This song was recorded in 1980 in a poor neighborhood of Kingston, Jamaica by people who had grown up there.
It is about “rudies”, young thugs, and the song makes the case that there is no hope in trying to appeal to the rudies about changing their ways. They think that they are untouchable, and th...
Rudie say him bad
Him will gun anybody down
Talk until you weak
He’ll never hear what the old man say, Lord Lord Lord
Rudie say him bad
Him will gun anybody down
Talk until you weak
He’ll never hear what the old man say, Lord Lord Lord
Until them pick him up, woah now
Lick him down, oh now
And him stay down
Yes him stay down
Until them pick him up, woah now
Lick him down, oh now
And him stay down
Yes him stay down
Them say them are the best
Them are the bad thing from the west
Talk until you blue
Mama Lulu them have no clue
Them say them are the best
Them are the bad thing from the west
Talk until you blue
Mama Lulu them have no clue, Lord Lord Lord
Until them pick him up, woah now
Lick him down, woah now
And him stay down
Yes him stay down
[Pick him up] woah now
[Lick him down] woah now
[And him stay down]
All these things [?] I say
[Yes him stay down]
Rudie say him bad
Him will gun anybody down
Talk until you weak
He’ll never hear what the old man say, Lord Lord Lord
Rudie say him bad
[Him will gun anybody down] yeah, yeah
Talk until you weak
He’ll never hear what the old man say, Lord Lord Lord
Until them pick him up, woah now
Lick him down, oh now
And him stay down
Yes him stay down
Until them pick him up, woah now
Lick him down, woah now
And him stay down
Yes him stay down
Rudie Say Him Bad was written by Lloyd ‘Bread’ McDonald & Winston ‘Pipe’ Matthews.
Rudie Say Him Bad was produced by Henry “Junjo” Lawes.
Wailing-souls released Rudie Say Him Bad on Thu Jan 01 1981.