In this soul-shaking and spirit-lifting episode of the Reggae Hour Podcast, host Mr. E welcomes legendary reggae frontman Billy Mystic of the Mystic Revealers — the band that has been delivering truth, justice, and JAH love since the late 1970s.
🌍 Straight from Bull Bay, Jamaica, Mystic Revealers rose from sound system culture to global roots reggae acclaim — releasing tracks like “Mash Down Apartheid” (with Jimmy Cliff), “Justice for the Poor”, and their latest prophetic album, “Jah Jah People.”
🎙️ In this deep and heartfelt conversation, Billy Mystic takes us on a journey through:
The founding of Mystic Revealers and the early sound system days
Their fearless anti-apartheid anthem that reached the African National Congress
Why the band refused to abandon roots reggae for the flash of digital dancehall
The fire that burned his home — and how it revealed what really matters
Building “Pon Di Verandah” studio with his children and recording again after the ashes
The true purpose of ganja culture and how modern misuse has strayed from spiritual roots
His faith in the Most High JAH and the redemption that powers his every lyric
“Victory is easy... what you have to learn is how to handle defeat, disappointment, and still keep going.” — Billy Mystic
“We’re not just a band. We’re doing the works of the Most High JAH, Rastafari.”
“Life is like surfing. You paddle with everything you have to catch the wave — then rise and ride it with purpose.”
🔁 LISTEN & FOLLOW Mystic Revealers:
📀 https://www.reggaeville.com/artist-details/mystic-revealers/about/
📸 Instagram: @officialmysticrevealers
📘 Facebook: facebook.com/mysticrevealers
🎧 Stream "Jah Jah People" on all major platforms and meditate on the message! 🔥
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🌍 Straight from Bull Bay, Jamaica, Mystic Revealers rose from sound system culture to global roots reggae acclaim — releasing tracks like “Mash Down Apartheid” (with Jimmy Cliff), “Justice for the Poor”, and their latest prophetic album, “Jah Jah People.”
🎙️ In this deep and heartfelt conversation, Billy Mystic takes us on a journey through:
The founding of Mystic Revealers and the early sound system days
Their fearless anti-apartheid anthem that reached the African National Congress
Why the band refused to abandon roots reggae for the flash of digital dancehall
The fire that burned his home — and how it revealed what really matters
Building “Pon Di Verandah” studio with his children and recording again after the ashes
The true purpose of ganja culture and how modern misuse has strayed from spiritual roots
His faith in the Most High JAH and the redemption that powers his every lyric
“Victory is easy... what you have to learn is how to handle defeat, disappointment, and still keep going.” — Billy Mystic
“We’re not just a band. We’re doing the works of the Most High JAH, Rastafari.”
“Life is like surfing. You paddle with everything you have to catch the wave — then rise and ride it with purpose.”
🔁 LISTEN & FOLLOW Mystic Revealers:
📀 https://www.reggaeville.com/artist-details/mystic-revealers/about/
📸 Instagram: @officialmysticrevealers
📘 Facebook: facebook.com/mysticrevealers
🎧 Stream "Jah Jah People" on all major platforms and meditate on the message! 🔥
🎙️ WATCH + FOLLOW REGGAE HOUR PODCAST for more uplifting interviews with reggae icons, rising stars, and revolutionary voices:
🔴 YouTube: @ReggaeHourPodcast
🎧 iHeartRadio: Reggae Hour
📘 Facebook: Reggae Hour on Facebook
🌱 Subscribe, like, comment, and share this episode with every reggae souljah who knows the music is more than rhythm — it's a revelation.
#MysticRevealers #BillyMystic #ReggaePodcast #ReggaeHour #RootsReggae #JahJahPeople #Rastafari #GanjaCulture #PonDiVerandah #SoundSystemCulture #JimmyCliff #AntiApartheid #ReggaeLegend #BullBayJamaica #ReggaeRevival #RootsAndCulture
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Today on Reggae Hour, were honoured to reason with a
true reggae revolutionary, a man whose voice, vision and vibration
have stretched across generations and oceans. He is the founding
voice of the legendary Mystic Revealers, a band birthed in
Bull Bay, Jamaica in the late seventies and rooted in
Rastafari resistance and righteous sound. From anthems like mashed Down
(00:24):
Apartheid to performing alongside the Whalers Rita Marley, Freddie McGregor
and Moore. This man helped keep the fire of live
roots reggae burning even when dancehall ruled the airwaves. But
his talents stretch far beyond the stage. He's also a
surfing pioneer, a cultural activist, an actor, and the visionary
behind Jamaica's first international surf competition, Makapro. In twenty twenty,
(00:48):
after surviving a devastating fire and rebuilding with his children
in a home studio known as Pond di Veranda, he
delivered a powerful album Jar Jar People, proving that roots
music still grows strong in the soil of experience and love.
This man is more than an artist. He's a cultural torch.
Bearer Reggae our family, help me welcome the line of Bulbet,
(01:09):
the Teacher, the singer, the Mystic himself. Billy Mystic of
the Mystic Revealers welcome.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Listeners to another enlightening edition of the Reggae Our Podcast,
where we delve deep into the rhythms and messages that
define reggae music today. Today, we have the distinct honor
of introducing a true pioneer in the roots reggae scene,
a man whose leadership and vision have helped shape the
soundscape of reggae for over four decades. Billy Mystic, the
(01:36):
frontman of the legendary Jamaican band Mystic Revealers, joins us
today to share insights from his destroydedary musical journey. Since
their formation in nineteen seventy seven, Mystic Revealers has been
at the forefront of roots reggae, earning a claim for
their authentic sounds that resonates with themes of love, peace
and justice. Known for powerful tracks such as Justice for
(02:00):
the Poor and Righteous, their music has traveled far and wide,
impacting both grassroots communities and international fans alike. Billy Missy's
leadership and charismatic presence have been pivotal in steering the
band through the vibrant worlds of reggae. As a living
testament to the enduring spirit of reggae music, Billy continues
to inspire his with his contributions not only as a musician,
(02:24):
but as a cultural advocate for social change. Get ready
to embark on a conversation that spans decades of reggae
history as we explore Billy Mystic's reflections on Mystic Revealer's legacy,
their influence on upcoming generations, and his personal journey within
the heart of reggae music. Relate to personally welcome to
you to Reggae Owl, Billy Mystic, how's your day going?
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Their man gives Tan san PRIs and I as bless
us that we would live to see this moment you know,
and share a good listeners and yourself you know, and
hopefully we will touch the art on my soul of
people who will go out into the world and make
it a bit of that place.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
You know. So give times for the opportunity on your platform.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
My brother, Yes, thank you for joining us on our platform.
It's artist like you that gives us an actual foundation
to be able to build a point so thank you
so much. Your music has been an inspiration for us.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
All thank you.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
All Right, with your roots in bull Bay, go back
to the late seventies, what did the early energy of
Mystic Revealers feel like back then? And how is your
creative process evolved from Winner to Ja Ja people.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Well, will be where we grow up.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
You know, it's about eight miles east of percent of Kingston,
so we are.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Not really we didn't really come up in.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
The so called reggae seed bed Richard Car like the
trench Stone or Ohs and those places. You know, we're
traditionally here about the home of reggae music.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
You know, we were in Bullbear.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
But where we grew up it was like sound system country,
you know, lots of sound systems would come through there
all the while very famous. A lot of dance are
in the community where we grew up, and we get
exposed to a lot of the music at that level.
So that's really where we get introduced to the real
reggae music because most of the real reggae music that
(04:24):
was was produced at that time was producing inferior recording
situation and was not really heard on the radio. So
if you weren't close by rare, there was a sound
system playing the latest produced street music. You wouldn't really
have your finger on the pulse of what Jamaican music
(04:45):
was saying and doing at the time. So luckily we
were in an era where the sound system played every week,
a different song system all of the note where the
sound systems played there, and we were exposed to that music,
you know, so we wanted to sing along and play along.
A couple of us had a couple of guitars and
(05:06):
we started realizing we could create our own music and
write our own songs, and that's where it began, you know,
and went through like auditions to see where we could
get some recognition and how.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Could we break into the music industry.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Being the fact that we were not in the hometown
of the reggae music at the time, we were outside
of the city, how could we get in. We would
make checks into town to try and audition for different producers.
But eventually what it came down to was us realizing
that you have to believe in yourself and do it
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for yourself, because expecting people to do your favor to
get you into the music industries is not really likely
to happen. You know, and if people want to help
you in the music industry, a lot of the time
it could be to your detrimentals because there's a lot
of unscrupulous people fishing around in the music industry in
those days. So you know, luckily for us, we took
(06:06):
it upon ourselves to develop the group and cut out
and one part doing our own recording, our own productions,
you know, And as a result of stepping out on
our own, we attracted attention and eventually pin cured a
good manager, got a recording deal, and the next thing,
(06:27):
you know, we were fine running touring the world. So
it was a long journey, but it was strictly because
due to a great belief in ourselves, you know, that
we were able to do it. It wasn't until we
were quite our way along our career, maybe maybe five
ten years into our career, from day one, that we
(06:52):
were actually able to start meeting major players in the
reggae industry.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
And we made.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Contact with Jimmy and Jimmy Cliff for someone who supported
or grow up in the early years and was one
of the our mentors, one who put out one of
our songs for us, mashed on a part time and
so I gave us a certain amount of legitimacy and
from there the goal more recordings until we were assigned
(07:21):
by different record labels, international record labels, and I guess
the rest of it is history, you know.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Oh yeah, definitely history. You made history in the make
it right there now. I heard you say you talk
more about believing in yourself. Now when you started in
the seventies, that was it. It was its easy to
get into the industry as it is now now and
you could just flip open the phone and just start
recording it and upload to YouTube. With that being said,
(07:53):
how much more courage or how much more work did
y'all have to do back there in the seventies that
people do not recognizing this day.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
In the age, well, making a record wasn't something you
could do in your bedroom at home. Obviously, you had
to be a recording studio. You had to be able
to record the music on a twenty four track tape
or two inch magnetic tape. Those were quite expensive. Not
(08:21):
everybody had a machine that could spin on record a
two inch tape, so those were those locations were very rare.
They were probably only two or three locations on the island.
Where you could get that high quality of recording capacity ability.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
You'd have to.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Book those recording studios and it would then after you
record the song, it would have to be mixed and
it will be mixed down onto a quarta instep quarta
inch magnetic tape, which would then have to go to
the President to the stamp out factory where they take
(09:00):
burn catta acetate and then use an electronic bath to
electric with electrolyte and electrolysis create a negative for the record,
which was then used taken to the pressing plant with
the labels that you designed and printed to be inserted
into the record. And you go to the pressing plant
(09:21):
and you would take your stamp over you on and
it in and you would order your records were now
fifty twenty five, one hundred one fifteen thousands, depending how
much you were capable of pressing at the time to
get into circulation.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
You'll have to.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Press those and then you take them out and distribute
them around the island and around the world to the
reggae market, different recording studios. So it was quite a
big undertaking, you know. So it was brave of us
as youngsters to say okay, if no one want to
help us, We're gonna do it ourselves. And we ended
up taking it down and doing it to ourselves. And
(09:58):
when people realize I was years we were I got
a chance to hero music and it started playing. People
realized that, Wow, there's really something to this group, you know.
