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TIL: That in Damian Marley’s Welcome To Jamrock, the line “Out in the street they call it murder” they don’t say murder but merther, which denotes the trance like state you reach when smoking weed and listening to reggae. The line it self is actually a sample from Ini Kamoze’s World A Music.

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