Linton Kwesi Johnson: The Great Insurrection

[MaryMcIlroy]

Been thinking of this song and others by LKJ this week. 30 years on, and not much has changed.

[pokerhander]

@MaryMcIlroy I think in fact a LOT has changed.

[bubblybouncebounce]

solidarity with tottenham

[fredblassie123]

dude has a great flow......

[Hirsute63]

It was "Rebellion" not "Riots"

[hoseHeadish]

LKJ is more gangsta than hundreds of asshole Hip-Hop guys from the USA combined.

[jellyfishinthebath]

@hoseHeadish  Seen! :)

[thamaineone]

@hoseHeadish I cosign that even tho I listen to hipfop LKJ is a g. Him and his posse tore Brixton up in 1981 and then he make makes a wicked tune bragging about it thats some real shit

[Bassboom26]

Babylon the hure must faa!

[CrowdPleeza]

I wonder what a collaboration between him and Gil Scott Heron would be like?

[waywardanarchist]

..i lived in brixton until the riots kicked off in 81 when my parents moved to ireland.i was only 10 years old but witnessed the whole thing!!..left a lasting impression on me and still to this day have a healthy dislike of authority and a hatred of nazi white power cunts..and me a white irish boy removed from south london..stuck in the irish bog!!

[telltarget]

non mai 1984 i paris

[SaintAnthonyOne]

Wish the younger ones would know of these times and appreciate the elders. Linton Kwesi has been one of the alltime best.

[telltarget]

April 1981? I WAS IN BRISTOL !!!

[heyyoueone]

@telltarget i want now more

[SuperXavier30]

Second Generation,Still Here!!

[Renagade70]

The clips of the Brixton roits are vivid.

[autonomx]

Great song to eat the rich!

Power to the people.

[flickerman68]

A classic classic classic war cry

[carmenaduarte]

power baas line rrotssss

[mistaben2k]

Inglan will come a bitch again,

when Dave Cameron puts all women in to top Government jobs n' they stop it all,all the great tings Labour has given us.

[dutchrepublican64]

one of the best.

we will ge

t what you wont give.

POWER TO THE PEOPLE

[ImanSVZ]

I didn´t Know about this video...great...

[unbrokenFlower]

di great insohrekshan!

[RastaChaka]

where you have this video?

but great upload my bredren

inglan is bitch

[jellyfishinthebath]

I love England! I'm proud of my country - black and white together. I judge people as I find them... :)

[chunkydubz]

NICE

[filthywob]

Same.

Me daddys an Irish immigrant and taught me all this music O_o

There is no judging no one mate. Cept Inglan is bitch loll

[GodOfTheInternets]

@jellyfishinthebath

Fuck nationalism

[peterrutherfo]

@RastaChaka yes this poem captured the angst of the situation so well.....

Never mind scarman- we bring a BLAM BLAM

[sigufilm]

Great Linton! Great poet, great music, a freedom fighter... One of the best.

[londondog1989]

Inglan is a bitch.

[CARNATR0N]

mash up the wicked one plan

[DouglasWatts]

LKJ is my hero. I met him and interviewed him for a half hour in Portland, Maine in 1990 when he was on tour with Jean Binta Breeze. I felt like I had sat down with W.E.B. Dubois or Malcolm X.

[dutchrepublican64]

kill the bill,81 the best years babylon on the run,seh,tiocfaid ar la,

[RASHNortheast]

Thanks for posting. Wikked video! LKJ is the man.

[DJstoned3]

thanks for posting, I love Rastafarian music (reggae). Black americans don't.

[Renagade70]

DJstone, you couldn't be more wrong.

[shooz4u]

put this song on limewire, so i can download it!! This is a good political song!

[DJstoned3]

I used a headphone jack and a pair of rca's

to feed it to a deck, real easy !

[wearelegion88]

Mr end of of the world..them niggaz,as you call them.didn't and don't give a fuck about anything other than what was and is in front of them..not the brightest guys in the world..getting stones and cramming a ford escort full of white girls and a fucking big speaker set.soory they ain't che guevara.but that's why brixton's still a toilet.I had a fucking good laugh though..and nan got a teasmade.viva stockwell.

[simonbnyc]

white douchebag. no wonder why the world laughs you and your sort. i'm white and we've been laughing at gets like you since 1977. and i was the one who stole your nan's teasmade. had a good laugh as i recall.

[wearelegion88]

'my sort' ?? ha,ha!!..now that was just silly..

and the rest is just a very odd ramble..and as for the dutch (william of orange,king billy) republican even commenting is even sillier..

i was there,i am here..and you weren't,LKJ wasn't..but 'my sort' where....'PSHYCE'

DING!!.teasmade..ha,ha,ha!!!

[TheEndOfYourWorld]

That brixton riot was staged

by the elite banking faggot assholes

to justify passing more legislation

leading to more and more control

if those niggaz had any sense

they should have rioted in the areas

where those fucking red crackers live

burn their house down

burn their businesses down

thats how u know it was set up .

[wearelegion88]

lynton and the bro's..must fuck him up that that's me,and my mates monor.he wasn't there, but the british movement skins were,had a smashing time..got some nice stuff for me nan..the funniest though was me and steve in boots and braces with a mob of blacks behined(we were at school with) all chanting 'the national front is the white mans front'.the police just stood and stared,funny as fuck.

[patrickhart964]

never mind scar man

[kindu2006]

shame it didnt last long enough for them to kick out those peeps in buckingham palace

[poughkeepsiejohn]

I remember this. It was the Brixton riots of 1981. There was a lot of turmoil at that time. Between the coal miners strike, the increase in racism and the high unemployment, it's amazing there weren't more riots like that in England.

[dazzanumber3]

Poor man fight back

[cheyennebritbrat]

suss

[cheyennebritbrat]

inglan is such a bitch that the whole planets fxcking moved over here:)thats how bad we are

[sexylinzan]

mash it the polis van