Rizzla

[HighRankingSammy]

haha have people not heard of google?

[BassGroove]

Audio Active - Free The Marijuana - 1994

Rizla is pronounced Riz-a-la


[Unknown Singer]

Free the marijuana
Free the marijuana
Pass me the Rizla
Pass me the herbs
Put a smile on your faces

Free the marijuana
Free the marijuana
Pass me the Rizla
Pass me the herb
Put a smile on your face

*[can't make out a line here] 'I said every weed a jokio kyno' ?*


[Bim Sherman]

Pass me the Rizla
Let me wrap up me ganja
Pull up me chalawa
Let me smoke up me marijuana
Legalize it
Don't criticize it... yow

Pass me the Rizla
Let me fill up me spliff jar
Pull up the chalawa
Let me load up the conchia ???
Legalize it
You must advertize it... yow

Let me smoke up the marijuana
Free the Marijuana

Pass me the Rizla
Let me wrap up me ganja
Pull up the chalawa
Let me smoke up the marijuana
Politicians should smoke it
I and I recommend it
Politicians should smoke it
I and I recommend it
Legalize it
Don't you
Don't you... criticize it


Let me smoke up the marijuana

[Unknown Singer]

Free the marijuana
Free the marijuana
Pass me the Rizla
Pass me the herb
Put a smile on your faces

Free the marijuana
Free the marijuana
Pass me the Rizla
Pass me the herb
Put a smile on your faces

[unknown line - see above]
[unknown line - see above]

Free the marijuana

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Can't make out one line and also one word sung by Bim -> conchia ?

I read somewhere the name of the other singer but can't remember where ;o)
Bass player Doug Wimbish perhaps ?


Keep Dubbin!

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[dan i]

"Jamaicans use that word also for the smoking paper itself, doesn't matter what kind of brand it is."

Not just Jamaicans - Rizla is the main brand in the UK too.

Bim Sherman track - i don't think Doug Wimbush plays on this track, but On-U frequently used Akabu as backing singers as well as anyone else around the studio at the time, eg. maybe that's where Doug comes in (if it's him).

Nice work on those lyrics BassGroove.

[BassGroove]

Dan I

On the sleeve to the 12inch it says
'Special thanks to Bim Sherman + Doug Wimbish'

That's what made me think perhaps he was the other singer. It's a male voice for sure. As you say, I don't think he actually plays bass but you never know.


Dub On!

[barry]

I said I know a dread by the name of Fred
Used to sell a little hurb to make his bread
But now he sell it no more
Babylon a lock him in a jail house door
he didant rob ho no no no
he didant still ho no no no
he didant kill

him just smoke on the collie weed
him just smoke on the collie weed

please help me had this tune meny years ago befor i put my music on harddrive im sure ive still got it some where but i carnt rember who did it or wot it was called
please please help me i used to love this tune
barry
Welton Irie

[davek]

The tune is "Dread Called Fred", can be found on Dillinger's "Cornbread" LP. There are a few tunes that came out around that time that reference "a dread called Fred" but I think tha's the one you want based on what I recall of the lyrics.