And that's all we started broke into the more mainstream
of the Jamaican music industry. And I would say that
that's probably up and DOUBLET.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
I said, maybe in nineteen eighty nine, nineteen ninety.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
By that time we were we were basically inducted into
Jamaica's music fraternity.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
That's beautiful right there. See, that's just the work that
you had to put behind the music that y'all created
in order to be able to get it to be
distributed across Jamaica, let alone worldwide. But also the scenery,
the atmosphere, the social the social environment at that time
was very turbulent. I mean, when you made mash Down Aparthid,
(10:57):
that was a bold statement at a time where it
was so much controversy going.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
On, rasta fire, iron and rage its creation.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
So last said I and I hi to dread this
month flat, y'all, y'all.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
Boy yeah, England. I don't believe in enoughbout time all
re minority. I think any one.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Who does must be sometime.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
We know what's wrong, and.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
I know that them all as long.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
But well weekend night and lash them time, lash them
down to me.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
To be back in South Africa.
Speaker 6 (11:56):
Make you listen, So come on, it's lay then just
as soon as we know it's from I know that.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Well, we give you, what gave you the courage to
make that record? And what responsibility do you feel reggae
is still hosing this global liberacious struggles today.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Well, when we were growing up, you know, we were
teenagers in the seventies and we heard about apartheid and
the wicked system that it was. But really and truly
we didn't realize that apartheid was a current event. I
really believe that apartheid was something like slavery that was
(12:54):
abolished in eighteen hundreds. And when you're reading about apartheid,
you would believe that it's just a historic occurrence, that
you're reading about things that happened in the past. And
then when we realize that no, this is actually happening
in our time, you know, there was a big, a
big outcry about the apartheid system. Then in the early eighties,
(13:18):
late seventies, early eighties, there was a lot of attention
on apartheid, and we got to realize that, no, this
is something that actually happened in our time. So we
felt so strongly about it that was put pen to
paper and fingers to instruments and voices to lyrics, and
(13:41):
we actually made a song in protest of the apartheid system.
At that time, Jimmy Cliff was a lot protagonists for
the anti apartheid movement, and we know we're Jimmy Cliff
resided and we went to visit him and told him that,
(14:01):
you know, we would love to do a song anti
aparthid song and if you would produce it for us.
So he said that we should make a demo of it.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
And give it to him. So he opened up his
recording studio.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
He had a small rehearsal recording studios, one in sixteen
track machine, and we.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Went in and we recorded a demo of the song.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
And when Jimmy Kiff came back off of tour and
represented him with the tape, he immediately asked Newton Mary
to go and cut the stamper for it. And pressed
the labels for it, and he put it out immediately
said they didn't need to be reproduced. The demo was excellent,
and he was the one who made contact with the
(14:46):
African National Congress and was able to get the record
to them, and we received great accolades from them, received
a wonderful letter from them thanking us for our effort
and supporting the African National Congress the fight against apart time,
and we ended up Jimmy Kiffe ended up making arrangements
so that a percentage of their returns from the from
(15:09):
the sales of the record were directed to the access
of the A and C, which was also greatly appreciated
and mentioned in the correspondence with us. So we were
very proud about that at that time, you know. So
it was a very terrible and time, and I mean
politics was rife, you know it is, but Mahalid Die,
(15:30):
you know, there was lots of political strife and turmoil,
you know, so it was a time when there was
a lot to sing and talk about. So revealers did
just that, you know, lifted our vices, open our mouth
and allowed a lot to fill our moutied words and
we did our best to deliver his message, you know,
(15:51):
And that's basically what it was about, you know. And
we didn't know where it was going. We didn't have
any ulti romotives. We just wanted to see what we
believed and what we think could make a difference in
the world. Once it was all there, you know, and
that was the motivation and the world tuy.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Yes, and y'all stuck to it. Like when it comes
to roots reggae music, your name comes up as much
as Bob Marley's, as much as Peter Tosh, as much
as Jimmy Cliff, as much as the great in this
because you are you're all one of the greats, you know.
So when you seen that Jamaican music was leaning towards
(16:30):
the dance, saw the digital dance saw, you doubled down
on live roots music. And is that social justice? What
inspired you to swim against the current and what did
that cost to reward you as artists?
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Well, I think that reggae music was experience in a crisis.
The fact that Bob Marley was in his headay and
just taking reggae music to the heights, that that it's
potential demonstrated and losing Bob Miley right in the midst
of that, and there was no obvious air to the throne,
(17:06):
and there was a big rush in the Jamaican music
fraternity as who is going to hold the forefront, who
can fill the shoes of Bob Marley, and likely no
one was found worthy to be put forward. The music
industry in Jamaica couldn't. There wasn't a clear air to
the throne. So the danceaul genre was becoming very popular
(17:28):
at the time, but the international marketplace is usually a
few years behind the pulse. The finger is not on
the pulse of Jamaican music, you know, there are a
few years behind, So what's happening in Jamaica doesn't really
make it to the international stage until probably two or
(17:49):
three years later. So when Bob Mahl was taken out
in mid battle and they had to find somebody immediately
to put in in that space, it was what was
then on the street and what looked likely to be
the next big thing, which was dance ale and King
yellow Man and all that type of genre. So immediately
that was sort of put up. It was King yellow
(18:11):
Man now, and it was like, yeah, we're not doing
reggae anymore, We're doing danceall.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
This is a new thing and the world need to
get used to it, you know. But that was never
the way we viewed it.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
That was never our vision of what message music should be.
Because the dancehall music at the time wasn't very progressive
and wasn't very very uplifting. The message of it was
pretty much realistic and pretty much very kind and at
the time, you know, it was about.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Girl and badman and gonam money and.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Them type of thing there. So it was we couldn't
swim with that current. We would have to go against
our current like that, you know, we could not be
a part of that. That was never what our inspiration was.
And we were not panicked by the last of bab
Malec as we know that where one will file, anymore
will rise, you know, and we were ready to step
(19:05):
up and continue doing the music that we believed in,
delivering the message that we felt was necessary, unrelevant to
the time we were in, and we kept on doing
it and the people appreciated it all the way upon.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Of the nineties.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Oh yeah, and even till this day, I means reggae
is it never went away. It probably lost a little
bit of popularity, but the popularity is coming back with
people being like they see the difference between dance all
and reggae, even the ones who was introduced to reggae
through dance all. I know a lot of a lot
(19:41):
of my fans they talk about, uh, they'll talk about
chronics and people who make kind of dance hall like music.
But if you listen to the core, the message, the
message is roots and their music can be played with
a band like And you've toured the world and shared
stages with legends, I mean like Freddie McGregor and Ziggy
(20:03):
Marley like you, like, how would you have seen that?
How would they have felt to be on the stage
with them and knowing that the king of reggae hasn't
been fulfilled yet and you all are just bringing your
own How was that experience?
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Yeah, it was a wonderful experience, you know. But as
we said, we were just delivering our message. We weren't
thinking of who is going to be heir to the throne.
We were just doing our music. We accepted the fact
that we were who we were and our message was
what our message was, and we wanted our message to
be clear and concise, and we wanted to be known
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as the mystic.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Revealers, you know, our own value, and not.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
As mystic revealers a potential applicant for the position of
heir to the tron. You know, we weren't really edding
in that direction. We were just coming up with new music.
Wanted to produce the next album and moving forward, wanted
to get on tour, wanted to get in front of
(21:09):
international audience to present our message.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
And that was really what it was.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
The objective was to get our message through the ears
of the people who needed to hear it, you know,
So that's what it was really for us. You know,
we weren't really thinking in terms of a competition for
the number one seat in the regular fraternity. You know,
we were just doing all look apart, you.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Know, keeping it pure. That's how you definitely keep it pure,
because whenever people start looking for power and looking for
success and money and fame, that could terminates the message
because now it's like you're putting anything together to try
to make sure that it goes viral or something of
that nature. Now, but you drop with pon Veranda Studio
(21:55):
and the musical contributions of your children, what kind of
sound the messages being birthed for the next generation of
Mystic Revealers.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
Well, it's the same. The message is the same, you know. Obviously,
beats will change. Music gets faster or slower.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
If it's been played slow for a long time, then
something fast will sound refreshing and vice versa.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
You know, So and the beats change. You know.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Reggae is is different than mental, which is different Iraq steady,
which is different than Dan sal which is different afro beat,
which is different than than reggaeton. You know, but there
are certain aspects of similarity. So what we recognize as
the most important thing is the message.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
What is it the music is saying.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
You know, It's not like if you say this music
over R and B beat, it's not good, But it's
good when you put the same message over reggae roots,
reggae beat. I don't believe in that, you know. I
believe whatever is the vehicle to get to the message
to the people. So the people love rap music. I
(23:03):
would love some rap band to do over we record
Mystic Revella's message in high rock, acid rock or whatever
is the latest aspect of rap, and take our message
and apply it to their genre of music so that
their audience could receive the message that we are saying.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
We love that. I would love that.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
I'm not just saying reggae is the only way. I'm
just saying reggae is our only way. That's mystic Revella's
only way. We are a reggae band, you know, so
respect us as a reggae band doing the works are
the most sides stuff are, right, majesty.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
I you know I'm doing it and making it.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Real in the world because we are the ones who
took the thought and made it manifest in music. So
you know that is what we really look for, you know,
for the music to continue with the powerful message of
them justice, morality, and love.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
You know that's what we want. Peace. These are the
things we cry find our music, and we reached that
all music would be crying out for these things.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Right exactly. And the respect y'all have earned, so we
definitely give you that.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
You've done.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Now when it goes to listening to your music on
a world stage, it is blatant what you what your
what your message is. It is comes comes across clearest
day peace, love, redemption, retribution, justice, honor, freedom, all just
great qualities all around. But you have actually experienced some
(24:36):
hardships in your life, such as after your house fire
and the loss of your archives. What did you learn
about impermanence, resilience and finding inspiration and ruins.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Well, what I learned, you know, is that life continuing,
you know, And the greatest thing is to have life,
you know, because when you have no life, then you
can do nothing, and you can influence nothing, and you
can achieve nothing. In real life, life is the most
important thing because if you have life, you can start
from zero, because life began at zero and it developed
(25:08):
to where we know it is now.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
So life are the most important thing, you know.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
So yes, we lost I personally lost a lot of
my historical data about my career, which which went on
to prove to me that, you know, these material things
could not be what my.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
Life's effort was worth. My life's effort was worth.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
The amount of people that the message touched and the
amount of people who are influenced in a positive way
and encourage, you know, the amount of the amount of
moments that it brought satisfaction, our solace, our joy to
the listeners. You know, this is a real value, not
the fact that I have the first recording and I
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have the original tapes, and I have the first CD,
and I have the first forty five, and I have
all of these material things that I am hanging on
to kind of justify myself and put up value to
myself by these material things that I can go into
a room and open a box or a cupboard and
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look at them, pick them up, feel them, touch them.
You know, it taught me that even though those things
feel so special and precious to you, they really are nothing.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
You know, they're just material things.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
So it's only the spiritual thing that really matter. Did
your sound touch someone in a positive way? This is
encourage them to make a change for the better. Did
it tause them to reflect on their own self and
what they have done and demand better from themselves and
take it on to do what is necessary to manifest
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that change for the better? You know, that is a
real victory if your sons and message can cause even
one individual to do that. So these are the things
that were really realized from losing a lot of material possessions.
You know, realize that that's not the that's not the thing,
because after the house burned down, it was all those
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people that we had touched our music, with the love
that we shared with the with the good wishes we
held for other people throughout the time.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
People will reshout and assisted.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Those are the people who came back and assisted us.
Those are the people who bring a ten bag, a
cement for me. I bring a wheel bar around four shovel.
I get me a discount at the ideo store to
buy the metal sheeting for the roof. I get me
a deal at the lumber company to get the groove
and tongue for the floor and out of the ceiling,
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you know, to get it, get it at that rate,
you know, discounted red to make it possible for us
to go forward. And these are the things that music
and what we believe in has really done for us
in the real of thinking.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
You know.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
So that's really what I learned from that loss and
that tragedy, you know, and that as long as life
is spared, that is the greatest.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
And I love how you said that it didn't it
didn't matter that you had the forty five or the
first cut of these records. You you actually have left
imprints on people's lives when they first hear your music.
