Dem Nuh Understand (featuring Bigga Boss) is Episode 03-Track 07 on the BORN in JAMAICA LP, from the ’40 Years Too Late’, five-album series. This was one of the earlier songs I wrote, and I was a badman or a gangster, this would be my protest song. Dem Nuh Understand was written and produced by DJ Ron Nelson. Visit djronnelson.com to see and hear more.
DEM NUH UNDERSTAND | DJ RON NELSON
Bad temper is back
Combined with the crack
When you walk and you pack
Don’t get caught in the trap
That boy was so strapped
Shot girl with his mack
No time to react
Just blap-blap-blap-blap!
Said he’d make it rain
Leave some bloodstain
Sell crack and cocaine
Driftwood and Jane
Shot boy in that lane
Don’t remember his name
Don’t miss when he aim
Now he’s on a plane
I’m dealing and I’m stealing
In daytime and night
I don’t know what is wrong
Or what’s right so I fight
And I laugh and I drink
And I smoke and I toke
I’m drinking, driving
Hustling, surviving
I won’t let them get me
This time I’m so grime
And I won’t do no time
For that crime I’ve assigned
I will get that mask
For that task
Do that hit that you asked
I’m so ready to blast
Get that money fast
Politician, leadah
Media and teacha
Policeman, souljah
Dem nuh understand
Mi haffi mek money
Haffi hustle hard
Dem nuh know nutten at all
Dem nuh understand
No matter what mi do
Matter who I am
Yuh call mi criminal
Dem nuh understand
Think you know me
Don’t like what I am
I don’t give a damn
Yuh nuh understand
Talk talk talking
Politicians still be talking
Police they try to kill us
Killers still walking
You wanna be a slave
Take that minimum wage
Talk, talk, talk
I got killers after dark
I’m like the grim reaper
I pounce like a lion
People wanna kill me
But I ain’t scared of dying
I run these streets
And these streets are at war
Another mother mourns
Another brother gone
I move in silence
I’m the dark side of the sun
You may have a gun
I’ve got twenty-one
I specialize in speed
Guns are what you need
Grabba in my weed
And I never suck seed
I don’t want no job
I just I rob and I rob
I don’t get my loot
I will shoot
I know you want me dead
But my life is so blessed
I protect my chest
With my bullet-proof vest
Yo, yute, lemme tell you suppen’
Life nuh guaranteed fi nobody
Here today, gone tomorrow
If a man tek my life tonight
You see by a mawnin
A next youth take my place
Yo, you kill one a my youth dem
Yo, mi a come fi yuh whole crew
Cause suh vengeance work
Eye-fi-a-eye
Tooth-fi-a-tooth
That’s why we a come fi yuh
And it nuh mek no sense yuh run
Clearly
Politician, leadah
Media and teacha
Policeman, souljah
Dem nuh understand
Mi haffi mek money
Haffi hustle hard
Dem nuh know nutten at all
Dem nuh understand
No matter what mi do
Matter who I am
Yuh call mi criminal
Dem nuh understand
Think you know me
Don’t like what I am
I don’t give a damn
Yuh nuh understand
Politician, leadah
Media and teacha
Policeman, souljah
Dem nuh understand
Mi haffi mek money
Haffi hustle hard
Dem nuh know nutten at all
Dem nuh understand
No matter what mi do
Matter who I am
Yuh call mi criminal
Dem nuh understand
Think you know me
Don’t like what I am
I don’t give a damn
Yuh nuh understand