowed a white supremacist culture to stifle brilliant talent within the black community and stunt our ability{s} to earn

It is incredible the numbers of globally respected and known artists that have contributed to world music, having these racist roadblocks before us, curbing the earning power of artists in the so called "urban" genre

Michie Mee is a globally respected musical icon that took some of her valuable time to come and "Feel Reggae"... Fingazz, Laza and Peter played for her

We talked history, present and future

Her performances displayed clearly that soulful, reggae, R&B, hip hop talent that still has no peer

She is still supremely gifted

I and the room full of fans were treated to conversation on the realness of the industry, ups and downs, triumphs, failures, heartbreak culminated into indelible memories

We all felt proud and honored to have shared a couple of hours with her

In this first video, Michie speaks on getting signed at 14 years old, in the music business and her many experiences along the way

I have gratefully been around the music from the jump as a child growing in Jamaica, to having my own children and growing them in music in the home. My oldest two, Alyssa and Dillan grew up on NUFF music including Michie Mee and stars aligned to bring them together at this event. Dillan aka Dillan Ponders is able to speak with a mentor that he is familiar with

My pride in this moment "feels" nice

Louis March of Zero Gun Violence Movement asking Michie about the meaning of "Resilience" and the need for that in the business and daily life... "Some know the definition yet do not ovastand the meaning"

First performance of the night was "Don't Want To Be Your Slave"

This one is called "No Man" from her current works

This first one of a Smokeshop riddim, "Bad Gyal Revenge" I believe that it is called is Michie's versatility on full display... charisma and charm in full effect as well

This one a tribute women in reggae on se stalag riddim...crucial dancehall flow.... a guy fe know

Click on the pics below to enlarge them

Still moments tell their own stories of some of the "feeling" in the room when we do these events

If any of this resonates with you and you apprecilove seeing Michie Mee, you apprecilove the “Feel Reggae” energy, the apprecilove the performance{s}, the knowledge, feel free to donate as we build a stronger platform for future events

It is no secret that “urban music” as these bigots label it has no bearing in their estimation hence has no future in their minds

Dem cyaa curb we

I ask you the fan base to aid where you can to provide a donation and to forward to other like minded soldiers

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All contributions go toward the continued movement of reggae music as a positive force for our human family

JuLion

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Feel Reggae ~ Why to donate ~ 24th December, 2018

12/24/2018

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Feel Reggae is a program of glorifying self

The genre of reggae has been in Canada for awhile now; over 50 years with zero support

Ever!

I call it racist

You can label it whatever you like

No matter the label, I find the CRTC, City Hall, the CBC and any other organization USELESS to my path

So we create our own path

You see the skill and the quality of talent and knowledge that we bring with each Seminar each month

I spend the next couple of days sifting through photos as well as footage to upload to the CRW blog for global viewing

There will be insight{s} and performances from the original Queen Bee, Michie Mee on her reggae / Hip Hop journey{s}

For those who apprecilove the art, the artists, the music, the genre and wish to aid / support our continued upward movement, please donate generously to our culture

I thank those who have already donated. We were able to rent equipment from Long and McQuade, as well as purchase a hot plate and ingredients for JuLion's  love soup

A heartfelt thank you

Reggae dancehall, hip hop, bring messages that our youth actually hear {listen to}. Feel Reggae generates positive imagery, spirituality and knowledge to the massive

Donate to something positive and strong

Bless,

JuLion

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Garry Lowe ~ Big Sugar ~ 28th December

12/23/2018

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A few months ago, I was looking for mi bredda Garry Lowe

As usual, I’m having a convo with Mojah and I say that I owe Garry a shout and he, Mojah was talking to Garry about some tunes that they were working on / recording

Next day I shouted him and he told me that he was in Texas

His voice was soft

Different

We talked for a while

I was filling him on my Feel Reggae concept a few years earlier because of Raffa. I did not know Raffa Dean was terminally ill at the time

I just thought that, from my experience{s} around live music / reggae music, I had never seen anything like Raffa Dean and what a magician he was behind a kit and his incredible ability to make any band sound better. {I have seen him make shitty bands sound good and great bands greater}

Raffa’s skill was the most unique thing I had ever seen and we are all innately aware that that level of skill cannot be taught, yet a young protégé could “feel” it. I had contacted Raffa maybe three to four months prior to his passing about the concept

