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Jah Cure, or Iyah Cure (born Siccature Alcock on 11 October 1978 in Hanover, Jamaica) is a Jamaican reggae musician, who was raised in Kingston. He was given the name Jah Cure by Capleton whom he met while growing up in Kingston.[citation needed]
His first big break came in March 1997 when he released the single "King in this Jungle" which was a duet with Sizzla. The single was produced by Beres Hammond who went on to become his mentor. He then released a steady stream of singles that won him critical and popular acclaim.Beres Hammond eventually took Cure under his tutelage and began mentoring him and producing his music in the studio. In 1998, Cure performed on a European tour and visited several Caribbean Islands with Beres Hammond and the Harmony House Family.
In November 1998, while driving around Montego Bay, Cure was pulled over by the police and arrested on charges of gun possession, robbery and rape. He was prosecuted before the Gun Court in April 1999, found guilty and sentenced to 15 years in prison. Cure was transferred from the St. Catherine Adult Correctional Centre to the Tower Street Adult Correctional Centre, which had a digital recording studio the inmates could use. It was there that Cure released three albums and a number of singles, some of which have topped the Jamaican chart. His first album Free Jah's Cure The Album the Truth was released in 2000, it was followed by Ghetto Life in 2003 and Freedom Blues in 2005. More recently Cure has released the songs "Love Is", "Longing For" and "True Reflections", showing his unique voice and lyrical ability.
Collie Buddz (born Colin Harper, August 21, 1981) is a Bermudian reggae and dancehall artist best known for his single "Come Around". Although born in New Orleans, Louisiana, he was raised in Bermuda. He studied audio engineering at Full Sail University in Orlando, FL. He performed on Shaggy's 2007 album Intoxication on the track "Mad Mad World". In 2008, he performed the song "SOS" on WWE The Music, Vol. 8 as the entrance theme for wrestler Kofi Kingston. He also appeared in a 2009 remix of Kid Cudi's single "Day 'n' Nite". His name is based on slang for cannabis. He launched his own record label 'Harper Digital.' Collie Buddz first critically acclaimed album had strong sales internationally and included strong sales in Canada as well which he credits as his home away from home, which is one of his main inspirations for his album as he wrote all of his songs with the exception of three in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Fantan Mojah (born Owen Moncrieffe August 5, 1975), is a Jamaican reggae singer.
Owen Moncrieffe aka Fantan Mojah was born in St Elizabeth Parish, Jamaica. To gain experience, he took a job working with a traveling soundsystem, and performed songs during soundchecks. He adopted the name Mad Killer, in an homage to one of his favorite artists, Bounty Killer. After being exposed to the Rastafarian movement his music began to take on a more positive tone, and he was encouraged by Capleton to take the name Fantan Mojah.
Fantan Mojah is notable for being one of the new wave of contemporary reggae singers who prefer to include positive themes in their lyrics. Like some popular new reggae singers, he is a Bobo Ashanti. His faith is reflected in his lyrics, where some recurring themes are - praise for Jah and messages of Rastafari, positive portrayal of women, and condemnation of ill morals. This is a contrast to many popular dancehall artists, who encourage "slackness" in their lyrics, with boasts of sexual prowess and derogatory messages to women.
Call me from the sun,
Let me see the only one
Way to recognize.
Now I feel I realize.
I watch the sky I see this god.
Make me believe in distant light.
All stars are dancing, the singing moon.
Advent is soon I recognize instellar tune.
New god!
Give me pain.
I’m insane
Crush the distant breath,
Runaway from ignorance.
Hollow light of haze.
I belong to human race.
So down to earth and make us bleed.
We are so useless for their planes.
They need resources for their forces.
To devastate and crush away and make us lost.
I feel this cold.
I feel this breath of horror.
I see tomorrow’s dying fast.
I see the death.
My soul is fool of sorrow.
Thousands years we dreamt about wings,
Million times we tried to do it,
Climbing mountains we’ve fallen to nowhere
Nowadays and before.
Nothing stops those who desire
To take off the land and fly up.
We’ve never seen the world from heaven
Nowadays and before.
Look at me, at all I’ve seen.
Deep inside turn up your mind.
Ever and ever forever we are free!
To cross the line,
To feel the pride,
To leave behind,
To fly up high,
While we rush up to the hollow sky.
Time is running,
Aviation made us flying.
We can touch clouds and look into hollow space,
But we dream of something more.
Still we have no wings behind and
Still we have a great desire
To take off the land and fly up.
That’s we are looking for!
Leave your flesh. Look to the sky,
Free your soul, believe and fly!
Ever and ever forever we are free.
Let my song go on the wind
And fly across the land!
I fall to my eternity.
I know the sun rise up at the East
And goes through the horizon.
I know the wind blows from the North.
The reality is infinity.
I know that rivers flow to the south
And turn to the ocean.
