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Shabba Ranks speaks at the graveside ahead of his mother s burial.
Multi-Grammy Award-winning dancehall artiste Rexton Shabba Ranks Gordon returned to Jamaica for his mother s funeral and delivered an impassioned speech at the graveside gathering that tugged at heartstrings with its sincerity, raw grief and the force of the entertainer s personality. All I can tell you about this woman ya is just love. She no teach I nothing more than love, she no give I nothing more than love. . the greatest weapon , the greatest machinery to live life, to face life and to defeat the struggle of life , my mother give me the blood of Jesus Christ.you can t survive, you cannot live without Jesus inna yu life.so today, over my mother s body, if you don t know God, you need fi get to know God , see the product of God ya, he said.
Shabba Ranks
International Dancehall superstar Shabba Ranks showed another side of his persona as he paid tribute to his mother in a touching sendoff.
The deejay, whose real name is Rexton Rawlston Fernando Gordon, was in rare form when he declared his love for his mother, Constance Christie aka ‘Mama Christie’, and love for Jesus as God. Christie, the mother to seven children, passed away after a long battle with illness at 81 years old on February 23.
In a 5 minute tribute, Ranks started out by saying, “All I can tell unuh about this woman yah is just love, she nut teach I nut more than just love, she nuh give I nuttn more than love and the greatest weapon or the greatest machinery in order to I’ve life, and face life and defeat the struggle of life. My mother give me the blood of Jesus Christ me seh, you cyah survive, you cyah live without Jesus innah yuh life”
Maxi Priest
British reggae vocalist Maxi Priest has relocated to Jamaica for the last couple of months and he has used the hiatus to make a lot of new music, a new album called
United State of Mind, to shoot music videos and an upcoming Netflix documentary.
“There are so many things to do with the Internet, so I have been able to focus on business, to understand the things I have accumulated, and sort out my house. Black people are resilient, we will get through this, we have always had curve balls thrown at us, especially in England, and this is just another curve ball,” Maxi Priest said.
Murda She Wrote: February 2021
Celebrating Reggae Month with dancehall pioneers, legends and rising stars U-Roy, Shabba Ranks, Dexta Daps and Blvk H3ro.
U-Roy in New York in 1995. Credit: David Corio/Redferns.
“Here I come, with love and not hatred,” sang Dennis Emmanuel Brown on his 1977 classic “Here I Come,” a.k.a. “Love & Hate,” one of the songs that earned him the title the Crown Prince of Reggae. “Surely goodness and mercy shall follow I,” Dennis went on, “all the days of I life.”
His musical mantra rings truer than ever in these crazy times and especially during Reggae Month, the annual celebration that coincides with a pair of royal birthdays during the first week of February. The Crown Prince’s earthstrong begins the month Dennis was born Feb. 1, 1957 followed five days later by the King of Reggae himself, Robert Nesta Marley, born Feb. 6, 1945.