Is this a spoof?

[Dub Defector]

er.. is this a spoof? Rast Trent springs to mind..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNtgWu_T8h4

Ras Trent for reference
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLQbKo-7HfI

[Dub Defector]

Actually, i think Rootsman has a Dubplate from them so probably not..

[Ital Dokta]

Not quite Ras Trent level of parody, I think they are being serious in their way. Plenty of these kind of dudes around coming from a dancehall/hiphop kind of angle. Saw they were from the Okanogan which is a region a few hours from here but looks like they are from the American side to the south which is similarly named, kind of a rural, sparsely populated, economically challenged area of north central Washington state between Seattle and Spokane.

[Uncle Chig E]

I worked in that area for a few years in the late '70's for the state game department & the group looks like the youngest kids of the hippies that flocked to the Okanogon in the late '60's & later. I think they believe what they're doing. The river in the vid is the Columbia & they're heading north.

[echodelic]

Ha ha that music is pretty bad but I guess they have as much right to try and make reggae as a couple germans sitting in front of their computer.

[underated]

Everybody has their own stereotypes & no one can see what's inside a man's heart.

Does every Rastafari dress the same & talk with the same accent ?
Look the same & wave flags ?

Does every man smoke weed ?

At the end of the day we can only judge the music.
That's all that count's.

Remember these movies .......

http://youtu.be/pOVPcS2ZKHE

http://youtu.be/gNiEp8xSzQY

[Uncle Chig E]

Here's probably more than you care to know about Essential I, the lead in the vid. From a cdbaby write up on their website, it seems like his heart & head are into it: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/essentiali