
Dancehall Marathon
Season 1 Episode 6 | 25m 19sVideo has Closed Captions
The most popular music in Jamaica today is the hard-edged sounds of dancehall.
Top stars Elephant Man, Beenie Man, Bounty Killer and others tear up the stage as crowds express their appreciation with homemade flamethrowers and dance moves.
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Dancehall Marathon
Season 1 Episode 6 | 25m 19sVideo has Closed Captions
Top stars Elephant Man, Beenie Man, Bounty Killer and others tear up the stage as crowds express their appreciation with homemade flamethrowers and dance moves.
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♪ Music is di appropriate something ♪ ♪ Stephen, beat dem got everybody jumping ♪ ♪ Ba-ba-banging up di club it's a total fun ting ♪ ♪ Start to dance when yuh hear di beat tumping ♪ ♪ Everybody dance and sweep dem weh ♪ ♪ Nuh wah see nuh baygon soh eat dem weh ♪ ♪ Everybody dance and sweep dem weh ♪ ♪ Dem deh, dem a rubbish soh we sweep dem weh ♪ ♪ Everybody dance and sweep dem weh ♪ ♪ Nuh wah see nuh baygon soh eat dem weh ♪ ♪ Everybody dance ♪ ♪♪ My name is Jacob Edgar.
I'm an explorer, but I don't search for lost cities or ancient ruins.
I'm on the quest for a different kind of treasure -- music.
[ Sarazino's "Cochabamba" playing ] ♪ Je Retrouveràis Cochabamba ♪ ♪ Je verrais les femmes et les enfants Du Che qui mendient ♪ Edgar: As an ethnomusicologist and world-music record producer, I travel the globe hunting for the best songs the world has to offer, and I suffer through some of the worst so you don't have to.
♪ Amigo, reste pres de moi ♪ ♪ Cette nuit on va danser tout pres de la muerte ♪ Edgar: I've got a backstage pass to the world's music, and I won't stop until I've heard it all.
[ Sarazino speaking indistinctly ] ♪♪ [ Busy Signal's "Jail" playing ] ♪ Free up from captivity, sound it ♪ ♪ All who dead from the leash, refugee, jump in ♪ ♪ Seh wi nah go a jail again, oh no ♪ ♪ And wi never gonna fail again, oh no ♪ ♪ Like a ship wi ago sail again ♪ Edgar: I've been on an irie trip around Jamaica, exploring the island's musical riches and getting a taste of its natural beauty, spicy food, and even spicier people.
♪ Mi step out and hold mi own fi sure, oh oh ♪ Edgar: So far, I've explored the history of the country's influential grooves, from its African roots to the current stars of reggae.
But there's no question the beat on the street these days is dancehall, whose hard-hitting rhythms and edgy, often controversial lyrics have risen from Jamaica's impoverished ghettos to become a worldwide phenomenon.
♪ Oh no, and wi never gonna fail again, oh no ♪ Edgar: On the last part of my Jamaican journey, I'm off for a firsthand look into the Jamaican dancehall scene.
I start at one of Jamaica's biggest music festivals, Sumfest, which takes place every July in Montego Bay.
♪ Oh no, mi step out and hold mi own fi sure ♪ Edgar: For three nights, this resort Mecca erupts with an explosion of musical energy.
But the most explosive evening of all is dancehall night, which not only attracts the largest crowds, it also features the hottest and most popular artists on the island today.
[ Elephant Man's "Dance" playing ] ♪♪ There's chaos behind the scenes as the producers struggle with the logistics of getting this massive show all together.
It's definitely tense, so I guess the nasty-looking guard dogs are here to keep the peace.
[ Elephant Man's "Dance" continues playing ] ♪♪ Ronnie Burke, who's been my companion across Jamaica, knows a thing or two about music festivals as he helped start Jamaica's original super festival, Reggae Sunsplash, right here in Mobay in 1978.
He's hooked me up with an all-access pass so I can hobnob with the stars.
[ Elephant Man's "Dance" continues playing ] ♪♪ Hello, Jamaica.
Frank and Jacob in the house.
You can hear the roar of the audience.
Where'd everybody go?
Man: Jacob!
[ Shouts indistinctly ] Oh, alright!
My fan, my one fan!
[ Elephant Man's "Dance" continues playing ] We take a stroll around the site before all the chaos ensues.
It's a walk he's taken many times over the years, and he's clearly a local icon himself.