You know, there's people who was going through turmoil in
their life. Somebody introduced them to a mystic Revealer song
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and it just made it just had clarity for him,
It made sense. Their life just came together and it
changed their whole outlook on life. That right there, that's
so saving. Right there, that's life saving. And like, I
just keep listening to your music and thinking about the beach.
And we know that you're a surfer and we know
that Bruce Lee says that we all can learn from water. Well,
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you've built the Jamaican surfing scene and meant your children
in it. Like what does the ocean teach you that
still guides your music and your message.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Well, the ocean teacher humility, respect, you know, and it
keeps me in awe of its power and beauty, you
know the fact that it's it can be so different.
It can be calm and peaceful, or it can be
rough and angry.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
You know.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
It can be teasingly enticing. It can be dark and mysterious.
You know, it can be scary. You know, it's like
a living It's like a living entity. It's not just
like a bottle of water on a shelf. It has
a life to it, you know, and it makes you
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realize that when you're surfing, you're sitting in the water
and you don't face the land. When you're surfing, you
face out to sea waiting for a wave to come,
waiting for an opportunity to come from over.
Speaker 4 (29:59):
The horizon to come towards you.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
And you see it approaching, and you try to paddle
to be in the best position to benefit from the
wave that is coming. So you have to prepare yourself
as it approaches you. And as it approaches you, you
get into position and you try your best to make
an effort, because it takes an effort to catch a wave,
so you have to put out an exert effort in
know that to catch the wave. And if you put
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out enough effort, you will indeed catch a wave and
be able to rise to your feet and ride and
the power of the wave not needing your power anymore,
but harnessing the power of the wave to move forward
and towards the shore and towards the ultimate destination, you know.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
So it's like life is like that too.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
You know, you're learning you're going out there to surf
one day and you're going to position yourself out of
the wave.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
But it didn't start there.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
It started from the first day you were on a surfboard,
and the first day you were able to rise to
your feet, from the first day you were able to
turn the surfboard left and right, and the first day
you were able to catch a wave on your own.
You know, the fact that you get to the point
where you are surfing now, you know, you open up
your mind and your heart and your memory and your
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soul and you realize that it's a long term thing,
but it's at this point in time your experience in
the highest form of it, your experience in the joy
and the glory of it. And that's what makes you
realize that the journey before and the effort that you
are put in over the time previously was definitely worth
it to make this moment, this present now worth the
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while because you are reaping the benefit of the things
of the seeds you have sought and the efforts that
you have invested. You know, now you can catch the way,
Now you can stand, Now you can ride it all
the way to shore and enjoy the spirit and the
movement of the ocean.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
You know.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
So that's what what really teach me to you know,
it's strengthed my conviction, you know, in life, and that
we know there is a God and is perfect, and
he's the creator of all things, and he's the king
of things and a.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
Lot you know.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
So all these things are there more things that proved
to me that this world is that the accident or
something beautiful and magnificent and created by the hand of
something much greater than you know.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Yes, that's a beautiful way to explain it, because the
just the body of water itself is such a such
a divine presence that we we really don't we don't
grasp how emotional that it can make us. In like
I said, just being out there and listening to the
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music and watching the water lapp but you listening to
the music and listening to the water at the same time,
it's like instruments that's just playing the perfect ballad, the
perfect melody, And there's only one being that can actually
create that kind of music like that, and we all emulate,
or we try to be like that being in making
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our own music, which that being loves, which the Father
loves in itself, you know what I'm saying, And he
loves to hear our music. And with that mindset, would
you say that that mindset is what gives you the
peace throughout anything that you do, whether it's going through
a house fire, or whether it's cutting a record and
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trying to secure the funding for the record, or any
aspect of your life. Would you say that that that
kind of piece there is where is Zoos from?
Speaker 4 (33:25):
Well, you know, I the thing that keeps me strong,
you know, is.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
Really knowing that Gai is with me, and the world
is is underworld, and I opened my eyes and he
fills it with emotion and encouragement, and he opens my
eyes to what it is is that is they're coming
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of me?
Speaker 4 (33:57):
What? What?
Speaker 3 (33:58):
What is it that you expect of me? You know,
this is what really keep me going. You know when
I sometimes I feel the press, I have to realize
that I'm not as great as I would love to be.
There's a fall and shot in the eyes of the
mosside because he's so wonderful and magnificent, and I am
but a grain of sun compare to him. And I
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have many faults and many things. You know, there's many
difficulties sometimes you face, you face tribulation, you face challenges
that sometimes maybe they they overcome your situation. You'll be
the loser in the situation, you know, and life is
not about just having everything go the right way.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
Life is about managing with the situation.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
When it doesn't go the right way, you know when
to not be defeated, because it's easy to be successful.
Speaker 4 (34:53):
It's easy. Victory is easy.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
When you have victory, there's no problem, there's no heartache,
there's no kind fusion, there's no sorrow, there's none of
these negative aspects in victory. So if life is just
gonna be eternally victory, then you have nothing.
Speaker 4 (35:10):
To work worry about. What you have to worry about.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
In the reality of life is life is not eternal
and always his a history of victory, sometimes up, sometimes down.
Let's see victory and defeat, happiness, sadness. So it is
always objective and it's always incumbent on you to try
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and find the solution as how to deal with the negative,
with the sorrow, with the pain, with the disappointment. That
is what the strength is needed for. The strength is
not needed for the victory. Victory comes easy because victory
is in the and of the most like God, and
he will need it in a way that.
Speaker 4 (35:55):
He his fit.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
So victory is not even in our and victory is
just because we are confident in the victory of good
or evil. That's why we have confidence in the victory.
But what about defeat? What about disappointment? So the real
solution and the real answer to a positive and uplifting
life is the life in which one can handle defeat,
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can put the disappointment in a container and neutralize it
and learn from it to make the next battle a
positive one, a victorious one. So that is one of
the main thing, you know, learn to under defeat, learn
to manage your depression, learn to look on the bright
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side of life.
Speaker 4 (36:43):
What next, I think? What what next? What next? What next?
Speaker 3 (36:47):
Where am I going? What is the endgame? What is
How will I know when I've achieved? What it is
that that is here to achieve? From this undertaking, you know,
these things will keep you untacked and give your strength
to go to know.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
Yes, blessed, that is the definitely the best way to
put that.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
You know.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
Uh, we all get caught up in the day to day.
We get caught up in what's on the news, We
get caught up in what people are telling us. We
get caught up in all these wars, all these turmoils,
and we just keep forgetting that it's all got to
be conquered one day and good will always triumph in
the end. And if you know this, it's like seeing
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that tunnel. The light at the end of the tunnel,
you know is coming, So just keep pushing, Just keep
on pushing. Now, I know that you launched your Jamaican
Unphetic herb company. Is that also something that you promote
to people that helped them to keep pushing towards that
light at the end of the tunne?
Speaker 4 (37:48):
Yes, you know.
Speaker 3 (37:49):
Well, we're still producing the We're still producing the tap
on the counter treatment on the double row. You know,
we're still producing the time we make can it available
to people in need?
Speaker 4 (38:02):
You know, we give out quite a large.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
I would say probably more than sixty percent of our
production is given to people in need for the treatment
of their cancels and so and and we have got
a lot of success.
Speaker 4 (38:15):
So this is kind of a quiet thing, you know,
This is.
Speaker 3 (38:19):
Just doing what a lot want us to do to
help those less fortunate than ourselves, you know. So we're
still on it, you know, but we can't lose anything
in our earth is a lot and the fullness thereof
you know, and they and then that well the're in.
So we know that we belong to the lad and
everything that happens is only for a moment, you know,
because it's now will continue forever more until the load
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seet fit to bring us home, you know. So we
give tanks. Still we're not we're not perplexed, you know, worried.
You know, we we we we have full confidence in
the victory.
Speaker 4 (38:53):
So you know, we we know who it is.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
That we represent and who represent us, you know, So
we give tan some pretsire, you know. And what doesn't
work today may work tomorrow, and what doesn't work tomorrow
can work on the end of the year, or in
the beginning of the following year, or in the in
the next.
Speaker 4 (39:11):
Few minutes, all right now, you know.
Speaker 3 (39:14):
So we have confident that that will make it all
happen when easy is fit, and we will be there
for the glorification of it.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
You know, facts, facts that I hear that now do
you see Ganja culture like transforming not only like business,
but also consciousness and help in Jamaica and beyond.
Speaker 4 (39:35):
Yes, to see the irth thing changing a lot.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
You have a lot of what I would say, people
because at one time, you know, ganza was that thing
where in Jamaica them safe, you're small, guns make your mad.
So it wasn't always socially acceptable, you know, Ganja was
always socially acceptable in Jamaica. The society and the state,
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USCO and the upper echalons of Jamaican and society, we're
very much against marijuana, even though they would use it
for themselves. But because it was seen as a negative thing,
as an illegal thing and associated with the ghetto life
of the Rastafarian people, it was out lowed, you know,
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so it wasn't really accepted. But what you see now
in this present day, know that the criminalization of people
for the use of marijuana is starting to wane. We
find that a lot more of the established up exchcealons
of this of the economic society in Jamaica are now
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able to partake without any any any negative, any negative
reaction to the fact that they are doing it. Now
it's okay for a young teenager, a young adolescent person
to experiment and be used in marijuana, even even uptown
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in Jamaica. You know, it is more acceptable now, so
a lot more people are using it. But what I've
noticed is that the manner in which it is used.
Speaker 4 (41:16):
It is being used not as.
Speaker 3 (41:19):
An aid for one's consciousness and to get an Eigehn
meditation and to get closer to the almighty. But it's
more seen as a recreational drug now and one that
is used for social interaction and that sort of thing.
It's like a party drug that people use. Oh, you
go everywhere, you go to the bar, you go to
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the club. Now everybody is breaking out a parcel of
this wicked weed and the strongest weed.
Speaker 4 (41:44):
And it's very very and it's.
Speaker 3 (41:46):
Diesel and this cripp and gurrillan, this donkey backbone.
Speaker 4 (41:52):
And whatever they name it. You know, they have all of.
Speaker 3 (41:55):
These new and which one is the strongest one and
which one can incapacitate you more, and that type of thing.
Whenever I wasn't that in the beginning, marijuana smoking was
to get closer to the almighty, you know.
Speaker 4 (42:08):
Right, was to see high consciousness, you know.
Speaker 3 (42:12):
But now with the modernization and the availability, unfortunately, I've noticed.
Speaker 4 (42:18):
That the real purpose and use of the marijuana has
moved from.
Speaker 3 (42:23):
Spiritual health spiritual to recreational genre, you know.
Speaker 4 (42:30):
And I've been disappointed about that.
Speaker 3 (42:32):
But it is also more readily available for the people,
because you still have people in the society who are
seeking righteousness and looking for that meditation, so it's available
for them.
Speaker 4 (42:44):
Also, about the most apparent.
Speaker 3 (42:48):
Result of the marijuana system now is that there's a
lot more recreational use of the plant.
Speaker 2 (42:58):
Right and now only there's more recreational use of the plant,
but it's also strains of the plant that are being
genetically modified that doesn't farewell when you're putting it in
your system. You know, a lot of these people are
actually getting addicted, like terribly addicted to these these chemicals
they're putting in the plant, and they're having mood swings
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and things of that nature when they can't get get
their hands on it. It's almost like it's a whole
nother drug in itself. Now, Like, what kind of advice
can you give to people when it comes to the
ganja culture to be able to utilize it or get
the full benefit of it instead of just letting it
put them asleep.
Speaker 4 (44:57):
Well, you want to use you.
