Tag: Niney the Observer

  • HEAR THIS: Live From The Turntable Club

    Dennis Brown, Delroy Wilson & Big Youth With The Soul Syndicate In 1974

    What we’re about to do right now is go back. Waaay back. The year is 1974. The place, Kingston Jamaica’s fabulous Turntable Club. Chinna Smith and the Soul Syndicate band are rocking live on the bandstand with King Tubby’s and Errol T on the mix and Niney the Observer in the building. Man like D.Brown, Delroy Wilson, and Big Youth round the microphone stand—alongside the big bad hornsman Mr. Alexander Portious doing the best Gregory Isaacs cover version ever. Are you ready for some real live reggae music? (more…)

  • HEAR THIS: Baby Wayne & Leroy Smart ‘Money Friend’

    Special request to all hypocrite and parasite.

    Sometimes the trials and tribulations of life are really blessings in disguise. For one thing they let you know the real people around you, and help you weed out the hypocrites and parasites. Case in point: I was a founding editor of a little magazine called VIBE. Maybe you’ve heard of it. Put in mad work there for 16 years. If you don’t know, ask somebody. (more…)