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naptu2:
Ras Kimono - Under Pressure. (original video).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggQeRqqIEZM

naptu2:
Majek Fashek - Religion Na Politics (1989)



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w013dh5VPHY

naptu2:
Evi Edna Ogholi - Ririovara (1988)



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGYAkNidGi0

naptu2:
Chris Hanen - Mandela (c1989)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51KYGs20DbA

naptu2:
The anticipation and expectation in that song is just out of this world. Every note is perfect. What makes it extra special is the fact that it is message music (the lyrics are perfect).

(I'm not going to post the chorus. I'll skip it)


Dun dun du dum
Dun dun du dum

♫Here we come again, in another style.
And this ah one is a rat race style.
Here we come again it is not just another song.
Rat race style is a crucial style.

We're coming live and direct,
just to make you feel ire.
Oh it's a Rastaman style eh,
come make we listen to the lyrics.

They say I'm talking politics
but I'm singing reality,
for the suffering of the masses,
so my brother I'm feeling so right.


Situation getting worse
only the poor feel the pain,
the fury falls on them,
don't close your eyes to reality.♪

Chorus

This is my favourite part.

♫Oh what a bad situation!
Only the rich and the strongest nations survive
They devise evil things that their money could buy
only the rich nations would live to see that the others would die.

They don't feel any guilty!
They keep sending their guns for you to die!
To make the world so hard,
for no reason every season
what a shameless race, Jah knows,
where they really heading to.♪

Yes, I know you've heard it many times before, but I'll say it again. Peggy looks so much like Ruth Benemaisia!

There's a clip of the Koko Port Toxic Waste Scandal in this video (just before Victor sings, "They don't feel any guilty" )


I wish I had a video with better audio quality (this has VHS quality). You need to hear the bass and treble properly.

The Mandators - Rat Race (1988).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjeUJt_tunU

naptu2:
A this a rat race style yeah,
Them a fi make me suffer,
In a them rat race style yeah,
Them a fi make me suffer,
In this a rat race style, yeah
There's no hope for survival
In a them rat race style yeah,
Them a fi make we shiver.


Many people in the world,
Are struggling for survival,
Trying to earn a living,
But the *** are just too strong

The rich keep getting richer,
And poor are getting poorer
Their life is getting harder
And the tension is rising so high


Oh what a great tribulation
(WATCH OUT!)
You've got to get up and fight the survival battle!
They keep sucking our blood,
They make you **** fools
They really wish to live
To see that we have no strength
(You better know now).

We know them a guilty
They keep chaining underprivileged people
Jah Jah will surely **** *** ***
From this great tribulation
The wicked prove too strong,
But still, they all will die.

In them a rat race style yeah,
There's no second and the third class citizens
In them a rat race style yeah
There's no second and the third ****
In them a rat race style yeah,
Only the fittest and the **** survive
In this a rat race style yeah
From this century to next century
Them are running round round


Oh rat race!
Oh rat race!
Oh rat race!
Oh hopelessness!


This has better audio quality, though it's not the original video (and it's a little slower).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dza48YoHx-I

naptu2:
Ras Kimono - What A Gwan?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFRpg8fA8Xc

naptu2:
Majek Fashek - Send Down The Rain (1988)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwoOzGqjxDI

naptu2:
Evi Edna Ogholi - Obaro (1988).



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMKBrAN1I1U

naptu2:
The original (with the original video).


Evi Edna Ogholi - Obaro (1988).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zr9trp7LxbI

naptu2:
It's just a pity that the audio quality is not perfect. The treble is too much and there's not enough bass. I really want you to hear the bass.


This song began the reggae protest era in Nigeria. The bass was fantastic and the lyrics were incredible.


"The people suffer power starvation,
The people suffer social opression,
Those who know it suffer deportation,
There is. . . no justice in the City called Sodom.


Tell me, if you know the city called Sodom.
Tell me, if you know the city called Sodom.


Sometimes people struggle without food,
Elders *** *** ** in this great land,
Youths too strong, our women surrender,
Those who work hard * *** poor men,
There is, corruption in the city called Sodom".


You must listen to the lyrics of this song.

Tera Kota - Lamentations For Sodom (1984).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0w3fT2G3Gg