man. i know that our imaginations of rasta, christianity and the bible have clashed in the past and that there were people who told i to be less off-topic but there are some things and they really bother me. im grateful for your teachings but i originally just wanted to post some music in the music thread but mentioning it above the music links doesnt fit to me.
so i post it here because ive already mentioned that i think that culture is devoured by babylon.
i just want to write a few sentences about it. im white. but i think its even dangerous to black culture.
i always loved dancehall music. i liked gentlemans flow when i was 13. i was shocked how great the sound is i later recognized as german dancehall music. when i was 14 and ive listened to shabba for the first time i thought that this combination of "rap" and "reggae" is just perfect and when i got to know elephant man i knew that i will follow this music forever and ever. macka b has taught me some life lessons and to be honest the sound of king yellowman has accompanied me from my early teens until now. whenever i was visiting a dancehall ive lost it. i was in locations which were meant to be meeting spots for dealers and i was the only crazy white guy whos rocked the floor all night long because hes loved the music so much.
but even though i critize behaviour like this i find myself leaning on the wall in the dancehall more and more. because of the edm sound. electronic dance music. WHERE ARE THE TUNES? where are the riddims? the reggae riddims...lost. no jamaican rhythms at all anymore.
when i go to a dance and i hear the voice of buju for example im thrilled. but nowadays they play ONLY intros of great songs and then its followed by a 30 to 45 second massacre of house/ jungle/ dubstep beats and vocal samples. the dances of today are just like techno parties of the 90s. its so so sad. even great selectors play this stuff. they have to. im not a selector. im not a professional musician. not at all. but man...as a fan you know that dancehall has changed and sounds dont juggle anymore. they sound like they are on a house music sound clash with 30 second remixes one after another nobody wants to hear. i love reggae. i love dancehall. but most dances of today arent for me. but maybe thats just how time works. old ska fans must have felt this way in the mid-80s.
but what makes me wonder is how the west effect even dancehall. ARE WE WITNISSING THE MURDERATION OF DANCEHALL...A POPULAR PART OF BLACK JAMAICAN CULTURE...BY BABYLON? maybe edm music is mixing black culture with the music of rich whites to distort the music.
same thing when it comes to ganja. it is a great plant. it delivers medicine, clothes, ropes etc. you can smoke ganja as medicine, for inspiration, for appetite, for your mediation but right now babylon wants to legalize it to make money with it. main stream celebs promote behavior like smoking one spliff after the other WHILE drinking wodka and whiskey. they distort it already. and they also distort a part of black culture with it when it effect the reggae scene.
AND THATS WHERE YOGA COMES INTO PLAY AGAIN. isnt it the same thing? look at its roots in africa. and now look at this:
man, i could burn my computer into pieces.
and then there are those guys:
you see where my confusion comes from? lol
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