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Mikey Smith

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Mikey Smith was a Jamaican dub poet with Rastafarian sympathies and left political leanings, closely associated with Linton Kwesi Johnson and Mutabaruka. He was killed in Kingston in August 1983, days after publicly heckling a government minister at a political rally - a death widely read as politically motivated. Johnson later released some of Smith's recordings on his own LKJ Records label.

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Michael Smith ~ Mi Cyaan Believe It

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  1. 0:02foreign
  2. 0:07[Applause]
  3. 0:52believe it
  4. 0:54believe it is
  5. 0:57with my friend talking about things on
  6. 0:59with my friend talking about things on time here one voice
  7. 1:07will you take a start
  8. 1:16um believe it
  9. 1:19hey boy yes yes
  10. 1:32[Music]
  11. 1:36believe it can't believe it
  12. 1:43you dead who dead needed
  13. 1:49Irene Street Fire Department
  14. 1:52Irene Street Fire Department [Music]
  15. 2:02what next take a trip from Kingston to
  16. 2:05what next take a trip from Kingston to Jamaica take 12 from Heaven models
  17. 2:09Jamaica take 12 from Heaven models
  18. 2:09Jamaica take 12 from Heaven models models models
  19. 2:11models models
  20. 2:11models models believe it Mr McCann believe it you
  21. 2:15believe it Mr McCann believe it you
  22. 2:15believe it Mr McCann believe it you believe it however believe it in your
  23. 2:17believe it however believe it in your
  24. 2:17believe it however believe it in your life when you're blind yeah I tweet but
  25. 2:18life when you're blind yeah I tweet but
  26. 2:18life when you're blind yeah I tweet but we know you believe it love
  27. 2:22we know you believe it love
  28. 2:22we know you believe it love foreign
  29. 2:22foreign
  30. 2:22foreign [Applause]
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