LoginMaking History
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Dub poetry doesn't get better than on this seminal disc. Johnson drops his rhymes so that they join tightly to Dennis Bovell's basslines, giving both word and rhythm greater power. More literarily and politically savvy than his peers in Jamaica, U.K.-based poet LKJ's rhymes stand up without music, on the printed page. In "Reggae Fi Dada," he wisely eschews the general in favor of exploring the more expressive realm of the personal. He takes that tact even in the political protest of the title track, a rendering of confrontations between black youth and the British police, thereby making the poem all the more harrowing.
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Manufacturer: Mango
Release date: 15 June 1990
EAN: 0016253977020 UPC: 016253977020
Release date: 15 June 1990
EAN: 0016253977020 UPC: 016253977020
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