Stop the War
1995 · Massive B [New York] B MAS 048 · USA
- Artist
- Devon Clarke
- Title
- Stop the War
- Release
- Stop the War
- Year
- 1995
- Label
- Massive B [New York] # B MAS 048
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Genre
- Reggae · Dancehall · Reggae
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation
The song "Stop the War" by Devon Clarke, (Massive B # MAS 048), a reggae artist, based in New York. This is in the Dancehall reggae genre - "style of Jamaican Music that developed from Reggae in the late 1970s, when the music of the previous Roots Reggae era became more stripped down, with an increased emphasis on pure rhythm". (1) Released in the post-war era, this track referenced Vietnam, comparing it to violence in Jamaica: "them running Jamaica like the Vietnam War".
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: Listen to the words of a wise man...stop the war... / I'm begging you to stop the war... / Them running Jamaica like the Vietnam War / So fight them positions... / Stop the war... / Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth / The more your learn / Johnny get up early, never knows where to turn / For the youth of today, I am concerned, so concerned... / Don't do what you did... / Killing your brother... / Was it right, no... / Run Jamaica like Vietnam War...
Themes
In collections
Latin & Central American, & Caribbean Music · Vietnam as Comparison