I can't go anywhere with this guy.
[ Elephant Man's "Dance" continues playing ] Dancehall is out-growing reggae.
Right, dancehall is much more popular in Jamaica than reggae is.
You'll find that the crowd tonight is probably going to be double any other night.
[ Elephant Man's "Dance" continues playing ] ♪♪ The crowds start lining up.
most dressed to impress, although maybe not in the way they intended.
Hey, lady with the yellow and pink hair, I've got to get the number of your hairdresser.
I think it's a great look for me.
Well, I think I'll just stick with my usual style -- the wrinkled, slightly stained shirt.
[ Elephant Man's "Dance" continues playing ] They're in for a long wait, though.
Things don't really start gearing up until midnight, and the music keeps thumping until dawn.
Yes, dance.
[ Elephant Man's "Dance" continues playing ] I'm telling you, partying in Jamaica is hard work.
Eventually, the grounds are filled to capacity, with fans ready to cast judgment on the wordplay and showmanship of stars such as Beenie Man, Bounty Killer, and Elephant Man.
Emcee: He has taken the dancehall and the dancers to another sector of the world.
Jamaica is proud.
Ladies and gentlemen, do you want some more from Elephant Man?
[ Singing indistinctly ] ♪♪ [ Shouting indistinctly ] ♪♪ Edgar: After grandiose introductions, they burst onto the stage with a rapid-fire delivery of lyrics in accents too thick for me to understand.
But just when the groove gets going, the artist abruptly tells the band to stop playing... Stop!
Stop!
...in an act of "dancus interruptus" that seems to build the crowd into a frenzy.
Everybody -- [ Shouting indistinctly ] ♪♪ Every once in a while, the audience roars their approval and ignites homemade blowtorches into the night sky.
Didn't your mother tell you not to play with flamethrowers?
Hey, kids, don't try this at home.
Where can I get an outfit like this?
Because I'm feeling very underdressed.
Man, how can you get a outfit like this?
I would have to tell my designer to design one for you.
Would you?
You might have to make it a little bigger, but -- When you got time in Jamaica, I just take it to my designer and tell him I'm going to give you a black and gold.
Black and gold.
Alright.
That sounds good.
Alright, man.
♪ I was born under the clock, time keep moving ♪ Dancehall may be the most popular music in Jamaica right now, but I must admit, it's an acquired taste.
This is the first time I've been to a dancehall festival.
And after a few hours of stopping and starting, indecipherable shouting, and repetitive thumping electronic beats, my head starts to hurt.
Of course, that could be from all the Jamaican beer and rum I've been drinking.
♪ Real Jamaican ♪ And that's even before the bikini-clad women hit the stage for the dance contest.
Ai-yai-yai.
♪ Sdindindiwooooy, real Jamaican ♪ The festival is ringed by food stands, so I decide to take a break from the action and see what local delectables are available.
I got hit -- I got hit by a piece of jerk chicken.
♪ Rose done tell you 'bout di sensimellia ♪ ♪ See mi inna dark glass, dark mesh marina ♪ And they even have a place where they're called -- they're called reggae beds.
So if there's an artist that you don't want to see, but you want to keep your energy up for the artists you do want to see, there's beds laying in a tent.
You can just go crash there.
So I might have to do that at some point.
♪ You no waan di cursed side ♪ ♪ Real Jamaican, born Jamaican ♪ Dancehall takes its name from the clubs and street parties where deejays began setting up their eardrum-splitting sound systems in the late 1970s.
And clearly it's the music of the masses in Jamaica today.
[ Busy Signal feat.
Mykal Roze's "Real Jamaican" continues ] ♪ Real thugs and that's the way we steppin in ♪ ♪ And anywhere we come from ♪ The sun has risen over Montego Bay, and I've made it through my first ever dancehall night at Jamaica Sumfest.
There was dancing, there was... dancing, and there was more dancing.
♪ So we haffi strapped fi the hater, haters ♪ ♪ We are real Jamaicans ♪ ♪ Born Jamaican ♪ [ Wayne Smith's "Under Mi Sleng Teng" playing ] ♪ Way in my brain ♪ ♪ It's way in my brain ♪ Edgar: Eventually, producers began using drum machines and simple Casio keyboards to create dancehall beats.
One of the pioneers of this was King Jammy, whose 1985 hit "Sleng Teng" was one of the first all-digital rhythms to take the country by storm.