So then, right away, I know who a go deh pon bass if Raffa deh pon drum

Garry Lowe

Years later, I am reaching out to one of Canada’s greats, to come speak / perform at a Feel Reggae Seminar and of course he says yes

IBA aka IBADAN aka Garry Lowe was sometimes a real raggamufin, rough neck

Duh cross him

RaLion reminded me of the time a soundman was not able to bring the constant, piercing, feedback sound, popping up every couple of minutes for like ½ hour straight. Never to be seen before or since, Garry Lowe went to a microphone and cuss nuff, fuck, rass and claaat and kick bwoy inna face, if dat fassyhole soundbwoy nuh fix dat ting soon

I was like, “Alrighty then”

Years later, it is one of the funniest things I have ever witnessed. No one else wanted to say anything. Garry did not shy away from that responsibility nor the necessary language it took to fix the situation

He was also a wise councillor. One of the few people that could reprimand or praise with one look

A man who I would quietly seek council from or with and felt a proudness vibe, knowing him

Big Sugar became my band {whatever that means}

Whenever “Digging A Hole” would play, I would run to the TV like a little kid, just to watch de big Lion pon bass

He wasn’t the tallest man yet his presence was BIG

How big?

I watched a white bwoy, Canadian white rock and roll band, somehow move from Hugo Boss sponsorship to the colors of the ites, gold and green of RasTafari

Each year RasTafari shone more with the band’s appearance{s}

Garry’s presence is so big that RasTafari, who he is, lead a rock and roll concept towards RasTafari

Not by words but by deeds

He elevated me

It was clear that RasTafari is his guide and passage through life

He requested that his last ceremony be by RasTafari elders and singers and players of instruments. Xola provided that service

That service elevated the room

It elevated I n I

He seemed to do that for Big Sugar

He certainly did it for his children

I saw his daughters cuddle up to him enough to know that they knew of his love for them and all of his children

He constantly spoke about his children

This lion elevated his community

So proud to have been in his presence and traveled time and roads with him

It’s his earth date 28th December

There’s going to be a celebration of his musical life

I can see that chin popping on this tune

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Feel Reggae ~ Michie Mee

12/17/2018

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Feel Reggae ~ Michie Mee

Global and Canadian Hip Hop icon

Jamaican born

A Jane and Finch lioness

First Canadian MC to sign a record deal with a major American label

Many ups a few downs in this very storied career , first woman MC signed, first ever MC out of Canada, girl / woman in the industry, Hip Hop in Canada, Reggae in Canada, she’s coming to perform a few of her hits, joined by bassie Peter Holung of IBADAN, Laza of Mountain Edge on guitar... drummer to be named

Rated as the first / one of the first to fuse dancehall, roots reggae with Hip Hop beats and lyrical flow

A pioneer

A living legend in our midst... Don’t wait for “them” to come tell you. Come see for yourself

One of the greatest to have ever done it.... AND STILL DOING IT

Hip Hop is another family member of reggae. Come learn how and why. We do this for a living. Come learn from those who “feel” a frequency that can’t be played or understood on the CBC or respected by the CRTC

But we don’t need them

Come “feel” it from those who know it

David Kingston coming to spin some tunes.... early days roots and dancehall vibes

JuLion bought a hot plate so yes, there will be a lovely RasTafari, JuLion, handmade, love sip {soup}
We have room twenty chairs available and another ten to fifteen, standing room for this {Will pre-sell and reserve spaces for those who wish to sit}

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If you can’t make the event in person but look forward to the photos and footage afterward, feel free to donate to the reggae vibes that we bring
Grateful to do this reggae works
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NEWSLETTER ~ Volume 13 ~ Reggae & The UN ~ December 2018

12/4/2018

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One must excuse my skepticism

I do I level best to deal in a loving path of RasTafari which is embodied in the reggae music that inspires me

Nyabinghi drums and spirit drives the core of many including me as it flows in much of the music

Reggae taught me

Reggae continues to council me with truths and rights and touches the moral compass of the planet

It always has

Always will

The reggae soldier has much more of an affinity to Haile Selassie's teachings than it does with the propaganda brought to the sheeple by mainstream media and corrupt politicians

We had a prime minister in Bustamante who reveled in murdering RasTafari

Jamaican people

Alexander Bustamante is no hero. Any leader killing his own people can't be considered as heroic

Since so called independence I don't see an independent Jamaica

We all have the same history books and information and are well aware of The World Bank, The IMF, the CIA, the volume of guns and fire arms the corruption, the ills of being a "third world country", colonial continued racism, bauxite resources stolen, beaches and hotels for white patrons yet no pay for those kept deliberately poor by these divisive powers that surround the culture

I still equate reggae as the type of valuable commodity, if protected by the government, and profits filtered to the people, it would eliminate this fictitious debt we owe to white humans

So maybe that is UNESCO 's path?

