This article and song is dedicated to all the people out there who have joined the movement to never answer unknown or private numbers on our cellphones.
Ok check it out – have you heard bout the rapper by the name of Busy Signal? Absolutely no problem if you haven’t. Grab a seat and let me tell you:
Reanno Gordon, better known by his stage name, Busy Signal, is an artist from St Ann, Jamaica. He has also lived in Tivoli Gardens, Papine, Spanish Town and other areas in West and East Kingston Jamaica and is a past student of Brown’s Town Comprehensive High School. Known as one of the artists leading the contemporary Dancehall movement, Busy Signal has been a large part of the scene since 2003.
He was nicknamed Busy Signal by his friends because of the fact that he is constantly busy. .
As you can imagine, the following song of his is my favourite “track” :
Ay mi ask
Who’s calling me from ah unknown number
Wi nuh answer nuh unknown number
Nah pick it up if it’s a private call
Gangster nuh answa nuh private call
[Verse 1:]
Soh who could it be
Ah who dem ah pre
Nuh call mi fone if you nuh wah mi fi see
Infarma work fi ah fee
Feds dem nuh lef mi be
Dem tops mi fone spy out like the KGB Yo!
So if you no you number block nuh budda call mi
Cah mi nah goh answa even if ah mi mammy
Yo ah regula dem kip it up block dem call
But mi nuh pick it up
Some likkle gyal ah stark mi
[Chorus: x2]
Mi ask
Who’s calling me from ah unknown number
Wi nuh answer nuh unknown number
Nah pick it up if it’s a private call
Gangster nuh answa nuh private call
[Verse 2:]
Yo! if you call mi fone
Mi wah si 1 plus di area code
Plus di digit everyting fi show
Cause if you private di number and call mi
Mi wah if si who is it how mi ah goh no
Number hav fi show pon di ID cah mi dun store
Some ah mi friend name BLING DOG, MOVADO AND DI SON OF MISS IVY people who ah mek private call dem should avoid me
[Chorus: x2]
Who’s calling me from ah unknown number
Wi nuh answer nuh unknown number
Nah pick it up if it’s a private call
Gangster nuh answa nuh private call
[Verse 3:]
Soh who could it be
Ah who dem ah pre
Nuh call mi fone if you nuh wah mi fi see
Infarma work fi ah fee
Feds dem nuh lef mi be
Dem tops mi fone spy out like the KGB Yo!
So if you no you number block nuh budda call mi
Cah mi nah goh answa even if ah mi mammy
Yo ah regula dem kip it up block dem call
But mi nuh pick it up
Some likkle gyal ah stark mi
[Chorus: x3]
Who’s calling me from ah unknown number
Wi nuh answer nuh unknown number
Nah pick it up if it’s a private call
Gangster nuh answa nuh private call
Now that gets the 2oceansvibe Seal Of Approval!
[thanks peter]
