Big up RG & thank you for touching on this artiste/ real bad man .. but your timeline is a bit out.. Ranking Dread was first introduced to England Easter 79 by Sir Coxsone in Northampton MFM club v Jah Shaka V Sir Christopher .. I should know as I was there Festus introduced him as a new artiste coming out of JA & the tune they played was Superstar to Sugar Minnot’s Babylon Pressure where RD made the claim that he went to school with Dennis Brown Sugar Minnot Errol Dunkly & Gregory Issacs which we didn’t know was true or make believe but that was his first major hit in the UK .. It was a little bit after this dance that he made the tune with Jimmy Riley Love & Devotion which I saw him perform for the very first time at a concert in Birmingham Al/s Errol Dunkly & Alton Ellis Regal Hall & RD tore up that concert especially when he big up Birmingham in that tune . 1980 African Girl with Sugar Minnot & Bandulu with Cornel Campbell 1981 General with Dennis Brown which were all big hits in English reggae charts .. It was 1982 when he released Fattie Boom which became a top twenty hit in the British pop charts getting played on rotation on BBC radio 1 .. it was a little bit after this the rumours started to circulate about the double life style he was living as what he was preaching on record was not the way he was actually living .. it’s a shame that he chose badness to fund his lifestyle as if he had chosen the music route he would be massive today because his style flow & lyrical content was way above everybody else at that time the only one one close to him was Jah Loves Brigadier Jerry who was ruling in Jamaica around the same time but where Brigadier made his name through tape & cassette worldwide RD was know in the UK Europe & America but he wasn’t known in Jamaica as a top D.j he was known under a different name for the badness he had done in JA which forced him to run to England … 🙏🏾
@@nyakwarObat look this is not about folly bredrin Brigadier was ruling JA between 78 to 82 ..Charlie Chaplin & Josey Whales was ruling JA on StruvGav late 82 until Philip Levi buss with Saxon Studio late 83/84.. RD buss in England 79 completely different time lines..
His real name was Robert Blackwood he was on prince Danny hifi and Iossie sound systems Before heading to Ray symbolic hifi al your story is not right you.must Do your research he wss not the leader of the shower possie he was way Down the line
Nuff made up stories here. Me my Cousins, R Dread, Sugar Minott, Leroy Horsemouth. Tony Tuff and a few more lived like brothers right here inna London.
His birth name was , MICHAEL ANDERSON ,a former schoolmate of mine at Boy Town Primary School in the 60s . Boyark was a master of disguise and used several names ,even a birth certificate that he was born elsewhere but usually both in Kingston.
I think he ws pointing out people did see the incidenet did not want to get involved as people would kill them, No FBI witness protection in Britain is to small and no way to hide,
I remember playing bar football with one of my sistrens back in the day at Phebes Amhurst Road We use to verse some brethren for fun one who was Ranking Dread...although we really never knew of him like in the video. 💚💛❤
Ire, Rasta woman I remember them days . Did pass round your house yesterday to make sure you are ok as have not seen you for years! Hope you are ok and ting! Will pass around later today . Ras Fari
Wow I knew this guy, I used to work with him and Sir Coxon putting up sound systems and doing dances and parties, then suddenly he just disappeared.Never saw him again.
I heard his cellblock got burned to bits and he was the only prisoner that wasn't let out, pretty much roasting him inside his own cell. R.I.P. Badboy Ranking Dread.
@@nyakwarObat that’s what they say and it’s alleged but it’s a fact that rankin was a informant for Scotland Yard that’s why he was getting away with his crimes for long before they finally had enough
This is the first time I have heard that Lloyd Coxone owned the four aces club. The club was owned by the Brightly family who also owned cubies, which was around the corner.
I remember watching the cook report , back when it first got aired. I always remember thinking Roger Cook got it wrong. I found out a few years later that Ranking Dread was a bad man.
Lloyd coxsone was not the club owner he was the resident sound at for aces on Friday night the owner was a man call newton who recently passed away 👍🏾alot of your information is not correct thanks anyway
I can't seem to find the episode of the Cook Report that involves Ranking Dread anywhere... Why is it so difficult to find anything about this man. It's really mysterious to say the least.
the days of grenfell tower lol,box dong i am the don,use to sit with me everyday,iin a de yardie restuarant,good youth,when you get to know him,a dub up wild up tings and mek tings come pan top a rankin dread
@@westyraviz all of them from that time till now was bad man d.j except for Lt Stitchie & Papa San yuh tink Josie Whales was nice & he’s a icon of many..
HaHa!...you Never Mentioned the Armoury way posse you featuring in the Vid....that Vid part was why before it tun gangster them ends....that Area was one of the Areas of many South London Sound systems being born...a Real reflection of Black productive an Positive music
There is nothing to celebrate about him. His life was one of oppression of his own people and community. Anyway he served his father well....The devil! He has now left this world and resides now at peace (hmmm) with his father!
