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Thursday, July 17, 2008
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new ESSENTIAL I video featuring Jahson Ites, DJ Sticky, & Hucklenerry
Category: Music
Perfect Peace, Blessed Love, and Maximum Respect in the name of the Most I JAH Rastafari.
Check out the brand new Fire Danger video by Essential I, featuring Jahson Ites, Huckleberry, and BlueJay aka DJ Sticky.
This HOT new video was directed by Tim Cash of FFE Films.
Comment us up and let we know whatcha think!
Keep watching for Essential I's upcoming debut album "FreeDem SoulJah" on Sick Donkey Records.
Blessed Blessed Blessed.
Jahson Ites
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Sunday, August 05, 2007
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COMPLETE LYRICS & ALBUM CREDITS FOR FORWARD OUTTA BABYLON
Current mood: motivated
Category: motivated Music
FORWARD OUTTA BABYLON
complete lyrics & album credits
DOWN IN BABYLON (J.Vaughan)
Chorus: It's getting deep down in Babylon / That's why they're running wild in the streets down in Babylon / Because ya know they're in it knee deep (waste deep, neck deep) down in Babylon / Down in Babylon it's getting deep /// 1st verse: Polytricksters pretend that they're helping Poor People but they're lyin' / Busynessmen content they do the same but they're barely even tryin' / A tiny raise in the minimum wage while the prices sky-highing / Those in power living well, getting fat while Poor People are dyin' / Can't you hear Jah Children cryin'? We're cryin' /// chorus /// bridge: They think they're in control but they don't know they're not - Oh / Too busy tryin' to keep a hold of what they got - Yo / And like a Missionary in a cannibal pot - No / They can't feel the heat until it's way too hot - So / Hand in the cookie jar and now they're caught - Oh / Honesty, Integrity what they forgot - Yo / Their hearts are full of wickedness and rot - So / They wanna rule the world and blame it all on God - No! /// 2nd verse: They use numbers and statistics to cook up their misinformation / It's brainwashing and propaganda but they call it education / Making money while pushing Poor People to the point of privation / Grabbing all that they can get without a thought for the good of the nation or future generations /// Chorus ///
NEW DAY (J.Vaughan, S.Goggiel, B.Hankins, S.Franz, A.K.Karney)
1st verse: (Essential I) It's a new generation with a new meditation / Adopted from ancestral ways of Wisdom and Creation / An ancient medication for the health of the nation / With healing properties like peppermint and echinacea / We need a breath of fresh air, proper ventilation / Conception and development require concentration / Knowledge of a New Day, idea insemination / A righteous teaching, yeah man, a righteous education / A new determination with a new destination / Continue from original heart investigation / Paid with perseverance and painted up with patience / A Conscious revelation without Babylon temptation / Overcome frustration and rise to the occasion / We nuh want no separation, we want a restoration / We wan fe see a better day full of celebration / Just a demonstration this here Blessed Itation /// chorus: There's a New Day just a turning of the Earth away, I'm sayin' there's a / New Morning dawnin' for ya just around the corner, we're bringin' in a / New Era where ya can see things are gonna be better, I'm sayin' there's a / New Time coming when Conscious People send Babylon runnin' / 2nd verse: (Jahson Ites) Babylon nah a rey, me say just keep a coolin' it / But watch what ya say, unu no know who ya foolin' with / Judgemant Fiya burn and ya just keep a fuelin' it / Righteous Iducation haffi learn, we hya a schoolin' it yo / Put down ya gun and ya bomb 'cause it no tool de it / Only downstroy, can't build up no home no school with it / Only take life, say no seed no bear no fruits with it / Only bring death to ya vibe, so don't start shooting it no / We've got to nice up our world and stop polluting it / Got to Love up Jah Human Race and stop polluting it / Imankind must join as One, there's no refuting it / We Rising Up 'pon dis hya New Day, we revoluting it yo /// chorus /// 3rd verse: (BlueJay) We stand up for Justice and we stand up for our Rights / Stand strong on the stage right next to Jahson Ites / Higher than the helicopters, higher than the kites / Burning up them cold days and theme hot summer nights /// chorus /// 4th verse: (BlueJay) Okanogan People let you know what a gwan / 'Bout to show the world that we will stand strong / No matter how ya getting' on or how ya galong / You've got to live right and never live wrong / 'Cause a New Day a comin' yes a New Day a dawn / And this right here is the calm before the storm /// chorus ///
STANDING FIRM (J.Vaughan)
