Rasta
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Several months later, the affair took a bizarre turn after his beloved "Rasta Bambi", a doe he had lovingly raised on his farm in Mali, went missing.
From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026
Taking the Rasta name Jabari Muata Ta Seti, he returned to Bradford and worked as a voluntary counsellor, also setting up the anti-drugs charity Black Against Crack in the city in the mid-1990s.
From BBC ● May 27, 2026
He also enlisted help from his generation’s most eminent producer, Tainy, as well as DJ Playero, Arcángel and Baby Rasta, bona fide OGs from Puerto Rico’s reggaetón underground.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2022
The white walls and beams were scrawled with notes from guests: “© this island,” “The Rasta was here” and “Order the ribs.”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 18, 2022
It was a Rasta cap: the one Grover always wore.
From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan
“But I think he is proud — well, Rastas don’t feel proud — but he has expressed to me that he feels very irie about what I’m doing with my work.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2023
Many Rastas believe the plant grew on the grave of King Solomon.
From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2015
"It was not at all the way it was described to me. It's not a Rastafarian town. It's 100,000 Ethiopians and only a few hundred Rastas living on the outskirts," she says.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2014
We were emissaries from the place the Rastas called Babylon Kingdom and we were free to travel anywhere in the world we desired.
From Salon ● Jan. 6, 2013
Matamisa was merely the best known of the Rastas, and he was able to prove he was elsewhere that day.
From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2011
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