Judge Dread (song)
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"Judge Dread" (1967), also known as "Judge Dread (Judge Four Hundred Years)" is a musical composition by Prince Buster with vocals by Lee Perry.
- "'Judge Dread' is a complex record with plenty of subtle references to the legacies of colonialism still largely conditioning Jamaican society. In his guise as Judge Dread, a saviour from Ethiopia, Buster castigated the rude boys by condemning them to 400 years' imprisonment for their acts of senseless violence." --David Katz, People Funny Boy
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