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Love & Relationship Advice ~ 40hz Steinjah ~ Dub Chronicles ~ Dubmatix

5/8/2021

Love and Relationship Advice

I certainly have none

None

I have loved and lost like everyone else

I have loved and gained tons as well

Love, is how you treat yourself

If you treat yourself with care and love, you inform others how you wish to be treated, even if they don’t love you

They will follow your lead and treat you with love based on your example/s

It is therefore easier to spot those who wish to dim your light with their abuse energy

We choose to go or stay in many of these relationships

Where we / I fall short, is where ego shows up

You hear angry men speak about women not measuring up and giving advice to GENERATIONS of youth they speak with. Most based in abuse behaviors

Women think of men as toxic and untrustworthy and dole out advice to the next young girl coming up, again all based in abusive behaviors

An impossible cycle to break

Relationship advice fills up blogs, magazine and news stands all over the globe doling out a bunch of words from humans who are total failures in relationships for HUGE profit

Folks who do not know love cannot teach you with word

Love is clear

I accept zero abuse

I do not believe that the “advice” we need is about how to ‘relationship’. I believe it is about each seeking the abuser within, accept its existence and be responsible for your / our behavior. If you have sentences that sound like, “that’s just how I am” or “I can’t control how you take the truth” or “you are constantly pulling my triggers” or “you are too sensitive” or any other of these responses, that is an unhealthy space

“Love” does not conquer all

Individual honor and integrity are also needed

SEINJAH ~ Jenn Stein

After years of promoting and curating events as 40hz productions, steinjah was looking for opportunities to better showcase the music she loved. Teamed up with partner Jon Spyne they soon created the 40hz sound system and immediately started touring forests and warehouses with their giant stack of speakers.

Once a proper sound was established the lure to control it was unstoppable and now steinjah can be found in the dj booth dropping bass heavy jams from reggae to hip hop and her joie de vivre attitude can be felt throughout her sets - a vibe not to be missed.

www.40hzsoundsystem.ca

for mixes:
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www.dubplate.fm/steinjah

affiliations: 40hz soundsystem

Tech Rider: 2 CDJ 2000nx2 linked, 1 DJM 900nx2 (or better)

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Jenn and Jon love reggae

They love dub

They love music

They love SOUND

It is a pleasure to have shared some reggae journey with these two and their fan base, with more vibez to come

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A DUBMATIX collaboration outta de UK

Rebel Producer Kaya Street is releasing his debut single, “Fire in the Street”, from the EP Dark|Light 2020 which has already gained backing from internationally renowned reggae producer Dubmatix.

Let me know if you’d like to set up an interview with Kaya Street, or if you would like more information - happy to provide anything you need. I’ve included all links below alongside the press release for easy access.

Thank you for your time, it’s really appreciated.

Private single link: https://soundcloud.com/kaya-street/fire-in-the-street/s-vGVhdFHhHci
Teaser Video: https://youtu.be/Zj63UfH83eU
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Teenage Depression ~ The Dub Chronicles

5/4/2021

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Teen depression today

I have had the honor of friends reaching out and having me speak to their 14 year old boy. They believed his respect for me would somehow elevate him; and a one and one between us occurred

We were both uplifted

His elevation allowed mine to become even more enhanced

I’m fitter now because on top of a couple of pointers, I insisted he start working out. I caught a glimpse of him a few times since, and he is doing his thing. I stopped missing my workouts... lmaoooo

Little man was going through a situation wrought with the type of violence no child needs to be living with, nowhere to turn and no one to turn to, his depressive state was evident

This is only one example

Many teenagers today are facing this “crisis” of a pandemic

With everyone around them on heightened alert, raw terror and anger, no school, no sports, no gyms, our children / teenagers are being sand blasted with it all

They are not yet equipped with the living knowledge that humanity moves on to its next crisis. Or that their own 201,458th crises are still coming and what they currently lack is that knowledge

Sometimes, speak to your friend’s children or have uncle, auntie whomever, reason with a youth, whomever they feel a vibe with

Some of us will blame the government because they themselves have zero intentions of taking on the responsibility of their / our own children

We are all struggling

That’s the truth but we gotta let the youths know, we have made it through many struggles and this is another one and no matter where it ends up, we will be through this too... and another crisis is on the way

Help out our youths

The government?