chorus: Standing Firm, brothers we must know and not believe / Be true to the higher truths we perceive / Standing Firm, Babylon can't make us fall / No matter how they try to bring us down we still stand tall / Standing Firm, sisters we must know and not believe / Be true to the higher truth we perceive / Standing Firm, Babylon can't bring us down / No matter how they try to make us fall we stand our ground /// 1st verse: I'm here to let the I in on a little secret / But you can tell your friends, you don't have to keep it / My very best advise, and this is just a free bit / Higher truth is present all ya gotta do is seek it / Zion high is the land to which we are going, yo / Eager to get there and I know that it's showing, yo / All in the same boat and we must keep rowing / No matter how high the seas or hard the wind blowing, yo / Destined for greatness, both you and I know it / Jah light is in you, all ya gotta do is show it / Big opportunity so man don'tcha blow it / With faith like a ganja seed Rasta grow it /// chorus /// 2nd verse: Confusion pressing down on you / Stooping your shoulders and forcing a frown on you / They think they got you now so tell me what you gonna do / Hold your head high, Rastafari trod on through / Illusion, can't you see it's deception / Clouding your mind and fogging down your perception / They're trying to temp you into their transgressions / Be strong, keep your conscious conception / Solution, emancipate yourself from mental slavery / Yeah, your life is a gift that's worth savoring / Whoa-oy Standing firm, never wavering / Show the weakhearts Rasta bravery /// chorus /// 3rd verse: Try and see that your life is like a battery / You've only got so much time and energy / Can't be wasting it on empty words and flattery / Got to build friendships and not be making enemies / Living peacefully, respecting each One equally / Love and Unity that's the way that we must be / Got no time for generating enmity / It's up to us to build a future only we can see / So don't fill your head with those Babylon vibrations / Don't poison your mind with their downful libations / Your mind deserves liberation / So check this information, get with Rasta livication /// chorus ///
R-A-S-P-E-C-T (J.Vaughan, S.Goggiel, B.Hankins, S.Franz)
chorus: (Jahson Ites) Raspect R-A-S-P-E-C-T Yeah / Find out what it means to me / All the People of the World internationally / Living Free in Peace and Dignity / Inity I-N-I-T-Y Yeah / Find out what it means to I / Let's get this started, we can't be afraid to try / Conscious People we're making a stand worldwide /// 1st verse: (Essential I) Yes I, greetings in the Name of the Most High / Everliving Everloving Jah Rastafari / Make we unite across continental divide / And bless then with the vibe that we provide / Isn't a pride thing, is a Conscious uprising / A true dignified, purified, unified thing / An InI thing, tell them se we a trying / To carry out the will of the Almighty and it's /// chorus /// bridge: (Jahson Ites) Every Man a King and every Wombman a Queen / Majesty by birthright as a higher-minded being / Comport Ourselves as Royalty when we trod pon the scene / Crown upon we head if the Iman know what InI mean /// 2nd verse: (BlueJay) If ya did what I did and ya knew what I do / You'd have to have respect for the fact I stay true / To my family, to my friends, to my relatives / Most people ain't like this, man, what gives? / Respect for the elders, respect for the kids / Respect for the dead and everything that lives / Much respect going out to all under the sun / BlueJay, Essential I, with the One Jahson, Raspect /// 3rd verse: (Essential I) My People wise up, come Onegether and rise up / Jah make we see the Light even with a we eyes shut / The heights of the Ites just keeping it righteous / Massive gwan get large, Babylon can't size up / Pure lie them a tell, sentenced life in a jail / Convicted innocent fe serve time in a cell / Them wonder why them turn around to fight and rebel / Against the downpressor man who want I to fail, them got no /// chorus /// bridge ///
EASY VIBE (J.Vaughan)
1st verse /// Nice and slow, easy and mellow / That's the Rasta way to go, I and I tell the I so / I tell ya Babylon don't know, that's why they fret and worry so // I tell ya Babylon don't know, that's why they stress and toil so /// chorus: But Rasta keep an easy vibe, that's how I live my life / Mellow vibe, because it feels so nice / I need an upful vibe to keep I satisfied / Give me a positive vibe, positive vibe, positive vibe, positive vibe // 2nd verse: I may not have any money, no, but I don't have any worries / Despite the obstacles facing me , as you can see, I'm not in any kind of hurry / I can't let the downpressor man pressure me, displeasure me / I'll never be what they want from me, only be what Jah Almighty made me /// chorus /// 3rd verse: I can't let them stress me out, no, won't live my life in fear / I and I inhabit Jah Irie Ites, and Jah know there is no sorrow here / I can't let the downpressor man restrain me, detain me / It's plain to see that my brain is free while they languish in mental slavery /// chorus ///
THAT'S RASTAFARI (J.Vaughan)
