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Playing and singin Bob

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srQjwbkF-kw

What do you think?

mi affe tell yuh dat me no like it. it soun's like white bwoy try fe doin reggae..

Pray let us not forget that Bob himself was half white

So what has skin got to do with it?

The guitar playing was good, its very hard to cover a Bob song and not sound like a weak copy of Bob unlesss you completely change the arangement of the song or something.

He's pretty good for a cracker. He's no Ras Trent though.

mediocre at best, and as a white dude who grew up in JA i am eminently qualified to judge.

dem white bwoy must affe show dat dem nah play play if dem do reggae. just like di guys from groundation......and me seh of course it is a colour ting..most of dem reggae guys roots bwoys singing bout di repatriation...back to africa...downpression ina babylong and seh ife is me uh so grow fe dem stop bullit

Can anyone please translate that last post ?!

I have a feeling even a Jamaican couldn't do it.

ey wha gwaan idren? dis is jamaican...this is called patowa...jamaican language not easy fe understand to sum white guys dat learn inglish in skuull

jahlionyouth wrote:...jamaican language not easy fe understand to sum white guys dat learn inglish in skuull

Don't worry @ jahlionyouth, we have Google Translate