Jean green was also a hit . think he got a award at the UK reggae awards . he was also wanted for rape wich I hope isn't true as I like dread . he was known in Manchester. and robbd various parts of the uk. a lot of Jamaicans don't even know who he is Mikey dread was another great artist a big pioner.
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He was a bad man no doubt & at 1 point he had political asylum as he came over as a official bodyguard to the Jamaica president at the time, he was feared but there was a good few of the English bad boys especially sandringham road Lot who wasn’t having none of his nonsense the yardies and English lot did mix a lot but there was a few who had run ins with him 1 of them who had a long running feud with him stabbed him up & left him for dead he’s lucky his friends got to him in time , another time the same 1 threw a grenade at them but instead of rolling it along the ground he threw it in the air at them otherwise he would have died well before. It was a shame though as he was a talented singer.
Finally someone who talks about his double life he was living. Respect for the video
Super interesting! 4 Aces Dalston's got so much history.Harlseden back then was rough and ready but a great place to live. Top vid
Your feedback is appreciated 🙏
yes I was a regular there for 3-4 years then it closed. Great music food and people there,
Lloyd coxson did not own or run 4 aces club his sound just played there every week
Me did wonder which part him get that from
@colinquintyne412 it was count shelly who Run the 4 Aces club with is regular sound system
I did wonder why he said that
@@dennisisaacs6978 real talk
Then the club Was sold on and turned to Labarinth club
If you choose the way off Babylon living, ya dead!
Big up RG & thank you for touching on this artiste/ real bad man .. but your timeline is a bit out.. Ranking Dread was first introduced to England Easter 79 by Sir Coxsone in Northampton MFM club v Jah Shaka V Sir Christopher .. I should know as I was there Festus introduced him as a new artiste coming out of JA & the tune they played was Superstar to Sugar Minnot’s Babylon Pressure where RD made the claim that he went to school with Dennis Brown Sugar Minnot Errol Dunkly & Gregory Issacs which we didn’t know was true or make believe but that was his first major hit in the UK .. It was a little bit after this dance that he made the tune with Jimmy Riley Love & Devotion which I saw him perform for the very first time at a concert in Birmingham Al/s Errol Dunkly & Alton Ellis Regal Hall & RD tore up that concert especially when he big up Birmingham in that tune . 1980 African Girl with Sugar Minnot & Bandulu with Cornel Campbell 1981 General with Dennis Brown which were all big hits in English reggae charts .. It was 1982 when he released Fattie Boom which became a top twenty hit in the British pop charts getting played on rotation on BBC radio 1 .. it was a little bit after this the rumours started to circulate about the double life style he was living as what he was preaching on record was not the way he was actually living .. it’s a shame that he chose badness to fund his lifestyle as if he had chosen the music route he would be massive today because his style flow & lyrical content was way above everybody else at that time the only one one close to him was Jah Loves Brigadier Jerry who was ruling in Jamaica around the same time but where Brigadier made his name through tape & cassette worldwide RD was know in the UK Europe & America but he wasn’t known in Jamaica as a top D.j he was known under a different name for the badness he had done in JA which forced him to run to England … 🙏🏾
Many thanks for sharing your thoughts 🙏
You can't mention brigadier jerry and leave out Charlie chaplin bredrin. A folly dat
@@nyakwarObat look this is not about folly bredrin Brigadier was ruling JA between 78 to 82 ..Charlie Chaplin & Josey Whales was ruling JA on StruvGav late 82 until Philip Levi buss with Saxon Studio late 83/84.. RD buss in England 79 completely different time lines..
@@reggaegistxtra_ng 🙏🏾🙏🏾
& Actual Facts!😅
His real name was Robert Blackwood he was on prince Danny hifi and Iossie sound systems Before heading to Ray symbolic hifi al your story is not right you.must Do your research he wss not the leader of the shower possie he was way Down the line
People just mek up stories and tell lies on you
Absolutely, most probably born in 2002 😂
Nuff made up stories here. Me my Cousins, R Dread, Sugar Minott, Leroy Horsemouth. Tony Tuff and a few more lived like brothers right here inna London.
I knew dread wen I was a yout and there is so much wrong with this blog..
His birth name was , MICHAEL ANDERSON ,a former schoolmate of mine at Boy Town Primary School in the 60s . Boyark was a master of disguise and used several names ,even a birth certificate that he was born elsewhere but usually both in Kingston.
300 people were in the toilet so they didn't know what happened at the time .what venue have you ever seen that 😅😅😅😅😅😅
I think he ws pointing out people did see the incidenet did not want to get involved as people would kill them, No FBI witness protection in Britain is to small and no way to hide,
I’ve got a couple of Ranking Dread tunes on my playlist.
