Lee Perry & Jah Lloyd - White Belly Rat

aka Judas de White Belly Rat.
Scratch attacked various rivals in song over the years. This one is said to be directed at singer Max Romeo, though Max says it was actually about Bunny Lee. The lyrics about "rasta bandwagon" don't seem to relate as well to Bunny as they would to Max, however. So it's Max for me.
Jah Lloyd was one of Scratch's favourite deejays back then and sometimes recorded for him as Jah Lion.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• reggae
• dub
• deejay
• upsetters
• false
• rasta
• black
• ark

[0utlaw14]

I love this song so fucking much

[donquixote2u]

cool song, regardless of why his nuttiness wrote it!

[MrHardstyler91]

Bob marley agreeing to do a concert were two political leaders from jamaica at the time didnt go down well either i think because (PPP) Marcus Garvey's party were not invited. Marcus Garvey was very popular with the poor community, especially in trench town. i believe thats were the lyric "who sold out marcus" comes from

[MrHardstyler91]

I agree comoradh, i heard it was because marley was discovered by lee perry "the upsetter" singing with acoustic guitar and lee produced the reggae, rocksteady, dub pretty much everything. they were also making music with peter tosh, bunny wailer. from what i understand bob went solo "selling out" i s'pose, lee was a true yardie rasta and didnt believe in the extortion of making a lot of money through music. this is a form of babylon to him.

[MrMcgraw1]

survived in Thailand on LSP

[pharcelle1]

This music business is so contradictory. What you think you know don't always go so.The Truth can destroy you.(plummet your sales) Those that depend on record sales can't afford truth

and those that come near truth seem to end up with a bullet in the head.

Max Romeo & Bunny Wailer did not have white belly's, and Chris "Wite well" was not imitating a Rasta. Think the unthinkable.

[ronaldvandijk100]

You White belly rat! Worse than a crow!

[louiecostello]

haha his best slew has to be "chris blackwell is a vampire and saying he drinks blood

[louiecostello]

@guywiseman hear you loud and clear

[Kemumbia]

oops it was already written there. :)

[Kemumbia]

@donquixote2u: It was possibly aimed at Bunny Lee or Max Romeo... this song was originally wrote for Max Romeo to sing it.