check out my band called ....FAT LIPPED FISH...keep this awsome sound growing...our first album is due march 2011!!....help support new original bands in this awsome style of music!!!
the reality is..that reggae came from ska...and not the other way around....look up SIR COXONE DODD...and you can start with your history lesson there...cheers...and Oi!
There seems to be a lot of misinformation being spread on the page. Why would someone take the name of a mass murderer and then come on here defending 3rd wave ska bands? Also, why has this become a debate about African history? The musicians who play the music have respect for each other. When you tour, you leave wherever you are and bring your music to the world stage. Your best audience might be far from your home and not look anything like you, but they will sing your song word for word.
Ok now everyone knows ska was created by the infusion of Jamaican Reggae and Blues which started in england because of the migration of many Jamaican people plus the influence of early New Orleans blues hence the first wave of ska and creation of the skinhead culture and to all who just thought nazi when I said skinhead get your head out of your ass
@Oirish skin your so true there mate skinhead were call peanuts it so call the media that first call skinheads a skinhead. the first skinheads that walked Britains streets was Jamiacan rude boys back in 1963 and between the mods and rude boys came skinheads in 1968/69. orginal skinheads have nothing to do with neo nazi bullshit that was American that started neo nazi bone heads. a true skinhead can not and will not be racist as they should know were the roots of skinhead started.
@OirishSkin kinda true, but Jamaicans worked in the American South as labourers, thats how the American Blues sound came to Jamaica, plus due to geography many Jamaicans listened to US radio, this was long before Jamaicans came to England, also as many have said already ska predated reggae
I see at 3:55 where madonna got her 'strike a pose 'Vogue'' concept from.Really the sweet humble simplicity, the blending of many sounds from many cultures. We can argue till days end on who made the first pot of ska stew. It don't really matter, what matters is that it has come forth to be a springboard for even more great music to come.
madonna didn't invent vogue. vogue was invented by gay black and latino youths in the 70s. madonna incorporated what was trendy in nyc in the '80s into a song. you're not alone in thinking that madonna invented vogue though
The original sound men in Jamaica played strictly American r and b and boogie woogie at a dance,When this became scarce sound men recorded their own RandB.None of the early recorded Jamaican stuff from 1960 or 61 sounds anything like ska,its American boogie woogie,my own thought is that one day someone somewhere was still trying to play A merican style and quite literaly didn't quite get it right,and for wahtever reason a new style was born...and the rest as they say is history
And to all of the people who want to play games and say that ska belongs to black people, that's fine. Canadians get basketball then. We invented it.
And, believe it or not, we are all human beings. To take ownership over something that someone of the same skin colour as you made is simply tribalism. You're just as racist as the people you are condemning, .
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Hahaha. Anyone who tries to pull the "white people shouldnt play ska" bullshit are just intimidated. Yes blacks started it, but almost immediately THEY introduced it to english mods and skinheads. Trying to say that madness, the specials, the english beat, operation ivy, the slackers, the pietasters etc. aren't atleast as good is just typical reverse racism. I guess we shouldn't let whites play anything since life supposidely began in Africa, so apparently we've just stole everything from you :(
Zarbee your a fag who cares about your view that we all bleed the same just chill to the music its not about race so why make it about race Flex T knows what hes talking about
And nope, i'm not black, but I'm workingclass and that in the classwar we shoud put our rage and activism, to tare down the system that needs racism and discrimination between men and whomen, and between people with different sexuality to keep on existing. If everyone could realise this, then we could stand united against the real enimy..
ye p 100% true. racism keeps us in chains people need to realise there is no 1 race in the wrong or in the right but small minioritys from all are bad so its more of a class thing.
And because of their own insecurity about their own worth in this vicious system, working class whites have some of the most virulent in their practice of racism. If you are sincere about unity, educate these people, tell them their white skin is not a badge of superiority, that their destiny is tied to that of other poor people around the world. Right now in Europe and U.S. many of these working class people are blaming the "darkies" for financials woes.
Of course I'm "educating" as in sharing my opinions, and I have been leading seminaurs (spelling?) on this subject with students who have trouble in school, and therefore have more risk to become misled by racists arguments.
I'm also an organised militant antifascist, and since most nazis have a workingclass background I'm therefor confronting working class people, so it's not a question about that "working class is tight no matter what", as it sounded like you thought.
Great you obviously have your heart where your mouth is. But educating youth about everyone's contribution to the world should also be included. Especially since so much contributed by people of color has been "whited" out. And why not tell the truth about music? Too many Black children are ignorant of what their foreparents have contributed to the world. What is harm in letting everyone know that the majority of today's modern popular music was created by Black people?
That I can agree with, and I understand the argument with hieratage and all, and I can agree to that, the way the society looks now, but in long terms, we wont be able to create a society without discrimination if we don't erase the feeling that we are different.. ok, I don't think this argument will leed somewhere ;-) So I'm willing to accept your arguments and change my previous mind.. a little.. :-P
WE ARE DIFFERENT. that's the thing. white people always want to mix brown and blacks and everyone else into their societies to steal what we create. insted of "tolerance" you guys want to teach you should teach to accept. and respect our differences.
"but I'm workingclass and that in the classwar we shoud put our rage and activism, to tare down the system that needs racism and discrimination between men and whomen, and between people with different sexuality to keep on existing. If everyone could realise this, then we could stand united against the real enimy"
As saying goes "wish in one hand and shit in the other and see which fills up first"
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On this comment wall are a bunch of paranoid Afrocentrists who are trying to convince people that Africans made all music. This is worse than the Black Egypt or Black Jesus theories. For the umpteenth time, all modern (especially American) music is a mix. Without European influence, blacks would still be beating on animal skin drums in the Congo jungles of Africa. On the other hand, without African influence, whites would be still composing symphonies only.