Are they protecting reggae for the people?

Are they protecting against those pirates from renaming dancehall riddims so that they never acknowledge Jamaica, Jamaican artists or Jamaican music, and go after them for stealing royalties?

"Tropical House" for instance

Is this the role of UNESCO?

Is the protection a blanket thing?

Does it go after royalties owed to veteran reggae artists?

Skepticism by Rastafari against any colonial government or their initiatives is prudence in my mind

Independence was then and still today a complete farce and completely out of anyone's hand{s} in elevating the life of the Jamaican people

I do hope that a declaration of protection for reggae by the UN finds a path to truly feeding its artists, old and young and further protecting the home of reggae

I'm not trying to throw shade on a possibly really good thing, I just don't know how to push past my skepticism

Time

Time will always be the qualifier

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RasTafari ~ Jamaica ~ Reggae Music

I was 3 years old when this photograph was taken

I somewhat recollect the fear that I had for RasTafari people from then till many years later. They were “dirty rasta” aka “dutty rasta” and “black heart people” and if I saw a RasTaman walk towards me on the sidewalk, I would cross the street {like many others in my formative years}

They were described to me as scary people

As I grew into adolescence, the perception changed as I played ball with RasTafari people and some of my favorite reggae stars, Bob Marley, Big Youth, Jacob Miller, Yabby Yout, Burning Spear and others were RasTafari people. I noticed their consciousness was different not only than my family but also different than the racist rhetoric of the so called middle class

I preferred Bob’s and Jacob’s messages more than the uppity, colonialist horseshit conversations that I was sometimes forced to listen to

Equality for all people

Equal Rights and Justice for all humans

Sell out colonialists don’t like that kind of talk as all seek “station” in life. All seeking the attention from buckingham

Sadly that behavior still rules today. This isn’t just ancient history

This photograph hurts my soul

RasTafari has paid great prices to achieve respect of spiritual humans globally because many sacrificed their lives, without violent retaliation, for their beliefs and doctrines and still praise Haile Selassie I

RasTafari is one of the most respected things about Jamaica and many are still frowned upon today by the bourgeois, wannabe, black, brown and white colonialist Jamaican

This photograph depicts black people, Jamaican people, treating another Jamaican the way the white colonist treated black people as slaves

Jamaicans were encouraged to do that abusive behavior by the Prime Minister at the time, Alexander Bustamante

This photo is taken one year after “independence”

Jamaica has succeeded in putting black colonists in place to carry on the work of their white masters from buckingham

Jamaican black men, police were ordered to kill and abuse other Jamaican black people, RasTafari people and they did it gladly

I find myself staring at this photograph, saddened at the knowledge that NOTHING has changed from that time till this very day

The man considered as “the king of reggae”, Bob Marley, could not get his music played on mainstream radio in Jamaica because of his conversion to RasTafari. It got so difficult that he left the country to go live in the US. This story is well known, yet probably glossed over by Bob’s eventual success

Look / stare at that photo long enough and ovastand that black Jamaicans were killing black Jamaicans

The photo don’t lie

I think of my uncle Woody King when I see this picture. He was beaten and shaved by Jamaican police

He took them to their courts and sued them, and won, making it illegal to trim RasTafari in Jamaica

Legally

Illegal tings gwaan all de while

Still

They act like, “that was then and this is now” yet NONE of their behavior has ever changed

Pinnacle land is nearly non-existent today

Sad

RasTafari has opened so many doors for the world community at large that it is I belief that Jamaica needs this spiritual guidance from RasTafari to help to quell the violence and murder in the country and build an economic community for this island nation

Yet yu dun know, politics and morality cyaa gree

A so

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Feel Reggae ~ Michie Mee ~ Bad Gyal Revenge

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NEWSLETTER ~ Volume 13 ~ Reggae & The UN ~ December 2018

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