@bunandcheese4445 I have a many Ranking Dread vynels his first LPS
Factually INCORRECT
Share
Yeah share
Prove it, otherwise a fool fool business you deh pon
Very good and interesting. I listened to Ranking Dread in the 80s.
We need more teachings, keep it up brother man Ras Dennis!!
More to come, Mi Bredda
I saw him a few times in Handsworth Birmingham Frontline in the 80's
Bwoy mi no like…. Mi no chat to dem…. Gal mi no like … mi no keep dem friend….
He did that song?
@@Its_I_Ziggyman …. Ranking Dread Lots Of Loving…. Sitting and Watching Riddim
Sharon are mi sistren still, Audrey are mi girlfriend still...
Big up York nuff respect🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
I like his album Love & Devotion …Humble Lion track is killer
I was always wondering what happen to him thanks so much keep up the good work bro
Respect Ranking Dread
Are you normal?😂😂
❤I love when ur channel so much 🙏
Thank you
I remember playing bar football with one of my sistrens back in the day at Phebes Amhurst Road
We use to verse some brethren for fun one who was Ranking Dread...although we really never knew of him like in the video. 💚💛❤
Ire, Rasta woman I remember them days . Did pass round your house yesterday to make sure you are ok as have not seen you for years! Hope you are ok and ting! Will pass around later today . Ras Fari
Easily the most mysterious story in all of Jamaican music
Tenor Saw??
Yes it's true 👍
bless up mi bredrine,good to see your face again though
I rediscovered "Fatty Boom Boom" earlier this year, but I had no idea Rankin Dread was such a serious criminal. Sad.
I knew him personally from Hackney Sandringham road!!!!
#Dalston #FrontLine
The good ol' days. 💯🫡
So tell us some more about him
@@jaycostewart8 Trust me 🫡😂😀
@@sittingherewatching364 I don’t talk people business sorry!
Yeah, the Jamaican term Fatty Boom Boom is used still as a lovable way of ridiculing a stout or obese person in comical conversations.
A Real Badmon Deejay, and that i mean that.
Also a supposed murderer
@@thernfoster4360from the man say a real badman, you should a dig it.
Original bad bwoy boyark/blue
A supposed murderer shouldn't be glorified
Ranking Dread was a hit man in Politics in Jamaica...that is well known....it would also explain the cook report going missing because of evidence
He was a criminal but a wicked dj
Mordar mordar mordar, gad damn🙄🙄🙄🙄
Real gangsters don't hang around on street corners 😂😂😂
Wow I knew this guy, I used to work with him and Sir Coxon putting up sound systems and doing dances and parties, then suddenly he just disappeared.Never saw him again.
I heard his cellblock got burned to bits and he was the only prisoner that wasn't let out, pretty much roasting him inside his own cell. R.I.P. Badboy Ranking Dread.
Nuttn nuh go so
Jim brown
Live by the Fire Die by the Fire
@@TO-mp6qr a never d fire kll Jim brown. It was d smoke inhalation.
@@TO-mp6qr …and CRACK smoke inhalation kll Rankin Dread
Can never find the cook report episode
Been trying for years and can’t find it
@@nattybonga wonder why🤔
300 people were in the toilet at the same time so no one saw the shooting 😂 sounds Jamaican 😂
Sounds like them never shoot me yet best I mind my business
Rankin was a informant for Scotland Yard
Them say smiley culture was a informer too
@@nyakwarObat that’s what they say and it’s alleged but it’s a fact that rankin was a informant for Scotland Yard that’s why he was getting away with his crimes for long before they finally had enough
@@choctawbyblood how you know this? it makes sense, i guess that's why they deport him instead of put him on the stand where he could expose Yard
Crime dont pay
This is the first time I have heard that Lloyd Coxone owned the four aces club. The club was owned by the Brightly family who also owned cubies, which was around the corner.
Some man just born to be bad
Most video's on Ranking Dread aka Boyark have gone missing from the internet,Roger Cook Uk & Chin/Canada interveiws,i wonder why?
If you know how long I've searched for the full documentary 😢. Cyaant find it anywhere
I remember watching the cook report , back when it first got aired. I always remember thinking Roger Cook got it wrong. I found out a few years later that Ranking Dread was a bad man.
ONELOVE ❤
Better to walk with God than the devil ....
Better to love your people's than poisen them and lead them to destruction
The wages of sin
He didnt passway in in prison he died in his friends house in tivoli Gardens
How do you know this
Yes from health issues from prolonged drug abuse
@drilladvocates1420 what drug?