It was created by Blacks. they absorbed the influences of other cultures around them. But it was Black people who combined these sounds and created this new music. Whites were exposed to the same sounds, but it was the African who put it all together. Whites did not play it until after hearing Blacks. Your racist rage is that blinding that you don't know African music was/is more than beating on animal skin drums? Other than country and bluegrass how many new forms of music created by whites?
What is racist about truth? The most influential music of the 20th century was created by people of African ancestry and there is no denying that. Who wants to keep you from playing ska? There is nothing racist about telling the truth about where the music came from.
To keep repeating who created something, no matter what, will just separate people further. I want no one, no matter skincolour, sex etc should have expections on them, that they are in a certain way, and that you judge people for what they are, not the way they are expected to be.
I think I overreacted a little, and i'm sorry for that. It was the question about what music was created by whites that pissed me of. Such questions just separate people..
Hiding the truth is not going to bring unity just more festering anger and resenment that will eventually expode. I assume you are not Black, so you are not seeing it from the perspective of those who have watched others profit from inferior reproductions of their art . Only when truth is known and accepted will there be unity of all people.
It's absolutley not about hiding the truth, but everytime we remind us that the blacks did that and the whites did this (well, of course we shal not forget the structural racism that people have been victims for forever) we separate the humanity. Instead of see everyone as humans wich should be "judged" individually we "judge" everyone ofa skin colour.
A huge part of racism is denying the contributions of a people. It is easy for others to place less value on the lives of people if they are perceived to be worthless and have not contributed to the development of mankind. Millions of racist live and love to music created by Black people and many don't even know it was created by the very people they despise. The music of Black people was the soundtrack of the 20th century.
cause you want to identify with something it doesn't belong to you ... so your argument is and MILLIONS of other white folk is .... "music is universal man" so who plays SKA music now? WHO plays rock music now? is not a coincidence, you atart playing rap music tomorrow you know what white kids call real hip hop ... and the creators move away from it ..have some respect, by respecting something u do no understand ... that is playing some shit we dun want u 2 play :)
From a musician who was around when ska was born...it is a uniquely Jamaican creation. Ska was born when the band of Alpha Academy grew up to become the Skatalites. They wove the phrasings of 1950s African-American jazz giants into a distinct rhythm. It is no surprise that Alpha alum Don Drummond was rated as one of the world's five great trombonists. The drum an' bass idiom now heard in U.K. lounge music was brought across the Pond with Coxsone Dodd and his crew.
I've found out that Neville Staple of The Specials is publishing his biography - called "Original Rude Boy". You can reserve a copy on Amazon or the Waterstone's website. Apparently, Aurum Press is the UK publishers. My mole tells me there's some steamy stuff in it.
Yes. All the africans who live under opression from different militias and guerillas live stress free lives. Everbody who is starving are happy. And you know what. Not even the rastafaris are all-nice. They follow the old testament. Wich means that they believe in "an eye for an eye" and have homofobic opinions.
What are you? Twelwe? There should be an age limit for joining youtube.
ska is really amazing, relaxes so much when listening to it, forgeting about all problems in life. it's like uhh, refreshing your soul and your mind - you want to live! jah bless. ska live foreva.
who are you to tell me I'm fake?I don't care how much classic ska vinyl you own.You're not a Jamaican whose prime was in the 1960's.you are just another stupid white kid on youtube defending "black music",just like the other stupid white kids who comment on matisyahu videos saying it's not true reggae or he "stole" it from black people.Jamaican's hardly listen to ska anymore.ska is oldies to them.they like all that computerized dancehall crap now. so take your pretentious ass and fuck off
ratajana, I fully agree with you.I have no hate whatsover in my bones and I am very much for world unity and peace.What I AM against is certain people's idea that Ska or Reggae would not exist if it wasn't for Europeans.THIS IS NONSENSE.All I am asking for is that idiots like Masta097 stop brainwashing people by diluting ska's origins.This is just as sinister as past racist scholars who have tried to cover up black history.
european or not, it doesn't really matter because music is beyond color, it's about how it makes you feel when you hear it. but stil there is no denying that the fusion of african syncopated rhythms mixed with european 2/4 and 4/4 time signatures created western black music. and in the case of latin music it went beyond to include aboriginal melodic patterns.
you obviously can't read because I never said ska was "white music", but a mix of black and white music. You criticize my dancing? I never claimed to be an expert. why don't you make a better video? I am not a fake. ska is my favorite style, especially third wave. you clearly are some stupid kid with nothing better to do than start shit on youtube. I don't see any Jamaicans on here arguing about a largely unpopular 50 yr old style of music. you can go back to your corner. I am done.
I would be interested to know which 'European sounds' were mixed in.Please answer. And if you can justify it, I can guarantee that NO EUROPEAN will be able to perform reggae like the Jamaicans.Only the people from the island of Jamaica can perform reggae and ska.UB40 were the only exception but they were born in Jamaican communities in Britain and grew up with English Jamiacans.Everyting else outside Jamaica is crap.
we who have been shitted on my europeans as having no culture...we just need to remind Europeans that it is us who created these art forms they love so much...thats all folks... folks dont say ska its skyah.
ratajana i am sure we all want unity and peace. ska is not from everywhere. it was created by the descendants of African captives brought to Jamaica and forced into slavery. stripped of their original culture, they created a new one based on memories from the old. the music tells "their" story. the world might love this music but the world did not create it. those African Jamaicans did.
if Ska, R&B, Jazz, and Rock and Roll etc. are not solely derived from African music. These styles evolved in the states and the west indies through a mixing of European and African cultures. Sure the innovators of these styles are largely black and the rhythms are certainly more African influenced, but the harmonic structure and chord progressions most certainly have their roots in European classical music. Any Jazz professor can tell you that.
