"Nah Fi Dread" tune id
Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 6:25 pm
I first heard this tune on the radio about 13 years ago. have been wondering what it was ever since. I can't remember the riddim it's on but I do know some lyrics, so maybe someone can help. From the vocal style and production, I'd say it was new when I heard it around 94-95
Great tune. Lyrics may be a bit patchy as I really haven't heard it since then:
"Mi nah fi dread mi nah fi knot up mi head
To believe ina the gold, the green and the red
Mi nah fi dread mi nah fi knot up mi head
To believe in a the god whey a guard fi mi head
Now all a the man whey a true rastaman
raise unno hand unno fi wave unno hand
wave unno hand in a slow motion
Your hair coulda short your hair coulda long
as long as you a move as a true rastaman
Marcus mosiah garvey was one
And Martin Luther him was a nex' one
The one Malcolm X, rasta know him was one
President Mandela, him suffer long
But still him a move as a true rastaman."
That's all I can really remember right now. Later on he shouts out a list of performers too, and at one point it sounds like he identifies himself as Captain Barkey, but this sounds nothing at all like any Captain Barkey I've ever heard, so I doubt I heard it right.
Anyway, any help would be appreciated. I've posted roughly this same thing to various boards over the years and never got an ID.
If there's any Portland,OR massive out there, this used to play on the Ital Vibes show. If anyone knows that Ital Vibes DJ from back then, he's the only I know for sure knows!!
Great tune. Lyrics may be a bit patchy as I really haven't heard it since then:
"Mi nah fi dread mi nah fi knot up mi head
To believe ina the gold, the green and the red
Mi nah fi dread mi nah fi knot up mi head
To believe in a the god whey a guard fi mi head
Now all a the man whey a true rastaman
raise unno hand unno fi wave unno hand
wave unno hand in a slow motion
Your hair coulda short your hair coulda long
as long as you a move as a true rastaman
Marcus mosiah garvey was one
And Martin Luther him was a nex' one
The one Malcolm X, rasta know him was one
President Mandela, him suffer long
But still him a move as a true rastaman."
That's all I can really remember right now. Later on he shouts out a list of performers too, and at one point it sounds like he identifies himself as Captain Barkey, but this sounds nothing at all like any Captain Barkey I've ever heard, so I doubt I heard it right.
Anyway, any help would be appreciated. I've posted roughly this same thing to various boards over the years and never got an ID.
If there's any Portland,OR massive out there, this used to play on the Ital Vibes show. If anyone knows that Ital Vibes DJ from back then, he's the only I know for sure knows!!
Funny about reggae (particularly dancehall) how even the most generic artists occasionally bust out with a killer.