1st verse: Living in a simple way ya lead and Ital life / You keep your spirit clear of fear and keep ya heart free from strife / Always respect Jah Structure, make no cut no trim no slice / That's Rastafari / Eat the Blessings of the earth all clean natural food / Keep a level vibe be sure ya always doing good / Giving Thanks and Praise like Marcus Garvey say ya should / That's Rastafari / Downful things all pass away, ya fill ya heart with love / Open up ya mind to good vibrations from above / Always Standing Firm even when push comes to shove / That's Rastafari / 'Though the world in darkness InI shine Love and Light / Fight for Peace and Justice, forwarding in Truth and Rights / Opening the Higher Eye to give Jah Iyasight / That's Rastafari /// chorus x2: So a, put up ya One if ya love Rastafari / If ya Giving Thanks & Praises so High / Let me see ya hand if ya Love Jah Queen and King / Giving Thanks & Praises every day in everything / 2nd verse: Never let them fight ya down and never let you falter / Never sacrifice your life upon dem devil's alter / Chanting Praises daily from Jah Hymnal and Jah Psalter / That's Rastafari / Never looking back the narrow track is ever forward / Nice ya Heavens up, ya brimming cup is fill with Jah Word / Always blazing bright you shine Jah Light into Jah World / That's Rastafari / Don't ya lag behind, say no more skylarking nor stalling / see that all around you downful Babylon is falling / Even through the chaos you can hear Creator calling / Rastafari / Be humble to be blessed and be righteous in ya runnings / Ever moving forward, never stopping, never doneing / Infinitely Loving as Jah Planet keeps on turning / Rastafari /// chorus x2 ///
NAH MURDAH (J.Vaughan, S.Franz)
Chorus x2/// We no want no murder, not even in a metaphor, won't you / Tell me whatever for, this hatred on ya brother / We no want no violence it's a losing proposition / Got to join the One Love Mission and stop killing one another /// 1st verse: We no want no gun / We no want no shot / We no want no uzi / We no want no glock / We no want no blade / We no want no cut / We no want no tazer / No we no want no shock, no! /// chorus /// 2nd verse: We no want no blast / We no want no bust / We no want no pop / We no want no buck / We no want no knife / We no want no slice / We no want no shotta / We no want no bruck bruck, no! /// chorus /// bridge: All we want is Love / All we want is Life / All we want is Inity / Yes I, that's you and me / Working Onegether building nice nice vibes /// chorus /// break /// chorus /// 1st verse / 2nd verse /// chorus /// bridge /// chorus ///
ONE OF THESE DAYS (J.Vaughan)
chorus : One of these days somebody's gonna get even with you / That's not the sort of thing I'd do and anyway I've got no reason to / But someday your actions are gonna come back to haunt you / One day you're gonna cross a harder man who just can't control himself the way I can /// 1st verse: You lie to the people that love you - oh, the insincerity, how dare you act that way with me / I've been real with you from the beginning, now you look me straight in the eye and just tell another lie - why? / Cut that false dread from off of your head - don't be posing as a Rasta you weakheart imposta / 'Cause Jah Children can see through you and we see the wicked things you do when you think no one's watching you - remember /// chorus /// 2nd verse: You've been cheatin', deceivin', and now you've got good people believin' / You bring drama, scandal, falsehood, & derision - and then you try to cloak it in religion / All the while you're just causing more division 'cause your claims aren't backed up by the life that you've been livin' / I'm not kiddin', you should be quitin'; shouldn't shit in the community you live in /// chorus /// 3rd verse: Bountiful blessings is what Jah's commanding you - you gotta work hard for it, ain't nobody handin' you / Take an honest look at your life, see what Jah has planned for you / Put out some positive vibes, create demand for you / I know you're feeling lonely like we've all abandoned you / Believe it or not it's the same thing that we've all been through / so just tough it up do what an honest man would do / Just tough it up do what an honest wombman would too, 'cause /// chorus ///
WARMONGER (J.Vaughan)
chorus : Warmonger, I'm here to tell you, we don't like you and we don't like what you do / We don't want you fighting war no more, we don't want you killing the poor anymore (x2) /// 1st verse: How could you think that we'd let you get away with this? / Human life ain't a thing you can just play with / Conscious People got something to say about this / Do unto others man, live and just let live / Jah Jah Love is the way we must all get with / So we can make that brighter day where we all coexist / Got to do more than just smile and think positive / We've got to wake up and live it up, can't give it up /// 1st bridge: People of the World are waking up / Systems shaking up, some of them breaking up / Higher Reality we're making up / While your still taking sup from the devil's tainted cup /// chorus /// bridge: All you so-called leaders, all you do is lead us astray / But Conscious People are working Onegether to build that brighter day / We've had enough of your killing and fightin, it's time we're uniting we say / People of the World wanna see the end of you and your wicked ways you /// chorus /// 2nd verse: What were you thinking when you started this unGodly war? / And just what have you convinced yourself the fighting's for? / Wickedness of this sort Conscious People can't support / Your dirty, deadly, downful dealings we can ill afford / When that bill domes due you're gonna come up short / I hope you find yourself before an international court / To answer for your eagerness to use the last resort / You didn't have to start this war, George /// 2nd chorus: People of the World can't stand for this / We're demanding this, you must abandon this / Damn plan you have of grabbing land hand and fist / If you won't cease and desist then the People must insist /// chorus ///