Ok

This one is truly on you / me

I’m NEVER suggesting this fixes teen depression

I’m saying I have seen direct positive result based on direct contact, enough times of positive feedback, to not share such thoughts and hope others use it around millions of children... or just the one who is thinking of suicide

Help where you can

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Gil Scott-Heron ~ Storm Music

Through the years, I have come to know that Gil Scott-Heron’s father, a Jamaican was the first black man to play for the Glasgow

Celtic in Scotland back in the 40s or 50s

So during his jazzy, bluesy, funky, hip hop life, he had to touch a reggae tune

He called it “Storm Music”, saying there was no music like it in the whole wide world

This funk, jazz hip hop innovator

Listening to this song, you know exactly what he means

There is a reggae language and then there is an every other language

Introduce your children to Gil Scott-Heron

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Music industry realities for Reggae music ~ Neto Yuth

5/2/2021

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Music industry realities for reggae music, Canada and globally

First and foremost, I am a fan of music

Music

Every single genre has a song or two or ten or ten thousand songs that I like

Music is a spiritually floating energy that binds, connects, releases a oneness within the souls of all who feel it

Not everyone can feel it

We must stop having those who make the rules, who do not feel it, to refrain from making decisions on the path of music to me... to you

The construct is set

Everything can be eventually weaponized against the sheeple

The “music industry” weaponized themselves with the use of profit control

{Sam Cooke, really look up his story}

We all have had to learn the hard way

Weaponized so that they maintain the most profit possible, some 99.9999125% by paying artists almost zero for MILLIONS of streams

Not an experience that we haven’t all lived and MUCH more scenarios and other experiences

I used to scream and yell like everyone and stay angry about a situation that was futile

“They” own the music

Or so they would like us to feel

It is how I once felt which is why I said it was futile

Then I thought of the art

The feel

The spirit connect

Why do you make art?

To express a spiritual conversation

Spirit cannot be controlled

Spirit creates its own space

The construct rules the game today and has ruled it from the beginning

Having gained this experience as a fan, promoter, dancer, a human, marketing director at an indie label (Alchemy Records), I, like spirit, must be flowing energy, without limit, creating a path to making positive changes in our own space

The construct still rules the game and will continue to squeeze tighter

Spirit cannot be controlled

I see a path here in Canada to create a unique vibe, bringing a reggae spirit to the people

Reggae is a natural spiritual bond

Those who feel it know it

We need a path that we create for self

Stay in my lane

Walk in the reggae lane

Our own path.... within the construct

Canada has a great reggae culture but not an industry

The “change” we seek is ours to make

Neto Yuth

In promoting this newsletter, I asked fans, artists and friends to mention an artist who they would love to share with my reggae community, as a point of interest

An artist, First Lady, Tonya P suggested Neto Yuth

Perfect

I have been watching him for a time now and felt that he and I should reason anyway

Canadian Reggae World needed to know this artist who seems to only be putting out conscious music, lyrics, vision, from what I gather when I listen to his work

We met up for a half hour conversation that turned into three hours and we still haven’t scratched the surface of more conversation

It is pleasant and a blessing to meet an artist / performer, whose lyics in his songs match the personality you are talking to

He mentioned that RasTafari found him first and then reggae music morphed within his transition

It is abundantly clear when reasoning with him

Montreal, Jamaica, Toronto is this RasTafari lion

Below is about an hour of his works that I have been listening to

Meet Neto Yuth

Dj Khaled, Buju, Capleton, Bounty, Barrington

Mascot leader says that foreigners are “hijacking” the music of Jamaica

Mascot fe gwey

Mascot speaks of the dancehall escalating violence in the country yet for me, the level of corruption the mascot and others are a part of, is truly the reason for the abuse to Jamaican citizens

