So Sean Paul released dis chune on Bubble Up riddim a while back. Then he re-did it for the popular Stepz riddim (with Capleton's Or Wah, Assassin's Idiot Ting, and Ele's Pakistan and Seh Dem Bad) a few months back. Imediately we started playing it with this riddim and it was a pretty good showing--good weed tunes usually are (just ask Wayne Marshall).

But then... months later, all of a sudden Sean Paul's got a new album coming out and they announce that his Stepz chune will be the first single. Cool.. I think. Then.... I see the video!

In a word... WTF?????? Obviously the record label decided that you can't sing about weed in the USA and be popular so they had to DESTROY the lyrics and make the song a 50-Cent style i'm-chillin-in-the-club-bling-bling-sippin-whatever-brand-of-champagne-is-cool-right-now idiot song. And check out the trucks dressed up like Civics!!!!!!! Bad Sean, just bad.

I mean really! The new lyrics are BEYOND lame... it is so sad.

AND... how dare he change it all and yet still leave the name of King Solomon in the chune. King Solomon has nothing to do with picking up girls in the club... this was a ganja line and everyone knows it. I mean... read it (highlighted in each version) below and see what I mean.

BUN OUT censorship and how Politically Correct bible waving conservatives can SCARE an entertainer into crippling their artistic endeavours!!!!


The Real Lyrics:

Intro:
Just gimme di trees and mek we smoke it yo (Smoke it yo!)
It a mek we peace so dont provoke it yo (Voke it yo!)
We nuh need nuh speed so we nah nuh coke it yo (Coke it yo!)
Set yuh mind at ease we gotta take it slow

Verse 1:
So when yuh see di S.P. floatin dont provoke him
Cau di weed weh we smokin need fi soakin
Best ting fi di medication, and di best high grade a Jamaican
When we a bun a weed we supportin and promotin
Low di crack and di coke ting yeah we smoking
Herb a di healin of di nation
Legalize it right now we gwaan blaze one
Cau we know it as a great ting, no debating
Why dem incarserating, tru dem hating
Tru dem dont waan see we remain calm
Even though them have dem sirene on

Chorus:
Everyday, we be burnin not concernin what nobody wanna say
We be earnin dollars turning cau we mind deh pon we pay
Some got gold and oil and diamonds all we got is Mary J
Legalize it, time you recognize it

Verse 2:
This purple haze it mek mi crazy
Mek mi write nuff tune and dats what pays me
But it's dat not di only occupation
Goin to gain some I give yuh education
When a farmer grows it he knows to close it
Economical benefit help fi those who a fi deh yah pon di hard jugglin
Cau di system only keep man struggling
Studyin people a use it dont abuse it
Cau di concentration well reputed
Dats why herb man dem a di wise one
And it found on di grave of King Solomon
And it good fi di eye sight and di chest sight
And it give yuh nuff inside just gimme di light
And, mek we blaze it we should a neva waste it

Chorus:
Again, we be burnin not concernin what nobody wanna say
We be earnin dollars turning cau we mind deh pon we pay
Some got gold and oil and diamonds all we got is Mary J
Legalize it, time to recognize it

Bridge:
Just gimme di trees and mek we smoke it yo (Smoke it yo!)
It a mek we peace so dont provoke it yo (Voke it yo!)
We nuh need nuh speed so we nah nuh coke it yo (Coke it yo!)
Set yuh mind at ease we gotta take it slow

Verse 1:
So when yuh see di S.P. floatin dont provoke him
Cau di weed weh we smokin need fi soakin
Best ting fi di medication, and di best high grade a Jamaican
When we a bun a weed we supportin and promotin
Low di crack and di coke ting yeah we smoking
Herb a di healin of di nation
Legalize it right now we gwaan blaze one
Cau we know it as a great ting, no debating
Why dem incarserating, tru dem hating
Tru dem dont waan see we remain calm
Everytime dem turn dem sirene on

Chorus:
Everyday, we be burnin not concernin what nobody wanna say
We be earnin dollars turning cau we mind deh pon we pay
Some got gold and oil and diamonds all we got is Mary J
Legalize it, time you recognize it
Again, we be burnin not concernin what nobody wanna say
We be earnin dollars turning cau we mind deh pon we pay
Some got gold and oil and diamonds all we got is Mary J
Legalize it, time to recognize it
Again, we be burnin not concernin what nobody wanna say
We be earnin dollars turning cau we mind deh pon we pay
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The Messed-Up Video Lyrics:

Intro:
Just gimme di G's and we be clubbin yo (Clubbin yo!)
Gal a mek we pleased and we be thuggin now (Thuggin now!)
Sippin Henessy and we be bubblin yo (Bubblin yo!)
Set yuh mind at ease we gotta take it slow

Verse 1:
So when yuh see di S.P. floatin don't provoke him
Cau di girls weh we pokin got to smokin
Best ting di di recreation, fi get di best girls inna every nation
For di girls we promotin and supportin
And dem love how we flow king hear dem shoutin
First class ticket invitation
Gal from New York, England and Jamaica

Chorus:
Everyday, we be burnin not concernin what nobody wanna say
We be earnin dollars turning cau we mind deh pon we pay
More than gold and all dem diamonds girls we need dem everyday
Recognize it we pimpin as we ridin

Verse 2:
Gal dem a page mi waan fi rage mi
True mi write nuff tune and drive mi crazy
Well I mon a true born Jamaican
Ready fi di gal dem in every situation
We a di gal dem pro dem know we flow
Wid di lyrical content dat mek dem dip low
And, mek di club keep jumpin
Tun up di bass when yuh hear this pumpin
Summertime buzz fi di music people chose it
Sean-A-P gal a crusin but refute it
Cau, we a di gal dem champion
Got nuff a dem like di great King Solomon {W.T.F????!!!!}
Any girls at my eye sight sexy dress tight
From yuh ready fi yuh hype night just gimme di light
And, mek we blaze it di roof we haffi raise it

Chorus:
Again, we be burnin not concernin what nobody wanna say
We be earnin dollars turning cau we mind deh pon we pay
More than gold and all dem diamonds girls we need dem everyday
Recognize it we pimpin as we ridin

Bridge:
Just gimme di G's and we be clubbin yo (Clubbin yo!)
Gal a mek we pleased and we be thuggin now (Thuggin now!)
Sippin Henessy and we be bubblin yo (Bubblin yo!)
Set yuh mind at ease we gotta take it slow

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Well, maybe not your neighbors....

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Sounds like crap to me. Kinda like teenage girls trying to be skinny because some runway model says you have to be. Same shy-t

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well urban u explained it yourself, first of all thanks for sharing the lyrics with the many of us who don't listen as fast enuff to grasp them :wink: nevertheless due to the political red-tape and how damaging it can be record sales if you are banned. now despite alll we talk about and a persons artistic rights and freedoms, we all work to make money, Sean is no different, he has to adapt, and get creative for the market just to get by. In one interview its best if he does that rAther than have an entire cd bleeped out because of obscenities, or words which could be viewed as offensive.

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First of all Sean Paul is not the hardest DJ around. He grew up pretty middle class and as recently as 5 years ago would come and do your party for under 1K.

He's got the radio/big money bug.

It's a shame really when you thing about the fact that if it wasn't for Jamaican DJ's, you wouldn't have hip hop at all. Nor would you have remixes or scratching.

If Kool Herc hadn't started toasting in NY, MTV and BET wouldn't exist.

If King Tubby and Lee Perry hadn't starting remixing in the 60's and 70's you wouldn't have sampling and remixing and dub plates.

Anyway...J'cans need to own this music more. Where would hip-hop be without Biggie or Busta or Mr Cheeks or KRS or Pepa (salt & pepa) or all of the other Jamaican artist that made hip hop what it is?

So instead, we let the industry force us to change our lyrics. There wouldn't be much of an industry without that likkle island called Jamaica.

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WTF.that highlighted line was so messed up.i never even noticed that.

it is a shame that artists have to be hindered like that. what's even worse is that 95% of the US population will never even know about the original version of that song. i don't "partake" in what the song is about, but at least it has a purpose. the second one ain't 'bout squat!

i also noticed that u can only hear the "real" version when listining to reggae stations on the radio.

...or on mix CDs.

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Thanks for the lyrics to 'We Be Burnin'! I was really looking for the "real" lyrics and the "messed-up" ones. On the internet, they had the lyrics for the "real" one but then the chorus was the "messed up" version. Anyway, thanks for both... the correct way!


Have a hippy New Year and be safe!

Funny when I hear the crappy version on the radio I don't even know the words to that on! I just sing the real words.

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Still My RingTone! Should get a knew 1 now, but always want to smoke when i listen