"Babylon is falling, you can see it everywhere", det moderna kaos-samhällets undergång. Otroligt vacker röst har hon vilket blir en skön kontrast till det låten handlar om.
Suverän live-låt. Mäktigt när hon i början säger "I'm a revolutionist, I'm not an entertainer".
Mycket riktigt känner hon ett stort samhällsansvar :
"It is a disconnect with humanity. It's an exploitation of people who are only used to being exploited. It would seem as if I'm an enemy of development and all these good things coming into the space. But at the end of the day it’s the same issues you hear in America. That's the same reason there is a Brexit in England, because people feel other people are coming into their spaces and doing what they want and the locals are not benefiting from it in any way."
"Here in Jamaica and what's happening now - like women being killed by their men and all the bad stuff that's been happening, I think it's a breakdown of communication in the relationships. There is no reciprocity. No togetherness. No mutual understanding. You find that people feel left out. We live in a society where the man is mostly demonised. But it doesn't mean the men that are demons are in the majority. It is just a few men who were disconnected in the youthful days of growing up."
Seven miles of Black Star Liners
Coming in the harbour
Seven miles of Black Star Liners
Coming in the harbour
I can see them coming
I can see I-drens running
I can hear the elders saying
"These are the days for which we been praying"
Seven miles of Black Star Liners
Coming in the harbour
Seven miles of Black Star Liners
Coming in the harbour
It's repatriation
Black liberation
Yes, the time has come
Black man, you're going home
Seven miles of Black Star Liners
Coming in the harbour
Seven miles of Black Star Liners
Coming in the harbour
(..)
I can see them coming
I can see I-drens running
I can hear the elders saying
"These are the days for which we been praying"
Seven miles of Black Star Liners
Coming in the harbour
Seven miles of Black Star Liners
Coming in the harbour
Marcus Garvey told us
Freedom is a must
He told us that the Black Star Liners
Was coming, for us
Seven miles of Black Star Liners
Coming in the harbour
Seven miles of Black Star Liners
Coming in the harbour
Seven miles of Black Star Liners
Seven miles of Black Star Liners
Seven miles of Black Star Liners
"Marcus Garvey founded the Black Star Line steam ship company through his United Negro Improvement Association in 1919. No venture reflected Garvey’s revolutionary dream of equality better than the Black Star Line, a mighty fleet of ships that would bring economic power to blacks around the world and transport many of them back to a proud and independent African nation."
""Race first" was the adage which was widely used in Garveyism. In Garvey's view, "no race in the world is so just as to give others, for the asking, a square deal in things economic, political and social", but rather each racial group will favor its own interests. Rejecting the "melting pot" notion of much 20th century American nationalism, he thought that European Americans would never willingly grant equality to African Americans, and thus it was inefficient for the latter to ask for it.
He was hostile to the efforts of the progressive movement to agitate for social and political rights for African Americans, arguing that this was ineffective and that laws would never change the underlying racial prejudice of European Americans.[234]
He argued that the European-American population of the U.S. would never tolerate the social integration which was being advocated by activists like Du Bois because he believed that campaigns for such integration would lead to anti-black riots and lynchings. He openly conceded that the U.S. was a white man's country and thus, he did not think that African Americans should expect equal treatment within it.
Thus, he opposed attempts to socially and economically integrate the different races which lived within the country. Garveyism promoted the view that whites had no duty to help blacks achieve racial equality, maintaining the view that the latter needed to advance themselves on their own initiative. He advocated racial separatism, but he did not believe in black supremacy. He also rallied against Eurocentric beauty standards among blacks, seeing them as impediments to black self-respect."
"In Jamaica, Garvey is considered a national hero"
"Garvey and Garveyism was a key influence on Rastafari, a new religious movement that appeared in 1930 Jamaica. According to the scholar of religion Maboula Soumahoro, Rastafari "emerged from the socio-political ferment inaugurated by Marcus Garvey", while for the sociologist Ernest Cashmore, Garvey was the "most important" precursor of the Rastafari movement."
"A lot of times when an artist starts to grow in popularity they tend to avoid rocking the boat and shun material that some may find controversial. That isn’t the case with Jah9 who has just released a video for the song “Unafraid,” which deals with the taboo subject of child molestation."
"The song is also a call to women to form a bond with each other and to show no fear when it comes to keeping children safe.
“I wanted to connect with other sisters on something we all have in common,” Jah9 states, “that primal instinct to protect the young,” she said. “Because sometimes we subdue that instinct because society might think of us as being difficult, or we might just feel powerless.
I wanted to remind my sisters that there is power in numbers and that we have a responsibility to the youth, that we are the gate keepers, and as a result we can’t shy away from the responsibility to protect our youth and to inspire men and everyone to do the same.”