This song feels strong and powerful towards blazing out the corruption

The Mascot does not speak of the positive imagery, lyrics and messages that come from this specific song

Reggae is NOT ruled by the prime minister or the government of Jamaica

It is a global entity ruled by reggae music

As Bob rightly points out, “this music will never die... it will find its own soldiers”

Mascot is not one of the righteous reggae warriors that we need

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Newsletter ~ 28th April, 2021

4/28/2021

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Tonya P Concert Review

Big Show!!!

Creative, imaginative, visually conscious, audio conscious and they are our peers!!!!

Nuff exclamation marks

Mally Bless, The President, spinning tracks by Canadian artists all night... we have some music! The world heard our sounds well represented by us

No funding by those who are supposed to develop this culture equally. No grants from anyone!

Yet they pulled it off

We for we

Our worth is only defined by us so we create our own voice

Our own space

Our own media

We do NOT need these people to execute our music

Tonya P truly showed out

She has always been an artist that I would tout over the years as a special talent and she dropped it pon de people dem

I have watched the ting multiple times

Canada nah romp wid de ting

Dwayne De Rosario

Dero’s book

A man I consider to be Canada’s greatest football player

One of the sons of Caribbean parentage who ran around on the field with the other children during half time of our games, to achieving international success and accolades

From the humble beginnings of Ontario Housing, to MVP of the North American football league

A community leader dedicating his recent years to programs for inner city youth

A son of reggae music

This is a book which I am sure serves to motivate younger ones as well as adults what it means to dig down and fight to achieve... and rise to the pinnacle of the sport

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Violence in the music is reflective of the Society's Corruption

4/6/2021

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Reggae Lane, the first roadway in the world, named after reggae music, right here in Toronto, Canada, at Eglinton and Oakwood, respecting a time of reggae culture in Little Jamaica

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Reggae is a global spiritual movement

For most of its lovers, which include so many sub-genres, the messages of love, truth and equality are the foundation blocks for generations of fans

There are parts of the music, especially within the dancehall, that expresses high levels of aggression and violence, which clearly reflects the mood and sentiment of the people and does shed a dark shadow on reggae culture, yet as I stated earlier, it is a REFLECTION of the society

Since the 6th August, 1962, it is my opinion that the Jamaican leadership / government / parliament / prime ministers / politicians have deliberately brought violence to bear on Jamaican citizens

This started with the orchestrated violence on Corral Garden, by the first prime minister, Bustamante, murdering innocent RasTafari in order to go into the camp and raid them of very large sums of money from ganja sales, which RasTafari could not put into Jamaican banks

Bustamante invented this raid to steal RasTafari money and kill innocent Jamaicans

Bustamante is no Jamaican hero to me {one cannot be a Jamaican hero if one murders Jamaicans in my opinion}

The list of offenses by the Jamaican governments are too numerous to mention

Now this current leader is talking about the violence in the music as being the issue behind the violence

Sad

This mascot leader is from a long line of mascots

How is bauxite mining more valuable in Cockpit Country that fresh drinking water?

Why isn’t reggae music monetized to improve the economy of the county now for sixty {60} years?

Why does the leadership act like wardens of a penal colony?