Ska IS Jamaican. Jamaica is a former colony of Britain. It's entire culture, including language and music (i.e. reggae and ska) would not be what it is without the influence of European culture as well as the African culture. The process is called "cross-pollination" and Jazz professors use the phrase because it happened all over North and South America, and the Caribbean. So YOU fuck off and take your racist agenda elsewhere. I will enjoy ska for what it really is. and I don't like country btw
Racist agenda? For your information, CountrynwesternMasta097, (you're not worthy of the title Ska anywhere in your name) I am white.But I too am sick and tired of the way white people continually try to claim music as their own.And as for you, you can't even dance to it.People, check out this little boy's attempt to skank - he looks like he's shit in his pants.You're a fake and I bet you don't even have Jamiacan friends. Like I said - stick to your country and western - it's better for you.
By your logic you're not allowed to like ska because you are not black or Jamaican. Listen to yourself. It's pretty racist to try and stamp music as black or white and claim that whites stole "their" music, as well as to assume that if you're white you automatically like country music. I figured you were white, and probably leftist liberal trash too. people like you perpetuate racism. Race does not matter with music (ska included). anybody can like any style, no matter what nationality you are.
Masta097, Go and make some Jamaican friends at least.Until you have embraced the culture and the people, you will NEVER understand ska or reggae for what it really is. It'll be an ever constant myth in your mind as it is for many people who THINK they understand it.
To all those defending ska and other styles as exclusively "black music"...tell me how ska would even exist if it weren't for European classical music? Jazz, as well as styles derived from it, such as Rhythm and Blues, Rock and Roll, Ska etc. came about by mixing of African and European musical traditions, often African rhythms, with the harmonic structure of European music. Ask any jazz professor and they'll tell you that.
The point is that it was the African who put all of those musical elements together. Because they were captured & enslaved & brought to new lands, largely stripped of their own culture, they created new ones. Using the rhythms from their motherland and adding to it the "harmonic structure of European music", Blacks created the music the world has come to know and love. Ska, reggae, Afro-Cuban, r&b, R&R, hip hop, jazz, blues, etc., all surfaced first in black world & spread to others later.
Great and rare footage. It is easier to hear and see Ska on Youtube than it is on radio or television; no wonder both are losing their audiences. Ska has Cuban influences as well since a number of the musicians were born in Cuba. It's a great music with international influences.
Ska isn't pure anything. It's a mix of mento, calypso, American R&B, among other things. Cuba is directly north of Jamaica. There is no denying at least some trade of influences.
"Ska isn't pure anything. It's a mix of mento, calypso, American R&B" SkaMasta097 what is the common link these genres share? They were all created by descendants of African captives from the same areas in Africa. So the rhythms and beats are very similar.
American Jazz and R&B were big in Jamaica before ska. They wanted their own style of music so they inverted the rhythm and added their own elements to it and ska was born. Also, for all you Afrocentrists: Byron Lee was half Chinese and Rico Rodriguez and Roland Alfonzo were of Cuban heritage.
And? Rita Marley was born Alpharita Constantia Anderson in Santiago, Cuba. Rodriguez & Alfonzo are of African Heritage, just like most of their fellow Jamaican countryman. There are millions of Blacks in Cuba . Lee is also of African heritage. Besides Rodriguez had a Puerto Rican mother. Duke Ellington, Etta James, Billie Holiday, Billy Eckstein, Cab Calloway have European blood, but music styles certainly not. Aretha Franklin has Native American ancestry, but music does not sound Native.
its all about toots and the maytals they are just too sick to be human. If anyone has the full clip of them in this video please upload it. possibly the best video known to man.
Please don't make statements about things you know nothing about.Non-blacks were making these same silly statements during this time period & prior. It was said of Rock n' Roll, Jazz, Blues, Banjo music, etc. Most non-black contemporaries will heavily criticize & then [when we've moved on] their offspring will grow up loving & playing it.Usually makeing up some hogwash about how it was created by a collaboration of cultures. All African music was & is brilliant & is why it's the most duplicated.
Rebertone continue to spread the gospel!! As for so called "collaborations", how come it is always the Black folks who puts all of these "influences" together to create this brilliant music. Be it Jamaica, USA, Cuba, Brazil, Haiti, etc., same result. Blacks are the creators and originators of the new sound.
Beautiful Jamaican people. <3
bapyou 4 months ago
Have you seen "reggaelinx website" it is like YouTube for reggae videos. It is so much easier to find and play reggae videos.
dealdesign0003 7 months ago
Yeap it´s just great to look the roots of music that we listen.. and we still dancing ska!
chekeska 7 months ago
Great man Jamaica Ska .......... Toots And The Maytals \o
otavio2 8 months ago
haha caralho que style essa dancinha, mó ingenuidade! Sonzera como sempre!!
felipehnp 10 months ago
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check out my band called ....FAT LIPPED FISH...keep this awsome sound growing...our first album is due march 2011!!....help support new original bands in this awsome style of music!!!
FatLippedFish 1 year ago
Ska influenced Punk rock too
KanoKazuma94 1 year ago
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TheGiftedOne1 1 year ago
whats the name of the second song please?
scudder91 1 year ago
What is the name of the song ?
giuzepeverdi 1 year ago
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@giuzepeverdi This is song it's RAS MICHAEL & THE SONS OF NEGUS "KEEP COOL BABYLON"
KrissRasta 1 year ago
Lovin it !!
rootsystuf 1 year ago
k rifado esta esto!!!
very very good!
mafasido 1 year ago
For the whole origins if Ska question...ERNEST RANGLIN, folks, Ernest Ranglin. Peace.
