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Snoop Dogg blowing a joint, Snoop Dogg, Ancienne Belgique (AB), Brussels, Belgium, 23/11/1998. (Photo by Gie Knaeps/Getty Images)

It’s high time for a joint traffic calming operation

A judicious puff of weed by those who cause carnage on our highways and byways would make driving a pleasant experience, writes Christian Stephen

Aston ‘Family Man’ Barrett and Bob Marley perform in London,in 1980.  (Photo by Pete Still/Redferns)

Reggae’s resistance roots struck a chord in SA

South Africa and Jamaica share a history marked by colonisation and slavery

British poet Linton Kwesi Johnson performs at the Paradiso in Amsterdam, Netherlands in May 1998. (Photo by Frans Schellekens/Redferns)

The time has finally come for LKJ in prose

‘Time Come’, a collection of essays, speech, reviews and other forms of prose by the dub poet, Linton Kwesi Johnson, makes for compelling reading

Riddim twin: ‘I am Robbie Shakespeare, the other half of Sly Dunbar,’ the bassist told GM from Evenstad Music on YouTube. Photo: David Corio/Redferns
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Robbie Shakespeare: A manipulator of space and sound

A master of a sparse, propulsive style, Robbie Shakespeare’s bass spoke volumes

UNITED KINGDOM – JUNE 18:  GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL  Photo of Robbie SHAKESPEARE and SLY & ROBBIE, Robbie Shakespeare backstage at the festival  (Photo by David Corio/Redferns)
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Robbie Shakespeare: A silence louder than a bomb

A master of feel, Robbie Shakespeare’s bass spoke through the silence

Jabba performing at Back To The City festival in 2016. (Photo: Tseliso Monaheng)

Jabba: In pursuit of hip-hop greatness

Jabba was an an innovator who paved a lane and nurtured a genre, but he only ever wanted to be a Maftown hero

Commitment: Kwanele Sosibo was seven when he was lifted up by the sound of Peter Tosh’s ‘The Toughest’ on the radio. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
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The oneness of all things

A melody pierced the membrane of childhood ennui and life was never the same

Police on trail of Lucky Dube’s killers

Johannesburg police were on Friday looking for three men driving a blue Volkswagen Polo believed to have been involved in the murder of reggae star Lucky Dube (43). The musician…

Lucky Dube shot dead in Jo’burg

Reggae musician Lucky Dube was shot dead in a hijacking on Thursday in Rosettenville, Johannesburg police said. Captain Cheryl Engelbrecht said the incident took place at about…