I hate you and myself. "I need to pick myself up. I really try". The beast of past ghosts, falling, leaves the improvised scene!

The word "Raggae" means regular, regular rhythm tending to hypnotize and put the listener into a trance (trans).

Image: Apocalyptic and Dionysian.

Massimo Tartaglia, but when he sings he lets himself go, dances in front of the problems and the stuttering disappears, his voice becomes seductive, freeing itself in the air like the song of birds, and each time he starts anew. He used to shut himself at home, sitting awkwardly on a chair, spending hours in a chat, seeking out an uninhibited eighteen-year-old to strip for him in front of the webcam, until one day he met Peter.

Peter was never his idol, also because his "god Jah" was Bob Nesta Marley, and through his hypnotizing melodies, he spread the "shanty" (good news) to his friends who took him for a madman. They were the crazy ones with a 100-euro watch on their wrist. Zyon and Babylon for his peers were surreal and meaningless revelries, but for him, they represented reality, a distorted but clean reality, where the first thing was to let yourself go with the music. He grew up between "Africa Unite" and "Ride Natty Ride", becoming aware of the existential differences in people, learning that the world was deceitful and vile, like the people living in it. Peter Tosh, apart from playing with Bob Marley in The Wailers, managed to create something of his own, and this Massimo understood when he first saw one of his concerts in the Rastafarian temples, with the lion of Judah talisman, with the herb instrument in hand, and the intoxicating melodies accessible to all believers present. From that moment Peter Tosh with "I'am What I'am" and "Pick My Self Up", introduced him to a new sphere of knowledge fully applicable to life.

Image: Lord Jah, Babylon is burning and follow down. (Inform yourselves).

Indeed, if Bob Marley had made compromises with the Western world that wanted him and all his predecessors as slaves while he sang "Fly Away Home Zyon", Peter Tosh stays there apart (so to speak) but then enterprising acts within the Rastafari way of life, deluding Massimo that he still doesn’t have a false idol in front of him, one Shane McGowan after a throw of a cobblestone in the face, without even realizing Massimo without hesitation started spreading the "shanty" around the world, recalling Peter's heroic deeds with a deep and philosophical peace message and some trite phrases to gain the attention of the most elusive girls.

Peter Tosh, barbarously killed by the dirty hands of American secret services, was nothing more than a free spirit stopped in flight. Massimo put aside all the cheap lyrics of traumatic indie music and fully immersed himself in that philosophy that still characterizes him today, until one day, with his long dreads just before a concert in honor of Peter Tosh, an "original" Caribbean approached him on stage, who with all the world's hate unraveled the truth to him, the Babylon (those who want to conquer) were nothing more than the Italians who in the infamous and squalid predation of the Second World War had attacked Ethiopia and Somalia, which were defending themselves with wooden spears, true pariahs of the Rastafarians, his animal spirit abandoned him, poor Massimo felt cornered, and could do nothing but rethink the past and the present, a present that idealized Mussolini and his imperial campaign worth a dime, thus he did, he cut his dreads and went back behind that screen slowly dying like the joint of herb that flooded his middle-class home, but on iTunes, he would always start that track that took him back in time to when he still felt clean and no longer stuttered, now Massimo tartaglia again, more than ever, is one of us.

The whole story is the product of a distorted view and especially the excessive use of alcohol by the author, any reference to people, facts, and things is purely coincidental, if you don’t know him open Peter Tosh's drawer and discover how he was made and what he wanted to say.

Tracklist Lyrics and Videos

01   (You Gotta Walk) Don't Look Back (05:20)

02   Pick Myself Up (04:02)

03   I'm the Toughest (03:57)

''Chorus:''
Anything you can do
I can do it better
I'm the toughest ''(2x)''
And I can do what you can't do
You'll never try to do what I do
I'm the toughest ''(2x)''

Stop from doing wrongs
Change your foolish plans
Stop from doing wrongs
Just live up like a man

I'm the toughest ''(2x)''

Now my little brothers
You've got to be good
Do what's right
Don't be bad-minded
Just take what's yours
And there'll be no fuss or fight

