Lawd god this song means everything. Born and raised in New York but with Jamaican parents. I stay functioning as if deh can ship me somewhere. No Rikers for me ❤❤

from nrb kenya 🇰🇪

Got hooked early 90s, still at it 2024😊

As a new yorker of jamaican immigrants, this song hits so close to home.

I'm 31 yrs and listening to reggae has been a big life changer for me 🙏🙏

@curthylton6279

4 ай бұрын

Powerful and relevant message from back in the day.

don't go to prison do the right thing.Learn your trade and go to school.

true story. so many yardie come a foreign and live this song same way. yuh woulda tink sey dem learn from dis song

I play this song repeatedly everyday since I came to know it, it's ageless

This is one of the first reggae tune back in the day that got me to love the vibes...nuff youths come to America, get caught up and end up there. This song is ageless.

What a tune still listening now 66yrs🇯🇲💃🏾💃🏾

On point 📌! Respect from Tanzania 🇹🇿

@tgeofrey

Жыл бұрын

Pamoja

Sadly I want this song to play everyday I have to go to work.... Crossing the bridge blasting this will make me feel so much better....

What a great son for kids to listen to. Send a good msg

Cocoa Tea masters every riddim 💯

Love this tune we need more of this and less of the shit we have today

@chrisking124

6 жыл бұрын

kev Oakton amen

@VHShit

2 жыл бұрын

You can find good music today and there was a lot shit that came out in 1990

@joserondon5740

2 жыл бұрын

for sure

the song opens with "the first time the youth come to ny" He is referring to people arriving from the w.i. and even guyana.

Coco Tea is preaching!

The effect on the hook is amazing. Sounds like harmonizer + chorus.

I remember this song as being a hit in Guyana in 1991. This made me love Georg. and Stabroek market even more! Back in Holland it reminds me of this fine country.

@3miami368

9 ай бұрын

You said it 💯

I was just 15 years old when I first listen to this master blaster from Cocoa Tea, I never stopped listing to it all throughout my school years...now am 45 years it still sounds so crispy just like when i was 15. Thanks a bunch IAmTheGorgon for this wonderful stuff

love the beat, we sitting down in the park smoke a ganja drink some beer and enjoy the sunshine! and ofcourse listing to this beautifull song :D

How can you dislike this song?

@JDuB97649

2 жыл бұрын

Zeen?????

Im feeling mad nostalgic now

He leads all races within the right directions... Maxi Taxi at its best inna TNT.... Fantastic... Humble Guy I am!!!🍉🍒🥭

Love this tune I searched almost everywhere at last ikipamba Sana wapi nduru👋

Classic reggae at it's best

Kwani wakenya tunapenda reggae aje...tuko kibao jo kila ngoma lazima nione mwere mmoja ame comment..lool..

@nyakadot.esq.2746

3 жыл бұрын

It's in our DNA🇰🇪🇯🇲

@nelsonkim8561

3 жыл бұрын

@@nyakadot.esq.2746 baana 🇰🇪

@nyakadot.esq.2746

3 жыл бұрын

@@nelsonkim8561 kabisa👊

Great catchy song. I like this better than the more popular remix.

I like both versions. The one wit Nardo Ranks is dope as hell....but this version is even different from the one I have with Coca Tea by himself. This sounds like more of a Lovers Rock version. The one wit Nardo is FYAH!!!!!

@NOLA.licioussss

Жыл бұрын

This one da slower is way better

Great tune 🎉 it reminds me of back in the day, Gambia 🇬🇲 i remember this song in my very day in New York.

muy buena canción, good vibes.

Big big chune from dem dayz still rokin vibe

big tune blessing cocoa tea lovely vibes give thanks !

Old school reggae,Lyrics whit a message ,Sweetest music in the 🌎

My fav version, nuff respect 2 cocoa tea

Great chune🎉 I have been searching for it,and I always find it so sweet and melodious❤

This song remind me when I was little kid

All now this song is an inspiration.

