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Motormouth Dub: Smiley Culture/Pato Banton

Richard Gehr, The Village Voice, 16 September 1986

Some warp-speed world we live in, eh? It’s lucky we’ve got fast-forward buttons on our VCRs, quick-check lines at the A&P, automatic banking, speed-racer drugs, expressways to your heart, and — here’s the ticket — Concorde flights to Jamaica, making the slowest country in the world available to you in minutes.

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