747t 1 year ago
@747t /watch?v=mr0fVJ0ZbII
This video will explain the origins of Ska from American R&B, from the mouths of the originators themselves, including the aforementioned.
747t 1 year ago
Hey! What's the name of the first song? 0:00 - 0:10
TheRastafree 1 year ago
@TheRastafree This is song it's RAS MICHAEL & THE SONS OF NEGUS "KEEP COOL BABYLON"
KrissRasta 1 year ago
the reality is..that reggae came from ska...and not the other way around....look up SIR COXONE DODD...and you can start with your history lesson there...cheers...and Oi!
regalrocks 1 year ago 2
There seems to be a lot of misinformation being spread on the page. Why would someone take the name of a mass murderer and then come on here defending 3rd wave ska bands? Also, why has this become a debate about African history? The musicians who play the music have respect for each other. When you tour, you leave wherever you are and bring your music to the world stage. Your best audience might be far from your home and not look anything like you, but they will sing your song word for word.
Shemra 1 year ago 2
get em toots!
kato422 2 years ago
No. Reggae comes from ska.
mcgillchris 2 years ago 7
Ok now everyone knows ska was created by the infusion of Jamaican Reggae and Blues which started in england because of the migration of many Jamaican people plus the influence of early New Orleans blues hence the first wave of ska and creation of the skinhead culture and to all who just thought nazi when I said skinhead get your head out of your ass
OirishSkin 2 years ago
@Oirish skin your so true there mate skinhead were call peanuts it so call the media that first call skinheads a skinhead. the first skinheads that walked Britains streets was Jamiacan rude boys back in 1963 and between the mods and rude boys came skinheads in 1968/69. orginal skinheads have nothing to do with neo nazi bullshit that was American that started neo nazi bone heads. a true skinhead can not and will not be racist as they should know were the roots of skinhead started.
mikeytheskinhead 2 years ago
@OirishSkin kinda true, but Jamaicans worked in the American South as labourers, thats how the American Blues sound came to Jamaica, plus due to geography many Jamaicans listened to US radio, this was long before Jamaicans came to England, also as many have said already ska predated reggae
Kwekwe 1 year ago
song from 1:43 to 2:16?
melkorzeblack 2 years ago
wat is da second song?
ska universal ska
serve jah good
melkorzeblack 2 years ago
esta bueno
parazithee 2 years ago
I see at 3:55 where madonna got her 'strike a pose 'Vogue'' concept from.Really the sweet humble simplicity, the blending of many sounds from many cultures. We can argue till days end on who made the first pot of ska stew. It don't really matter, what matters is that it has come forth to be a springboard for even more great music to come.
bushuraloser 2 years ago
madonna didn't invent vogue. vogue was invented by gay black and latino youths in the 70s. madonna incorporated what was trendy in nyc in the '80s into a song. you're not alone in thinking that madonna invented vogue though
Majesticon 2 years ago 3
ska ska ska jamaika ska!!
wii
k buenas rolonas!!!
mOlUkDrEaD 2 years ago 2
Listen to Jamaican mento. I think Ska came from Mento and perhaps american rock and roll.
pawoon 2 years ago
ONE LOVE!!!!!!!
SiouxSyndicate 2 years ago
love it - how cool is this
davidb2501 2 years ago
The original sound men in Jamaica played strictly American r and b and boogie woogie at a dance,When this became scarce sound men recorded their own RandB.None of the early recorded Jamaican stuff from 1960 or 61 sounds anything like ska,its American boogie woogie,my own thought is that one day someone somewhere was still trying to play A merican style and quite literaly didn't quite get it right,and for wahtever reason a new style was born...and the rest as they say is history
one love!!
pinky5446 2 years ago
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and you gringos created reggae!...suck my dick
indiosindios 2 years ago
music for de massvie 4.00 it dema afor you
metrodash 2 years ago
is that dem maytell's at dem 2.00 me wants thinkso
metrodash 2 years ago
ska is, was, and will always be the best.
Rocknniko 2 years ago
skaskaska
Sarettapunk92 2 years ago
no ska！ no life!!
sushiska 2 years ago
you can see a basic skank forming.
MmisterPinkston 2 years ago
Long live Ska...Peace and Unity...
SkaSnake65 2 years ago 5
I agree with timothyxmcveigh.
And to all of the people who want to play games and say that ska belongs to black people, that's fine. Canadians get basketball then. We invented it.
And, believe it or not, we are all human beings. To take ownership over something that someone of the same skin colour as you made is simply tribalism. You're just as racist as the people you are condemning, .
LostCause34theband 2 years ago
ska began in jamaica
BWSRLOCS 2 years ago 2
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Hahaha. Anyone who tries to pull the "white people shouldnt play ska" bullshit are just intimidated. Yes blacks started it, but almost immediately THEY introduced it to english mods and skinheads. Trying to say that madness, the specials, the english beat, operation ivy, the slackers, the pietasters etc. aren't atleast as good is just typical reverse racism. I guess we shouldn't let whites play anything since life supposidely began in Africa, so apparently we've just stole everything from you :(
timothyxmcveigh 2 years ago
Zarbee your a fag who cares about your view that we all bleed the same just chill to the music its not about race so why make it about race Flex T knows what hes talking about
Alexreeveisgay 2 years ago
Please name that tune starting at 4:01. Thanks
spikyg1064 2 years ago
Tommy McCook & The Supersonics - Dynamite
funko92 2 years ago
ska ska ska!!!!!
divinemoments1 2 years ago 2
ska ska ska !
antropologo8640 2 years ago
im jamaican working class and living in uk, bt seriously ppl jus listen to the good vibes and forget about ur troubles, that is wat ska is for, bless
FIexT 2 years ago 2
amen
SailorMan69 2 years ago
And nope, i'm not black, but I'm workingclass and that in the classwar we shoud put our rage and activism, to tare down the system that needs racism and discrimination between men and whomen, and between people with different sexuality to keep on existing. If everyone could realise this, then we could stand united against the real enimy..