FOCUS YA MIND (J.Vaughan, S.Goggiel, S.Franz)
chorus: (Jahson Ites) Focus ya mind on good things and good things will come to you / Invest ya time in good dreams and you'll see your schemes come true / Just open your eyes and see the Higher I is calling you (Just open your ears and hear Jah Rastafari calling you) / I'm telling you We've got to do what the Most High wants us to do / We've got to do what the Most High wants us to do / We've got to be what the Most High wants us to be /// verse: Can't you see history is your roots and you are the fruits of its making / Those things that are higher you desire and require are given you just for the taking / Now it's your turn to forward what you earn for the next generation to come / Blessedness Love and Guidance from Above for your grandchildren daughters and sons, everyone / Yesterday's gone and today won't last long, but the future is barely begun, Shine ya Sun! / Shine Jah bright Light each and every One /// chorus /// verse: (Essential I) Rastaman nah want nothin' to do with them wicked deception / Certain salvation, travel with Jah as InI Guide and Protection / So me a say stay focused, nah get distracted by commerce / False opinion mussi hidden fe move forward I Jah Works / Them nah hurt InI soul with them screwface / Spot them with I third eye showing off them two-face / A new day is dawning, I rise up this morning / Give Ises to the King, and me love up me darling / I hear Jah Jah calling for we to be free from the constraints of wicked society / Invest we time in a good dream / Remain positive amongst Babylon mood swing / It's simply a roots thing from the foundation / Plant it like seed and feel the ground shakin' / One Love sprouts making its way to the sky / As if to reach out for the hand of the Most High / Yes Iya blessed by the Almighty Awesome Light / I Essential longside the One Jahson Ites /// chorus: (Jahson Ites) /// 3rd verse: Babylon doesn't want you to realize the power that you've been granted / Jah Love is like a mystical seed and deep in your heart it's been planted / It's up to you to do that spiritual work and cultivate the stuff of your soul / Into the sort of fertile ground where Jah Seed can blossom and grow-yo! / Is your heart the sort of fertile soil where Jah Love can prosper and grow?-I hope so! / I sincerely hope so ///
VULTURE (J.Vaughan)
chorus: You're a Vulture living off the pain of others / Vampire leaching off your sisters and brothers / You're a Vulture living off the pain of another / Vampire, oh you're a bloodsucker /// 1st verse: I see you lurking in darkness, heart full of corruption / profiting off of your brother's destruction / Heartless, your soul feels no compunction / Soulless, man me say ya mind's inna malfunction / Lustful, Iternity is waiting at the junction / Selfish, oh man look what you've become /// chorus /// 2nd verse: And when I'm struggling somehow you make a profit / I'm down here scratching while you make a living off it / Watch it, it's immoral anyway you chop it / You don't have any right so like an attitude you cop it / BOOM disrespect like a bomb when ya drop it / Stop it! Oh man, look what you've become /// chorus /// 3rd verse: And when I'm facing hateration, without a hesitation / You're spreading rumors trying to ruin my reputation / You hasten to propagate your fabrications / Disgracin' the man my friends and family put their faith in / It's Jason, but this is just my modern incarnation / I'm ancient, fought you since the dawn of Creation / You vulture / Oh you vampire / Lord knows that you're a wolf now / You're a bloodsucker, a low-down bloodsucker /// chorus /// Go down backbiter, down backbite /// chorus ///
GIVING THANKS & PRAISE (J.Vaughan, A.Trembly, S.Goggiel, B.Hankins, S.Franz)
Intro: (Jahson Ites) Adrian Xavier, BlueJay, Essential I, More Life, More Love, More Light, bring it! / When I rise up in Jah Morning / Turn my eyes to the Queen at my side / Sight up my young Princess yawning / Give Thanks & Praise just for being alive /// A chorus x2: (Adrian Xavier) Giving Thanks for Jah King, Giving Thanks for Jah Queen / For all the Blessings they bring, for all the Blessings Jah bring /// B chorus: (Essential I & Jahson Ites) Giving Thanks & Praise in everything / We're Giving Thanks & Praises to Jah King and Jah Queen yo / Giving Thanks & Praise in everything / We're Giving Thanks & Praise and More Love we a bring yo / Giving Thanks & Praise in everything / We're Giving Thanks & Praise a make we chant and a sing out / Giving Thanks & Praise in everything / We're Giving Thanks & Praise and we say, Death where they sting? /// A chorus /// 1st verse: (BlueJay) Giving Thanks & Praises to Jah King Almighty / The One who picked me up and taught me how to live rightly / Just keep praying that His Light shine brightly / Through all the darkness please will you guide me / Take me in Your arms and forever hold me tightly / Always Stand Firm when Babylon try to slight me / See me on my knees praying daily and nightly a/ For Jah Love to keep growing inside me /// A chorus /// B chorus /// (Adrian Xavier) Chant and sing, sing and chant / 2nd verse: (Essential I) Much appreciation higher blessings from the Savior / Make we chant a prayer Life is Love, and Love is greater / Creator Jah Jah Blessed Father pass we through danger / Guide over I soul, Copilot, Navigator / Take we on a journey to the Kingdom of Jah / Man Wombman and Child all living in Love / Giving Thanks & Praises with the Music, my Lawd / We can all come Onegether and a sing along, ehhh /// A chorus /// B chorus /// 3rd verse: (Adrian Xavier) Sure as the sun that rise, sure as the sun that shine x2 / Chant dem, we chant dem a whole life long x2 / Chant & Sing, Sing and Chant x2 / Chant an we Sing, Chant an we Chant x2 /// A chorus ///
RASTA THINGS (J.Vaughan, S.Goggiel, S.Franz)
chorus: (Jahson Ites) We're Rasta People doing Rasta Things / Beat we a Binghi drum and make we Chant and Sing / Giving Thanks & Praises to Jah King and Jah Queen / We burn Jah Fiya, and Jah Fiya is Love / We're Conscious People doing Conscious Things / Sound Jah Inity gong and let Jah Righteousness ring / We're Higher People doing Higher Things / And the Highest of Heights is Love /// 1st verse: Downful Babylon, can't stick with them / Them try fe wrong this Lion, but InI forgive them / Upful Livity Iman gwan outlive them / And I won't be no victim / Foolish Babylon, oh they just can't keep I down / No matter how they try me nah gwan let them snatch I crown / Jah Love inna me heart, me haffi spread it all around / Check the FyahCrackah Sounds 'cause we're /// chorus /// 2nd verse: (Essential I) We them Rasta People, we does be doing Rasta Things / And we nah bather them, no, so why them bother we / We just be planting herbs, yes we just be harvesting / Truth and Honesty, that's the way we're promising yo / Faith inna the Most High be I philosophy / Riding pon Jah Fiya like Elijah speaking Prophecy / Open-mindful doctor people perform Babylon lobotomy / And cultivate the culture with a righteous new democracy /// chorus /// 3rd verse: (Jahson Ites) Conscious culture, yes, we've been given it / Life, we're loving it and we're living it / Rastafari free I mind so Babylon can't imprison it / That's how we envision it / We see the future, look and you can see it, too / And we see Conscious People have important work to do / Livication and Onegetherness will see us through / As our World we improve, me and you /// chorus /// 4th verse: (Essential I) Don't let 'em get to ya, bad-minded fool ya / Keep cool and let this here groove move through ya / Jah Jah is I fortress, H.I.M. allow no intruder / Rastafari, Conquering Lion of the 12 Tribes of Judah / Lord of Lords and King of Kings, the Real Rightful Ruler / Make we Give Thanks & Praise, Livication unto Jah / Big up the youthman 'cause them be the future / And if a negative vibe we come fe remove ya /// chorus /// 5th verse: (Jahson Ites) You wanna take my herb but you lack the authority / You got your gun and badge and wanna lord it over me / Ganja shouldn't be a law enforcement priority / Yo you should be ignoring me / Try to blind I with ya lies but higher eyes see through it / Ganja is out Sacrament so you know we'll pursue it / Even by your Babylon laws we've got a right to do it / Babylon you blew it, now respect it! 'cause /// chorus /// So burn up Jah Fiya and burn out that spark of anger that's been glowing in your heart x2 ///
Thanks & Praises:
The Most I King Alpha and Queen Omega Jah Rastafari, Empress Kathy-I and Princess AnJahluv, Mary Vaughan, Stand Out Selector & IDC, Alex Studer, FiyaCrackah Sounds, BluJay aka DJ Sticky, Essential I, Adrian, Davee, Lennox, Bill, Karney, Marty, Nick and Gary @ Electrokitty in Seattle, Greg @ Pyramind in San Francisco, Mikkel and the Solar Shop, John & River, Tonasket Natural Foods Coop, Community Cultural Project of Tonasket, Herbin' Society, Ras D Bongo I, Ras ZachIrie "Boomzacha" Roach, Ras Josherton "Ras Cool" Splenda Adams the 1st, DJ Element & Zions Gate Sound, DJ7 & Pure Fiya Sound, DJ Oner, Abnorm, Wonderflo & ViruzVibes.com, Ras Ghoti I & family, Mighty Lions, Richard & P-Fugees, Colin, Huckleberry, Orin B. Scripture & the Seekers, Yochanan & Crow (aka Small Cutz aka Mr Fyah) & Real Life Sound, Rocker T, Weather, Aaron, Aaron & Kung Fu Glass, Heather, Afri-I, Treesol, Jon, Eric & Ursula, Sunsan & Nick, Katana, Feather, Tommy Goodwin, Abby & Jesse & Liberty & Zion, Picker Rick, Morgan, Josh, Tara, Asrai, Fletcher, Forest, & Sunny, Sundog, Dick & Robin, the Okanogan Family Faire, all my MySpace friends, especially my Ites Brigade People for passing out flyers and helping InI forward these musical Jahworks, Ityen & Sarah from Koots Roots, Jim from Herbivores, Tim @ Far From Earth Films & Bodhi, Cody for filming Barter Faire 2006, and all the People of the World. We can't let these devils and politicians tear us apart. Peace and Love and Raspect to each and every One.