♪ I don't wanna, I don't wanna go insane ♪ I'm in the Waterhouse community of Kingston, and I'm about to pay a visit to King Jammy.
He's one of the greatest producers in Jamaican music history.
He was a pioneer of dancehall rhythms, and he created a lot of dub hits, as well.
And he's just been one of the leading figures in dancehall for a long, long time.
He's sort of a combination of Afrika Bambaataa and Timbaland.
♪ Like blood and I've been moving around ♪ Hello.
Hi, hi, hi, hi.
How you doing?
King Jammy.
It is an honor and a privilege to be here.
Thank you very much, sir.
Thank you very much.
Incredible honor.
We're trying to introduce people to different styles of Jamaican music.
And I know that you were involved with dub back in the day and then moved into dancehall.
How did dancehall get started, and is there any connection between dub and dancehall, or are they totally different?
The name dancehall is there from a long time.
But -- Dancehall was the actual place where people would go and dance.
Yes, yes, but the music dancehall, no.
When dancehall came about, like on a popular scheme, it was the riddim Sleng Teng brought it about, you know?
I created that riddim.
Sling thing?
Sleng Teng, Sleng Teng, yes.
That was one of the early dancehall rhythms.
Yes, that's one of the biggest hits.
How did you create it?
I mean, when you say you created the -- I'll tell you something.
We were playing on the Casio, and we found like a rock riddim, and we sort of turned around to a reggae beat and then add things to it and get Sleng Teng riddim.
So you did the original sling thing on a Casio?
Yes.
Back in the day?
Yes.
When was this?
On something.
That was 1984.
♪ Like blood and I've been moving around ♪ And you got those really cool "Beew."
Yeah, that's a synth drum.
Like "Space Invaders."
That's -- I was playing that instrument.
♪ Under me sleng teng, me under me sleng teng ♪ ♪ Under me sleng teng, me under me, eh-eh ♪ ♪ Under me sleng teng, me under me sleng teng ♪ ♪ Under me sleng teng, me under me, eh-eh ♪ ♪ In Westmoreland, where the Sensi come from ♪ Edgar: Dancehall has a passionate following, and many people feel that the technique of spoken lyrics over rhythms that developed in Jamaica was a fundamental influence in the development of rap.
As legend has it, Jamaican deejays living in New York City in the late 1970s brought their island touch to local house parties.
There's no question that there's a lot of back and forth between Jamaican music and American hip-hop, further cementing Jamaica's status as a powerful influence on the sounds of the globe.
Whatever the exact story is, the genres do have a lot in common, as I discovered at Sumfest, and then at the even more intense dancehall festival I attended a few days later in Ocho Rios called Fully Loaded.
[ Wayne Marshall & Prodigal Son's "Give Life" playing ] ♪♪ While Sumfest attracts a lot of tourists, the artists play with live bands, and they're required not to swear too much.
Now, Fully Loaded is raw to the bone.
[ Wayne Marshall & Prodigal Son's "Give Life" playing ] ♪♪ Hey, what's your name?
Little?
Little.
Nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you.
So do you come to Fully Loaded a lot, or is this your first time?
My first time.
Oh, it's your first time?
Yes.
So, I've seen the people out there, and they got their -- these torches that they use -- they use like aerosol cans.
What's what's up with that?
Is a Jamaican energy in the dancehall.
Like when you hear your favorite performer, you just light it.
When they light up a light, that's creating -- That's dancehall energy.
That was created in Jamaica.
It's pretty intense.
I mean, does anything like ever go wrong?
Does somebody catch somebody's hair on fire or the can explode or anything like that?
Not to my knowledge, but hopefully not.
Okay.
[ Wayne Marshall & Prodigal Son's "Give Life" playing ] ♪♪ First of all, it's 3:00 in the morning on a hot July night, and the artists haven't even really started to perform yet.
Mostly what you have are emcees up onstage and deejays who are just pumping up the crowd.
They're like gladiators facing off, you know, throwing insults at each other, trying to outdo each other.
So there's a really intense energy, and that kind of energy is really interesting.
It's not like anything I've ever experienced before at a music festival.
[ Speaking indistinctly ] I'm in the privileged position of being backstage here at Fully Loaded, and I'm looking out at the hosts and the deejays and the crowd that's expanding out into the field here.
It's loud.
It's booming.
There's an intense energy.
