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(876)384-4078;(876)364-1398;fax(876)960-6445 email: [email protected] UNITED STATES Brooklyn, NY, 11236, USA e-mail: [email protected] YEAH I SAID IT LOST AND FOUND It seems that every time our country makes one positive step forward, we take a million negative steps backward (and for a country with about three million people living in it, that's a lot of steps we are all taking). International media and the millions of eyes around the world don't care if it's just that one bad apple. We are all being judged by the actions of a handful of individuals, whether it's the politician trying to hide his/her indiscretions, to the hustler that harasses the visitors to our shores. It all affects our future. How do we go from owning, and celebrating our country, people and culture, to destroying our land we love, then murdering and robbing these same people that make us proud? Whenever someone works hard to better themselves or situation, there is always some one lurking in the shadows at your gate in a corolla - who wants to see you fail! Why is that? How did we get to this place? We have lost so many artistes to senseless 'crab in a barrel' violence. In 1976 we almost lost Bob Marley -- rumored to be for political reasons. In 1987 we did lose arguably one of the greatest musicians next to Bob, Mr. Peter Tosh - a three-man gang demanding his hard earned money, and when the demands were not met shot him twice in the head. The list goes on; Nitty Gritty - shot in Brooklyn, New York, Pan Head - shot after leaving a dance in Spanish Town, Daddygon - shot at a bar, which later turned out to be a supposed case of mistaken identity, and if the deaths of our natives were not enough, South African reggae-musician Lucky Dube, was gunned down in what appeared to be an attempted hijacking, in Rosettenville, south of Johannesburg. Now O'Neil Edwards from Voicemail, shot several times while entering his home. What is the common thread with all these senseless deaths? Reggae is one. Being famous seems to be the other. Here's an idea, let's ban music all-together, live under oppressive military militia and have equal wages for everyone who wants to work, have the mischievous, thieves and killers punished by immediate death or limb-loss. That regime seems to work in other places, maybe it will work here since we have nothing else to lose. - EL ONE 10 1 DROP ¨ PLUGS & RELEASES PRODUCER S GUIDE ' 7 EDITION IRISH MOSS 5 DrinkDrink 3 5. Akai MPC500 Midi Production System 3. MPC 2000 XL Flash USB Drives - Make beats! That's all you want to do. As 1 Introducing the worlds first USB flash you already know, there are a plethora of memory drive shaped like the Akai MPC options out there, from step sequencers 1. 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