With Mike’s untimely passing yesterday, I thought I should just add to all the other MJ tributes out there but do it Burden style. To start I added 2 of my favorite reggae renditions from Ghost and Nitty Kutchie “the girl is mine” and Tarrus Riley “Human Nature”. Here is to a truly great artist that blessed us with amazing music time and time again…

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Excuse the cheese, I didn’t want to delay posting this any longer so I used mixtape versions of the songs.

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Here’s something I’ve found on my travels through the net. Yellowman explains how he came up with the song Zungguzungguguzungguzeng.

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Peep the throwback video inside…

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Labor day weekend is here, and along with it comes a plethora of different happenings in and around NYC, culminating with the big (huge) West Indian Day Parade on Eastern Parkway this Monday.

If you’re in the area, here’s a short synopsis of some of the good thing’s going on. I tried to fit as most as I could in here, but of course, I can’t get it all. Check it all out…you might run into us at some of these….

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