Blessings Baby Cham for speaking up

One artist speaking changes nothing though

I implore humans who love peace, who love Jamaica, the global Jamaican diaspora to ask these questions and many more, from these mascot governments that have been placed in charge of a beautiful culture

Tonya P album release cometh

The Canadian reggae queen, The First Lady, is bringing some blazing tracks and a full virtual performance

Foundation Steppas with "Pendulum" on formats listed

Benjy Myaz asking the most important question, "What's Going On"

A talented Jamaican reggae / jazz performer making his bass talk to the audience

#OneTime

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Newsletter ~ 2nd April, 2021

4/2/2021

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Reggae Lane, the first roadway in the world, named after reggae music, right here in Toronto, Canada, at Eglinton and Oakwood, respecting a time of reggae culture in Little Jamaica

RasTa: A Soul’s Journey, tells the story of the journey of Bob and Rita Marley's granddaughter, Donisha Prendergast, to eight (8) countries around the world exploring the roots and evolution of Rastafari

Watch the movie: rasta.streammoretv.com

Join the group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RASTAASOULSJOURNEY

Foundation Steppas, a young reggae band outta Guelph, Ontario, bringing a conscious vibe and energy, following the path of their elders, blazing this new track, "Pendulum" on the formats listed above

Lillian Allen, a foundation artist in the Canadian reggae fraternity, a dub poet extraordinaire, is as lyrically potent today as then

We have the pleasure of one of her poems which we display with her permission:

Revolution from de Beat
Revolution from de drum
Revolution from de beat
Revolution from de heart
Revolution with de feet

De riddim and the heave and the sway of the beat
de rumblings and the tumblings down
to the dreams to the beat. To the impulse to be free
to the life that spring up in the heat          in the heat
in the pounding dance to be free
to bust open a window
crash upon a door
strip the crust of confinement
step truth, through cracks
through the routing rhythms of the musical tracts       tracks

De sound of reggae music came on a wave of patter       patter
of deeply rooted internal chatter          chatter
on wings of riddim and melodies gone free
the bass strum the heart
the bass drum the heart beat
and the Rastaman pound! Bong bong     bong bong
beat them drums mon! Bong bong    bong bong

And de sound all around
and the voice
of impulse crafted into life burning darkness
of light
of days journeying through the night

of riddim pulse wails and dreams
and determination to be free
of sight
of a vision that ignites
of a musical bam-bam fling-down-baps get-up-stand-up jam!
A musical realignment of the planets
a joy and a singing for those on it

Liberation impulse
dig the colonialists’ grave
crunch of the sixties
baton carried through civil rights flames
spirit of the hippies
signify new ways
the Black power five
the right-on jive
women raise banners for their rights
communities organize
and workers struggle for human rights       for human rights

De core of the African self
separated by four hundred years
ties blighted and nipped a    continental divide
and colonialist lies
a sip from the being of the African well
uncorked the primal African self
and woo...oosh woo...oo...oosh the well spring up
and a riddim let loose
and reggae music found us

It was the pulse in the Caribbean that echoed bright
a voice on a beat
squashed determination released
and the wondrous sighs of Black people once again rose high
from a little piece of rock called Jamaica
where Arawak and Carib bones lie
came a breath of resistance
of peace love and liberation
spread worldwide on the wings of its artists and shaman
the bass and drums prance like a winded fire
chenke ckenke chenke chenke of a guitar strum
songs of freedom
of spirit
of love
of redemption

Revolution from de drum
Revolution from de beat
Revolution from de heart
Revolution with de feet
Ah revolution

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Newsletter ~ March 2021

3/29/2021

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There has always been a vibrant reggae vibe in Toronto and Canada, hidden from the masses by the very society we currently reside within yet it is and always has been a source of pride for many including this story teller

Telling “ourstory” has always been a path for CRW and though we cover a very small part of the culture, we hope you fulljoy the offerings in this communication

There are many other stories to tell so we drop a newsletter on the current runnings to keep the massive informed of the talents that inspire the culture

Jason Wilson & Carl Harvey

Both these brothers served the Canadian reggae scene for decades now. Accolades far too much to mention yet it is totally recommended that as a fanbase, some of you get to know them

Jason complied a book of “reggae history” going back to Jamaica and coming to Canada called, “King Alpha’s Song in a Strange Land ~ The Roots and Routes of Canadian Reggae” among releasing several albums over the years

Carl Harvey is notorious for his ties with MessenJah, Crack of Dawn bands as well as famously on tour with the late, great Toots Hibbert for forty {40} plus years

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Tonya P

The first Lady released “Concrete Rose” proving the power of her words and her will. No pandemic could stall this hard driving mother, wife and veteran performer.