FyahCrackah Sounds are:
Jahson Ites www.myspace.com/jahsonites, http://jahsonites.viruzvibes.com
Essential I www.myspace.com/w0rdp
BlueJay aka DJ Sticky www.myspace.com/djstickyakabluejay
Dub Champions are:
Davee C. – Drums on tracks 1, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, 14
Lennox Holness – Bass on tracks 1, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, 14
Adrian Xavier – Lead Vocals track 12, Guitar on tracks 1, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, 14
www.dubchamps.com, www.adrianxavier.com
All Tracks Recorded @ ElectroKitty Studios, Seattle, WA www.electrokitty.com
Engineered by Nick Holman
Additional Overdubs Recorded @ Baby Fat Studios, SF CA
Engineered by Bill Ortiz and Anna Karney
Bill Ortiz – Trumpet, Muted Trumpet, Flugelhorn on tracks 1, 3, 6, 9, 11
Marty Wehner – Trombone on tracks 1, 3, 6, 11
Anna Karney – Hammond Organ, Whurlitzer, Clav, ARP Synth, Piano on
tracks 1, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, 13, 14, and Backing Vocals on tracks 3, 11
BlueJay aka DJ Sticky – Vocals on tracks 2, 4, 12
Essential I – Lead Vocals on track 4, Vocals on tracks 2, 10, 12, 13, Backing Vocals on track 6
Jahson Ites – Lead Vocals on all tracks except 4, 12 , Nyahbinghi Drum (Kette)
on tracks 1, 5 and Acoustic guitar solo on track 1
All songs written and composed by J. Vaughan copyright 2007 White Treasure
WordSoundPower, ASCAP, except all beats on tracks 4, 7, 10, 12, 13 composed by Steffen
Franz aka Stand Out Selector © 2000-2007 Black Ostrich Music
Publishing, ASCAP and track 2 published by Steffen Franz and Anna
Karney © 2003 Black Ostrich Music Publishing, ASCAP and AK Karney Music BMI
Produced by Steffen Franz aka Stand Out Selector
Mixed by Steffen Franz @ Pyramind Sound, SF CA www.pyramind.com
Mastered by Alex Studer and Stand Out Selector @ Pyramind
Executive Producer BlueJay Hankins for Sticky Productions
Distributed in the US by: Independent Distribution Collective www.independentdistro.com
Cover Art and CD Art by Chris Dyer www.positivecreations.ca
Inside photo by Ras Josherton Splenda
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Friday, April 20, 2007
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CONSCIOUS PEOPLE -- HELP FORWARD THESE MUSICAL JAHWORKS
Current mood: Inhabiting Jah Irie Ites
Category: Inhabiting Jah Irie Ites Music
CONSCIOUS PEOPLE -- HELP FORWARD THESE MUSICAL JAHWORKSGive Thanks & Praises unto Jah Most High.
Blessed Love Idren and Sistren. Peace and Love and Respect to each and every One.
InI Idren Ras Kind of One Love Press has put together a DVD of high, CONSCIOUS reasonings as well as EXCLUSIVE LIVE performances by Prezident Brown, Luciano, Warrior King, Bushman, Junior Reid, Fantan Mojah, Ernie Smith, Denroy Morgan, Abijah, and DYCR, plus others. InI will send a copy of this DVD ABSOLUTELY FREE to any of my Friends who are willing to help Iman forward InI musical Jahworks by passing out 400 flyers in the area in which they live.
The flyers (shown below, front and back) have beautiful CONSCIOUS art by my Idren Chris Dyer. Pass them out at shows and gatherings, and put stacks of 50 to 100 at record stores, health food stores & co-ops, headshops, coffee shops, or anywhere else that conscious people are likely to pass through or congragate. The flyers aren't hard to get rid of since many people will want one just for the art.
All my Friends who help with flyer promotions with get Ras Kind's DVD FREE, along with a ceedee of rough demos of tracks from InI upcoming album Forward Outta Babylon, as well as some rare tracks that won't be on the album. And there will be more exclusive freebies in the future including, stickers and tee-shirts.
If you wanna help forward these musical Jahworks please message me with your name and mailing address and I will send out the flyers, ceedee and DVD imediately. Thanks in advance to all my Idren and Sistren who help forward these CONSCIOUS messages.
Financial support can be given in many different forms. I would be heppy to get onegether in person with any interested People to discuss these options in greater detail. Please e-mail me at jahson_ites@yahoo.com, or leave me a note at the Okanogan River Natural Foods Co-op, or leave me a message at the Solar Shop at 509-486-4508.
Blessed Love.
Jah is Love. Love Rules the Earth.
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Sunday, November 12, 2006
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COOLEST COFFEE HOUSE IN PORT TOWNSEND, WA
Current mood: Optimistic
COOLEST COFFEE HOUSE IN PORT TOWNSEND, WA
Blessed Love Idren and Sistren.
A couple days ago Empress Kathy-I and I were wandering around Port Townsend, WA after dropping Anjahla off with her Uncle. About five blocks west of the ferry terminal we found a really cool little coffee shop. It's called the Boiler Room and is a non-profit corporation and is staffed and run by and for the youth of Port Townsend. They had lots of books and fanzines to read and made a good soy mocha in a big ceramic mug. We hung out and drank our beverages while two guys played guitar. The vibe reminded me of a small-scale, mellow version of the Gilman Street Project in Berkeley -- if it were a coffee house. Here's a copy of the menus for ya to check out, and a link to their MySpace page. Next time you're in Port Townsend check it out!
