Peter Tosh - Ketchy Shuby - meaning?

[Funky Punk]

Someone mentioned Tosh's 'Coming In Hot' earlier in the thread.

Is this *really* supposed to be an ode to masturbation? I dunno, to be honest. It could definitely be interpreted that way...


Coming In Hot
Firin' some shot
Coming in red hot
It's a musical shot
CHORUS
I just clean up me nuzzle
I just load me barrel
And I cock me hammer
Cause I'm gonna pull my trigger
CHORUS
One minute after dozing
I thought that I was a blazing
My blood it was a boiling
It was amazing
CHORUS
Next day it went higher
Whole a me catch a fire
I couldn't take it no longer
I haffe chokin' on some cold ice water
CHORUS
I got up the other day
My heat it never went away
103 on the hour
I had to head for the shower
CHORUS

[fadel diagne]

hi guys
i heard tosh in an interview with roger steffens'if iam not mistaken he was alluding to late 80)saying that it was about his sickness.he was once prey to a malaria with one of the highest temperatures that kept him in bed for weeks.so the 103 relates to that high temperature his body was subject to and it seemed that the whole of his body was belching fire.have to listen to this interview again but iam pretty sure that i heard him explain it to rasrojah.

[Ozzie]

Many Jamaican songs have a double entendre. Late night games sounds like could be a variety of things.

The song is sexy, no doubt. Sure a lot of children were born about 9 months after its release.

[congo bunny]

do folks not find that huge amounts of reggae lyrics have double meanings?

To me this is one of the big draws of reggae, the fact that Jamcains have such a powerful, humourus and poetic command of language.

For example there is another thread on RA that talks about all the meanings that Dread can have.

oh and this song is totally about sex

[RastafariIs]

Can I just say I really dont care what it emans cause it gives everyone their own meaning. To me its just a state of chilling out and thats what i do when I ehar the song. Dont over analyze it. Jah be praised and ya'll keep on listening to Reggae.

[sean]

Stick a Bush is blatantly a song about Albert Griffiths' sexual exploits.


What about Tosh's "Coming In Hot"? If there's another reggae song that's more obviously about masturbation without stating it overtly, then I've yet to hear it.

Not wanting to claim it as a definite fact but in John Masouris book, coming in hot is about Peter burning up with a fever. One real disappointment to me is how everyone seems, when talking reggae, to see double entendres everywhere. But some of it is illusion ,believe me.