Speaker 3 (45:00):
Self introspection, you know what I mean, That's what it's
all about. Nobody knows where we are falling short better
than we ourselves. No one knows the disappointing behavior we
practice more than ourself. No one understands our shortcomings more
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than we do. No one knows the error of our
ways like we know. It's just a matter of being
honest to yourself, you know, And we're not afraid to
accept the fact that sometimes you're around, sometimes you are
to blame. Sometimes you are the guilty party. Sometimes you
are the third party in the conversation. You are the
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one causing the obstorance and encouraging the negative energy because
of your presence, are because of your contributes and to
the situation. And sometimes you are doing that just because
you have Maybe you are not as compassonate enough as
you should be consider other people's feelings and other people
in the situation and how your achance make other people feel,
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because you know, sometimes we already these things.
Speaker 2 (46:09):
You know, these are the things you needed to seek.
Speaker 3 (46:13):
And when you find those things inside yourself and find
that I am not perfic and I would like to
be as close to perfect and go about making that
kind of crisis, making that thing, that distriction, you know,
trying to reach those goals. But acceptance of your prosperity,
the self seeking righteousness and doing that which is good love,
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and you're.
Speaker 4 (46:37):
Feeling your position.
Speaker 3 (46:38):
And when the gloss on the flat flat, however, you
see that you know we were creating by the Almighty,
and it is our duty to be pleasing in his side.
Then everybody is supposed to know what to do when
we are to go, because you don't need somebody to
tell you that you did some in unkind. When you
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do something unkind, you are aware that you're in the
actual act of committing an unkind action.
Speaker 4 (47:08):
You know that in yourself.
Speaker 3 (47:11):
If you don't know when you're being unkind, it must
mean I must have some kind of mental condition or
some illness, some some psychological uh situation has stee it
that that you're not responsible for your own thinking. But
as long as you a normal human being, you know
when you've hurt someone. You know when you've said something unkind.
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You know when you have said something to said someone.
You know when it's in a Jamaica, I could say
you step on.
Speaker 4 (47:38):
Them, cand you know when you do it. So you
are the.
Speaker 3 (47:43):
First judge of your actions. You are the first one
who can set it straight. You are the one who
knows when an apology is necessary.
Speaker 4 (47:53):
Or required.
Speaker 3 (47:53):
You know, you know when you should go to the
person say by gee, M sorry about the other day
and the boy made the upset and no sub miss
Some things we never you never deserve a year out
of my amor all of them was driven by by
jealousyr by by here, by envy, r by greed. If
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you can't looking at yourself as I'm jealous, envious, greedy,
my bad mind.
Speaker 4 (48:20):
If you can't find those things in yourself, then you're
just fooling yourself.
Speaker 3 (48:23):
Better, you understand, you have to seeking in tear of
your heart and identified where it is and rip it
out and do as all you can to negate it
and neutralize it. You know, see it, and that is
all you're gonna become a better person. That is the
way you're going to become a better person by wanting
to be a better person, identifying the negative in yourself
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and by jetting that negative, grabbing it at the throat
and tearing it out and discarding it and removing it
from your way of thinking and your way of it.
Speaker 4 (49:00):
Let me see.
Speaker 3 (49:01):
So these are the things where each and everyone can do.
And we try to profess these messages and through our
music as a mystic of real as you know, and
as a songwriter and lead vocalists a mystic myself, I
try my best to say true to that even in
the midst of child and try relation and the acknowledgement
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that even myself I am not perfect, and I have
to give myself a liqu of room and a low
one for my imperfection and a look at time for
me to repent and bring my repentance to reality. You know,
in all the lookut things that we can identify that
we have done, you.
Speaker 4 (49:41):
Know, stuff.
Speaker 2 (51:35):
Beautiful, beautiful, exactly right there. That's the message that the
world needs to actually be able to hear. It starts
with the person in the mirror. You gotta be able
to take accountability. And in twenty twenty five you got
in the world that's shaken by war, injustice and division.
What does job, job people mean to you?
Speaker 3 (51:56):
Now? It means what's always meant. Judge of people is
just ongoing. It started with the young revolution areas until
it became ja works, then it became space and time,
then it became this one's for a job, and now
we are in judge of people time, you know. And
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the message has always been the same it has always
been an encouragement. We only see at this time, at
this point in time, how close we are to the
fulfillment of the revelation of its imperial this works, revelation
of the reality of Christ, of the Christ who shed
his blood for us, the revelation of the work of
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the rising of the beasts in this time, the revelation
of the works of the almighty martyrs coming together and
standing up and speaking out for righteousness, you know, and
we will see all of the things that revelation and
the Bible has told us is going to and the
kronas that is.
Speaker 4 (53:00):
Going to happen, because we are all one people.
Speaker 3 (53:03):
There's only one God, and he's the God of us all,
you know, and his words shall never fear and never diminish.
So it is just whether or not we will. We
will have the glory and the joy to live to
see the fulfillment of the manifestation of the revelation. But
here we are in twenty twenty five realizing that it's
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so much closer. There is so much things that we
read in the Bible that are now manifest in reality
of life and society amongst us, that when we read
them back in the seventies and the sixties as young
youths reading our Bible, it sounded like, yes, we believe
these things will happen, but it looks so far off
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in the future that we believe we would never have
lived to see these things. And here we are in
this era realizing all of these revelations coming to pass.
So we see Judge of People album as the album
with the message for the people to encourage them to
be the best that they can be, but the glorification
and the most high, you know. So we try to
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put something but each and everyone in that album and
all that people listen to it carefully consider the message
in the words and see all bestly can influence their
life become more positive and oblique experience.
Speaker 2 (54:21):
Yes, sir, now a lot of people we agree with
joy did. Signs are very blatant. We are definitely in
the end times, and a lot of people are contributing
the changing of the leadership at the Vatican with the
Pope changing from Pope Francis to Pope Leo as one
of the signs that we are close. Would you say
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that's a sign that you would you say that's something
you believe in?
Speaker 4 (54:48):
Right?
Speaker 2 (54:48):
There that that is a sign towards the end.
Speaker 3 (54:52):
Yes, man, everything that is happening, because we know that
that the word of the Lord is real.
Speaker 5 (54:59):
We know that.
Speaker 3 (55:00):
Anything we see happening now we just have to look
and see where was it mentioned, because anything that happened
now is going to be assigned and going to be
proof of the manifestation of revelation opening because we are
in these times. So everything that nothing will be happening
just by a chance. The pope dead in this time
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is not by a chance, and your pope elected him
come up is not by a chance. The name of
the pope who is elected is the same. Is the
carry on from the one who bless Mosolin need to
go into Ethiopia. He was the last Leo pop the
thirteenth and the fourteenth. So there's a lot of everything.
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We have to look take note of everything that is happening,
and nothing is happening that shouldn't have happened. Anything that
happened is what was determined to happen. So we know
that what is happening is current and real and necessary.
Speaker 2 (55:57):
You know, yes, definitely, definitely. I mean it's a lot happening,
so and it's a lot happening so fast the youth. Uh,
they they are not even given a chance to learn
about this before at boom it happens. Like what is
something that you can a message that you can give
to the youth before we asked the break off that
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you can help.
Speaker 4 (56:19):
Them is to live righteous Lena.
Speaker 3 (56:21):
All we can't tell you it is to do good enough,
live righteous Lena. Become passionate, do unto others as you
would have them do unto you. We consider it of
those less fortunate than yourself.
Speaker 4 (56:32):
Do a good deed today.
Speaker 3 (56:34):
You know, these are the things we can't tell We
can't tell them nothing else. We can't tell them not else,
And seek first the kingdom. I've got it on all
things will be added on to you.
Speaker 4 (56:42):
We can't tell them no more than righteously.
Speaker 3 (56:45):
With with with conviction of spirit, for the glorification the
almighty creative on earth.
Speaker 4 (56:52):
You know, these are the things we can tell them.
We can't tell them anything more. It's up to them.
Speaker 3 (56:55):
It's incumbent on them to do the right thing, to
think the right thought, to take the right action, to
put the right foot forward, to choose the right part.
Ask the questions within yourself, what do you want Do
you want to be one of His chosen?
Speaker 4 (57:18):
If so, then.
Speaker 3 (57:18):
Seek all the ways and the part that is going
to lead to that reality of being chosen, that reality
of being with him, the reality of sharing in the
glory and receiving the pressures, victory, reward. You know these
are the things because we know not what tomorrow brings.
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So let us do what we can so that if
the instant come upon us suddenly, we would still be
found worthy and glorious to receive His blessing and his
forgiveness and his salvation. That is what we have to do,
you know what I mean. And you have to be
like a knee jerking it. You have to get it
to be like just like wake up in the brush
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my teeth, wash my face, get something to eat.
Speaker 4 (58:03):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (58:04):
You have to say, do right, Just wake up in
the morning, say a prayer, Give tanks to Ja for life.
Speaker 4 (58:11):
Ask him to guide me and care.
Speaker 3 (58:12):
For me and my loved ones, and keep me out
of the hands of those who wish.
Speaker 4 (58:18):
Evil upon me.
Speaker 3 (58:19):
Guide and protect me, Guide and protect those who I love.
Speaker 4 (58:22):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (58:24):
Go out into the world. Look for whenever the opportunity
to present itself for.
Speaker 4 (58:28):
You to do good. Seize it with more and do
as good as you can.
Speaker 3 (58:32):
You know, this is why we have for telling you
that they after wanting in themselves, I'm not going to
be able to give it to them.
Speaker 2 (58:41):
That's the truth in his whole essence right there. You
definitely got to get it yourself. Even the Bible that
said that no man will be held accountable for what
another man does, so you only will be judged on
your works. We have to get our works in. We
have to start pushing forward to a better the Martin.
If we want to make it to the new heaven
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and the new Earth. We have to build for that
new heaven and a new Earth. Now we cannot take
our old ways into the new future. So definitely great words,
great uplifting motivation. The youth definitely needs to hear that.
And I'm so happy that you decided to put it
here on our reggae, our platform so we can get
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it out there to them, because that's exactly what we do.
Like one of my favorite artists said, while am I
wasting time with these adults when it's all these children
out here that needs this knowledge? I want to thank
you once more for carrying that message in every way
imaginable to our hearts. The Reilly Mystic or the Mystic revealers,
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have you have done wonders for us? So I just
want to say thank you. Is that anybody that you
want to give thanks to or you want to give
any recognition to before we leave?
Speaker 3 (59:56):
Yeah, my new officeer beg up to management, Big up
to the more side guy who consider us and keep
us from that time until this time and continue.
Speaker 4 (01:00:05):
To inspire us to do his work. You know, want
to give thanks.
Speaker 3 (01:00:09):
To you to the Eye and the Eye Platform and
all the listeners who found it worthwhile to be tuning
and listening to on the words that we are putting
forward and lead them in the part all right, just
you know what I mean? Big up members at the
band are big up Lion, Revela, Nicki, Rimshat ozone Ian
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and and Rajid members at the band. Big up DJ
Sojah who is who also performed with us. You know,
give tanks on PRIs yeah man, and and tanks to
the world out there who still seek righteousness and and
the best of the music and what it has to offer.
Speaker 4 (01:00:52):
You know, Rasta.
Speaker 2 (01:00:54):
Lessons, Rastapi Eye and there you have it, Reggae enthusiastic
cold lovers of profound journey into the heart of roots
reggae when none other than Billy Mystic. We've explored the
incredible legacy of Mystic Revealers, a band that has stayed
true to the spirit of reggae, spreading messages of unity,
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justice and love across the globe. Billy Mystic's insights it
to not only the music, but also the movement behind reggae,
have been inspiring and enlightening. His passion and dedication continue
to pave the way for both seasoned and budding reggae
artists alike. As we wrap up this heartfelt conversation, we
would like to instand our deepest gratitude to Billy for
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sharing his wisdom and stories with us. Is artists like
Billy who reminds us of reggae's unyielding power as a
force for cultural revolution and connection. We hope we've been
inspired by today's interview and gained a deeper appreciation for
the transformative power of reggae music. Don't forget to follow
Mystic revealers journey and stay tuned to Reggae Hour for
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More and life for interviews with the voices shaping the past, present,
and future of reggae. Thank you for tuning in and
remember to keep the vibes positive. The message is strong
and the music playing until next time, one love, Billy Mystic.