@drilladvocates1420 someone said he died of aids
@@dd-du9bz i wouldn't be surprised he was a rapist. He left london cause of a rape charge
He had is dreds cut off by a east end " proper ' gangster and he turned white he was that frightened, got ran out of a few places apparently 😮
So they say lol
@@cm-oo1td yeah yeah yeah...😏 Next
Dont blues club .also another eastend pull tool on him .his ass went then also .he a well known grass
Lloyd coxsone was not the club owner he was the resident sound at for aces on Friday night the owner was a man call newton who recently passed away 👍🏾alot of your information is not correct thanks anyway
I can't seem to find the episode of the Cook Report that involves Ranking Dread anywhere... Why is it so difficult to find anything about this man. It's really mysterious to say the least.
same here been looking for years, someone out there has the VHS unbeknownst to us here on the internet
the days of grenfell tower lol,box dong i am the don,use to sit with me everyday,iin a de yardie restuarant,good youth,when you get to know him,a dub up wild up tings and mek tings come pan top a rankin dread
What a so called murder supaect and drug dealer. I hear that all the time. Dem.good to some but him gangster and no gangster nuh good.
Brilliant toaster though
Well officer,i was taking a dump in the toilet then i heard a loud bang😅
the great buyak
Everything leads back to seaga and Manley at some point. Their all hellbound.😊
Fatty Boom Boom….💃🏽💃🏽
The Nigerian with the fake weed is craaaazzzy. Dang. They been scamming for real 😂. Cold blooded.
So sad
He was poisoned with glass in his food in Jamaica took out long run short catch
Smoke too much crack and pneumonia tek him. Same ting reach baby Wayne
@@jnicemint Lol we're all discussing what his death was. No one seems to know for sure it seems.
@@RaggaBaby These negros are gossip legends😂🤣
He is still alive but that's not my business
They murdered him in jail, the authorities had him poisoned. He is an icon
A supposed murderer is your icon?
You are a big part of the problem if a man like this is your icon. Be better. Do better.
Not your dad?! But him 😂
Folly ranking bound fe get a spanking - johnny osbourne
@@westyraviz all of them from that time till now was bad man d.j except for Lt Stitchie & Papa San yuh tink Josie Whales was nice & he’s a icon of many..
Wasn't a poisoned in prison in Jamaica?
Was he also know as Errol Codling ??met a guy in the great western in moss side looked real like him
Great DJ but a bad, bad maan.....
HaHa!...you Never Mentioned the Armoury way posse you featuring in the Vid....that Vid part was why before it tun gangster them ends....that Area was one of the Areas of many South London Sound systems being born...a Real reflection of Black productive an Positive music
He was already a notorious badman before he became ranking dread ranking dread was a mask Buyaak
That one episode from top boy
RANKING Dread.... A real rasta man✌🏾👍🏽✊🏿
Him ah real Dread not ah Rasta Man! Real Rasta Man nuh get involved inna Political ranglings, drugs or killings
@MrMotion54 its safe to assume you never heard of the elder Sam Brown, or the PNP and JLP party. Never heard of Claudius Henry nether
What you know about real rasta man? 😂😂
@ I’m a real Rasta man
Him and my baby father were gangster .joy dag Ladbroke
All washed away. To peace and rest
There is nothing to celebrate about him. His life was one of oppression of his own people and community. Anyway he served his father well....The devil! He has now left this world and resides now at peace (hmmm) with his father!
Original Ranking Dread
Gwan RestUp in perfekt Peace Mi Pupa
Did your pupa give peace to the streets?
Do you really think he's gonna rip?
Jean green was also a hit . think he got a award at the UK reggae awards . he was also wanted for rape wich I hope isn't true as I like dread . he was known in Manchester. and robbd various parts of the uk. a lot of Jamaicans don't even know who he is Mikey dread was another great artist a big pioner.
Was there a movie about him?
All bad man loose in the end a sweet bitter life a bad fool going to the ded end of him selft never work out good in the end shame
Stylleee
I might have smoked this man's weed. 🤔
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I didn’t see anything I was in the toilet
300 people in the toilet smh
What did he die of in JA prison? stabbing??
bullox,the reggae came after the badman ting,pan a sugar minott track
He was a bad man no doubt & at 1 point he had political asylum as he came over as a official bodyguard to the Jamaica president at the time, he was feared but there was a good few of the English bad boys especially sandringham road Lot who wasn’t having none of his nonsense the yardies and English lot did mix a lot but there was a few who had run ins with him 1 of them who had a long running feud with him stabbed him up & left him for dead he’s lucky his friends got to him in time , another time the same 1 threw a grenade at them but instead of rolling it along the ground he threw it in the air at them otherwise he would have died well before. It was a shame though as he was a talented singer.
So London had guns in the 80s
London always had guns from they was about for military use.
🫡
I heard ranking dread was gay
Goes to to show you looks are deceiving
Yo, this isnt the story man, stop.......stop following rumours
Tell it then!
This is bullshit. Talk about owning business