Bla bla bla preeching.. ;)
Springforlivet 2 years ago
ye p 100% true. racism keeps us in chains people need to realise there is no 1 race in the wrong or in the right but small minioritys from all are bad so its more of a class thing.
only trust working class.
topbluffa1 2 years ago
And jamaican ska is the soundtrack of the revolution.
Springforlivet 2 years ago
And because of their own insecurity about their own worth in this vicious system, working class whites have some of the most virulent in their practice of racism. If you are sincere about unity, educate these people, tell them their white skin is not a badge of superiority, that their destiny is tied to that of other poor people around the world. Right now in Europe and U.S. many of these working class people are blaming the "darkies" for financials woes.
KhemuLuxons 2 years ago 10
Of course I'm "educating" as in sharing my opinions, and I have been leading seminaurs (spelling?) on this subject with students who have trouble in school, and therefore have more risk to become misled by racists arguments.
I'm also an organised militant antifascist, and since most nazis have a workingclass background I'm therefor confronting working class people, so it's not a question about that "working class is tight no matter what", as it sounded like you thought.
Springforlivet 2 years ago
Great you obviously have your heart where your mouth is. But educating youth about everyone's contribution to the world should also be included. Especially since so much contributed by people of color has been "whited" out. And why not tell the truth about music? Too many Black children are ignorant of what their foreparents have contributed to the world. What is harm in letting everyone know that the majority of today's modern popular music was created by Black people?
KhemuLuxons 2 years ago 3
That I can agree with, and I understand the argument with hieratage and all, and I can agree to that, the way the society looks now, but in long terms, we wont be able to create a society without discrimination if we don't erase the feeling that we are different.. ok, I don't think this argument will leed somewhere ;-) So I'm willing to accept your arguments and change my previous mind.. a little.. :-P
Springforlivet 2 years ago
WE ARE DIFFERENT. that's the thing. white people always want to mix brown and blacks and everyone else into their societies to steal what we create. insted of "tolerance" you guys want to teach you should teach to accept. and respect our differences.
4NrAGS 2 years ago 5
"but I'm workingclass and that in the classwar we shoud put our rage and activism, to tare down the system that needs racism and discrimination between men and whomen, and between people with different sexuality to keep on existing. If everyone could realise this, then we could stand united against the real enimy"
As saying goes "wish in one hand and shit in the other and see which fills up first"
KhemuLuxons 2 years ago 5
hey does anybody know what is the very first song of the vid? 00:00-10:00, before the man starts to talk.
Cland3stina 2 years ago
oops i meant 00:00 - 00:10
Cland3stina 2 years ago
its called jamiaca ska
funko92 2 years ago
Ska, ska , ska!
It´s not Black, it´s not white,
it´s Ska Ska ska
ratajana 2 years ago 17
@ratajana beautiful its ska ....bless
badboybaldy1 1 year ago
@ratajana No, its Black actually.
CLEKTRONIK 11 months ago
@CLEKTRONIK No, it's not
321KojaK123 10 months ago
@ratajana BLESS your soul my brother for your insight
philliesomasound 10 months ago
Music is Universal Ska Ska Ska.
Selectakjc 2 years ago 2
very good...music good...ska ska ska jamaica ska...
dubroots 2 years ago 2
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On this comment wall are a bunch of paranoid Afrocentrists who are trying to convince people that Africans made all music. This is worse than the Black Egypt or Black Jesus theories. For the umpteenth time, all modern (especially American) music is a mix. Without European influence, blacks would still be beating on animal skin drums in the Congo jungles of Africa. On the other hand, without African influence, whites would be still composing symphonies only.
SkaMasta097 2 years ago
It was created by Blacks. they absorbed the influences of other cultures around them. But it was Black people who combined these sounds and created this new music. Whites were exposed to the same sounds, but it was the African who put it all together. Whites did not play it until after hearing Blacks. Your racist rage is that blinding that you don't know African music was/is more than beating on animal skin drums? Other than country and bluegrass how many new forms of music created by whites?
KhemuLuxons 2 years ago 19
1 more, metal!
stormrider06 2 years ago
metal?
KhemuLuxons 2 years ago 2
punk. but the black man did event rock n roll so maybe not!
eatmyface1234 2 years ago 2
you answered your own question, R&R gave birth to punk.
KhemuLuxons 2 years ago 4
Tho most unneccesary post, and question ever! The music is'nt in your fuckin skincolour.
All kinds of racism is disguisting, and if anyone want to keep me from playing ska because of my skincolour fists will fly.
So, don't use music, and specially not Ska for spreading racistic ideas.
Black and white must fight together against the fascist system they call democracy.
Read Bakunin!
So.. I don't think I can put more opinions and shit in this post ; )
Springforlivet 2 years ago
What is racist about truth? The most influential music of the 20th century was created by people of African ancestry and there is no denying that. Who wants to keep you from playing ska? There is nothing racist about telling the truth about where the music came from.
KhemuLuxons 2 years ago 5
To keep repeating who created something, no matter what, will just separate people further. I want no one, no matter skincolour, sex etc should have expections on them, that they are in a certain way, and that you judge people for what they are, not the way they are expected to be.
I think I overreacted a little, and i'm sorry for that. It was the question about what music was created by whites that pissed me of. Such questions just separate people..
