Royal Son of Ethiopia is reggae

Reggae

Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.Reggae is based...

 singer Sizzla

Sizzla

Sizzla Kalonji, or simply Sizzla in are de reggae musician. He is one of the most commercially and critically successful contemporary reggae artists and is well-known for his above-average prolificacy...

's sixth studio album, released on Greensleeves

Greensleeves Records

Greensleeves Records & Publishing is a record label specialising in dancehall and reggae music. The company was founded by Chris Cracknell and Chris Sedgwick and started as a small record store in West Ealing, London, in November 1975 and is based in Britain....

 on June 22, 1999. As on his previous record, Freedom Cry

Freedom Cry

Freedom Cry is reggae artist Sizzla's fourth studio album, released November 11, 1998 on VP Records as Freedom Cry in the United States and as Kalonji in Europe...

, fellow conscious reggae singer Jepther McClymont, alias Luciano

Luciano (singer)

Luciano is a Jamaican second generation roots reggae artist and poet....

, is featured on one track, this time on "In this Time". The songs are written by Miguel Collins, alias Sizzla, and voiced over riddim

Riddim

Riddim is the Jamaican Patois pronunciation of the English word "rhythm," but in dancehall/reggae parlance it refers to the instrumental accompaniment to a song. Thus, a dancehall song consists of the riddim plus the "voicing" sung by the deejay. The resulting song structure may be taken for...

s provided by Philipp "Fattis" Burell of Xterminator, Lowell "Sly" Dunbar

Sly Dunbar

Lowell "Sly" Fillmore Dunbar is a drummer.-Biography:Dunbar, whose nickname was reportedly given for his passion for Sly & the Family Stone, launched his musical career while still in his adolescence, playing with a local group, The Yardbrooms, at the age of fifteen...

 and Donald Dennis.

Track listing

1. "As in the Beginning" (Burrell, Collins, Dunbar) - 4:13
2. "Eastern Mountain" (Burrell, Collins, Dennis, Dunbar) - 3:47
3. "In This Time" (Burrell, Collins, Dennis, Dunbar, McClymont - 3:48
4. "Ripe Leaf" (Burrell, Collins, Dennis, Dunbar) - 3:56
5. "Burn Dem Turf" (Burrell, Collins, Dennis, Dunbar) - 3:54
6. "What Does It Worth?" (Burrell, Collins, Dennis, Dunbar) - 3:33
7. "A Wah Dat?" (Burrell, Collins, Dunbar) - 3:57
8. "Babylon Homework" (Burrell, Collins, Dunbar) - 3:42
9. "Oh Children" (Burrell, Collins, Dunbar) - 4:06
10. "Break Free" (Burrell, Collins, Dunbar) - 3:59
11. "Mental Chains" - 3:48
12. "True Hearts" - 3:33
13. "A Wah Dat?" (Remix) (Burrell, Collins, Dunbar) - 3:55

External links

• [ Review] at Allmusic
• Sizzla website
• Greensleeves website