The most popular surf breaks in Jamaica are Zoo, Lighthouse, Makka, Berlin, Copa, Boston, and Peenie Wallie. Surfing became a popular outdoor activity in Jamaica in the early 1970s, and since then, it has never stopped growing and evolving. This film in particular details the importance of community, self-expression, and the feeling of freedom within the surfing and skateboarding cultures and draws parallels to Marley's music. 'Ride Natty Ride' is one of the 12 episodes of 'Legacy,' a web docu-series that celebrate the contribution Bob Marley and his music to the world we live in today. The 30-minute film also includes surf-and-skate action from Jamaican surfers and skateboarders, Shama 'Superman' Beckford, Ivah Wilmot, Froggboss WellRaggedy, and Kalya Wheeler, as well as American pro skater, Boo Johnson, and art director at Tuff Gong and friend of Bob Marley, Neville Garrick. The documentary features interviews with the godfather of Jamaican surfing and owner of the Jamnesia Surf Camp, Billy 'Mystic' Wilmot. It is true that this song carries the weight of the oppressive colonial history of Jamaica as a whole, the song is also about his neighbours that personified, as you can hear, a lot of what was going wrong with Jamaica at the time.'Ride Natty Ride' is a visual celebration of what Bob Marley and his music mean to the surf and skateboarding community worldwide. Bob was pissed off enough to write this song. The neighbourhood wasn't used to all this sort of activity.Īfter a late night of (more than likely) a lot of medicinal herbs and jamming with friends, his neighbours, who were white by the way, complained. He would have people over for footie matches and jam sessions on the back porch. The history that the Bob Marley Museum in Kingston (his old house - great trip btw - a must) gives on their tour was that Bob, being from south Kingston, moved into a nice house on the northeast side of town that was an affluent neighborhood with Kingston's who's who's living there. So yes, there is alot of politics and colonialism in the song, but the real origin of the song is much simpler than that. As far as the Rastafari, it is and was a popular movement that was made even more popular by Roots music, so the government did try to use the music for their own gain. At the time Bob wrote this song (1976), Jamaica was still very much dealing with the social and political ramifications of British rule. Song MeaningJamaica didn't achieve full independence until 1962.

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