Springforlivet 2 years ago
Hiding the truth is not going to bring unity just more festering anger and resenment that will eventually expode. I assume you are not Black, so you are not seeing it from the perspective of those who have watched others profit from inferior reproductions of their art . Only when truth is known and accepted will there be unity of all people.
KhemuLuxons 2 years ago 3
It's absolutley not about hiding the truth, but everytime we remind us that the blacks did that and the whites did this (well, of course we shal not forget the structural racism that people have been victims for forever) we separate the humanity. Instead of see everyone as humans wich should be "judged" individually we "judge" everyone ofa skin colour.
Springforlivet 2 years ago
A huge part of racism is denying the contributions of a people. It is easy for others to place less value on the lives of people if they are perceived to be worthless and have not contributed to the development of mankind. Millions of racist live and love to music created by Black people and many don't even know it was created by the very people they despise. The music of Black people was the soundtrack of the 20th century.
KhemuLuxons 2 years ago 5
cause you want to identify with something it doesn't belong to you ... so your argument is and MILLIONS of other white folk is .... "music is universal man" so who plays SKA music now? WHO plays rock music now? is not a coincidence, you atart playing rap music tomorrow you know what white kids call real hip hop ... and the creators move away from it ..have some respect, by respecting something u do no understand ... that is playing some shit we dun want u 2 play :)
checkabreak 2 years ago
One Love, One people: Brown skin, white skin, we all bleed the same - Music is in the soul and the the soul has no skin. Love
ZARBEE 2 years ago 2
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DirtyRottenTyler 1 year ago
From a musician who was around when ska was born...it is a uniquely Jamaican creation. Ska was born when the band of Alpha Academy grew up to become the Skatalites. They wove the phrasings of 1950s African-American jazz giants into a distinct rhythm. It is no surprise that Alpha alum Don Drummond was rated as one of the world's five great trombonists. The drum an' bass idiom now heard in U.K. lounge music was brought across the Pond with Coxsone Dodd and his crew.
East Kingston Gyal
Drogyne 2 years ago 5
the first guns of navarone is great
RauleSka 2 years ago
We Play Ska
pornpiroon 3 years ago
Black people have the best music: jazz, blues, ska, reggae, rock n roll
billthegeek33 3 years ago 3
I've found out that Neville Staple of The Specials is publishing his biography - called "Original Rude Boy". You can reserve a copy on Amazon or the Waterstone's website. Apparently, Aurum Press is the UK publishers. My mole tells me there's some steamy stuff in it.
CityYoungGuns 3 years ago
that last song, fucking rules
ZLATANWARMTH 3 years ago 3
ska!!!!
nandorude82 3 years ago
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black pple --always happy no stress no anxiety,depression etc.... just mellow JAH GLORY
tamaduni 3 years ago
Yes. All the africans who live under opression from different militias and guerillas live stress free lives. Everbody who is starving are happy. And you know what. Not even the rastafaris are all-nice. They follow the old testament. Wich means that they believe in "an eye for an eye" and have homofobic opinions.
What are you? Twelwe? There should be an age limit for joining youtube.
relynajs 3 years ago
You are white... right?
gustavosouzabh 3 years ago
why does it matter if he's white?
and no not all "black pple" are happy...
everyone person is human which means they deal with all of life's emotions.
NintendoWeed 3 years ago
I said that about him because he talks like a fuckin racist, did you seen it?
gustavosouzabh 3 years ago
ska is really amazing, relaxes so much when listening to it, forgeting about all problems in life. it's like uhh, refreshing your soul and your mind - you want to live! jah bless. ska live foreva.
Ealsonspite 3 years ago
all my respect to this music - i love it
Benway242 3 years ago
This is SKA!!!!! ska ska ska!!
fucking awesome!
Skapatee 3 years ago
oi?
kiralykristof 3 years ago
"Dynamite" by Tommy McCook and the Supersonics --NICE!!
sherv65 3 years ago
Thank you!
zacke07 3 years ago
What's the name of the song between 4.00-6.18?
zacke07 3 years ago
pick it up!
JA2NJ 3 years ago
Peace Love and Unity!! Jah Rastafari bless forever bless!! We need some peace in the time of war!!
grzybolino 3 years ago
OMG !! LMAO Yuu lot R PATHETIC !! Yuu need to sort it out, arguing over you tube !! lol
Stop arguing people,
PEACE x
OhhWaldoBaybee 3 years ago
who are you to tell me I'm fake?I don't care how much classic ska vinyl you own.You're not a Jamaican whose prime was in the 1960's.you are just another stupid white kid on youtube defending "black music",just like the other stupid white kids who comment on matisyahu videos saying it's not true reggae or he "stole" it from black people.Jamaican's hardly listen to ska anymore.ska is oldies to them.they like all that computerized dancehall crap now. so take your pretentious ass and fuck off
SkaMasta097 3 years ago
hahaha hey i think Hub City Stompers wrote a song about people like you. its called Ska Train To Dorkville.
xbristles13x 3 years ago
Why are you so negative? Cheer up man. When a sound is good it will stand the years
mcochius 3 years ago
I believe I just did send you a message ment for SkaMasta, If I did I'm so sorry. Stay cool!
mcochius 3 years ago
Ska, like every kind of music it's jamaican, african, europeen or asian! It's a fucking heritage from and to all mankind!
Stop those shits! Ska it's fromevery where and to everyone!!
We must unite!!! We all like ska! And theat's what it mather!!
We need peace, no more war!
Instead fighting eachother, we should fight the war, fight the misery, fight the injustice!
I'm sick of a world in Black and White!!!That's the world according bush!
