Are you a Rasta?

[luka]

Yeah you are

 

[luka]

When you listen to this you are that's why you like it you are in the church worshipping that's why you love it you can't separate

 

[sus]

I like that one Lee Scratch Perry song

 

[sus]

It's terribly orientalist of me but I think Van Dyke Parks's Discover America is a wonderful album, I still put it on regularly.

 

[luka]

Well you should like more than one

 

[yyaldrin]

are there any young rasta's?

 

[luka]

Embrace orientalist. Flying carpets. Genies in bottles.

 

[sus]

That's why al-Andalusian literature was so great. Forget the theory, the parables, the hip-hop style boasting about immortality and lyrical wit: There are carpet rides.

 

[version]

Liam Gallagher's a rasta.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Liam Gallagher's a rasta.

Oh god, is there a video of him putting on a terrible Jamaican accent while coked out of his mind or something?

 

[martin]

FOR:

- Celtic DNA means I'm allowed to have dreads and not be scolded on Twitter
- I once gobbed on my maternal uncle's bald head
- I didn't go to a work colleague's funeral
- Forward with Jah Orthodox / And get rid of the income tax!

AGAINST:

- One puff and I'm paralysed
- Love bacon
- Gave blood once

 

[version]

Oh god, is there a video of him putting on a terrible Jamaican accent while coked out of his mind or something?

 

[version]

He says he's a rasta in his bio too.

RNR STAR GODLIKE RASTA ICON LEGEND BIBLICAL OMNIPRESENT PROPHET SPIRITUAL MAJESTICAL CELESTIAL OPTIMYSTIC BUDDHIST JEDI APPROACHABLE ZEN LOVER HUMBLE

 

[craner]

No, I'm not.

 

[john eden]

Ras Craner tun balhead

 

[version]

 

[WashYourHands]

 

[Mr. Tea]

He says he's a rasta in his bio too.

RNR STAR GODLIKE RASTA ICON LEGEND BIBLICAL OMNIPRESENT PROPHET SPIRITUAL MAJESTICAL CELESTIAL OPTIMYSTIC BUDDHIST JEDI APPROACHABLE ZEN LOVER HUMBLE

Majestic, Godlike, humble people are my favourite kind of people!

 

[john eden]

I probably have shouted "Rastafari!" on a few occasions when Abashanti or Mark Iration have been at the mantrol tower and have shouted "Jah!" to the massive.

It's interesting listening to people like King Shiloh on the Life In Dub podcast - he's been a white rasta for like 30 years now. Seems good on it.

I think a lot of reggae nerds go through a fervent period of self-education and I thankfully resisted growing dreads and reading the old testament whilst getting stoned on soapbar.

 

[Corpsey]

There was a time when I thought rastas/rastafarianism was one of the coolest things ever, but somehow now I see it as terminally uncool. I don't know how that happened. I'm not saying I saw the light, I think I've gone astray.

I really like the lester bangs article about visiting Jamaica and trying to lose himself in the rastafarian ritual and failing. And how he gets across that people see them as these gentle hippies but they're actually fundamentalists.

There's obviously a powerful attraction to western cultureless people like me in something as fervent as rastafarianism - but also it's the fact the music is amazing and you get to smoke weed all day.