Thank you so much, really it has been a pleasure.
Speaker 4 (01:02:19):
Thank that's all mind. It's sorry your time like that.
Speaker 5 (01:02:52):
Standing in the foot print. Who's been here before? Now?
Speaker 7 (01:02:57):
Just and I love my time, know us something more
spirit that lives on.
Speaker 5 (01:03:05):
Through every age and time. But like a thought, all
lot return on. Still laugh you buy your mind.
Speaker 8 (01:03:12):
In space and time, in space and time, space and time,
in space and time.
Speaker 5 (01:03:23):
Space and time, space and time, space, antime, space and time.
Speaker 9 (01:03:34):
So many men are falling and many men will rise.
Speaker 5 (01:03:40):
And many got a dream. I see it shining in
their eyes. But dreams are nothing new. We all have
dream before.
Speaker 7 (01:03:50):
But who can take that dream and make it something more?
Speaker 5 (01:03:55):
In their time?
Speaker 9 (01:03:59):
In there in the time, Well, let in the time,
in let time in that time, I let time.
Speaker 7 (01:04:17):
When your life is there before you, time is moving
on in just a little wild it's gonna.
Speaker 5 (01:04:26):
See your life is gone.
Speaker 7 (01:04:28):
So take your chance and make it into something that
will grow. Don't you let the evening, find you with
nothing there to show for a time.
Speaker 5 (01:04:41):
And fiott fire time, fiot.
Speaker 10 (01:04:48):
Time for your time, fot fire time, fiot so we said,
oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh
Speaker 5 (01:05:24):
Let's be said, Be said, speA
Today on Reggae Hour, were honoured to reason with a
true reggae revolutionary, a man whose voice, vision and vibration
have stretched across generations and oceans. He is the founding
voice of the legendary Mystic Revealers, a band birthed in
Bull Bay, Jamaica in the late seventies and rooted in
Rastafari resistance and righteous sound. From anthems like mashed Down
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Apartheid to performing alongside the Whalers Rita Marley, Freddie McGregor
and Moore. This man helped keep the fire of live
roots reggae burning even when dancehall ruled the airwaves. But
his talents stretch far beyond the stage. He's also a
surfing pioneer, a cultural activist, an actor, and the visionary
behind Jamaica's first international surf competition, Makapro. In twenty twenty,
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after surviving a devastating fire and rebuilding with his children
in a home studio known as Pond di Veranda, he
delivered a powerful album Jar Jar People, proving that roots
music still grows strong in the soil of experience and love.
This man is more than an artist. He's a cultural torch.
Bearer Reggae our family, help me welcome the line of Bulbet,
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the Teacher, the singer, the Mystic himself. Billy Mystic of
the Mystic Revealers welcome.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Listeners to another enlightening edition of the Reggae Our Podcast,
where we delve deep into the rhythms and messages that
define reggae music today. Today, we have the distinct honor
of introducing a true pioneer in the roots reggae scene,
a man whose leadership and vision have helped shape the
soundscape of reggae for over four decades. Billy Mystic, the
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frontman of the legendary Jamaican band Mystic Revealers, joins us
today to share insights from his destroydedary musical journey. Since
their formation in nineteen seventy seven, Mystic Revealers has been
at the forefront of roots reggae, earning a claim for
their authentic sounds that resonates with themes of love, peace
and justice. Known for powerful tracks such as Justice for
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the Poor and Righteous, their music has traveled far and wide,
impacting both grassroots communities and international fans alike. Billy Missy's
leadership and charismatic presence have been pivotal in steering the
band through the vibrant worlds of reggae. As a living
testament to the enduring spirit of reggae music, Billy continues
to inspire his with his contributions not only as a musician,
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but as a cultural advocate for social change. Get ready
to embark on a conversation that spans decades of reggae
history as we explore Billy Mystic's reflections on Mystic Revealer's legacy,
their influence on upcoming generations, and his personal journey within
the heart of reggae music. Relate to personally welcome to
you to Reggae Owl, Billy Mystic, how's your day going?
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Their man gives Tan san PRIs and I as bless
us that we would live to see this moment you know,
and share a good listeners and yourself you know, and
hopefully we will touch the art on my soul of
people who will go out into the world and make
it a bit of that place.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
You know. So give times for the opportunity on your platform.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
My brother, Yes, thank you for joining us on our platform.
It's artist like you that gives us an actual foundation
to be able to build a point so thank you
so much. Your music has been an inspiration for us.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
All thank you.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
All Right, with your roots in bull Bay, go back
to the late seventies, what did the early energy of
Mystic Revealers feel like back then? And how is your
creative process evolved from Winner to Ja Ja people.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Well, will be where we grow up.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
You know, it's about eight miles east of percent of Kingston,
so we are.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Not really we didn't really come up in.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
The so called reggae seed bed Richard Car like the
trench Stone or Ohs and those places. You know, we're
traditionally here about the home of reggae music.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
You know, we were in Bullbear.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
But where we grew up it was like sound system country,
you know, lots of sound systems would come through there
all the while very famous. A lot of dance are
in the community where we grew up, and we get
exposed to a lot of the music at that level.
So that's really where we get introduced to the real
reggae music because most of the real reggae music that
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was was produced at that time was producing inferior recording
situation and was not really heard on the radio. So
if you weren't close by rare, there was a sound
system playing the latest produced street music. You wouldn't really
have your finger on the pulse of what Jamaican music
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was saying and doing at the time. So luckily we
were in an era where the sound system played every week,
a different song system all of the note where the
sound systems played there, and we were exposed to that music,
you know, so we wanted to sing along and play along.
A couple of us had a couple of guitars and
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we started realizing we could create our own music and
write our own songs, and that's where it began, you know,
and went through like auditions to see where we could
get some recognition and how.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Could we break into the music industry.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Being the fact that we were not in the hometown
of the reggae music at the time, we were outside
of the city, how could we get in. We would
make checks into town to try and audition for different producers.
But eventually what it came down to was us realizing
that you have to believe in yourself and do it
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for yourself, because expecting people to do your favor to
get you into the music industries is not really likely
to happen. You know, and if people want to help
you in the music industry, a lot of the time
it could be to your detrimentals because there's a lot
of unscrupulous people fishing around in the music industry in
those days. So you know, luckily for us, we took
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it upon ourselves to develop the group and cut out
and one part doing our own recording, our own productions,
you know, And as a result of stepping out on
our own, we attracted attention and eventually pin cured a
good manager, got a recording deal, and the next thing,
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you know, we were fine running touring the world. So
it was a long journey, but it was strictly because
due to a great belief in ourselves, you know, that
we were able to do it. It wasn't until we
were quite our way along our career, maybe maybe five
ten years into our career, from day one, that we
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were actually able to start meeting major players in the
reggae industry.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
And we made.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Contact with Jimmy and Jimmy Cliff for someone who supported
or grow up in the early years and was one
of the our mentors, one who put out one of
our songs for us, mashed on a part time and
so I gave us a certain amount of legitimacy and
from there the goal more recordings until we were assigned
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by different record labels, international record labels, and I guess
the rest of it is history, you know.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Oh yeah, definitely history. You made history in the make
it right there now. I heard you say you talk
more about believing in yourself. Now when you started in
the seventies, that was it. It was its easy to
get into the industry as it is now now and
you could just flip open the phone and just start
recording it and upload to YouTube. With that being said,
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how much more courage or how much more work did
y'all have to do back there in the seventies that
people do not recognizing this day.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
In the age, well, making a record wasn't something you
could do in your bedroom at home. Obviously, you had
to be a recording studio. You had to be able
to record the music on a twenty four track tape
or two inch magnetic tape. Those were quite expensive. Not
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everybody had a machine that could spin on record a
two inch tape, so those were those locations were very rare.
They were probably only two or three locations on the island.
Where you could get that high quality of recording capacity ability.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
You'd have to.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Book those recording studios and it would then after you
record the song, it would have to be mixed and
it will be mixed down onto a quarta instep quarta
inch magnetic tape, which would then have to go to
the President to the stamp out factory where they take
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burn catta acetate and then use an electronic bath to
electric with electrolyte and electrolysis create a negative for the record,
which was then used taken to the pressing plant with
the labels that you designed and printed to be inserted
into the record. And you go to the pressing plant
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and you would take your stamp over you on and
it in and you would order your records were now
fifty twenty five, one hundred one fifteen thousands, depending how
much you were capable of pressing at the time to
get into circulation.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
You'll have to.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Press those and then you take them out and distribute
them around the island and around the world to the
reggae market, different recording studios. So it was quite a
big undertaking, you know. So it was brave of us
as youngsters to say okay, if no one want to
help us, We're gonna do it ourselves. And we ended
up taking it down and doing it to ourselves. And
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when people realize I was years we were I got
a chance to hero music and it started playing. People
realized that, Wow, there's really something to this group, you know.
And that's all we started broke into the more mainstream
of the Jamaican music industry. And I would say that
that's probably up and DOUBLET.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
I said, maybe in nineteen eighty nine, nineteen ninety.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
By that time we were we were basically inducted into
Jamaica's music fraternity.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
That's beautiful right there. See, that's just the work that
you had to put behind the music that y'all created
in order to be able to get it to be
distributed across Jamaica, let alone worldwide. But also the scenery,
the atmosphere, the social the social environment at that time
was very turbulent. I mean, when you made mash Down Aparthid,
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that was a bold statement at a time where it
was so much controversy going.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
On, rasta fire, iron and rage its creation.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
So last said I and I hi to dread this
month flat, y'all, y'all.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
Boy yeah, England. I don't believe in enoughbout time all
re minority. I think any one.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Who does must be sometime.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
We know what's wrong, and.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
I know that them all as long.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
But well weekend night and lash them time, lash them
down to me.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
To be back in South Africa.
Speaker 6 (11:56):
Make you listen, So come on, it's lay then just
as soon as we know it's from I know that.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Well, we give you, what gave you the courage to
make that record? And what responsibility do you feel reggae
is still hosing this global liberacious struggles today.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Well, when we were growing up, you know, we were
teenagers in the seventies and we heard about apartheid and
the wicked system that it was. But really and truly
we didn't realize that apartheid was a current event. I
really believe that apartheid was something like slavery that was
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abolished in eighteen hundreds. And when you're reading about apartheid,
you would believe that it's just a historic occurrence, that
you're reading about things that happened in the past. And
then when we realize that no, this is actually happening
in our time, you know, there was a big, a
big outcry about the apartheid system. Then in the early eighties,
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late seventies, early eighties, there was a lot of attention
on apartheid, and we got to realize that, no, this
is something that actually happened in our time. So we
felt so strongly about it that was put pen to
paper and fingers to instruments and voices to lyrics, and
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we actually made a song in protest of the apartheid system.
At that time, Jimmy Cliff was a lot protagonists for
the anti apartheid movement, and we know we're Jimmy Cliff
resided and we went to visit him and told him that,
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you know, we would love to do a song anti
aparthid song and if you would produce it for us.