Peace
ratajana 3 years ago
ratajana, I fully agree with you.I have no hate whatsover in my bones and I am very much for world unity and peace.What I AM against is certain people's idea that Ska or Reggae would not exist if it wasn't for Europeans.THIS IS NONSENSE.All I am asking for is that idiots like Masta097 stop brainwashing people by diluting ska's origins.This is just as sinister as past racist scholars who have tried to cover up black history.
Umskiddy 3 years ago
european or not, it doesn't really matter because music is beyond color, it's about how it makes you feel when you hear it. but stil there is no denying that the fusion of african syncopated rhythms mixed with european 2/4 and 4/4 time signatures created western black music. and in the case of latin music it went beyond to include aboriginal melodic patterns.
kencondiokeke 3 years ago
you obviously can't read because I never said ska was "white music", but a mix of black and white music. You criticize my dancing? I never claimed to be an expert. why don't you make a better video? I am not a fake. ska is my favorite style, especially third wave. you clearly are some stupid kid with nothing better to do than start shit on youtube. I don't see any Jamaicans on here arguing about a largely unpopular 50 yr old style of music. you can go back to your corner. I am done.
SkaMasta097 3 years ago
masta097, I too am done.However, to conclude, I still think you're a fake.Over and out.
Umskiddy 3 years ago
El REGGAE no es de religion ni rapados
es simplemente de la gente
KoNdE60s 3 years ago
ska ska ska!!!!!!
smartalex1122 3 years ago
Fantastic songs!!! And by the way, music can never be "black" or "white"...that is just another form of racism, let music instead unite us all
MustafaStetson 3 years ago 3
Exactly Mustafa! I'm sick of visions of the world in black/white
ratajana 3 years ago
Sorry, Byron Lee is Chinese isn't he?
DickStainy 3 years ago
but it was also mixed with european sounds
sahr76 3 years ago
I would be interested to know which 'European sounds' were mixed in.Please answer. And if you can justify it, I can guarantee that NO EUROPEAN will be able to perform reggae like the Jamaicans.Only the people from the island of Jamaica can perform reggae and ska.UB40 were the only exception but they were born in Jamaican communities in Britain and grew up with English Jamiacans.Everyting else outside Jamaica is crap.
Umskiddy 3 years ago
Ska, like every kind of music it's jamaican, african, europeen or asian! It's a fucking heritage from and to all mankind!
Stop those shits! Ska it's fromevery where and to everyone!!
We must unite!!! We all like ska! And theat's what it mather!!
We need peace, no more war!
Instead fighting eachother, we should fight the war, fight the misery, fight the injustice!
I'm sick of a world in Black and White!!!That's the world according bush!
Peace
ratajana 3 years ago
we who have been shitted on my europeans as having no culture...we just need to remind Europeans that it is us who created these art forms they love so much...thats all folks... folks dont say ska its skyah.
blaaaaze 3 years ago
ratajana i am sure we all want unity and peace. ska is not from everywhere. it was created by the descendants of African captives brought to Jamaica and forced into slavery. stripped of their original culture, they created a new one based on memories from the old. the music tells "their" story. the world might love this music but the world did not create it. those African Jamaicans did.
KhemuLuxons 2 years ago 7
Don't forget that Judge Dread did a N°1 Hit in Jamaica as a british artist! :)
I don't care where good music is from!
SchwererBart 3 years ago
I too like Judge Dread ; he did a lot to popularise reggae.However, Judge dread simply 'copied' reggae and played no role in its origins.
Umskiddy 3 years ago
sorry, but ska was born in Jamaica. and it came from black people
sahr76 3 years ago 4
if Ska, R&B, Jazz, and Rock and Roll etc. are not solely derived from African music. These styles evolved in the states and the west indies through a mixing of European and African cultures. Sure the innovators of these styles are largely black and the rhythms are certainly more African influenced, but the harmonic structure and chord progressions most certainly have their roots in European classical music. Any Jazz professor can tell you that.
SkaMasta097 3 years ago
Fuck jazz professors.Ska is Jamaican.Stop trying to claim it as European.Fuck off.
Umskiddy 3 years ago
Ska IS Jamaican. Jamaica is a former colony of Britain. It's entire culture, including language and music (i.e. reggae and ska) would not be what it is without the influence of European culture as well as the African culture. The process is called "cross-pollination" and Jazz professors use the phrase because it happened all over North and South America, and the Caribbean. So YOU fuck off and take your racist agenda elsewhere. I will enjoy ska for what it really is. and I don't like country btw
SkaMasta097 3 years ago
Racist agenda? For your information, CountrynwesternMasta097, (you're not worthy of the title Ska anywhere in your name) I am white.But I too am sick and tired of the way white people continually try to claim music as their own.And as for you, you can't even dance to it.People, check out this little boy's attempt to skank - he looks like he's shit in his pants.You're a fake and I bet you don't even have Jamiacan friends. Like I said - stick to your country and western - it's better for you.
Umskiddy 3 years ago
By your logic you're not allowed to like ska because you are not black or Jamaican. Listen to yourself. It's pretty racist to try and stamp music as black or white and claim that whites stole "their" music, as well as to assume that if you're white you automatically like country music. I figured you were white, and probably leftist liberal trash too. people like you perpetuate racism. Race does not matter with music (ska included). anybody can like any style, no matter what nationality you are.
SkaMasta097 3 years ago
Masta097, Go and make some Jamaican friends at least.Until you have embraced the culture and the people, you will NEVER understand ska or reggae for what it really is. It'll be an ever constant myth in your mind as it is for many people who THINK they understand it.
Umskiddy 3 years ago
To all those defending ska and other styles as exclusively "black music"...tell me how ska would even exist if it weren't for European classical music? Jazz, as well as styles derived from it, such as Rhythm and Blues, Rock and Roll, Ska etc. came about by mixing of African and European musical traditions, often African rhythms, with the harmonic structure of European music. Ask any jazz professor and they'll tell you that.
