CULTURE - Get Them Soft (One Stone)

1996--For Joseph,Respect.Written,produced and arranged by Joseph HILL.
Joseph Hill, Lead vocals and percussion
Albert Walker, Vocals
Ire'land Malomo, Vocals

Performed by DUB MYSTIC
Dean 'Digital' Pond, Drums
Anthony 'Lion' Arthur, Bass
Ricky 'Swann' Richardson, Guitars
Noel 'Barry' Aikens, Keyboards

Also featuring
Dean Fraser,sax - Chico,trumpet - Nambo Robinson,trombone - Vin Gordon,trombone - Harry T.,percussion - Tony "Asher" Brisset,keyboards.

Recorded at Mixing Lab, Kingston, Jamaica
Engineered by Fathead
Mixed at Lion and Fox Studio, Washington, D.C.
Engineered by Jim Fox

GET THEM SOFT
Look how you chaka chaka and rink and mash up

For you nuh hear me wah de Rastaman say
Say you nuh fi sniff no cocaine down deh
You nuh hear me wah de Rastaman say
Say you nuh fi sniff no cocaine down deh

The cocaine ah get them off
Get them soft, get them soft
The cocaine ah get them off
Get them soft, get them soft
Mi say, the cocaine ah get them off
Get them soft, get them soft

As them start to sniff the cocaine
Them no washing them clothes again
Neither clean them boot
Neither wash them dirty foot

Ah wah happen to you master
Look deh round the brethren foot
Like no water no deh, but see yah master
Go ah river yeah. But look how him mother
And father nice and look now him stay sake
Ah the little white powder but is wah do the boy master

Mama give you one black fowl
An it lay one dozen egg
And sake ah the little white powder
The boy sell it off and start to beg

Papa have one big foot truck and
Him left it on the will fi you
Hindering you from turn a thief or
Neither turn a crook

Mama walk through dew water
And try send you to school
So you can learn the golden rule
And when you take a stock
You deh back a school a rude
because

Sometimes I sit and wonder
I wonder where them ambition gone
It seem them ambition turn a dirt
Upon a land

I wonder where your ambition gone
I wonder what you think
I wonder what example you setting for the youth
What them fi think bout you

[AmduKah]

It's 2024 but still a masterpiece. Rest in peace 😢❤

[TheAILLC]

My favourite artist. Joseph Constantine Hill. Continue Resting In Peace Prophet. Fondly missed🫶🏾🫶🏾🫶🏾🫶🏾

[whatsupwhatsup]

Get them soft by shutting off and staying silent, ignoring them!! A lesson many learn too late.

[RaphaelMulei-evqy]

I will forever be grateful to Jah for gifting us you, Rest in peace Teacher.❤

[SamsonOmala-jw]

April 2025. Just like any drugs, alcohol and substance. Great message from God's messenger.

[edanechickpoultryfarm]

This guy was an African!!! We feel your tunes and lyrics.

[AaronKabenga]

The people who never whated oppression slavery, reggae stars, and knew the bible well.ak.zambia I TT ❤

[Atlasgh]

Culture remains a big artist in Ghana . Ghana love Culture maybe even more than Bob Marley

[mosesashikoye]

Rest easy Joseph, you left something good with big impact in our lives to remember you forever. Kenya forever 🇰🇪 🇰🇪 🇰🇪

[Capoff]

Finally i get u, years of searching for u get em soft

[HappyMalema-ig]

Joseph is my favourite raggae music artist

[jndech]

The Bob Marley of our times, loved in Kenya than any other country in the world.

[georgesmaish]

Only culture could do it this way...vintage reggae

[akouadomevo]

It's 1st January 2025 and still current.
Culture never outmode

[HardyTenumah]

Still playing here inna 2025 BLESS GOD. bless culture, Rasta 🇯🇲

[SalimEngonga-pl]

Music..food for the soul..when it hits tiu feel no pain❤😢😢😢😢😢tears of joy😢🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[johngitonga]

I feel you Joseph Hill...Gone but never forgotten

[KESIOR]

This one 🇰🇪👍 my reminds me of my grandpa😊

[shabangu]

The trumpeter totally top class and the beat... Amazing... Only Culture.

[godfreymwenda]

RIP Hills! In ma heart you live... I see your prophetic insights fulfilled every waking day.