Rasta
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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
According to a now-outdated Postmates menu, Flavor Crazy sold Caribbean-infused soul food dishes, such as "flavor-crazy wings," macaroni and cheese, "Rasta Pasta," snapper and seafood rice.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2022
His friend, Dion Liverpool, better known as DJ Rasta Root, was on the other end of the line.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 22, 2022
Selassie, an Orthodox Christian, may not have been a Rasta believer, insisting that he was not immortal, but Rastafarians still revere him as the Lion of Judah.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2021
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
“This is an issue that Rastas have died for,” Hutton explains with a sudden seriousness.
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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