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Hey everybody,

Lava Ground by I Wayne is one of my favorite tunes ever. I think I get the message but I would like somebody to help me understand some of the words. These ones:

"gun dog and gun drankra dem sen threat" what is a gun dog? and a drankra?

"nuff a dem a look fi see I mogga down" mogga down? mogga means skinny, right? mogga down means falling down to the ground? like when a soldier is shot?


"I nuh weak heart, burn backative" backative?

"Heights ova all and neva fall" heights over all? heights is the color red like "ites, gold and green"?

"find piece a rope an go hang saul" hang saul?? what is 'saul'? could it be "hang so"?


To me, I wayne is talking about how the babylon system creates war and loves it because they love to see people kill eachother. the soldiers love it too (they deal with the rash) and "lava ground" is standing in a bloody battlefield.

Thank you in advance if you can help me understand and god bless you for having this knowledge. This song is a serious thing and I wish all my people could at least have the understand I have of it if they even ever hear it.


-Nicolasio

hey wha gwan why you delete di massage of di I. me no insult nu anyone

me just seh dat dis is a roots forum..we nuh inna dem ting deh where some foam come in dis ya Iwa and seh dat him no foam but water....seen??? it's roots..roots like jacob killer miller, hugh mundell, peter broggs, dennis emmanuel brown, gregory isaacs, leroy sibbles, lee scratch mr upsetter perry, the heptones, skatalites, the old stuff of sugar minott and barrington levy..even bunny wailer has lost a lot to me..i heard some crap from him me no wuldn listen to that in di toilet...I know a lot guys feel di same...look now..here cum some guy and spam dis forum with I-Wayne..What is I-Wayne? U-Wayne or She-Wayne???? Or Sizzla, Capleton..dis is no roots, dis no reggae...dis is modern style me wanna mek money music...hell no me no in a dem ting dehhh..seeeeen????? seen!!!!!

Just ease up a little, JLY. The guy has a query which is reasonable to ask on reggae forum even though it happens to fall a bit outside of the time span. No need for the negative attitude.

jahlionyouth wrote:..here cum some guy and spam dis forum with I-Wayne..What is I-Wayne? U-Wayne or She-Wayne???? Or Sizzla, Capleton..dis is no roots, dis no reggae...dis is modern style me wanna mek money music...hell no me no in a dem ting dehhh..seeeeen????? seen!!!!!

Imho, you're being disrespectful towards the artist.
Real Name: Clifford Taylor
Aliases and Variations: I Wayne, I-Wayne, I. Wayne or IWayne.
Source: http://www.discogs.com/artist/I+Wayne

me nuh waan no disrespect no one..yu know sometimes yu use hard language to bring di point clear seen. what did I and I seh? did I say he is a evil person or a mad man? or bad father...me just mek di point clear dat his music is a music of nonsense....compare di great I Roy and I Wayne. I Roy and I Wayne are poles apart. And are you wanna tell di I dat you can mention these Artist at the same breath..or any other Roots Artists with dat I Wayne Bwoy....I miss the roots lovers fans that say "yeah mon dat bwoy jahlionyouth....him right mon..." No me no did disrespect I Wayne as a person..but him as a musician and also his mickey-mouse-humpty-dumpty-laa-laaa-booom-booom-yeeah-yeah-music..seen??? so learn dat

I Wayne: Off Topic Forum please

Patois: Dancehall reggae forum please

if man was coming on here asking about the lyrics of Elephant Man or Vybz Kartel i'd understand this kind of response

but I Wayne is a good artist and Lava Ground is a top LP...

modern roots music

Totally agree with you Living Bate - this wasn't some hard core dancehall lyric request.

Let us not turn love for roots to hate to anything else.

I come to this forum knowing what is it about, but I happen to enjoy all forms of Jamaican music, from Easy Snappin to some hardcore dancehall.

Let's stay focused, this is a roots 70-80 music forum, not a 90's onward hate forum

As Wiss would seh "cool & calm"