Ken Boothe - Is it because i'm black

[apple1958ableable]

Excellent song, excellent lyrics, excellent vocals. Mr. Boothe your are a classic artist!!!!!

Apple Houston, TX

[Jockelson]

pw for downloading. ;)

[zoneoutboss211]

booooooooooooth cant beat that.

[Ajima987]

what a good damn roots reggae ! save the old music share with othre people !

[HMKPAWELLE]

yeah mon !! i meet him at his home at kingston jah bless

[apple1958ableable]

Our day will come. We will have everything. Jesus is alive. Keep the Faith.

[ROBTHESELECTOR]

GREAT TUNE! ROOTS!

[w8nker]

the song that rocks my soul ^^

[jahkaya76]

Love & respect to daddy KEN BOOTHE

[revivalqueen]

'Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm­mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm­mmm'...

[dechips]

This is so soulful. Heard for the first time courtesy of mandingo on riddim radio on saturday stuck in traffic. Superb.

He followed it with another killer tune by Everton Blender but this blew me away.

[MakaSkaBlack]

i luv dis song o.o

(L)

[fatbitch1984]

its cause the white assholes that you would have to say this........ The ones that still exist is what i mean...... Im half white and half cherokee indian ,anyways i LOVE KEN BOOTHE

[Lawrentz82]

I never knew where the Wu got the sample from Hollow Bones from...I think i like the one by Syl Johnson a little more though...has more soul.

[du0t0ne]

@Lawrentz82 cosign to that... syl broght more soul to the song... ken made it a bit funky with the guitar in the back... i love the beginning of kens version with the horns...

[marcocastelo]

Luv this tune. Just great.

FIIRRREEEE...

[bdfoxmoor]

yeah!!!

[darganx]

This is the version I always heard when I grew up, only got the Syl Johnson original recently..

[bdfoxmoor]

i love this song!!!

[coldaslife69]

black racist=white power shit .same shite different assholes

[phileustace]

it dont matta if u black or white.

WHAT MATTERZ IZ PERZONALITAY

[merkurana]

I agree, as well as the spelling.

[efeezi]

i agree!!

[bigdaddynumbah1]

...if only that were true.

[jackieskatdawn]

my sons have beautiful black skin , and they r the most fantastic looking lads a mother could wish for i love them so so so so much..... and the song well classic,!! WHAT A SONG.

[sistasueakamilli]

luv dis tune. ! ah dem heavy bassline ridim

[yumbolt007]

wicked!

[bigrichturbo25]

classic!!!

love it

[elbagnal]

come on Trojan, you DO have to release back this album , one of the best reggae of all time !!! come on !

[TTGOSBORN]

boothe is easily the baddest

[jersondread]

the best version! many thanks...

[doyougotFinkel]

i love blacks

[ethnobotanik]

irie ! the riddim....and what a voice. him got lot of love.

[fijinewasi]

black is the colour of my skin and i know it is no sin!

[creekfishin]

definately one of the best reggae songs ever written....powerful

[dizzmatic4]

look up sly johnson he sang the orginal

[carmy64]

"ken smooth booth" what can i say... x

[life2482]

powerful song

[tjmexregga]

black mussic power reggae , words to viva el reggae si señor ,booth leyend

[felipepumas]

why are you guys fighting each other we are every one the same

[DesertEagle505]

Owjea fuck you again your listening to BLACK music srry for people wo like it but fuck that shit

[DesertEagle505]

fuck your white power

[crimsonsake]

Sly Johnson did a better job.I don't like this one.

[hausofpeen]

I 100% disagree :-D

[djmrbrown00]

u r crazy.. this is EASILY just as good in every way, might even better.. and it's syl johnson

[edgeollie1]

WHITE POWER BRO!! YEAH

[lotorius]

whites out of north africa!

[lotorius]

peace from a white who is not like the others.BLACK POWER!

[tizzukka]

ALL COLOUR POWER, BRO!

[Kelz06081984]

Lot of love to u Tizzukka!

[tizzukka]

U 2! :)

[justiceuk420]

lol rainbow warriors one an all.

BIG TUNE...

[hamblu666]

oh well..yeah, nice meant, but kind of realy strange comment..

[KrazyChrisp]

Freakin soulful version that punches above its weight still - 30 years on.

[ReggaeDooood]

great tune.

Macka B done a version aswell.

Macka B - Jamaica, No Problem - Something Nuh Right

[akastuntfish]

excellent

[jtfsucks]

Ouch! That was a painfully enjoyable song!

[BJT1975]

Lil Flip sampled this song for the Ghetto.

[overviewthem]

Good beat though... but the lyrics didn't help the cause of being strong, black and beautiful.

[overviewthem]

It's not because of the skin but the seeds of self hate that has been sown from the vicious days of slavery. Because one is black does not stop one from being a force to reckon with. The lyrics could have gone a step further... The ghetto reflects the self hate scenario in many ways. There are forces both black and white that use all kind of means to deny Africans all over the globe of our rightful place as humans. But remember black is always beautiful like any other color that JAH created.

[jazzbojudas]

This tune used to make cry when I was little

[sneb1961]

Love this version. heard it on Jam Town. thanks for puttin this on.