Predator "walks holy" - Deejay sings against demons

While some artistes continue to release songs about and promoting demons, deejay Predator has returned condemning these types of songs.

Predator, who is known for 2005 hits like Mad Sick Head Nuh Good and Mad Again, has resurfaced with a song, Walk Holy, featuring singer Lukie D. Walk Holy is on Realinkz Production Label’s ‘Xcited’ rhythm.

Predator explained that the song is not gospel.

“A nuh gospel,is a lifestyle, a it we a sey right now cause if we sing bout demon, di pickney dem a go sing bout demon to, and we nah support dat so we haffi change up di ting,” he said.

In the song Lukie D sings:”A nuff artiste a rise up inna dancehall and do dem ting and we nah fight gainst dem, but all inna we ‘madness’ we know sey we nuh fi cross di line.” Predator follows saying “den a energy ago hit you if you nah Walk Holy.”

Meanwhile, Predator seems to be revamping his career that has been on a lull for years.

“Mi neva stop werk, apart from Bounty Killa, mi general, who look out fi mi sometime, music a di only other source whey provide fi mi and mi pickney dem comfortably,” he said.

“Mi find dis Walk Holy a di chune yah now, a crazy people a tell we sey it bad! Plus, as me sey, a we dis, a whey we stand fa. When Walk Only drop a Grants Pen man, di whole place get mad. Yeah man, a we sey nuh medication!”

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Predator "walks holy" - Deejay sings against demons

Predator "walks holy" - Deejay sings against demons

While some artistes continue to release songs about and promoting demons, deejay Predator has returned condemning these types of songs.

Predator, who is known for 2005 hits like Mad Sick Head Nuh Good and Mad Again, has resurfaced with a song, Walk Holy, featuring singer Lukie D. Walk Holy is on Realinkz Production Label’s ‘Xcited’ rhythm.

Predator explained that the song is not gospel.

“A nuh gospel,is a lifestyle, a it we a sey right now cause if we sing bout demon, di pickney dem a go sing bout demon to, and we nah support dat so we haffi change up di ting,” he said.

In the song Lukie D sings:”A nuff artiste a rise up inna dancehall and do dem ting and we nah fight gainst dem, but all inna we ‘madness’ we know sey we nuh fi cross di line.” Predator follows saying “den a energy ago hit you if you nah Walk Holy.”

Meanwhile, Predator seems to be revamping his career that has been on a lull for years.

“Mi neva stop werk, apart from Bounty Killa, mi general, who look out fi mi sometime, music a di only other source whey provide fi mi and mi pickney dem comfortably,” he said.

“Mi find dis Walk Holy a di chune yah now, a crazy people a tell we sey it bad! Plus, as me sey, a we dis, a whey we stand fa. When Walk Only drop a Grants Pen man, di whole place get mad. Yeah man, a we sey nuh medication!”

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Predator "walks holy" - Deejay sings against demons

Tarrus walks down memory lane

BY HOWARD CAMPBELL Observer senior writer

Wednesday, February 05, 2014    

THE rocksteady beat of Alton Ellis’ Too Late To Turn Back Now recently rocked the rehearsal room at Penthouse Records where singer Tarrus Riley and the Blakk Soil Band fine-tuned songs from his Love Situation album.

Riley pays tribute to the rocksteady era on the 13-track set which dropped yesterday. On it, the band reworks classic beats from the mid-1960s to original lyrics.

Only one of the songs, My Story, written by his father Jimmy and originally recorded by singer Slim Smith, is a cover.

Standing on a balcony during a break from rehearsal, the dreadlocked Riley says he was exposed to rocksteady at an early age through his father’s link to harmony groups like the Techniques and Uniques. He added that Love Situation has been in the pipeline for a while.

“I came up with the concept two years ago while touring ’cause wi do a little a everything, ’cause mi get bored fast. So, mi sey to Dean (Fraser), ‘yow, yuh know wha’ woulda wicked, if wi do a rocksteady album’.”

Riley, Fraser and Blakk Soil guitarist Mitchum ‘Khan’ Chin selected the beats for the songs which are a nod to a genre that came after ska and ruled Jamaican dancehalls from 1965-67.

Sail Away, one of the songs from Love Situation, features veteran deejay U Roy whose toasts helped make rocksteady jams like Wear You To The Ball by the Paragons and Hopeton Lewis’ Tom Drunk, chart-toppers.

Although he was born long after the rocksteady period, Riley says he has great respect for his father’s contemporaries including Smith, Delroy Wilson, Ken Boothe and John Holt.

She’s Royal, his breakthrough hit from 2006, is driven by the beat of Money Love, a rocksteady hit for Wilson. Riley believes the rocksteady greats do not get their due in Jamaica but are revered abroad.

“Mi go Hawaii an’ the youths dem a play lovers’ rock an’ rocksteady. Wi have so much music inna Jamaica but wi limit wiself,” he said.

Rocksteady not only produced great vocalists, but also outstanding musicians like bass players Boris Gardiner, Brian Atkinson and Leroy Sibbles, keyboardists Jackie Mittoo and Aubrey Adams, drummer Fil Callender and guitarist Eric Frater.

During the roots-reggae craze of the 1970s, the Revolutionaries band at Channel One recorded numerous hits by putting their spin on rocksteady rhythms. The Roots Radics band followed suit in the 1980s working out of the same studio with producer Henry ‘Junjo’ Lawes and singer Barrington Levy.

Tarrus Riley started a promotional tour of the United States last Saturday with a show at the Howard Theatre in Washington DC.

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Tarrus walks down memory lane