I know the night begins at the west.
The reality is infinity.
The sky will spill the rain.
The earth will turn raindrops into the dew.
The sun will raise it up.
And wind will drive the clouds away.
The light of the sun,
A gulp of the sea,
A blow of the wind.
A handful of soil,
A second of life,
A part of the time.
No one can be replaced in this world.
Nothing instead of itself.
Nobody’s able to break flow of life.
Never the circle will end.
Every moment’s a part of the chain,
Particle of universe.
Everyone’s life is a part of us all.
by Infected Mushroom
I wish to give, to take, to make, to check, I wanna see it happen.
I want to see, to be, the one that plays the game without no fears and regrets.
I want to know you, better than I know myself.
I want to feel the end, and to enjoy the consequence.
I'm playing the game.
The one that will take me to my end.
I'm waiting for the rain...
To wash who I am.
I want to move, to loose, to take the grooves, and to give it all back.
I want to take the time rewind, and to kick it right from the start.
To be unknown and all alone, lose the kind that are behind.
A man had described hollow skies on the wall.
Starlight is bright and the shadows are long.
Than he bring down rusty glass full of blood.
And added picture with the signs of the god.
The tribe fell to knees. Forehead to the Earth.
Nobody knows ‘cause they watched it in first.
Mechanical hands put them up to the skies.
Shaman has betrayed all his words full of lies.
A tribute to sun and devotion were less.
Diamonds and gold aliens left in a mess.
Only the strong got to white blazing sphere,
It turned to flat and disappeared to nowhere.
Ages ago and we turning the past,
Trying to know what were there at the last.
This story’s goes on before some thousands years.
Sun on that wall rushing us to their fears.
Two zero twelve is the time to rebirth?
Knowledge and power are changing my Earth.
So they decided we fallow wrong way
And to come back us the basis again.
Heavens felt crushing steel and concrete.
Nobody knows of unexpected repeat.
Only the strongest rush to white blazing sphere,
I have lost all passions,
I feel like in misery,
I will touch my name
And fall… into purity.
I know all of master.
I was one of followers.
Obey the disaster
Now… be of my proud!
I’m burning!
I’m burning black!
Come with me,
We’ll never back!
I’ll break all illusions,
I know rules of universe,
I pray only one
And blow… into rebirth.
I go way of silence,
I fly to the emptiness.
Erase. All the time is
Lost…
The day we’ve never forget
When we rushed to the top
Through the time and eternity...
The day we’ve never forget
When we fell through the grave
I saw them took my body, separate my soul and take apart it,
Analyze my train of thoughts compare it with the system of elementary.
They divide my flesh and gather back it and I do not know how they can make it.
The conclusion is investigated: Man is primitive so they can create it.
The conception of creating human. Cloned race of slaves. They need of few men
To possess some kinds of labor forces. Add more hands, make stronger than some horses.
Short intelligence, all human needs and adjust the system of minimal feed.
Simplify all homes to common cages. A female must birth a dozen babies.
Why must our names be erased?
Blast fill my eyes!
Sudden rage!
It was the last sunset.
Long ugly shadows were crawling, crossing each other.
It was the first time when the world, tired of insane rush, became silent and quiet.
Everything live became quiet, inhaling the last drops of sunshine before the sunset.
And the life has stopped.
Awaiting the endless night.
Before tomorrow,
Before I die!
The clouds froze in the sky.
The wind stopped blowing.
The sea went speechless.
The surf became quiet.
A strange sign ghosted in the sky.
The last I see before I die.
No hope, no fear, no grief and sorrow
Before I die
Was I arise in the course of time?
With the development and evolution ways.
Was I like as the link in chain?
Goes from the simple cell to high intelligence.
I wonder who I am to tell you who you are.
There cannot be the slightest doubt that truth is not so far.
So I will follow my aims. I’ll fight again and again
For knowledge and reason of origin of me...
Was I arise with the will of God?
On the seventh day of world creation.
Was I planned as the dutiful kind?
To keep these dubious laws, to serve the almighty.
Is this the real way I go?
I’ve got the only question:
Who I am in this realm?
So I ask…
Was I arise from the universe?
Carried down with star wind as a seed.
Was I the descendant of alien race?
I’m one of them who believe in the shine of stars.
I know that knowledge we have is not ours.
Breath of eternity lies not behind of us.
Now we are ready to feel the great power.
I realize how the words of the universe
Had been distorted with a man understanding.
Thoughts of the sun fills my head and I know who’s first
Man’s equal god thousands years ago landing.
Call me and I rush my way falling lightning voice,
Turn me away from the rules we are under,
Show me the way I must go. But I have no choice,
Let me touch truth with the star storm expanding.
Rage obey me and I bring my soul into
the flame ablaze me. Terminate My strength are growing.
I reject my knowledge, I retreat my future,