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"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

https://archive.org/details/kweyol-anngle

Dominica's Diksyonnè: Kwéyòl - Annglé = English - Creole Dictionary by Marcel D'Jamala Fontaine; Peter A. Roberts

Topics
#Dominica, #Kwéyòl, #diksyonnè, #patwa, #creole, #translationdictionary, #translationdictionaries, #DominicanCreole

Konmité Pou Etid Kwéyòl

"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

https://video.liberta.vip/w/xxccT6iefq83yfFLaMe8B8

#MMRplaylist #nowplaying #LKJ #reggae #DubPoetry #patwa

"It noh funny"
Linton "Kwesi" Johnson. 1979

https://youtu.be/tQIfZ7wJN3c