By Tanya Batson, Staff ReporterTHE CD cover encasing the single I Don't Know How It Reach Roun Dere hints that there is something interesting to be had within. The cover features the artiste, Dingo, smiling like an incorrigible child from the centre of a marijuana leaf, in parody of one of those Ann Geddes baby photos.
The song easily lives up to the cover's promise. I Don't Know How It Reach Roun Dere has two strong points: musicianship and lyrics.
The lyrics could easily make it the theme song for the Buju Banton defence as the singer laments that he was not the planter of the herb plant that was discovered in his backyard.
Big and serious is not I plant it/ I don't know how it reach roun dere he laments. Though he denies having planted it, however he defends the plant as It good fi yuh eyesight/Make yuh meditation clear. The song also points to the social politics surrounding ganja as 'not a peep' is heard when ganja is smoked uptown.
Where the lyrics make for interesting listening, the instruments, especially the guitar and saxophone are close to brilliant, with wondrous guitar work toward the end of the song. I Don't Know How It Reach Roun Dere has what far too many songs lack today, imaginative lyrics and good instrumentation. In its own words, I Don't Know How It Reach Roun Dere is 'cool and deadly'.
