pure niceness. Lila Ike blessed this tune.

Reggae 18

Freedom Fighter

Samory I - Life is Amazing (Single)

Life is Amazing

Kabaka - Pyramid - Feat - Jemere - Morgan - Grateful

Dinero

Blood in the Streets

Rose Petal

Strength

Outside

In Search Of Zion

Weed & Tings

Above Water

CAN A MAN CRY

At Home

First official single from Lila Iké

Stream on all Digital Platforms
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Written by Lila Iké
Produced by The DrumKeys and Diggy British
Art by Nickii Kane
from In.Digg.Nation Collective

LYRICS:

Intro
You think a likkle bit a headset my mommy pop off?
She say put down that dj ting deh a just you book me want you take up
Take up,  take up
'cause  everyday you want  fi make bare noise more while me want you shut up
You feel like no producer boy can carry you a studio go lock-up?

Chorus 
Now she's my  biggest fan 
Love you my number one 
Words of a queen 
That's everything weh fimi mama  say to me,  yeah
She's still my biggest fan 
Go see your face when you hear this here one 
Words of a queen
Everything what fi me mama say to me yeah

Verse 1
 A me fi tell you about a Lila weh
The studio door me coulda never ever reach deh deh
‘Cause mama say if me do it she ago beat me yeah
That couldnt keep me weh 
‘Cause me done did have the drive 
One day inna me room me deh 
A sing a tune pon a nice piece a beat me say
Me neighbour deh a tell me how me sound sweet
Mama walk in and hear it 
Say she need the one deh pon her play list 

Verse 2 
And it was no debate 
When a time fi we get up and go wash out the plate 
We coulda never ever set foot through the gate 
Before we read a Psalm, preferably twenty three or ninety-eight
You say go on hold the faith 
If a this me really want then put Jah first and elevate 
So everything you say me still deh ya a concentrate 
So mom you see da one ya
Want you know say a fi you me do da song ya 

Bridge 
See ever since I was a little teenie weenie tot
Me always dream fi build a tune weh circulate the map
So everybody start fi ask a who fa daughter that
Yuh hear say a fi Cherry, yeah, the one what never talk a lot
See in my heart love for you I really got a lot
I hope you know that this is just the starter pack 
And me give thanks for every single time 
U literally beat in those words of divine 


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"Careful" is the latest single from Jamaican recording artist Mortimer. 
Produced by Winta James and Mortimer for Overstand Entertainment. 

Available Now at Careful.MortimerOfficial.com

LYRICS:
A no every smile a smile 
Sometimes it takes a closer look to really realize 
To see beneath the Jacks of many faces wearing smiles 
If our visions were X-ray we’d see the evil in their eyes 
And a no every friend a friend
A nuff of them deh round but just a few are genuine 
Connect yourself with Jah and you will feel their energies 
Nuff want fi see you fall and woulda trade fi anything 
But I tell you just be 

-Chorus-
Careful of the ones 
The ones you call your friends 
‘Cause nuff of them a snake 
They’re filled with jealousy 
And they will let you down 
And keep an eye out for the ones you call your family 
They laugh with you today 
Pretend them genuine 
And they will let you down 

No think them always have your interest at heart 
Stop move like you no know say them will sit down and plot 
Nuff a them rather see you behind bars 
Never get too comfortable 
Pree them from your eye corner 
'Cause if you lapse them sell you out fi one burger  
Imagine what them woulda do fi millions and billions 
Smaller your circle a di better my brother 
Tings a get so dread might have to pree your own father

-Chorus-

Eyes them stay peeled like an orange  
Plus Jah deh pon mi side no need fi be worried 
Rastaman a no fool no watch the grin 
Might buss a little laugh that no mean me not watching you 
I man been burnt too many times 
Imagine how it hurt when you trust them till you blind 
I a tell you the truth people no nice 
If a that you did a pree beg you think that over twice 
And be

-Chorus-

Careful

This album was first released in 1993 on Vinyl, Cassette and CD and it is now to be reissued as part of the programme by Nubian Records to make available all of Black Roots’ back catalogue on digital platforms.  ‘With Friends’ will be out on 26th April 2019.  It is the last full album recorded by the band before activity ceased in the mid-90s for several years in their 40 years long career.  The next full album to be recorded by the band was On the Ground that released in 2012 in collaboration with Sugar Shack Records.

Black Roots had talked on occasion of inviting other artists to perform some of their classic songs and the circumstances of the band at this time lent themselves to work up such a project.  And so, Dub Judah, BB Seaton, Trevor Dixon and Mikey Forbes, all London based artists, were approached to perform on this album.  

Dub Judah a very respected vocalist, musician, live performer and producer working through his own Dub Jockey record label was asked to and agreed to produce the album.  He was given the key task of breathing new life into these songs and used his versatile musical skills to good effect changing the feel of the rhythm section.  The recordings play and feel different even though they are all classic Black Roots songs.  He added his vocals to two massive songs ‘What Them a Do’ and ‘Tribal War’.  The lyrical content of these blend with his personal beliefs reflecting where he was at spiritually and he sang them with heart.  You can hear it when you listen back to these two songs.

Harris Lloyd "B.B." Seaton, also known as "Bibby", a Jamaican reggae singer, songwriter, and record producer who was a member of The Gaylads, The Astronauts, Conscious Minds, and The Messengers, took on the task of laying vocals on ‘Release the Food’ and ‘Opportunity’ giving these new depth and insightfulness.

Trevor Dixon, a lovers rock singer best known for singing on ‘Woman of Moods’ that was first released in 1988 on Groove & a Quarter Records, sang ‘Move On’ and ‘Let It Be Me’, two ballads that suited his smooth land silky vocal style.

And Charles Bryan aka Delroy Ogilvie, one of the original front men with Black Roots, came back to do a cameo performance on ‘Chanting for Freedom’ punching out the lyrics in his own inimitable style with Mikey Forbes, another guest reggae singer doing a great version on ‘Confusion’.
The other songs featured on this album and given the treatment by Kondwani Ngozi and Errol Brown, the remaining vocalists with Black Roots at this time, are ‘Juvenile Delinquent’. ‘Survival’, ‘Africa’ and ‘The Father’.

And so was born ‘With Friends’.  The final curtain on the first part of Black Roots’ long and continuing musical career.

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