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Mikey Smith

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Mikey Smith was a Jamaican dub poet with Rastafarian sympathies and left political leanings, closely associated with Linton Kwesi Johnson and Mutabaruka. He was killed in Kingston in August 1983, days after publicly heckling a government minister at a political rally - a death widely read as politically motivated. Johnson later released some of Smith's recordings on his own LKJ Records label.

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Era: Rocksteady, reggae and dub →
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Michael Smith ~ Mi Cyaan Believe It

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Story · Well supportedDub poetry and the reggae page

Dub poetry put Jamaican speech and reggae bass on the page and the stage at once, and made a form that belongs equally to Kingston, London and Toronto.