There has to be songs like this all the time in order
to balance the genre. Besides happiness and love, there are songs that don’t
directly send negative vibrations, nevertheless tell the truth about how when
you do something to someone it will finally redirect towards you, and this is
one of them talking about karma. Karma is a belief that means action, work or
deed. Besides this, it is interpreted as a “comeback” for when someone intent
or actions something towards somebody. This finally is reflected in the
harasser's future as a punishment sometime and it can be represented as
anything. We could say this song would fit into the African Reggae, as the origins
of the group are in South Africa. Nevertheless, does this artist showing
negativity towards someone?
“When you think its peace and
safety, a sudden destruction. The eye of the storm, when you think its calm… Its gonna be a
devastation, a tribulation!” is the first line introduced in the song, with a
mixture of instruments implicating danger. In my opinion, it’s indisputably
appropriate and gives the song that touch it needs for it to be in my custom
evaluated blog. The lyrics followed introduce the chorus: “ONE DAY when you
think its over, all the wrongs you done you will pay… ONE DAY you will
meet your Karma, you'll be caught in
shame and disgrace.” Besides the fact that the African reggae mostly speak
about the different problems around the area, these individuals talk
specifically towards the audience’s conscience by telling them, and I quote “All
the lies you tell, all the places you
dwell, you think it can save you? Raging Fyah a guh burn you.” Generally, this song is remarkable.
Besides having a moral structure, it makes you realize that if you have done
something wrong you may desire to fix it before it strikes you back, which can
only lead to the good way of life.
Raging Fyah acquired their
name because of a fire causality they had in Johannesburg, South America, back
in 2008. They explain in their song Running Away from the album Judgment Day,
the incident in detail. From how family members were ditched from their homes,
and how chaos and despair reigned. For people humble similar to them it was
devastating and in order to survive they had to achieve something. They focused
on the music group and exceedingly stood up in the music society getting deals
from big recording companies. This basically boosted their confidence and
released additional albums and concerts having a pleasant ending for their
poverty times. You can hear in most of the songs how the singer and the back
singers chant gratefully to their god Jah Rastafari for helping them finding a
way to “survive in this world”, as they say.
Johannesburg, South Africa,
2008
This is the picture they shared
in their twitter page referring to the Johannesburg burn they suffered, with an
interview targeting to the African migrant workers that tried to steal jobs and
fuel a wave of crime, causing this massive tragedy. Raging Fyah is one of the
new groups who have succeeded in little time because of their abilities to
relate with the people, and to answer the main question after analyzing the
whole subject, we can say that the song was targeted to, besides of the
audience, the criminals that did such insanity. Reggae mostly don’t show any
negativity towards others, for that involves contradicting the same religion,
but sometimes we have to take something out of our chest, alike these artists
did and personally I consider its pure gold because of the honesty used to
construct this song. This final drawing is one I made in paint by using an africa template and painting it to match my blog.
Work Cited
Dennis,
Danfung. "Johannesburg Fire." Danfung. JPG, 3 June 2011.
Web. 08 Dec. 2014.
<http://danfung.photoshelter.com/image/I0000s3gyBrexigA>.
Tom, Jary.
"Karma." Magistrix. Songtext, 4 Mar. 2010. Web. 08 Dec.
2014. <http://www.magistrix.de/lyrics/raging-fyah/Karma-1168028.html>.
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