You really got to check it out.
[ Music playing, man speaking indistinctly ] Fully Loaded is more like a no-holds-barred house party where pretty much anything goes.
[ Crowd cheering, music playing ] This woman next to me is Sharon Burke.
And I think it's fair to say that she is a living legend in Jamaica, because she's one of the premier artists, managers, and promoters and is responsible for this festival, for Fully Loaded.
So, what kind of things are people talking about, like when the emcees are up there?
Are they called emcees, first of all?
What do they call them?
Host.
The hosts.
Yes, like you.
What are they talking about?
Different things like social commentaries, the culture, everything like that.
And how long has this festival been going on?
13 years.
13 years!
13 strong years.
What makes this year's festival different in any way?
What makes it different?
Yeah.
That you are here.
That I am here?
Yes.
Aww.
She's so sweet.
♪ Sit back and enjoy the ride ♪ ♪♪ ♪ Sit back and enjoy the ride ♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ The radio station IRIE FM is the top station in the country, and it's usually the first to break the hot new dancehall tracks.
I sit down in the studio with two of the station's most popular hosts, DJ Sunshine and DJ Wayne, to get their thoughts on the scene.
To define dancehall to somebody who is not aware of what dancehall is, dancehall is the music of the Jamaican people.
It is the common voice of the common Jamaican.
It is what we experience.
It's what we live.
It's what we see on a day to day basis.
It's our highs or lows, our strengths or weaknesses.
It's the whole of Jamaica.
♪♪ The experience on CD is so completely different from what it is in concert, you know?
I was at Sumfest, and I was at Fully Loaded last night.
And, you know, first of all, nobody plays a full -- Nobody performs an entire song.
In fact, it's like 30 seconds is the most they'll go.
And there's a lot of breaking and talking.
I mean, what's that all about?
Well, the important thing is to get your flowers.
To get your -- Flowers.
What do you mean by that?
People cheer for you.
So you're just working to get that.
And then as soon as you get it -- Important thing.
Now, the attention span is very short.
♪♪ Edgar: They also give me a little lesson on what it takes to be a dancehall deejay.
What song are you going to intro?
What song am I going to intro?
Name a song that you like that you'd like to intro.
Why don't we do, since we're gonna be seeing Elephant Man -- You need the glasses.
Yeah.
I'll put on my glasses.
Since we're going to be doing Elephant Man -- The Jamaican audience is very tough, you know.
Give me, like, some words, like, some Patois or whatever you would say, how you would say it.
You're going to introduce "Dip Again"?
Yeah.
You'd say something like -- What time is it?
"Eight minutes after 12:00 on your 107.1, 3, 5, 7, 9.
This is your IRIE FM.
Elephant Man, 'Dip Again.'
The real ting.
People, off the road.
Stop a car.
Pull over.
Get on the sidewalk.
It's time to dip.
Dip it!
Let's go!"
[ Laughing ] Man!
Uh...alright, let's do the second part.
I'm going to skip all the numbers.
That's going to throw me way off.
Okay.
IRIE FM, Elephant Man, the brand new joint, Elephant Man, "Dip Again."
You no dip already?
You no dip already -- You dip already?
Then dip again!
Dip again.
IRIE FM, Elephant Man, "Dip Again," the brand new joint.
You no dip already?
Dip again.
Alright.
Yeah!
Very good.
Give me a Fully Loaded intro.
You saw what Fully Loaded was about, yeah?
Okay.
Fully Loaded.
It was really cool.
[ Laughter ] Fully Loaded in the house.
Fully Loaded.
Deejay Jacob in the house.
You like Elephant Man?
No.
You love Elephant Man?
Yeah.
Give me some signal.
[ Imitating gunshots ] Boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop!
Elephant.
Edgar: I think I got a new career shaping up for me, don't you think?
[ Speaking Spanish ] [ Laughs ] Wayne: Alright.
♪♪ Edgar: Stephen Sullivan Bierce has been my trusted transportation manager around Jamaica, and he takes me to Flanker, a poor but inspiring neighborhood in Montego Bay, where violence and crime is all too common.
We come here to meet the street and get a sample of the latest dance moves.
Steve, what can you tell me about the neighborhood where we're going?
It's a ghetto you may call it, but the better way is inner city community.
Alright.
You know what a ghetto is like, right?
Yeah.
It could be violent, and then it could be tense.