So he said that we should make a demo of it.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
And give it to him. So he opened up his
recording studio.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
He had a small rehearsal recording studios, one in sixteen
track machine, and we.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Went in and we recorded a demo of the song.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
And when Jimmy Kiff came back off of tour and
represented him with the tape, he immediately asked Newton Mary
to go and cut the stamper for it. And pressed
the labels for it, and he put it out immediately
said they didn't need to be reproduced. The demo was excellent,
and he was the one who made contact with the
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African National Congress and was able to get the record
to them, and we received great accolades from them, received
a wonderful letter from them thanking us for our effort
and supporting the African National Congress the fight against apart time,
and we ended up Jimmy Kiffe ended up making arrangements
so that a percentage of their returns from the from
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the sales of the record were directed to the access
of the A and C, which was also greatly appreciated
and mentioned in the correspondence with us. So we were
very proud about that at that time, you know. So
it was a very terrible and time, and I mean
politics was rife, you know it is, but Mahalid Die,
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you know, there was lots of political strife and turmoil,
you know, so it was a time when there was
a lot to sing and talk about. So revealers did
just that, you know, lifted our vices, open our mouth
and allowed a lot to fill our moutied words and
we did our best to deliver his message, you know,
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And that's basically what it was about, you know. And
we didn't know where it was going. We didn't have
any ulti romotives. We just wanted to see what we
believed and what we think could make a difference in
the world. Once it was all there, you know, and
that was the motivation and the world tuy.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Yes, and y'all stuck to it. Like when it comes
to roots reggae music, your name comes up as much
as Bob Marley's, as much as Peter Tosh, as much
as Jimmy Cliff, as much as the great in this
because you are you're all one of the greats, you know.
So when you seen that Jamaican music was leaning towards
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the dance, saw the digital dance saw, you doubled down
on live roots music. And is that social justice? What
inspired you to swim against the current and what did
that cost to reward you as artists?
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Well, I think that reggae music was experience in a crisis.
The fact that Bob Marley was in his headay and
just taking reggae music to the heights, that that it's
potential demonstrated and losing Bob Miley right in the midst
of that, and there was no obvious air to the throne,
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and there was a big rush in the Jamaican music
fraternity as who is going to hold the forefront, who
can fill the shoes of Bob Marley, and likely no
one was found worthy to be put forward. The music
industry in Jamaica couldn't. There wasn't a clear air to
the throne. So the danceaul genre was becoming very popular
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at the time, but the international marketplace is usually a
few years behind the pulse. The finger is not on
the pulse of Jamaican music, you know, there are a
few years behind, So what's happening in Jamaica doesn't really
make it to the international stage until probably two or
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three years later. So when Bob Mahl was taken out
in mid battle and they had to find somebody immediately
to put in in that space, it was what was
then on the street and what looked likely to be
the next big thing, which was dance ale and King
yellow Man and all that type of genre. So immediately
that was sort of put up. It was King yellow
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Man now, and it was like, yeah, we're not doing
reggae anymore, We're doing danceall.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
This is a new thing and the world need to
get used to it, you know. But that was never
the way we viewed it.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
That was never our vision of what message music should be.
Because the dancehall music at the time wasn't very progressive
and wasn't very very uplifting. The message of it was
pretty much realistic and pretty much very kind and at
the time, you know, it was about.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Girl and badman and gonam money and.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Them type of thing there. So it was we couldn't
swim with that current. We would have to go against
our current like that, you know, we could not be
a part of that. That was never what our inspiration was.
And we were not panicked by the last of bab
Malec as we know that where one will file, anymore
will rise, you know, and we were ready to step
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up and continue doing the music that we believed in,
delivering the message that we felt was necessary, unrelevant to
the time we were in, and we kept on doing
it and the people appreciated it all the way upon.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Of the nineties.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Oh yeah, and even till this day, I means reggae
is it never went away. It probably lost a little
bit of popularity, but the popularity is coming back with
people being like they see the difference between dance all
and reggae, even the ones who was introduced to reggae
through dance all. I know a lot of a lot
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of my fans they talk about, uh, they'll talk about
chronics and people who make kind of dance hall like music.
But if you listen to the core, the message, the
message is roots and their music can be played with
a band like And you've toured the world and shared
stages with legends, I mean like Freddie McGregor and Ziggy
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Marley like you, like, how would you have seen that?
How would they have felt to be on the stage
with them and knowing that the king of reggae hasn't
been fulfilled yet and you all are just bringing your
own How was that experience?
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Yeah, it was a wonderful experience, you know. But as
we said, we were just delivering our message. We weren't
thinking of who is going to be heir to the throne.
We were just doing our music. We accepted the fact
that we were who we were and our message was
what our message was, and we wanted our message to
be clear and concise, and we wanted to be known
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as the mystic.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Revealers, you know, our own value, and not.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
As mystic revealers a potential applicant for the position of
heir to the tron. You know, we weren't really edding
in that direction. We were just coming up with new music.
Wanted to produce the next album and moving forward, wanted
to get on tour, wanted to get in front of
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international audience to present our message.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
And that was really what it was.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
The objective was to get our message through the ears
of the people who needed to hear it, you know,
So that's what it was really for us. You know,
we weren't really thinking in terms of a competition for
the number one seat in the regular fraternity. You know,
we were just doing all look apart, you.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Know, keeping it pure. That's how you definitely keep it pure,
because whenever people start looking for power and looking for
success and money and fame, that could terminates the message
because now it's like you're putting anything together to try
to make sure that it goes viral or something of
that nature. Now, but you drop with pon Veranda Studio
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and the musical contributions of your children, what kind of
sound the messages being birthed for the next generation of
Mystic Revealers.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
Well, it's the same. The message is the same, you know. Obviously,
beats will change. Music gets faster or slower.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
If it's been played slow for a long time, then
something fast will sound refreshing and vice versa.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
You know, So and the beats change. You know.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Reggae is is different than mental, which is different Iraq steady,
which is different than Dan sal which is different afro beat,
which is different than than reggaeton. You know, but there
are certain aspects of similarity. So what we recognize as
the most important thing is the message.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
What is it the music is saying.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
You know, It's not like if you say this music
over R and B beat, it's not good, But it's
good when you put the same message over reggae roots,
reggae beat. I don't believe in that, you know. I
believe whatever is the vehicle to get to the message
to the people. So the people love rap music. I
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would love some rap band to do over we record
Mystic Revella's message in high rock, acid rock or whatever
is the latest aspect of rap, and take our message
and apply it to their genre of music so that
their audience could receive the message that we are saying.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
We love that. I would love that.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
I'm not just saying reggae is the only way. I'm
just saying reggae is our only way. That's mystic Revella's
only way. We are a reggae band, you know, so
respect us as a reggae band doing the works are
the most sides stuff are, right, majesty.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
I you know I'm doing it and making it.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Real in the world because we are the ones who
took the thought and made it manifest in music. So
you know that is what we really look for, you know,
for the music to continue with the powerful message of
them justice, morality, and love.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
You know that's what we want. Peace. These are the
things we cry find our music, and we reached that
all music would be crying out for these things.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Right exactly. And the respect y'all have earned, so we
definitely give you that.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
You've done.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Now when it goes to listening to your music on
a world stage, it is blatant what you what your
what your message is. It is comes comes across clearest
day peace, love, redemption, retribution, justice, honor, freedom, all just
great qualities all around. But you have actually experienced some
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hardships in your life, such as after your house fire
and the loss of your archives. What did you learn
about impermanence, resilience and finding inspiration and ruins.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Well, what I learned, you know, is that life continuing,
you know, And the greatest thing is to have life,
you know, because when you have no life, then you
can do nothing, and you can influence nothing, and you
can achieve nothing. In real life, life is the most
important thing because if you have life, you can start
from zero, because life began at zero and it developed
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to where we know it is now.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
So life are the most important thing, you know.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
So yes, we lost I personally lost a lot of
my historical data about my career, which which went on
to prove to me that, you know, these material things
could not be what my.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
Life's effort was worth. My life's effort was worth.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
The amount of people that the message touched and the
amount of people who are influenced in a positive way
and encourage, you know, the amount of the amount of
moments that it brought satisfaction, our solace, our joy to
the listeners. You know, this is a real value, not
the fact that I have the first recording and I
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have the original tapes, and I have the first CD,
and I have the first forty five, and I have
all of these material things that I am hanging on
to kind of justify myself and put up value to
myself by these material things that I can go into
a room and open a box or a cupboard and
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look at them, pick them up, feel them, touch them.
You know, it taught me that even though those things
feel so special and precious to you, they really are nothing.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
You know, they're just material things.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
So it's only the spiritual thing that really matter. Did
your sound touch someone in a positive way? This is
encourage them to make a change for the better. Did
it tause them to reflect on their own self and
what they have done and demand better from themselves and
take it on to do what is necessary to manifest
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that change for the better? You know, that is a
real victory if your sons and message can cause even
one individual to do that. So these are the things
that were really realized from losing a lot of material possessions.
You know, realize that that's not the that's not the thing,
because after the house burned down, it was all those
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people that we had touched our music, with the love
that we shared with the with the good wishes we
held for other people throughout the time.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
People will reshout and assisted.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Those are the people who came back and assisted us.
Those are the people who bring a ten bag, a
cement for me. I bring a wheel bar around four shovel.
I get me a discount at the ideo store to
buy the metal sheeting for the roof. I get me
a deal at the lumber company to get the groove
and tongue for the floor and out of the ceiling,
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you know, to get it, get it at that rate,
you know, discounted red to make it possible for us
to go forward. And these are the things that music
and what we believe in has really done for us
in the real of thinking.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
You know.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
So that's really what I learned from that loss and
that tragedy, you know, and that as long as life
is spared, that is the greatest.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
And I love how you said that it didn't it
didn't matter that you had the forty five or the
first cut of these records. You you actually have left
imprints on people's lives when they first hear your music.
You know, there's people who was going through turmoil in
their life. Somebody introduced them to a mystic Revealer song
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and it just made it just had clarity for him,
It made sense. Their life just came together and it
changed their whole outlook on life. That right there, that's
so saving. Right there, that's life saving. And like, I
just keep listening to your music and thinking about the beach.
And we know that you're a surfer and we know
that Bruce Lee says that we all can learn from water. Well,
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you've built the Jamaican surfing scene and meant your children
in it. Like what does the ocean teach you that
still guides your music and your message.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Well, the ocean teacher humility, respect, you know, and it
keeps me in awe of its power and beauty, you
know the fact that it's it can be so different.
It can be calm and peaceful, or it can be
rough and angry.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
You know.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
It can be teasingly enticing. It can be dark and mysterious.
You know, it can be scary. You know, it's like
a living It's like a living entity. It's not just
like a bottle of water on a shelf. It has
a life to it, you know, and it makes you
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realize that when you're surfing, you're sitting in the water
and you don't face the land. When you're surfing, you
face out to sea waiting for a wave to come,
waiting for an opportunity to come from over.
Speaker 4 (29:59):
The horizon to come towards you.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
And you see it approaching, and you try to paddle
to be in the best position to benefit from the
wave that is coming. So you have to prepare yourself
as it approaches you. And as it approaches you, you
get into position and you try your best to make
an effort, because it takes an effort to catch a wave,
so you have to put out an exert effort in
know that to catch the wave. And if you put
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out enough effort, you will indeed catch a wave and
be able to rise to your feet and ride and
the power of the wave not needing your power anymore,
but harnessing the power of the wave to move forward
and towards the shore and towards the ultimate destination, you know.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
So it's like life is like that too.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
You know, you're learning you're going out there to surf
one day and you're going to position yourself out of
the wave.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
But it didn't start there.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
It started from the first day you were on a surfboard,
and the first day you were able to rise to
your feet, from the first day you were able to
turn the surfboard left and right, and the first day
you were able to catch a wave on your own.
