Big Youth: Toasting From the Ghetto

Born Manley Augustus Buchanan on 19 April 1949 in Trenchtown, Kingston, Big Youth grew up in chaos and poverty, one of five children raised by a Christian preacher mother and a police officer father. Before music ever entered the picture, he was working as a diesel mechanic at Kingston’s Sheraton Hotel, where he developed his toasting skills on the job and got the nickname “Big Youth” from his co-workers. That detail alone tells you everything. This was not a man groomed for stardom. He built it from the ground up.

PLAYLIST

1. Big Youth - Cool Breeze

2. Big Youth -Some Like It Dread

3. Big Youth - Hit the Road Jack

4. Big Youth - House of Dreadlocks

5. Big Youth - Hotter Fire

6. Big Youth - Tribulation

7. Big Youth - Jim Screechy (Remastered)

8. Big Youth - S.90 Skank

9. Big Youth - Keep Your Dread (Remastered)

10. Big Youth - I Love the Way You Love (Remastered)

11. Big Youth - Water House Rock (Remastered)

12. Big Youth, U-Roy - Battle of the Giant (Remastered)

13. Big Youth - Get Up Stand Up

14. Big Youth - Screaming Target

15. Big Youth - Lightning Flash (Weak Heart Drop)

16. Big Youth - All Nation Bow (Remastered)

17. Big Youth - Wolf in Sheep Clothing Edit (Remastered)

18. Big Youth - London’s Burning

19. Big Youth; John Holt - 2011