I see the smoke rising
And I feel Babylon walls shaking
For too long they've been victimizing
Them no want hear when righteous done give them the warning, ay
So I say a war inna Babylon when Jah buss the danger
Well I say a war inna Babylon when judgment come in yah
Destruction fi all inna Babylon when a youth get murder
Well I say a war inna Babylon, inna Babylon yeah
Watch the state
Them set them rules, them set template
Prodigies, yet the youths cant even hold them weight
Boasting influential central, and yet more end up homeless at a steady rate
Advertise all kind of remedy for dis-ease
When you're the ones who make we sick inna the first place
Planting seeds in our heads to buy unnecessary items
And a better life when you know it's a dream to chase
Wake up every day seeing how you meddling
In the progression want to keep we at a slow pace
Hypocritical, posing with your briefcase inna hand
When you know it's a different story when you turn your face
Well I say a war inna Babylon when Jah buss the danger
Well I say a war inna Babylon when judgment come in yah
Destruction fi all inna Babylon when a youth get murder
Well I say a war inna Babylon, inna Babylon, yeah
World hysteria, total control and power
Sugar-coating lies to sweeten the bitter
What inna them mind Jah see it yah
Christian-connection conspirator
Making it easy for the masses to swallow
Experimental disaster
Human-animal chimera
Moving fast along their new world disorder
Ethnic cleaning, blood of humanity spill over
Just look upon their frontline war on terror
So I say a war inna Babylon when Jah buss the danger
Well I say a war inna Babylon when judgment come in yah
Destruction fi all inna Babylon when a youth get murder
Well I say a war inna Babylon, inna Babylon, yeah
System turnover
Trouble inna them area
And look how them still want go push it further
Well if them really want feel, just tell them walk and come in
Jah a go deal with them right and proper
No remorse for the things they do
Feeling fine seeing tears falling from our eyes
Cold-blooded shameless thieves, laughing to know
They just ousted another innocent life
I say a war inna Babylon when Jah buss the danger
Well I say a war inna Babylon when judgment come in yah
Destruction fi all
Från intervju :
"Through realizing the systematic destruction of us as a people, naturally, I want to help those who aren’t aware to become conscious to these truths; to begin the journey of freeing themselves from the chains of oppression. The deception is real and at times very subtle. Its roots are deep and radical change is needed. This radical change begins with small shifts in our thinking. I just want to play my part in helping to spread the message."
"It is a mix of feelings and emotions that is captured in each song, speaking directly to the hearts of those that listen. My intent was to put out a quality album and to spark an internal fire of self-awareness and militancy — a call to action."
Chorus
Sound the trumpet
Sound the harp
We’re in’s Spiritual War
Soldiers near and far
You better be prepared
Sound the trumpet
Sound the harps
(When the trumpet sound)
We’re in’s Spiritual War
(In the Armageddon)
Soldiers near and far
(Get ready)
You better be prepared
(Get ready)
Verse 1
Arms up Yuh Mind
That's a deadly weapon
If this Battle is to be won
It’s not with Bayonets or Guns
We are wrestling not with
the blood and Flesh
Of humans
But with Forces
Of Evil In that’s in
Heavenly Realms
Principalities
in High and Low places
Resist the Darkness
Of Demonic Presence
Consistently perpetuating
A Carnal concept to the
Youths robbing their
Innocence
Chorus
Sound the trumpet
Sound the harps
We’re in’s Spiritual War
Soldiers near and far
It’s best you be prepared
Sound the trumpet
Sound the harps
(When the trumpet sound)
We’re in’s Spiritual War
(In the Armageddon)
Soldiers near and far hmmm
(Get ready)
You better be prepared
(Get ready)
Verse 2
It’s not a drill I come to warn
the Battlefield is in a yuh yard.
See them televise pure lies
And advertising them prop-aganda
Transmit subliminal messages to
disrupt your natural thoughts
Sensitized to immortality them
reject the Spiritual laws
LOST…..
Yuh nuh see down
The Rabbit hole
The whole world slide and gone
More dependent on machine
Than them God- self
The more technology advance
Evil Ones after
JAH Kingdom
But them never stood a chance
Know even in the Twenty First Century
David still Slews the Giant
Chorus
Sound the trumpet
sound the harps
Were in a Spiritual War
Soldiers near and far
You better be prepared
Sound the trumpet
Sound the harps
(When the trumpet sound)
We’re in’s Spiritual War
(In the Armageddon)
Soldiers near and far
(Get ready)
You better be prepared
Be prepared
Be prepared
Från intervjuer :
"And when you come onstage you’re always dressed to the nines.
Well it’s important to me, you know? Because I want to make people know how important Africa is on a daily basis for me. So I like to wear the African garments fi make the black people know, we’re special too. We need to remember our heritage, our culture, where we’re coming from."
"What should the government and good conscientious people of Jamaica do to stamp out discrimination that still lingers against Rastas in Jamaica?
The government needs to put legislation and laws in place that protects Rastafari people and Rastafari culture. That’s something they can do. Also the people after going so long inna Jamaica knowing all the things that Rastafari has [stood] for need to [have] the initiative to speak up. Because when you look, Rasta culture brings all the tourists [to] Jamaica. Rasta culture bleeds out inna reggae music that everybody loves so much. And Rasta culture help[ed] to bring out the culture of dancehall where all these people gravitate to. So in essence, Rastafari people should be protected."
Self awareness, Spiritual upliftment and Glory to H.I.M Haile Selassie I the first."
"You were raised by parents who were Rastafarian. What does Rastafari mean to Hempress Sativa?
Rastafari is i livity and it is everything that i stand for. The way I carry I self to the way I interact with ones to the way I write even. It is a divine conception of the heart with that said Rastafari people govern themselves by the principles of H.I.M Haile Selassie I the first. Up holding themselves with integrity and great nobility adhering to the creed that the hungry be fed, the naked clothed, the sick be nourished, aged be protected and the infants cared for’. Because of our spirituality we are a peculiar set of people chosen by the Most High Himself that His Irits dwell within I heart manifesting in flesh his goodly works."
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