You can't fool the Youth!
Blessed Love.
Jahson Ites
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Wednesday, September 20, 2006
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ADRIAN XAVIER TO HELP IMAN FORWARD THESE JAH WORKS
Current mood: moving forward
Category: moving forward Music
ADRIAN XAVIER TO HELP IMAN FORWARD THESE JAH WORKS
Blessed Love Idren and Sistren.
It's one foot in front of the other, my brother, on InI album project "Forward Outta Babylon". Another crucial, CONSCIOUS Idren who will be working with me on the album is Adrian Xavier. Adrian is multifaceted musically, so in addition to engineering and recording I hope to get a couple verses of he sweet voice and HIGHry lyrics on some tracks. This man works HARD forwarding Jah Works and Jah Music. Conscious lyrics, Irie vibes, and some of the best reggae musicians in Washington state are the basic ingredients in this here Ital musical stew. So grab ya calabash bowl and dish yaself up a red hot serving of LOVE and LIGHT from the musical menu. Check out this Rasta Youthman's tracks on his profile page and be sure and let him know who sent ya. Blessed Love to all of the I, my brothers and sisters.
Jah is Love. Love Rules the Earth.
Jahson Ites
 Adrian Xavier
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R Nature
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Adrian Xavier
Release date: 22 March, 2005
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Sunday, August 27, 2006
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TOO SLOW (IRIGINAL SONG LYRICS)
Current mood: Irative
Category: Irative Music
TOO SLOW (IRIGINAL SONG LYRICS)
chorus: I'm too slow, too slow for you / I'm too slow, no matter what I do / You've got to go - you're in such a big hurry / You've got to go - and your hearts so full of worry / That I'm too slow for you /// 1st verse: I'm I'm in your way eventhough I'm movin / You're all down in your rush rush while I'm all up in here groovin / You need to build yourself a positive Iditation / Relax your mind and tidy up your vibration / Prioritize a little time to unwind, see / Otherwise you may find you wind up on the highway behind me / Me in my little One Luv, just a four-cylinder Chevy / While you're roarin up on my back bumper in your big ol' F-350 /// chorus /// Too slow for you x 16 /// 2nd verse: Your lifestyle lacks both life and style, man / You need to back off and slack off and relax for just a while, man / Do some of those good things that'll bring your face a smile, man / Spend more than a little while with your wife and your little child, man / You're life is passin ya by faster than a minute a mile, man / You need to realize and quite ya rationalizin while ya can / These are the words I wish you could hear but it's clear they're not reachin ya ear / 'Cause I'm just chattin atcha castin backwards glances atcha in my rearview mirror /// chorus /// copyright 2006 J. Vaughan
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Monday, September 18, 2006
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MC ESSENTIAL I TO GUEST ON MY ALBUM
Current mood: Livicated
Category: Livicated Music
MC Essential I to Guest on my upcoming album "Straight Outta Babylon"
Give Thanks & Praises unto Jah Most I.
Blessed Love Idren and Sistren.
Many energies are moving forward on InI album project "Forward Outta Babylon". I wanted to take this opportunity to introduce all my MySpace Friends to my Idren Essential I. Essential I will be voicing a couple of verses on my album. We often perform live Onegether (most recently at the Ruby Rocks Music Festival), and he is forwarding his own CONSCIOUS music works as well. So check out this Rasta Youthman's tracks on his profile page and be sure and let him know who sent ya. Blessed Love to all of the I, my brothers and sisters.
Jah is Love. Love Rules the Earth.
Jahson Ites
 MC Essential I
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Yes Rasta
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Perry Henzell
Release date: 31 August, 2000
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Monday, July 17, 2006
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ONE OF THESE DAYS (IRIGINAL SONG LYRICS)
Current mood: well highrie
Category: well highrie Music
ONE OF THESE DAYS (IRIGINAL SONG LYRICS)
chorus : One of these days somebody's gonna get even with you / That's not the sort of thing I'd do and anyway I've got no reason to / But someday your actions are gonna come back to haunt you / One day you're gonna cross a harder man who just can't control himself the way I can /// 1st verse: You lie to the people that love you - oh, the insincerity, how dare you act that way with me / I've been real with you from the beginning, now you look me straight in the eye and just tell another lie - why? / Cut that false dread from off of your head - don't be posing as a Rasta you weakheart imposta / 'Cause Jah Children can see through you and we see the wicked things you do when you think no one's watching you - remember /// chorus /// 2nd verse: You've been cheatin', deceivin', and now you've got good people believin' / You bring drama, scandal, falsehood, & derision - and then you try to cloak it in religion / All the while you're just causing more division 'cause your claims aren't backed up by the life that you've been livin' / I'm not kiddin', you should be quitin'; shouldn't shit in the community you live in /// chorus /// 3rd verse: Bountiful blessings is what Jah's commanding you - you gotta work hard for it, ain't nobody handin' you / Take an honest look at your life, see what Jah has planned for you / Put out some positive vibes, create demand for you / I know you're feeling lonely like we've all abandoned you / Believe it or not it's the same thing that we've all been through / so just tough it up do what an honest man would do / Just tough it up do what an honest wombman would too, 'cause /// chorus /// copyright 2006 J. Vaughan
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Friday, June 16, 2006
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THE WEIRD BEARD THAT AMERICA FEARED
Current mood: Insensed
Category: Insensed Life
THE WEIRD BEARD THAT AMERICA FEARED
The history of America is often thought of as being bearded. That is to say, beards are thought of as having been normal up until up until the last 100 years or so. Many "great" men of history have worn facial hair. However, this wasn't really the case.
