there is an infamous video that's been circulating on the intarwebs since it was resurrected a few years ago with cutty ranks performing in jamaica back in 1986. i thought cutty was improvising and deejaying from the top of his head but i later found out that he was doing a variation of his debut single "gunman lyrics".
this song has been done as a "cleaner" (?) version as "fishman lyrics" or "insect lyrics" as he calls it the first run on the video. it's all good but it took me a while to enjoy "gunman lyrics"/"fishman lyrics" on the original "things and time" riddim since selector ansill cuts up the sleng teng riddim in a way that's just awesome.
it also had to do cutty ranks really goes in for it and that constipation face and ants in the pants dance brings the overall experience to a whole different level. i know i'm probably the umpteenth person to write about this one but i don't care. every one has to see this video, hear this song and so and so on.
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also, part of the performance as seen on the video can be found as "intro: live at skateland (1986)" from the same compilation you can get "gunman lyrics", "limb by limb", "a who seh me dun" (known to most as the "six million way to die, choose on" tune) and all his other classics
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