gregory isaacs night nurse is this true?

[jack]

well,,,sadly as i know its about,,,the sad ways him found him self with this terrible habit,had a dificult time with him here in brasil,,,it was terrible,,his one of my favorite reggae artist ,,,and i used to work with him ...l hope his doing better...this is not a time to critisize,,,but,,someone closer to him can probABLY BE touched ,,,i triedf to talk to him ,,,but was dificult

[behappy]

I always thought Gregory Isaacs tried to appeal to the average house wife with the suit and hat outfits and lyrics. I myself do not understand what This heart is broken in two. has to do with drugs and I thought Only you alone can quench this Jah thirst meaning was that she was the only women who he wanted sexually, but after reading all these messages I am surprised.

[super ape]

Why do people believe that it wasn't around before 1981? Unfortunately, it was, although the word "crack" started to become commonplace only when Nancy Reagan started her war on drugs in the early 80's. Prior to that, it was simply known as "freebasing". I know this not from my own exeprience, but I lost a collegue to it in 1980.

As for Gregory - how is this anyone's business except his own? I am sure he isn't speculating on your personal life, so why do the same to his?

yes, someone did mention earlier that crack wasn't around in the mid 80s. buster is right, though. i first heard the term crack in 1981, and i heard it a lot. crack is freebase, also called base. the shit was/is ugly! it has created many addicts. i have known a few people who became addicted to crack and they definitely hit rock bottom (no pun intended).

there were are are many singers who sang about coke products around that time.
eek a mouse became a crack addict at one point, by the way, and got himself off of it via rehab, by his own might!
i don't know if mr isaacs was signing about rock in night nurse because just look at all of the love songs he sang, but you never know.
yet, in nyc at least, in the 80s there was a common coke/herb combo in joints that were smoked among jamaicans who lived in nyc (i am not saying all jamaicans in nyc smoked coke!). not crack, but coke sprinkled into a spliff along with the herb. yuck!
was that popular in ja? i dunno.

[bwoyrough]

There was another thread i remember on this board a while back which discussed the use of the word rock in a song and i always linked the term to crack but what the song was i forget now, would have to search the threads.

But to clear things up for a few people Crack is Coke, same thing, it's just one u can smoke and it enters your bloodstream super quick giving u a big hit, also wears off quicker. Crack is Cocaine so hope that ends some confusion as some people are thinking is different thing, and cocaine used to be used in the drink coca-cola until the early 1900's sometime when they stopped it i beleive. As you can imagine the drink coca-cola quickly became hugely popular and we can imagine why that is! lol

I've no idea about the reference in the song gregory did but i know lots of reggae songs have reference to crack. Remember JA is very close to S.America the source and it tends to go from S.America to JA then to USA+Europe so there's a big problem with coke in JA as it's so cheap.

But i can't judge no man badly for his own bad habits, everyone has their own mind and descisions, no one knows gregory's reasons and them are his own so he shouldn't be criticized for his downfalls, we all have problems, remember life tuff inna yard, and i don't think we should be so easy to judge when we don't have all the facts and thats not our business to know. Gregory gave us all something great and he should be remembered and respected for that.

[Janell]

it might be true... and it might not...
but who is to judge... yes he has a problem...but at least he can admit it! He is still Gregory Isaacs and I don't judge him. It's not the greatest thing to be proud of... but he still has a soal...
therefore either drug, crack coke, speed, heroin ect...9is all the same. It is his problem and i'm sure he is dealing on own and anyone else talking shit is not helping him... Nor bringing him up either. he just is addicted...and maybe no one will ever understand his situation except himself! We all have our own imperfectness...and gregory is great...
that is all...
peace and love

[ital kemar]

sad case alright. but he's still a legend. i've seen him two or three times in the past. and even though he's past his prime now i'm looking forward to seeing him at brixton academy in may. i know he's going to get a super reception off the crowd there.cos the people love him still.

i.k.

[Perilous]

the production of "crack" as a product started in the late 70's in the bahama's (not a million miles from ja) Before that freebasing had developed as a way for coke traders to test the product as it removes impurities.. but freebasing was difficult and dangerous (richard pryor set himself on fire!)..crack is the punters form. No doubt Gregory would've come into contact with the drug pretty early if he was already into coke. Not sure bout the night nurse thing though, sounds more sexy than druggy to my ears.. They were still smoking sprinkled coke in weed spliffs alot in London raves in the 90's.. totally pointless as it can't be absorbed that way!! and it stinks of evil...

[bwoyrough]

i dont know what richard prior was using, i'm sure he must of been dealing with crystal meth not coke, as freebasing isn't "difficult and dangerous" at all, apart from risk to your health of course! and it ain't flamable which is why i say Richard Prior must have been doing meth.
anyway back to Gregory, it would be nice if someone chaged the title of this thread and removed gregories name, as it only serves to give him a bad name.

Gregory is one of the best reggae artisst to have ever lived in my opinion, many of them have bad habits.

[Perilous]

bwoyrough - freebasing is dangerous when you cook it up yourself!! Crack is the punters product because it is already "washed up" by the dealers..the chemical processes during freebasing (not the same as smoking crack) are dangerous for the non-chemist, especially when already cracked off your head! Crystal meth wasn't around then i don't think (could be wrong..)and richard prior has been very specific about his freebasing incident (and hilarious too!!

[bwoyrough]

i didn't realize that freebase coke and crack where 2 different forms of smokeable coke, just looked that up, in the UK crack is the more common one, i'm not sure what the difference is in effect but turns out u need solvents to freebase so i guess that makes it very dangerous especially when high.