But right now, it's tense.
It's lovely right there.
Straightened out right now.
So there are times when there's violence or conflicts going on.
Yes.
But not right now.
Not right now.
So we're going to be good to go.
Yeah, man, we're good to go, alright?
Alright.
I got to trust him.
♪♪ Flanker's just a few blocks away from fancy beach resorts, yet it's a world away from that lush lifestyle the resorts provide.
It's seen its fair share of gang warfare and senseless violence.
But it's also a neighborhood with a positive spirit and a hopeful attitude about the future.
That's surely thanks in part to the efforts of the Flanker Peace & Justice Center, an unbelievable community center that provides tutoring, music lessons, and social support for neighborhood kids.
Okay, Jacob.
Hi.
Yeah.
Welcome to Flanker.
This is the Peace & Justice Center.
That's amazing.
Music was the first part of the youth club.
The kids taught themselves how to play all these instruments, and they taught themselves the music.
We just recently got a music teacher who's helping us now, but most of the music they learned before was self-taught.
You're a trumpet player?
I'm a trumpet player, too.
Not a very good one, though.
I was happy to find out that the nearby Sandals Resort has helped support the center through their Sandals Foundation.
Sandals plays a very major part in our community activities here.
They take care of us as if we were part of their family.
So you guys come here, and they give you -- they give you lessons?
Yeah.
You get music lessons here?
Yes.
That's very cool.
And you have a marching band that you play in, as well?
Alright.
Edgar: The wall in front of the center is covered with graffiti denouncing violence.
And the center proves that given positive outlets, the kids in tough neighborhoods like Flanker can succeed and rise above the challenges they face.
It's in neighborhoods like this where the hottest dancehall trends get their start, and the kids at the center have agreed to show me the latest moves.
♪ Banging up di club it's a total fun ting ♪ ♪ Start to dance when yuh hear di beat tumping ♪ ♪ Music is di appropriate something ♪ Edgar: A group of professional dancers I met at Sumfest join us there to get the party started.
♪ Start to dance when yuh hear di beat tumping ♪ ♪ Everybody dance and sweep dem weh ♪ ♪ Nuh wah see nuh baygon soh eat dem weh ♪ ♪ Everybody dance and sweep dem weh ♪ ♪ Dem deh, dem a rubbish soh we sweep dem weh ♪ ♪ Everybody dance and sweep dem weh ♪ ♪ Nuh wah see nuh baygon soh eat dem weh ♪ ♪ Everybody dance and sweep dem weh ♪ ♪ Dem deh, dem a rubbish soh we sweep dem ♪ ♪ This beat got me dancing ♪ ♪ Sweeping di floor till it shine ♪ ♪ Everybody keep on asking if I'm losing my mind ♪ ♪ Dancing non-stopping so till mi two shoes dem crying ♪ ♪ And tomorrow we'll be doing it same place and same time ♪ ♪ Dance, everybody dance and sweep dem weh ♪ ♪ Nuh wah see nuh baygon soh eat dem weh ♪ ♪ Everybody dance and sweep dem weh ♪ ♪ Dem deh, dem a rubbish soh we sweep dem weh ♪ ♪ Everybody dance and sweep dem weh ♪ ♪ Nuh wah see nuh baygon soh eat dem weh ♪ ♪ Everybody dance and sweep dem weh ♪ ♪ Dem deh, dem a rubbish soh we sweep dem ♪ ♪ Tru dem seh yuh young and fit deh inna yuh prime ♪ ♪ Everybody start sweep caz a dancing time ♪ ♪ Sweep weh di dance dem weh causing crime ♪ ♪ Use yuh foot dem like a broom, sweep di blasted slime ♪ ♪ Stephen, how da beat yah bad soh, dem cya refuse ♪ ♪ Up inna club a soh it have everybody a move ♪ ♪ Longs a sweep soh till him lost one foot a shoes ♪ ♪ Try come out di way wen unu see di ship a cruise ♪ ♪ Everybody dance, everybody dance and sweep dem weh ♪ ♪ Nuh wah see nuh baygon soh eat dem weh ♪ ♪ Everybody dance and sweep dem weh ♪ ♪ Dem deh, dem a rubbish soh we sweep dem weh ♪ ♪ Everybody dance and sweep dem weh ♪ ♪ Nuh wah see nuh baygon soh eat dem weh ♪ ♪ Everybody dance and sweep dem weh ♪ ♪ Dem deh, dem a rubbish soh we sweep dem ♪ ♪ Dance, sweep, dance, sweep, dance, sweep ♪ ♪ Everybody, everybody ♪ ♪ Dance, sweep, dance, sweep, dance, sweep ♪ ♪ Everybody, everybody ♪ ♪ Dance, sweep, dance, sweep, dance, sweep ♪ ♪ Everybody, everybody ♪ ♪ Dance, sweep, dance, sweep, dance, sweep ♪ [ Cheers and applause ] [ Chino's "Call We Name" playing ] ♪♪ Edgar: Back in Kingston, I'm invited to the home and studio of Chino and Stephen McGregor for some jerk chicken and a peek into the dancehall production scene.
