‘Rikers Island’ a reggae rocker of prison blues
‘Rikers Island’ a reggae rocker of prison blues
Going to ‘farin’, which in the 1990s automatically translated into going to the United States, is the dream of many a Jamaican in search of a better standard of living. And that ‘farin’, for many of the many, means New York, New York (“The city is so big they named it twice,” deejay Josey Wales chortled).
However, while the Statue of Liberty and Times Square are the landmarks immigrants look forward to seeing, often the ‘hustlers’ end up in prison. And Rikers Island, the huge prison facility in the East River, becomes the secluded ‘home away from home’.