Definitely Kubba Pringle’s daughter of MX 3 fame, a determined crew

Tonya P will be giving a virtual performance for this album on the 25th April 2021

Chune een

King Shadrock

A long time member / contributor of the Canadian reggae vibez gives us his current single and video

The Human Rights bring their latest single and video, "Peace Gun"

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Reggae Music decides the fate of Reggae Lane

2/26/2021

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Perception

It is ingrained in many to expect my work, network or my attention for zero cost

I can blame no one but myself for this behavior

It seems to be a prevalent thing globally

From Jamaica to North America to Europe, the genre makes probably trillions in revenue and much of this continues to be filtered free of cost

Why?

Because everything else is free

Cyaa blame folks who believe this is the norm and come into the culture and treat us the way we allow everyone else to treat us

That is totally on me

I take full responsibility for how I allow other humans to treat me

Like the time I realized that my company was being ‘pimpted’ by the Eglinton Councillor’s office, when I asked why the folks on the Reggae Lane committee were not being paid for their work

I was told, “We have no budget”

I left that committee right quick

Now, before some of you jump up and cuss the government office, MANY of you try the same bullshit... daily

We are ALL in this together!

I get it

I agree

Budgets are limited yet if we start properly valuing our thing and paying each other, even sometimes, we grow as the value grows

Respect is due

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I use this situation because I am fully aware that it will get attention and these are MY opinions based on feel

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A Black History Month celebration / performance yet the government office pimping Black business

Again

Colonizer /’ gentrifyer’ behavior is pretty consistent

Government has money to do their events and paying themselves and try to use the artists on the show to guilt us to support the event

Typical game we have seen forever. It isn’t new

Mi nah hunt dung nuh money

I ovastand my value

If you do not rate it for any reason, I respect that, but DO NOT CONTACT ME!

This government office wants me to post their event in MY network

I assume that they believe my network is valuable or they would not have sent I and Toronto Reggae the info a day before the event

If we weren’t valuable, why would one send the information?

Why would they not have used our services weeks ago to get it to the reggae community? Why not show respect and pay us for our network/s?

Instead, we are faced with, “a quick share to your network” a day before the event

There are folks in “this” that I will never accept money from to promote your event/s because your energy is one that reggae and RasTafari do not vibe with

It is like oil and water

If you are paying the artists properly, for that I am happy and grateful

Do not come to I about freeness

Then come tell me fuckrey about “outreach” like you sending me a flotation devise to save me from drowning or scraps of food for the poor

I suspect this will be my last correspondence with this office but sometimes Dracula need some garlic

Gentrification works cause one side has all of the money

Keep your money

Reggae Lane is still a beacon for me

I will defend my reggae cause without support from ANYONE inside or outside the genre

Reggae decides what Reggae Lane will become

Neither you nor me

Not Metrolinx, the TTC nor government officials who are all partners in the gentrification of Eglinton West aka Little Jamaica

Reggae will decide

Reggae teaches me how to treat and value myself as well as my community

The message of RasTafari flows through this music and if one ovastands what that means you can approach us for business. If you do not, pay someone else... please

Calling the spot “Reggae Lane” must also call the truth of this music

Reggae is the judge and jury

Watch de ride

#reggaeforlife #reggaelanetv

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House of Dreads ~ A Spirit of Resistance

2/25/2021

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“Resistance”

Woody King was my uncle

“City Without Pity” were some famous words spoken by Woody King, which has been used millions of times in passing conversations since and I just recently learned what he meant. The statement was made because there is an event in his life where the Spanish Town Police, beat him up and shaved his locks. The most inhumane thing the colonizer taught us is self abuse and many eager to please massa will brutalize black skin more than their own master would

