We never wanted to eat this
because we have fish
Take out the fish. We should show it on the video
but the police had us behind bars
Look and see if you can see Mokko behind bars in the video
Got locked up man
Behind bars. The policeman
They charged you for ganja?
Big criminal
Ya man. They did big stupidness to us
and now look what we have to eat
”Big criminal” had a whole spliff
Yeah, just for a spliff
Just for a spliff they held the man
So we’re here now. Where is the fish?
Yeah, hold up the fish Ratty
Come hold up the fish for the video
Come on man
Bring it here man
Let’s see Ratty
Come on, bring it here
Go on, didn’t you hear?
Come, come, come
...
Come, come
This is the fresh fish we were going to bring and cook
but sooner or later
they picked up our driver for a spliff
and look, so many people
are having cars stolen at that same place
and they held our man for a spliff so we couldn’t even get to cook our fish
We just have to drink some soup
We were behind iron bars
Yeah, that really wasn’t good
and one of the policewomen said
they held Shauna for [not wearing] a mask and put her in the lockup
and she says the policewoman said she doesn’t like her
She, Shauna, didn’t like the policewoman
The policewoman never liked her
and the policewoman said that Shauna was threatening her
and I said, no, the girl wouldn’t threaten her because we have masks
it’s just that she forgot it
so I told her to be careful without it
So, the policewoman said, when she sees her out there, she would hurt her
but that’s unnecessary, because now you are threatening her
Because you said she [Shauna] threatened you
and now you are threatening her, in front of me
So, that wouldn’t work out
So, did they charge her for the mask too?
No man, that wouldn’t work out
so people just have to live lovingly
Nobody threatening to shoot people
Did they give her bail?
Policewoman saying she would shoot her
That is a warning and a threat
I didn’t hear. It was she who told me
So, still, we want to hear, so we can do it by law and not hearsay
So where is he now?
for anybody to walk past out of people’s sight
So where is he now?
When I’m done the video I’ll talk to you. I’m making a video
He went home
Free man now though. He made it
Yeah, and because of that, the next time you see me
I’ll have on my t-shirt that says ‘Free from Babylon’
on the next episode
Come down from there Ratty ...
The version with the jail business where they shouldn’t have troubled the driver
because the driver is a man well known in Morant Bay
People are killing people. People’s cars are being stolen
Those are the ones to go after, not the small man
and interfere with the visitor’s business
when we have good, nice fish to go and eat
and instead we have to stay for all this stupidness
People, you should know yourselves, man
I’m not saying you shouldn’t do your work, but sometimes
you can see things and ignore them, but, you’re doing your work, so ...
Yeah
Well, when people say that I and I as Rasta sound so great and terrible
We say
Heathens don’t like Jah’s name
When you call HIM Rastafari, weak hearts tremble
Heathens don’t like Jah’s name
New name, Jah Rastafari
Precious name. New name. Jah Rastafari
Now we switch it
The hotter the battle, the sweeter the victory
Ya man. Blessed
Blessed love and respect
Yeah man, we must respect and love for people
no matter how you see them
We may see them a particular way
You can’t just get at people any way you feel
because I never see people and assume about them or trouble them
If so I wouldn’t be here as you see me now
I always put out a warning
I always put out a warning and speak freely
No stumbling blocks or obstacles in our way
Boy, it’s rough. I wasn’t planning for this
I’m drinking this little soup when I was planning to cook my nice fish
But anyway, it gave me more lessons
Cheers man
Cheers
We’ll, enjoy our soup. Best we can do
Yeah
How is it?
Good
Nice