Love this tune... Message in the music

I love this jam, one love

Wow I use to have this bad shorty that lived down the road from the gates of Rikers. I thank the almighty I never went pass those gates.

old is gold..

2024 still sounding fresh

Dis song great , blessed by Jah, reminds me of de time I grew up.

Respect 🙏🏽❤️🇪🇹👩🏽‍🎓🇹🇹🇪🇹🇯🇲⭐🦁

big tune love em chunk keeps me up in diaspora

12/12/2020 enjoying this tune

TIME- The Kalief Browder Story on Netflix brought me back here. This song is still gold🇯🇲

Cocoa tea a the best

i like so much him voice :) thanks coco tea and for IAmTheGorgon

u can still play this tune now anywhere it com on de people love it

Get will cocoa tea hi have all your album and CD player may god bless you you are in my prayers

One of the best

BIG TUNE but im naw goin to rikers island im only 9 yeares old and im headin to da top cause my name is master zigtop love dis song love all my west indian ppl nd music

You should've hear what your mama say.... Now you gon a rikers Island 🇰🇪🇰🇪

big tune,,,, respect to your day peoples

Lived in NY all my life But never gone to Rikers Island😁

cool vybes full of truth...

Love the dj version with Nardo Ranks

As a brookyln NY man I went to spoffard about 5 times and a trip upstate twice but come 16 I got a f ucking job Never been to the island Drove by spoffard a year ago doing work in the bronx and it's gutted completely closed down and torn apart Last time I was there was 1992

I always like the 12" version better, more up tempo. Wicked tune still.

@NOLA.licioussss

Жыл бұрын

I can’t get with that one this is way better

@saucehp495

Жыл бұрын

@@NOLA.licioussss In the dancehall in the 90s the 12" version was boom :)

@DonTheking

11 ай бұрын

The vocals was more fitting on this version in my opinion

Coco tea you are great

One Love COCO Tea

Foot cut❤😢😮😮 Respect surfing keep easygoing treadmill One❤😂🎉

FUCKEN NICE. Outta SOUTH AFRICA big up unoself. COCO

big up!!!! jah love respect.....

Hi habe cocoa tea auf dem summerjam in köln gesehen super.Dieses Lied gefällt mir auch

Sounds real nice thru 4 15's and 2 12's subs with 4 horns

Words of Wisdom 🙏🏾

bigup cocoa, all the tyme.

Shannon Williams cocoa tea rikers island big tune

@doc2luv1 Reminds me of "Reggae time" Jeff Mwangemi with his top ranking producer in East and Central Africa.... Them good old days!

coco tee RIKERS ISLAND RIDDIM 1990 VARIOUS ARTISTS.........original riddim

cocoa tea JAH BLESS.........

dat vibes ^^

CUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUTE ZIKE...IS MY FAVORITT

a big chune!!!!yeeeeahhhhh

I used to listen to the faster riddim, this one is irie🎉

riddim nice and melo

Song is so positive

Ruff place 4 rude girls and boys b easy out there bred

Big up uno self Jamaican Yutess

Winston Jarrett - Up Park no mans Land (Original Piece Studio 1) !

I love dis tune and this mans tuneeeessss!!!!

studio one classic riddim relicked

The very best

boom....big tune.......

GRVC[Beacon] 10 block, even side, Rikers Island. I made a stop there in 03, tuff place not for the weak hearted.

@doc2luv1 true, i remember them days, every mat used to play it.

@doc2luv1 Ukweli sana!!!...still rocks

Big Chune!!!!

Too Hard 2022

Troy Ave brought me here

@SupremexBeing7

7 жыл бұрын

Troy Ave brought me here too

the best

RIP to this reggae legend..🙏🏾🙏🏾

@maxinefay3966

6 ай бұрын

Stop it he,s not dead

big tune

God Bless New York.

@dantelucas4047

3 жыл бұрын

Be rebuked

respect.

YOOOOOOOO.... pullit back pullit back wheeeeeeeeellll uuuppppp

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