''Chorus''

Stop from doing wrongs
Change your foolish plan
Stop from doing wrongs
Just live up like a man

I'm the toughest ''(2x)''

Now my brothers
You've got to be good
Just do what you know is right
Don't be bad minded
Just take what's yours
And there'll be no fuss or fight

''Chorus''

I said I love my brothers
I said I love my sisters
I don't covet my neighbour
And I love my neighbour

04   Soon Come (03:59)

Every time I call
You tell me that you soon come
I call you on the phone
Yo utell me that you soon come

I don't like hangin' around
Or to be pushed around
I got my business puttin' down
I don't like soon come

I checked you at the gate
You tell me that you soon come
Make a date you're late
I wait because you soon come

Tell I what you're waiting for
Is it bus, truck or car
I-Man don't like your war
I don't like soon come

I checked you uptown
You tell me that you soon come
I checked you downtown
You tell me that you soon come

Don't take I for a fool
Who just come at of school
Don't ride me like a mule
I don't like soon come

I saw you on the bus
You tell I that you soon come
You start to make a fuss
You tell I that you soon come

You coulda screwed 'til you blue
I got to be with you
No matter what you do
I don't like soon come

You coulda screwed 'til you blue
No matter what you do
The chances are with you
I don't like soon come

Put some smile on your face
Let money be the taste
Like your presence in this place
I don't like soon come

05   Moses (The Prophet) (03:39)

06   Bush Doctor (04:08)

Warning!
Warning! The Surgeon General warns
Cigarette smoking is dangerous, dangerous
Hazard to your health
Does that mean anything to you

To legalize marijuana
Right here in Jamaica
I'm say it cure glaucoma
I man a de Bush Doctor

So there'll be
No more smokin and feelin tense
When I see them a come
I don't have to jump no fence

Legalize marijuana
Down here in Jamaica
Only cure for asthma
I man a de Minister (of the Herb)

So there'll be no more
Police brutality
No more disrespect
For humanity

Legalize marijuana
Down here in Jamaica
It can build up your failing economy
Eliminate the slavish mentality

There'll be no more
Illegal humiliation
And no more police
Interrogation

Legalize marijuana
Down here in sweet Jamaica
Only cure for glaucoma
I man a de Bush Doctor

So there be
No more need to smoke and hide
When you know you're takin
Illegal ride

Legalize marijuana
Down here in Jamaica
It the only cure for glaucoma
I man a de Minister

07   Stand Firm (06:12)

08   Dem Ha fi Get a Beatin (04:15)

09   Creation (06:35)

(King of Kings, hallelujah)
(Lord of Lords, hallelujah)
(King of Kings, hallelujah)
(Lord of Lords, hallelujah)

In the beginning was the Word
And the Word was with Jah
And the Word was Jah

In the beginning Jah created the heaven and the earth
Then he created man of his own likeness and image
Gave unto man wisdom, knowledge, overstanding

Jah is my life and my strength
So whom shall I fear
He is a shield upon my right and my left hand
Jah is my king

Jah is my light and my salvation
So whom shall I fear
He is my guide throughout this Creation
So whom shall I be afraid
Jah is my king

Jah is my guide
In my resting and my rising
So whom shall I fear
He is my guide when I step out and forward
So whom shall I be afraid
Jah is my king

Jah is my guide
When Philistines come down upon I
So whom shall I fear
He is my guide when my enemies come to devour I
So whom shall I be afraid
Jah is my king

Jah is my guide
From the pestilence of darkness
So whom shall I fear
He is my guide from the vampires of hell
So whom shall I be afraid
Jah is my king

Jah is my health and my strength
So whom shall I fear
He is a shield upon my right and my left hand
So whom shall I be afraid
Jah is my king

10   Lessons in My Life (unreleased version) (05:36)

11   Soon Come (long version) (05:19)

12   I'm the Toughest (long version) (05:12)

13   Bush Doctor (long version) (05:44)

14   (You Gotta Walk) Don't Look Back (version) (05:01)

15   Tough Rock Soft Stones (unreleased version) (04:30)

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