You know, the fact that you get to the point
where you are surfing now, you know, you open up
your mind and your heart and your memory and your
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soul and you realize that it's a long term thing,
but it's at this point in time your experience in
the highest form of it, your experience in the joy
and the glory of it. And that's what makes you
realize that the journey before and the effort that you
are put in over the time previously was definitely worth
it to make this moment, this present now worth the
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while because you are reaping the benefit of the things
of the seeds you have sought and the efforts that
you have invested. You know, now you can catch the way,
Now you can stand, Now you can ride it all
the way to shore and enjoy the spirit and the
movement of the ocean.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
You know.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
So that's what what really teach me to you know,
it's strengthed my conviction, you know, in life, and that
we know there is a God and is perfect, and
he's the creator of all things, and he's the king
of things and a.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
Lot you know.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
So all these things are there more things that proved
to me that this world is that the accident or
something beautiful and magnificent and created by the hand of
something much greater than you know.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Yes, that's a beautiful way to explain it, because the
just the body of water itself is such a such
a divine presence that we we really don't we don't
grasp how emotional that it can make us. In like
I said, just being out there and listening to the
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music and watching the water lapp but you listening to
the music and listening to the water at the same time,
it's like instruments that's just playing the perfect ballad, the
perfect melody, And there's only one being that can actually
create that kind of music like that, and we all emulate,
or we try to be like that being in making
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our own music, which that being loves, which the Father
loves in itself, you know what I'm saying, And he
loves to hear our music. And with that mindset, would
you say that that mindset is what gives you the
peace throughout anything that you do, whether it's going through
a house fire, or whether it's cutting a record and
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trying to secure the funding for the record, or any
aspect of your life. Would you say that that that
kind of piece there is where is Zoos from?
Speaker 4 (33:25):
Well, you know, I the thing that keeps me strong,
you know, is.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
Really knowing that Gai is with me, and the world
is is underworld, and I opened my eyes and he
fills it with emotion and encouragement, and he opens my
eyes to what it is is that is they're coming
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of me?
Speaker 4 (33:57):
What? What?
Speaker 3 (33:58):
What is it that you expect of me? You know,
this is what really keep me going. You know when
I sometimes I feel the press, I have to realize
that I'm not as great as I would love to be.
There's a fall and shot in the eyes of the
mosside because he's so wonderful and magnificent, and I am
but a grain of sun compare to him. And I
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have many faults and many things. You know, there's many
difficulties sometimes you face, you face tribulation, you face challenges
that sometimes maybe they they overcome your situation. You'll be
the loser in the situation, you know, and life is
not about just having everything go the right way.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
Life is about managing with the situation.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
When it doesn't go the right way, you know when
to not be defeated, because it's easy to be successful.
Speaker 4 (34:53):
It's easy. Victory is easy.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
When you have victory, there's no problem, there's no heartache,
there's no kind fusion, there's no sorrow, there's none of
these negative aspects in victory. So if life is just
gonna be eternally victory, then you have nothing.
Speaker 4 (35:10):
To work worry about. What you have to worry about.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
In the reality of life is life is not eternal
and always his a history of victory, sometimes up, sometimes down.
Let's see victory and defeat, happiness, sadness. So it is
always objective and it's always incumbent on you to try
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and find the solution as how to deal with the negative,
with the sorrow, with the pain, with the disappointment. That
is what the strength is needed for. The strength is
not needed for the victory. Victory comes easy because victory
is in the and of the most like God, and
he will need it in a way that.
Speaker 4 (35:55):
He his fit.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
So victory is not even in our and victory is
just because we are confident in the victory of good
or evil. That's why we have confidence in the victory.
But what about defeat? What about disappointment? So the real
solution and the real answer to a positive and uplifting
life is the life in which one can handle defeat,
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can put the disappointment in a container and neutralize it
and learn from it to make the next battle a
positive one, a victorious one. So that is one of
the main thing, you know, learn to under defeat, learn
to manage your depression, learn to look on the bright
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side of life.
Speaker 4 (36:43):
What next, I think? What what next? What next? What next?
Speaker 3 (36:47):
Where am I going? What is the endgame? What is
How will I know when I've achieved? What it is
that that is here to achieve? From this undertaking, you know,
these things will keep you untacked and give your strength
to go to know.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
Yes, blessed, that is the definitely the best way to
put that.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
You know.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
Uh, we all get caught up in the day to day.
We get caught up in what's on the news, We
get caught up in what people are telling us. We
get caught up in all these wars, all these turmoils,
and we just keep forgetting that it's all got to
be conquered one day and good will always triumph in
the end. And if you know this, it's like seeing
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that tunnel. The light at the end of the tunnel,
you know is coming, So just keep pushing, Just keep
on pushing. Now, I know that you launched your Jamaican
Unphetic herb company. Is that also something that you promote
to people that helped them to keep pushing towards that
light at the end of the tunne?
Speaker 4 (37:48):
Yes, you know.
Speaker 3 (37:49):
Well, we're still producing the We're still producing the tap
on the counter treatment on the double row. You know,
we're still producing the time we make can it available
to people in need?
Speaker 4 (38:02):
You know, we give out quite a large.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
I would say probably more than sixty percent of our
production is given to people in need for the treatment
of their cancels and so and and we have got
a lot of success.
Speaker 4 (38:15):
So this is kind of a quiet thing, you know,
This is.
Speaker 3 (38:19):
Just doing what a lot want us to do to
help those less fortunate than ourselves, you know. So we're
still on it, you know, but we can't lose anything
in our earth is a lot and the fullness thereof
you know, and they and then that well the're in.
So we know that we belong to the lad and
everything that happens is only for a moment, you know,
because it's now will continue forever more until the load
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seet fit to bring us home, you know. So we
give tanks. Still we're not we're not perplexed, you know, worried.
You know, we we we we have full confidence in
the victory.
Speaker 4 (38:53):
So you know, we we know who it is.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
That we represent and who represent us, you know, So
we give tan some pretsire, you know. And what doesn't
work today may work tomorrow, and what doesn't work tomorrow
can work on the end of the year, or in
the beginning of the following year, or in the in
the next.
Speaker 4 (39:11):
Few minutes, all right now, you know.
Speaker 3 (39:14):
So we have confident that that will make it all
happen when easy is fit, and we will be there
for the glorification of it.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
You know, facts, facts that I hear that now do
you see Ganja culture like transforming not only like business,
but also consciousness and help in Jamaica and beyond.
Speaker 4 (39:35):
Yes, to see the irth thing changing a lot.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
You have a lot of what I would say, people
because at one time, you know, ganza was that thing
where in Jamaica them safe, you're small, guns make your mad.
So it wasn't always socially acceptable, you know, Ganja was
always socially acceptable in Jamaica. The society and the state,
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USCO and the upper echalons of Jamaican and society, we're
very much against marijuana, even though they would use it
for themselves. But because it was seen as a negative thing,
as an illegal thing and associated with the ghetto life
of the Rastafarian people, it was out lowed, you know,
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so it wasn't really accepted. But what you see now
in this present day, know that the criminalization of people
for the use of marijuana is starting to wane. We
find that a lot more of the established up exchcealons
of this of the economic society in Jamaica are now
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able to partake without any any any negative, any negative
reaction to the fact that they are doing it. Now
it's okay for a young teenager, a young adolescent person
to experiment and be used in marijuana, even even uptown
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in Jamaica. You know, it is more acceptable now, so
a lot more people are using it. But what I've
noticed is that the manner in which it is used.
Speaker 4 (41:16):
It is being used not as.
Speaker 3 (41:19):
An aid for one's consciousness and to get an Eigehn
meditation and to get closer to the almighty. But it's
more seen as a recreational drug now and one that
is used for social interaction and that sort of thing.
It's like a party drug that people use. Oh, you
go everywhere, you go to the bar, you go to
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the club. Now everybody is breaking out a parcel of
this wicked weed and the strongest weed.
Speaker 4 (41:44):
And it's very very and it's.
Speaker 3 (41:46):
Diesel and this cripp and gurrillan, this donkey backbone.
Speaker 4 (41:52):
And whatever they name it. You know, they have all of.
Speaker 3 (41:55):
These new and which one is the strongest one and
which one can incapacitate you more, and that type of thing.
Whenever I wasn't that in the beginning, marijuana smoking was
to get closer to the almighty, you know.
Speaker 4 (42:08):
Right, was to see high consciousness, you know.
Speaker 3 (42:12):
But now with the modernization and the availability, unfortunately, I've noticed.
Speaker 4 (42:18):
That the real purpose and use of the marijuana has
moved from.
Speaker 3 (42:23):
Spiritual health spiritual to recreational genre, you know.
Speaker 4 (42:30):
And I've been disappointed about that.
Speaker 3 (42:32):
But it is also more readily available for the people,
because you still have people in the society who are
seeking righteousness and looking for that meditation, so it's available
for them.
Speaker 4 (42:44):
Also, about the most apparent.
Speaker 3 (42:48):
Result of the marijuana system now is that there's a
lot more recreational use of the plant.
Speaker 2 (42:58):
Right and now only there's more recreational use of the plant,
but it's also strains of the plant that are being
genetically modified that doesn't farewell when you're putting it in
your system. You know, a lot of these people are
actually getting addicted, like terribly addicted to these these chemicals
they're putting in the plant, and they're having mood swings
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and things of that nature when they can't get get
their hands on it. It's almost like it's a whole
nother drug in itself. Now, Like, what kind of advice
can you give to people when it comes to the
ganja culture to be able to utilize it or get
the full benefit of it instead of just letting it
put them asleep.
Speaker 4 (44:57):
Well, you want to use you.
Speaker 3 (45:00):
Self introspection, you know what I mean, That's what it's
all about. Nobody knows where we are falling short better
than we ourselves. No one knows the disappointing behavior we
practice more than ourself. No one understands our shortcomings more
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than we do. No one knows the error of our
ways like we know. It's just a matter of being
honest to yourself, you know, And we're not afraid to
accept the fact that sometimes you're around, sometimes you are
to blame. Sometimes you are the guilty party. Sometimes you
are the third party in the conversation. You are the
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one causing the obstorance and encouraging the negative energy because
of your presence, are because of your contributes and to
the situation. And sometimes you are doing that just because
you have Maybe you are not as compassonate enough as
you should be consider other people's feelings and other people
in the situation and how your achance make other people feel,
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because you know, sometimes we already these things.
Speaker 2 (46:09):
You know, these are the things you needed to seek.
Speaker 3 (46:13):
And when you find those things inside yourself and find
that I am not perfic and I would like to
be as close to perfect and go about making that
kind of crisis, making that thing, that distriction, you know,
trying to reach those goals. But acceptance of your prosperity,
the self seeking righteousness and doing that which is good love,
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and you're.
Speaker 4 (46:37):
Feeling your position.
Speaker 3 (46:38):
And when the gloss on the flat flat, however, you
see that you know we were creating by the Almighty,
and it is our duty to be pleasing in his side.
Then everybody is supposed to know what to do when
we are to go, because you don't need somebody to
tell you that you did some in unkind. When you
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do something unkind, you are aware that you're in the
actual act of committing an unkind action.
Speaker 4 (47:08):
You know that in yourself.
Speaker 3 (47:11):
If you don't know when you're being unkind, it must
mean I must have some kind of mental condition or
some illness, some some psychological uh situation has stee it
that that you're not responsible for your own thinking. But
as long as you a normal human being, you know
when you've hurt someone. You know when you've said something unkind.
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You know when you have said something to said someone.
You know when it's in a Jamaica, I could say
you step on.
Speaker 4 (47:38):
Them, cand you know when you do it. So you
are the.
Speaker 3 (47:43):
First judge of your actions. You are the first one
who can set it straight. You are the one who
knows when an apology is necessary.
Speaker 4 (47:53):
Or required.
