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Originally Posted by Gavin B.
The Bad Brains came out of a jazz/funk background and had only been playing reggae music for a couple of years when they recorded I and I Survive. I was a bit baffled by their decision to devote most of their enegry to playing hard core which was primarily the musical domain of white suburban males.
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It's because they were black suburban males (suburban MD) who were into punk (even though they were talented yound guys who played funk/jazz). Their appreciation of The Clash introduced them to reggae riddims and all their Rasta stuff came later. Culturally they had far more in common with all of the other white suburban (and urban) males who played hardcore in DC than they had with Jamaican Rastas.