Something like that.
How's it going?
Respect, respect.
Chino.
Chino.
Nice to meet you.
Jacob.
Chino.
What's up, Jacob?
Stephen.
Chino and Stephen grew up surrounded by music, as their father is reggae legend Freddie McGregor.
Chino is an up and coming dancehall artist, and his brother Stephen is one of the genre's top young producers.
Who have you worked with over the years?
Technically everybody.
Everybody.
You produce tracks for all the biggest dancehall stars.
Chino: I know inside of dancehall, I mean, he did some stuff on Matisyahu's -- You worked with Matisyahu?
Yeah, his -- Really?
Oh, I love him.
The Hasidic dancehall artist.
Now, when he came down, did you guys make a kosher jerk chicken?
[ Both laugh ] Just a teenager, Stephen's already produced for top stars like Sean Paul, Shaggy, Matisyahu, and Elephant Man.
I'm feeling a little out of place.
I don't have my sunglasses on.
you know?
You guys look so cool.
♪ I wear my sunglasses at night ♪ But I'd probably walk into things.
Chino and Stephen are creating a catchy blend of dancehall and R&B, which is a little more accessible to me than the edgier stuff I heard at the festivals.
Alright, so we're sitting in front of the board, and you're going to show me how you put together one of your tracks.
So where do you start?
Alright.
This track is really simple, actually.
Most of the times, I start with drums.
But for this track, I did it a little different.
I started with like the keyboards and synths and stuff.
So that's like the main piano riff.
That's what I put down first.
[ Piano playing ] [ Higher-pitched keyboard playing ] What's that on the top there?
That's like -- Like some bells.
Little bells?
All right, cool.
Alright.
I'm really curious to see how the -- the beat fits into this.
Oh.
Okay.
You're going to hear it right now.
Yeah, let's hear it.
Started adding the drums like right now.
[ Piano and drums playing ] Alright, so you got the kick drum giving a nice low end.
[ Piano and drums playing ] Had some electric guitars in the front.
Yeah?
This is Jeremy Harting on the guitars.
Okay.
Crazy, crazy, crazy guitarist.
Well, let's hear it all together.
Let's hear how it sounds with your voice on top of it.
[ Electric guitar playing ] ♪ From mawning we a hustle and put we all in ♪ ♪ When we work we nuh pree no stallin ♪ ♪ From mawning yeah ♪ ♪ A so we stay we never ever change ♪ ♪ Never ever change ♪ ♪ We never ever change ♪ Edgar: Well, if there's one thing that is certain about Jamaican music, it is constantly changing.
This is the marker of a truly vibrant culture.
And this small Caribbean island is surely one of the global hotbeds of music.
I'm certain when I come back in the future, there will be a completely new set of sounds, rhythms, and dances coming out of the streets, because you just never know what you're going to hear next in a country like Jamaica.
♪ In the west of an island there is a parish I know ♪ ♪ I am the one to tell yuh cause that's where I grow ♪ ♪ Nuf money deh deh but eeh juss nah show ♪ ♪ Tourism a florish while to ghetto dem a perish, no no ♪ ♪ Free up di ting weh gi wi more pon more ♪ ♪ Granville to Tucka nuh lef out Pitfore ♪ ♪ Sam Sharpe Square nah deal wid fair ♪ ♪ Suh rebel wi a rebel til unuh draw new gear, oh ♪ ♪ A near Westmoreland dat ♪ ♪ Welcome to Montego Bay ♪ ♪ Salem Flankas ♪ ♪ Welcome to Montego Bay ♪ ♪ Children naah nuh weh fi play ♪ ♪ Welcome to Montego Bay ♪


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