SkaMasta097 3 years ago
The point is that it was the African who put all of those musical elements together. Because they were captured & enslaved & brought to new lands, largely stripped of their own culture, they created new ones. Using the rhythms from their motherland and adding to it the "harmonic structure of European music", Blacks created the music the world has come to know and love. Ska, reggae, Afro-Cuban, r&b, R&R, hip hop, jazz, blues, etc., all surfaced first in black world & spread to others later.
luvureally 3 years ago 2
please does anybody know the name of this documentary? one love!
redgreenandgold 3 years ago
what the fuck?!
ktb22792 3 years ago
Great and rare footage. It is easier to hear and see Ska on Youtube than it is on radio or television; no wonder both are losing their audiences. Ska has Cuban influences as well since a number of the musicians were born in Cuba. It's a great music with international influences.
trigamello 3 years ago
What the hell are you on about? Ska is purely jamaican - it has no link with Cuba at all.ASt your age you should know better!
Umskiddy 3 years ago
Ska isn't pure anything. It's a mix of mento, calypso, American R&B, among other things. Cuba is directly north of Jamaica. There is no denying at least some trade of influences.
SkaMasta097 3 years ago
"Ska isn't pure anything. It's a mix of mento, calypso, American R&B" SkaMasta097 what is the common link these genres share? They were all created by descendants of African captives from the same areas in Africa. So the rhythms and beats are very similar.
KhemuLuxons 2 years ago 9
American Jazz and R&B were big in Jamaica before ska. They wanted their own style of music so they inverted the rhythm and added their own elements to it and ska was born. Also, for all you Afrocentrists: Byron Lee was half Chinese and Rico Rodriguez and Roland Alfonzo were of Cuban heritage.
SkaMasta097 2 years ago
And? Rita Marley was born Alpharita Constantia Anderson in Santiago, Cuba. Rodriguez & Alfonzo are of African Heritage, just like most of their fellow Jamaican countryman. There are millions of Blacks in Cuba . Lee is also of African heritage. Besides Rodriguez had a Puerto Rican mother. Duke Ellington, Etta James, Billie Holiday, Billy Eckstein, Cab Calloway have European blood, but music styles certainly not. Aretha Franklin has Native American ancestry, but music does not sound Native.
KhemuLuxons 2 years ago 15
Are ska and the reggae different kinds? Which is traditional in Jamaica?
inazumaya 3 years ago
both are traditional in jamaica but ska came first then reggae as we know know it today derived from ska(i think)
cheeki0 3 years ago 4
ahnay shachaawar thawadah Yahawah!!(God)
Afr0souL 3 years ago
well thats what sunbathing is for, but why the hell would i want to be any other colour?
AcidKitten83 3 years ago
Ska, rocksteady and reggae!
Salud.
KenCat1337 3 years ago 3
Fantastic! Please, who is the group starting at 4:00? Thanks.
cathode777 3 years ago
skatalites
aaronkSlater 3 years ago
SKA
REGGAEYMAZ 3 years ago
ska ska ska!! rudeboy!
KanariasLibre7 3 years ago
SKA!!! salud..
SKA para toda la vida
andres6kx 3 years ago
Yeaah. :). ska for lifee ;D
acteckluna 3 years ago
Meen.. best music eveer; Ska not dead :) ♥
acteckluna 3 years ago
eyy nobody think that!
ska is in all the people that enjoy with the jamaican sooound ;)
Ruuun it!
DrEzZ80 3 years ago
oh sorry hotnumber24 i didnt mean to insult you i really didnt understand you... black music dominates music... 4 ever
Bratwoistboy 3 years ago
This is real ska...
@hotnumber24
there wouldnt even be real music without black people ... where would rock n roll be without black people fucker?
Bratwoistboy 3 years ago 5
its all about toots and the maytals they are just too sick to be human. If anyone has the full clip of them in this video please upload it. possibly the best video known to man.
ps. 54-46 x
benjersey 3 years ago 2
i love jamaica yea boi
WigityWabitTV 3 years ago
hahaHHAHAHA awsome
VandalousMedium 3 years ago
Oh, how I wish that black music was still this good! What the heck happened?
19ufo47 3 years ago
Please don't make statements about things you know nothing about.Non-blacks were making these same silly statements during this time period & prior. It was said of Rock n' Roll, Jazz, Blues, Banjo music, etc. Most non-black contemporaries will heavily criticize & then [when we've moved on] their offspring will grow up loving & playing it.Usually makeing up some hogwash about how it was created by a collaboration of cultures. All African music was & is brilliant & is why it's the most duplicated.
Rebertone 3 years ago
sweetbaldy here ...sweet man beleive . them fools dont know nothing ! sweet words .....
badboybaldy1 3 years ago
Rebertone continue to spread the gospel!! As for so called "collaborations", how come it is always the Black folks who puts all of these "influences" together to create this brilliant music. Be it Jamaica, USA, Cuba, Brazil, Haiti, etc., same result. Blacks are the creators and originators of the new sound.
luvureally 3 years ago
Black people still dominate the music industry.
hotnumber24 3 years ago 7
you mean black style music played white people dominate the music industry. see also: Fergie, Amy Winehouse, etc.
SkaMasta097 3 years ago
Amy....lol...lol....lol...please
hotnumber24 3 years ago 4
white people dominate the music industry fucktard.
evilemoguy 3 years ago
White people are good with money (industry) and black people are good with music. Simple equation.
cuete27 3 years ago 2
This comment has received too many negative votes show
white people are good with anything and everything.
AcidKitten83 3 years ago
Except for... being non-white?
cuete27 3 years ago 2
your good with copying and stealing.
LadyEpoch 3 years ago