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Why? Why? (Have to protect your energy or Babylon will kill you!) Yard birds! (This one is called body a drop and family a fall) Yardbirds! It's never love them come to spread a shedding of blood dem a deal with. Why!? A ghetto youths them want see dead A so the youth them a feel it. Hey! Make mama live how the queen live, that's what the dream is The wicked them scheme is to pressure the weak and the needy, A no love them come fi spread A shedding of blood dem a deal with. Why? --- When Babylon a press press with dem index finger Barrel still catch king crab so what you fretting for? My faith rest in Jah Just a messenger I'm just a messenger Check dah message yah. A nuh love them come fi spread a blood dem come fi shed Nine night, rum, and fish head. Me a tell you them a deal with, It's happening again! When will all this end Them nuh love the people them and them actions reveal say --- A never love them come fi spread a shedding of blood dem a deal with. Why!? A ghetto youths them want see dead A so the youth them a feel it. Hey! Make mama live how the queen live, that's what the dream is The wicked them scheme is to pressure the weak and the needy, A no love them come fi spread A shedding of blood dem a deal with. Why? ---- Rise the torch , Light me sensi with some incense try to tempt me Me try but them go against me Throat well dry the pat still empty No currency, currently ! Not even one percentage Only thing me have to give is just this ghetto documentary 2020 Covid 19 we never get that accidently Centuries and centuries them sideline them bench we Lynch we and hang we, beat we and sell we Dutty Babylon them never friendly A neva love them come to spread a shedding of blood dem a deal with. Why!? A ghetto youths them want see dead A so the youth them a feel it. Hey! Make mama live how the queen live, that's what the dream is The wicked them scheme is to pressure the weak and the needy, ---- A no love them come fi spread A shedding of blood dem a deal with. Why!? Make mama live how the queen live, that's what the dream is The wicked them scheme is to pressure the weak and the needy, A no love them come fi spread A shedding of blood dem a deal with. Why? Never love!
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Classic roots dancehall vibes! Sweet melodies and rugged chatting over a hyped up, roots dancehall riddim produced by Lee “Scratch” Perry’s NYC band Subatomic Sound System in their future dubwise style. With Subatomic’s 21st century sub bass and drums, and plenty of dubwise smoke & fire, Don Husky’s baritone rides the riddim with lyrics about Kingston street life and his dreams to make his “Mama live how the queen lives”. Subatomic’s producer Emch chops and mixes the music under Husky’s verses in a lively fashion typical of a sound system dance rather than a studio session. While Don Husky’s vocal style evokes early DJ stars like Yellowman & Tiger, his tone and delivery is a clear descendent of the modern sound of Bounty Killer and Vybz Kartel. The result is a 21st century boomshot that harkens back to classic moments from the roots of dancehall. The second collaboration between Yard Birdz and Subatomic Sound to follow up their "Police in Helicopter" release with Yaadcore & Jah9.

The Dubstrumental mix highlights Subatomic’s Troy Shaka Simms whose horn arrangements take it back to Jamaica’s golden age of 1980s Channel One roots dancehall recordings as well as peppering it with African melodies inspired by the timeless Ethiopian jazz of Mulatu Astatke. Emch adds heavily effected melodica blasts in the style of Augustus Pablo’s experiments with Lee Perry at the Black Ark studio and goes wild on the knobs and faders, soloing instruments and splashing in spring reverb, Mutron phasers, and Space Echo trails that float up and away like clouds of ganja smoke dissipating in night sky above Kingston.

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released November 3, 2023

Music produced, mixed and mastered by Emch of Subatomic Sound in NYC & LA. Horns by Troy Shaka Mobius in Brooklyn. Vocals by Don Husky at FTM Studio in Kingston, JA. Art by Matteo Anselmo.

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NYC based bass music, dub, and dancehall. Touring worldwide with Lee Scratch Perry for over a decade. Founders of Dub Champions Festival. On Brooklyn Radio 24-7.

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