Carl McRoy Roberts performs an original reggae song titled ‘Now Go to Jail,’ accompanied by collaborator Gray Smith, addressing crime, violence, systemic injustice, and the importance of steering youth away from destructive paths. The performance draws on Rastafarian and spiritual themes to advocate for peace and personal sovereignty.
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Transcript
[01:03:16] Hey, thank you for jumping on stage, bruh.
[01:03:20] Thank you so much.
[01:03:22] Oh, do you got music on Spotify or anything, man?
[01:03:28] Do you want to shout yourself out?
[01:03:31] DT, dollar sign, Nevin.
[01:03:33] N-E-V-I-N.
[01:03:36] Hey, give it up for them, y’all.
[01:03:38] Yeah!
[01:03:39] Thank you so much.
[01:03:40] Thank you.
[01:03:41] Thank you.
[01:03:41] Thank you.
[01:03:42] Yeah.
[01:03:42] And so you’re on the next one, right?
[01:03:44] Yep.
[01:03:44] Yep.
[01:03:44] I got you.
[01:03:45] You can read the name, right?
[01:03:47] Yeah, I got it.
[01:03:48] You know, I think so.
[01:03:49] I believe in you.
[01:03:50] This one easy.
[01:03:51] This one easy.
[01:03:52] Let me see.
[01:03:52] Let me see.
[01:03:53] Look, look, look.
[01:03:55] Oh.
[01:03:56] All right.
[01:03:58] I low-key picked this order so I can have the easy ones.
[01:04:02] Sorry.
[01:04:03] Why you got to be so grumpy like this?
[01:04:05] Because it’s easy.
[01:04:05] You feel me?
[01:04:06] All the easy names.
[01:04:07] Whatever.
[01:04:08] Let’s get this going.
[01:04:09] Let’s get this going.
[01:04:09] Watch this name real easy.
[01:04:10] So coming to the stage.
[01:04:12] Give it up for Carl McRoy.
[01:04:15] Roberts.
[01:04:15] Hey.
[01:04:27] How y’all doing?
[01:04:30] All right.
[01:04:32] My expression is music, reggae music to be exact.
[01:04:38] Written a few songs.
[01:04:42] And I’ve done this before.
[01:04:44] But.
[01:04:45] Not in a long time.
[01:04:46] So.
[01:04:47] I wrote a song for just the crime and violence all over the country.
[01:04:53] It’s called Now Go to Jail.
[01:04:56] I got my brother Steve right here.
[01:04:58] Gray Smith.
[01:04:59] Hey, hey.
[01:04:59] We’re going to chop it up a little bit.
[01:05:01] Just going to back you up from the cut right here.
[01:05:04] Yeah.
[01:05:04] All right.
[01:05:05] Why y’all feeling, by the way?
[01:05:09] Yeah.
[01:05:09] So one thing.
[01:05:11] Let me hear you say, speak your truth.
[01:05:13] Speak your truth.
[01:05:14] Speak.
[01:05:15] Speak your truth.
[01:05:15] Speak your truth.
[01:05:17] Well, all right.
[01:05:24] Well, yeah.
[01:05:26] Speak your truth, audience.
[01:05:28] Glasshouse.
[01:05:29] Big up.
[01:05:33] Yeah.
[01:05:34] Big up all the people.
[01:05:35] Watch this.
[01:05:38] Great.
[01:05:38] Watch out.
[01:05:39] Say we.
[01:05:40] Now.
[01:05:41] We now go on to jail.
[01:05:42] Tommy Lerner come just for me.
[01:05:44] I feel same way now we not gonna jail
[01:05:48] slip from my belt on a rail and sing again
[01:05:51] now we not gonna jail
[01:05:53] we keep on a come just for make I feel seen
[01:05:56] now we not gonna jail
[01:06:00] we see the gun dem a bust for pleasure
[01:06:03] we see the ghetto youth dem a be perpetrator
[01:06:05] one followed bad man just for instigator
[01:06:08] the Bible and prayer dem the things we no care to see
[01:06:11] the almighty one him give me the wisdom
[01:06:13] fi put down the gun and he isn’t on it
[01:06:16] no one fi bow down in a dirty devil listen
[01:06:19] no one fi bow down in a Babylon
[01:06:22] and catch meself in a Babylon prison
[01:06:25] I fi stand firm it does stand to reason
[01:06:27] no time to be careless in a Babylon system
[01:06:31] these day things we a teach to the youth say we
[01:06:34] now now we not gonna jail
[01:06:37] come on and on and on and make I feel safe
[01:06:40] now we not gonna jail
[01:06:43] hey!
[01:06:43] see Babylon we want peace
[01:06:46] stop kill the ghetto youth man in a the street
[01:06:48] a full time now we want all the war cease
[01:06:51] stop from follow up the mark of the beast
[01:06:54] these day things a repeat a repeat
[01:06:57] now go and jail one living a me
[01:06:59] no make no man tell me when fi brush me
[01:07:02] no make no man tell me when fi have fi
[01:07:05] no make no man tell me when it’s time to eat
[01:07:08] these things so sweet
[01:07:10] and this a thing just a tweet
[01:07:12] we sing
[01:07:13] yo!
[01:07:13] thank y’all
[01:07:14] alright!
[01:07:15] yeah
[01:07:25] that was dope
[01:07:27] ayy
[01:07:29] I like that
[01:07:30] ayy give it up for them one more time yo
[01:07:32] that was dope
[01:07:34] yeah