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Originally Posted by wellcharge
meh, suchfriends isn't insanely far off. it's not rare for someone like rusko to play a song like *jahova while taking a large rail of ketamine. skream has lot's of tunes with samples of rastas talking about religious topics and he certainly is not one himself. it's a huge stretch to recommend listening to older dub artists instead of dubstep because they aren't the same genre and don't negate the value of eachother in any way. there isn't as much religious content in the music now as there was 5 years ago when it was a smaller scene and much more dub oriented. it's still a fact though that's there's loads of examples of rasta things being used by artists who have nothing to do with that belief.
*top tune by the way
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exactly! Rock bands don't dress like Catholic priests, soul groups don't dress like the Amish. Hip Hop artists don't use the speech and religious imagery of Vedic Hundus, and yet with Rastafari EVERYONE borrows the our culture without adopting it and we are supposed to say nothing?
We in Rastafari just want folks to overstand what they are dealing with, and have Raspect for our culture. It is truly all love, but we want folks who dig our culture to do it with sincerity and authenticity, not half-assed or even sarcastically.