Speaker 3 (47:53):
You know, you know when you should go to the
person say by gee, M sorry about the other day
and the boy made the upset and no sub miss
Some things we never you never deserve a year out
of my amor all of them was driven by by
jealousyr by by here, by envy, r by greed. If
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you can't looking at yourself as I'm jealous, envious, greedy,
my bad mind.
Speaker 4 (48:20):
If you can't find those things in yourself, then you're
just fooling yourself.
Speaker 3 (48:23):
Better, you understand, you have to seeking in tear of
your heart and identified where it is and rip it
out and do as all you can to negate it
and neutralize it. You know, see it, and that is
all you're gonna become a better person. That is the
way you're going to become a better person by wanting
to be a better person, identifying the negative in yourself
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and by jetting that negative, grabbing it at the throat
and tearing it out and discarding it and removing it
from your way of thinking and your way of it.
Speaker 4 (49:00):
Let me see.
Speaker 3 (49:01):
So these are the things where each and everyone can do.
And we try to profess these messages and through our
music as a mystic of real as you know, and
as a songwriter and lead vocalists a mystic myself, I
try my best to say true to that even in
the midst of child and try relation and the acknowledgement
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that even myself I am not perfect, and I have
to give myself a liqu of room and a low
one for my imperfection and a look at time for
me to repent and bring my repentance to reality. You know,
in all the lookut things that we can identify that
we have done, you.
Speaker 4 (49:41):
Know, stuff.
Speaker 2 (51:35):
Beautiful, beautiful, exactly right there. That's the message that the
world needs to actually be able to hear. It starts
with the person in the mirror. You gotta be able
to take accountability. And in twenty twenty five you got
in the world that's shaken by war, injustice and division.
What does job, job people mean to you?
Speaker 3 (51:56):
Now? It means what's always meant. Judge of people is
just ongoing. It started with the young revolution areas until
it became ja works, then it became space and time,
then it became this one's for a job, and now
we are in judge of people time, you know. And
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the message has always been the same it has always
been an encouragement. We only see at this time, at
this point in time, how close we are to the
fulfillment of the revelation of its imperial this works, revelation
of the reality of Christ, of the Christ who shed
his blood for us, the revelation of the work of
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the rising of the beasts in this time, the revelation
of the works of the almighty martyrs coming together and
standing up and speaking out for righteousness, you know, and
we will see all of the things that revelation and
the Bible has told us is going to and the
kronas that is.
Speaker 4 (53:00):
Going to happen, because we are all one people.
Speaker 3 (53:03):
There's only one God, and he's the God of us all,
you know, and his words shall never fear and never diminish.
So it is just whether or not we will. We
will have the glory and the joy to live to
see the fulfillment of the manifestation of the revelation. But
here we are in twenty twenty five realizing that it's
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so much closer. There is so much things that we
read in the Bible that are now manifest in reality
of life and society amongst us, that when we read
them back in the seventies and the sixties as young
youths reading our Bible, it sounded like, yes, we believe
these things will happen, but it looks so far off
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in the future that we believe we would never have
lived to see these things. And here we are in
this era realizing all of these revelations coming to pass.
So we see Judge of People album as the album
with the message for the people to encourage them to
be the best that they can be, but the glorification
and the most high, you know. So we try to
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put something but each and everyone in that album and
all that people listen to it carefully consider the message
in the words and see all bestly can influence their
life become more positive and oblique experience.
Speaker 2 (54:21):
Yes, sir, now a lot of people we agree with
joy did. Signs are very blatant. We are definitely in
the end times, and a lot of people are contributing
the changing of the leadership at the Vatican with the
Pope changing from Pope Francis to Pope Leo as one
of the signs that we are close. Would you say
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that's a sign that you would you say that's something
you believe in?
Speaker 4 (54:48):
Right?
Speaker 2 (54:48):
There that that is a sign towards the end.
Speaker 3 (54:52):
Yes, man, everything that is happening, because we know that
that the word of the Lord is real.
Speaker 5 (54:59):
We know that.
Speaker 3 (55:00):
Anything we see happening now we just have to look
and see where was it mentioned, because anything that happened
now is going to be assigned and going to be
proof of the manifestation of revelation opening because we are
in these times. So everything that nothing will be happening
just by a chance. The pope dead in this time
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is not by a chance, and your pope elected him
come up is not by a chance. The name of
the pope who is elected is the same. Is the
carry on from the one who bless Mosolin need to
go into Ethiopia. He was the last Leo pop the
thirteenth and the fourteenth. So there's a lot of everything.
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We have to look take note of everything that is happening,
and nothing is happening that shouldn't have happened. Anything that
happened is what was determined to happen. So we know
that what is happening is current and real and necessary.
Speaker 2 (55:57):
You know, yes, definitely, definitely. I mean it's a lot happening,
so and it's a lot happening so fast the youth. Uh,
they they are not even given a chance to learn
about this before at boom it happens. Like what is
something that you can a message that you can give
to the youth before we asked the break off that
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you can help.
Speaker 4 (56:19):
Them is to live righteous Lena.
Speaker 3 (56:21):
All we can't tell you it is to do good enough,
live righteous Lena. Become passionate, do unto others as you
would have them do unto you. We consider it of
those less fortunate than yourself.
Speaker 4 (56:32):
Do a good deed today.
Speaker 3 (56:34):
You know, these are the things we can't tell We
can't tell them nothing else. We can't tell them not else,
And seek first the kingdom. I've got it on all
things will be added on to you.
Speaker 4 (56:42):
We can't tell them no more than righteously.
Speaker 3 (56:45):
With with with conviction of spirit, for the glorification the
almighty creative on earth.
Speaker 4 (56:52):
You know, these are the things we can tell them.
We can't tell them anything more. It's up to them.
Speaker 3 (56:55):
It's incumbent on them to do the right thing, to
think the right thought, to take the right action, to
put the right foot forward, to choose the right part.
Ask the questions within yourself, what do you want Do
you want to be one of His chosen?
Speaker 4 (57:18):
If so, then.
Speaker 3 (57:18):
Seek all the ways and the part that is going
to lead to that reality of being chosen, that reality
of being with him, the reality of sharing in the
glory and receiving the pressures, victory, reward. You know these
are the things because we know not what tomorrow brings.
(57:39):
So let us do what we can so that if
the instant come upon us suddenly, we would still be
found worthy and glorious to receive His blessing and his
forgiveness and his salvation. That is what we have to do,
you know what I mean. And you have to be
like a knee jerking it. You have to get it
to be like just like wake up in the brush
(58:00):
my teeth, wash my face, get something to eat.
Speaker 4 (58:03):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (58:04):
You have to say, do right, Just wake up in
the morning, say a prayer, Give tanks to Ja for life.
Speaker 4 (58:11):
Ask him to guide me and care.
Speaker 3 (58:12):
For me and my loved ones, and keep me out
of the hands of those who wish.
Speaker 4 (58:18):
Evil upon me.
Speaker 3 (58:19):
Guide and protect me, Guide and protect those who I love.
Speaker 4 (58:22):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (58:24):
Go out into the world. Look for whenever the opportunity
to present itself for.
Speaker 4 (58:28):
You to do good. Seize it with more and do
as good as you can.
Speaker 3 (58:32):
You know, this is why we have for telling you
that they after wanting in themselves, I'm not going to
be able to give it to them.
Speaker 2 (58:41):
That's the truth in his whole essence right there. You
definitely got to get it yourself. Even the Bible that
said that no man will be held accountable for what
another man does, so you only will be judged on
your works. We have to get our works in. We
have to start pushing forward to a better the Martin.
If we want to make it to the new heaven
(59:01):
and the new Earth. We have to build for that
new heaven and a new Earth. Now we cannot take
our old ways into the new future. So definitely great words,
great uplifting motivation. The youth definitely needs to hear that.
And I'm so happy that you decided to put it
here on our reggae, our platform so we can get
(59:23):
it out there to them, because that's exactly what we do.
Like one of my favorite artists said, while am I
wasting time with these adults when it's all these children
out here that needs this knowledge? I want to thank
you once more for carrying that message in every way
imaginable to our hearts. The Reilly Mystic or the Mystic revealers,
(59:46):
have you have done wonders for us? So I just
want to say thank you. Is that anybody that you
want to give thanks to or you want to give
any recognition to before we leave?
Speaker 3 (59:56):
Yeah, my new officeer beg up to management, Big up
to the more side guy who consider us and keep
us from that time until this time and continue.
Speaker 4 (01:00:05):
To inspire us to do his work. You know, want
to give thanks.
Speaker 3 (01:00:09):
To you to the Eye and the Eye Platform and
all the listeners who found it worthwhile to be tuning
and listening to on the words that we are putting
forward and lead them in the part all right, just
you know what I mean? Big up members at the
band are big up Lion, Revela, Nicki, Rimshat ozone Ian
(01:00:33):
and and Rajid members at the band. Big up DJ
Sojah who is who also performed with us. You know,
give tanks on PRIs yeah man, and and tanks to
the world out there who still seek righteousness and and
the best of the music and what it has to offer.
Speaker 4 (01:00:52):
You know, Rasta.
Speaker 2 (01:00:54):
Lessons, Rastapi Eye and there you have it, Reggae enthusiastic
cold lovers of profound journey into the heart of roots
reggae when none other than Billy Mystic. We've explored the
incredible legacy of Mystic Revealers, a band that has stayed
true to the spirit of reggae, spreading messages of unity,
(01:01:15):
justice and love across the globe. Billy Mystic's insights it
to not only the music, but also the movement behind reggae,
have been inspiring and enlightening. His passion and dedication continue
to pave the way for both seasoned and budding reggae
artists alike. As we wrap up this heartfelt conversation, we
would like to instand our deepest gratitude to Billy for
(01:01:37):
sharing his wisdom and stories with us. Is artists like
Billy who reminds us of reggae's unyielding power as a
force for cultural revolution and connection. We hope we've been
inspired by today's interview and gained a deeper appreciation for
the transformative power of reggae music. Don't forget to follow
Mystic revealers journey and stay tuned to Reggae Hour for
(01:01:59):
More and life for interviews with the voices shaping the past, present,
and future of reggae. Thank you for tuning in and
remember to keep the vibes positive. The message is strong
and the music playing until next time, one love, Billy Mystic.
Thank you so much, really it has been a pleasure.
Speaker 4 (01:02:19):
Thank that's all mind. It's sorry your time like that.
Speaker 5 (01:02:52):
Standing in the foot print. Who's been here before? Now?
Speaker 7 (01:02:57):
Just and I love my time, know us something more
spirit that lives on.
Speaker 5 (01:03:05):
Through every age and time. But like a thought, all
lot return on. Still laugh you buy your mind.
Speaker 8 (01:03:12):
In space and time, in space and time, space and time,
in space and time.
Speaker 5 (01:03:23):
Space and time, space and time, space, antime, space and time.
Speaker 9 (01:03:34):
So many men are falling and many men will rise.
Speaker 5 (01:03:40):
And many got a dream. I see it shining in
their eyes. But dreams are nothing new. We all have
dream before.
Speaker 7 (01:03:50):
But who can take that dream and make it something more?
Speaker 5 (01:03:55):
In their time?
Speaker 9 (01:03:59):
In there in the time, Well, let in the time,
in let time in that time, I let time.
Speaker 7 (01:04:17):
When your life is there before you, time is moving
on in just a little wild it's gonna.
Speaker 5 (01:04:26):
See your life is gone.
Speaker 7 (01:04:28):
So take your chance and make it into something that
will grow. Don't you let the evening, find you with
nothing there to show for a time.
Speaker 5 (01:04:41):
And fiott fire time, fiot.
Speaker 10 (01:04:48):
Time for your time, fot fire time, fiot so we said,
oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh
Speaker 5 (01:05:24):
Let's be said, Be said, speA
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