Early explorers and settlers wore beards, yes, but by the 1720's beards were considered archaic, and were considered so up until the 1860's. Ol' Honest Abe Lincoln was barren of face when elected, but wore a beard by the time of his innauguration. Grant, Lee, Davis, Jackson, Custer, and Burnside were all clean-shaven at the beginning of their careers, but were sporting full facial plumage by the end of the Civil War.
But this isn't the story of any of those supposedly great men. This is the story of a truly great man, Joseph Palmer. The son of a revolutionary soldier, honest, kind, deeply spiritual, and an abolitionist, Joseph Palmer became famous because he wore a beard at the wrong time in U.S. history.
When Joseph Palmer first moved to Fitchburg, Massachusets, in 1830 he already wore the chest-length beard that brought about his ostracism and persecution.
When he walked down the street small boys would throw rocks at him. Women would stick up their noses and cross to the other side of the street rather than pass near him. Unknown rowdies smashed the windows of his modest house. Local pastor the Reverend George Trask attacked Joe for his beard, yet Joe responded by quoting the Biblical commands that men wear long beards.
Despite the poor treatment he received from the rest of the congregation, Joe never missed a church service. But on a communion Sunday in 1830 the usually serene Palmer lost his temper. When he knelt at the communion rail the priest passed him by, refusing to give him the communion bread and wine. Joe stood, marched up to the alter, grabbed the cup and took a mighty swig of the wine. He then yelled, "I love my Jesus as well, and better, than any of you!" and went home.
Some days later he was attacked on the street by four men carrying shears, brush, soap, and razor, who told him it was the sentiment of the town that his beard should come off, and they were going to see that it did. When he struggled against them they through him to the ground roughly, seriously injuring his back and head. But just as the ruffians were about to start shearing, Joe Palmer got out his trusty buck knife and set in to carving up the legs of the men around him. None of them were seriously hurt, and Joe stumbled home with his beard intact.
He was arrested and charged with "an unprovoked assault". He refused to pay the judge's fine as a matter of principal, and for that spent the next year and then some in Worchester City Jail, some of that time in solitary confinement.
In jail he had to fight to keep his wiskers on at least three occasions, one of them organized by the jailor and his thug friends. None of the attempts claimed even a hair of Joseph Palmer's beard.
Joe wrote letters and articles and smuggled them out the window to his son, Thomas, who had them published in the Worchester Spy. Soon these letters were being copied and published all over Massachusets.
Public outcry became such that the jailor told Joe to forget the fine and go on home. He refused. "I won't walk one single step toward freedom!" he bellowed through the bars of his cell. He told the officers and magistrates that they had put him there and they would have to be the ones to take him out. He simply sat in his chair writing letters telling of the poor conditions of his confinement until the sheriff and jailors picked him up, chair and all, and carried him into the street.
He was now known as far away as New York and Philadelphia, and no more violence was ever attempted on his beard or body. He eventually bought a farm and settled down with his wife and family. Visitors to the farm were always welcome, and included the likes of Emerson and Thoreau.
He later bumped into his old adversary, Reverend Trask, on the street, only to find Trask wearing a beard of his own. Joe stroked his own beardand said only, "Knowest thou that thy redeemer liveth?"
Joseph Palmer died, a fully vindicated man, in 1875.
(from "The Beard of Joseph Palmer" by Stewart Holbrook, from The American Scholar, vol. 13, ..4, Autumn, 1944)
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Black Woman & Child
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Sizzla
Release date: 29 January, 2002
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Tuesday, June 06, 2006
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ANCIENT MESSAGE OF LOVE FROM IRAQ (8TH CENTURY)
Current mood: Iyah Ites
Category: Iyah Ites Religion and Philosophy
ANCIENT MESSAGE OF LOVE FROM IRAQ (8TH CENTURY)Worship by Rabia al Adawiyya
O my Lord,
if I worship you from fear of Hell,
burn me in Hell.
If I worship you from hope of Paradise,
exclude me from that place.
But if I worship you for your own sake,
do not withhold from me your eternal beauty.
Rabi'a al-'Adawiyya, a celibate mystic and ascetic from Basra (modern day Iraq), was canonized as an Islamic saint. Fire was a central symbol in her poems and in her spiritual life. She was called "that woman on fire with love."
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Gold Collection
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Mystic Revelation Of Rastafari
Release date: 24 September, 1998
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