They shaved Woody’s locks while he was in their custody and later, he took the Jamaican Constabulary to court and won a settlement as well as a law stating that it would be unlawful to forcibly trim RasTafari in Jamaica from that day forward

Woody King was notorious for fearlessness and consciousness hence people seeking his council included Marley, Tosh, Bunny and Skill among them as well as others whom I meet in passing in my life

All fierce and wise in their movements

None were saints yet all inspired generations of youth not only in Jamaica but also globally

Woody King instilled a sense of honor and integrity to me as a youth, not only by word but also by his deeds for many in the community to see and to experience personally

Allan “Skill” Cole was a friend of Woody’s

For me, from about 1971, when I was eleven years old, Allan Skill Cole was already a football legend and considered, arguably, Jamaica’s greatest footballer

From my experience playing at Up Park Camp, a Santos training ground, from about 1972 – 1975 as I was registered U14 – U16 I had many opportunities to watch him play among many other of Jamaica’s best. For me, I have never seen better in my time in Jamaica

I recently had the pleasure of having a short conversation with Allan about House of Dread

Allan said his was the “conscious era”

I had the distinct pleasure of speaking to Allan Skill Cole today

He has always been a source of pride for me as well as many within our era. For many of us, he was clearly the best player we have ever seen as a Jamaican. He was magical to watch as well as to play with. I was just one of the youths around him and the big ballers. I played with him for the first time at 13 – 14ish, when he was the leader of the Santos team. As a likkle yout, sometime de big man dem won’t pass de ball to yu. Allan was different. He used me as he did every other player passing the ball to me on several occasions

“He treated me like every other baller”

Huge confidence boost for a likkle yout

Allan spoke highly and respectfully about Woody at his funeral, of Woody’s impact on himself as well as others from that I believe to be the most effective era forcing babylon to make change to the global establishment. They looked and saw outwardly and recognized where their / our abusers are and held them spiritually accountable

One of the greatest things Allan was a part of in my mind, is House of Dreads team in the Jamaica Major League of Football

A team of ALL RasTafari players

I have no idea of their record {I heard a number of 100 victories to 3 losses, but don’t quote me on that} but beyond success on the field, a RasTafari team occurred within a “commonwealth’ / colonizer mentality

Allan and that team were so famous, that they sold out the stadium several times

We do need a team like that standing up in this current time and space

A spiritual upliftment of self

Those evolutionary spirits only, can wear this shirt

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Dub love Lithuania ~ Reggae For Life

12/30/2020

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A love story

Reggae music is truly love

Not always to be explained with the use of language as spiritual dialect is difficult to, or next to impossible to speak in any physical language, yet the “feel” is everything

Reggae rounds the globe, no matter the language spoken

The Japanese people choose dancehall as their mode of expression. One of the most disciplined cultures on the planet, the Bushido code, the samurai, the Japanese revere Jamaicans and the dancehall culture as high art

And it is

I came across this clip of sound system and dub culture in Lithuania

Lithuania

Reggae knows no borders

We humans create definitive lines with genre and culture yet reggae / dub has none of those hang ups we share as residents of any culture

Reggae is love

Dub is love

I listen to these brothers speak in this interview and you KNOW that they feel the right feel

Cultural difference is irrelevant

Sound system love

Sound system love is necessary to global culture yet the Jamaican governments have never seen fit to elevate or monetize it. As a matter of fact, they deliberately try to quash it and eliminate it out of the vibrant JA culture

Nothing more dangerous than a black colonizer and the Jamaican governments since 1962 are FULL of black colonizers abusing the people of Jamaica

Even in the woods, in this video, babylon shows up

Yet these youths string up the sound, play, dance and celebrate even in the face of the harassment from Johnny law
Canada has sound systems too

It is a necessity to feel deep bass and to share that with other dancing fools as yourself / myself. It is a most beautiful feeling

It is truly a labor of love