Mickey Leigh (The Rattlers) has teamed up with Jamaican artist Militant General to The Emperor to release a new version of The Rattlers' track, "I Won't Be Your Victim (No More)." Mickey Leigh comments:
I knew this song had legs, but i didn't think it could run all the to Kingston...Jamaica. About a year ago, my assistant and head choreographer, Miss Patsy Inez Williams, showed me a pic of a guy in her native town of Clarendon wearing a Mickey Leigh's mUtaTeD mUSic t-shirt. "I said "who...how...WOW!!" She told me it was a friend of hers; a rapper called Militant General To The Emperor, and that he'd gotten hold of some of my stuff.
A few weeks later she said she wanted to play an old song by my band old band The Rattlers called "I Won't Be Your Victim." It must be that the message of this song stays strong, universally. It was adapted in Portuguese when people in Brazil were singing it during the (violent) protests in 2014; played around the country by US musician/activist David Peel during the Occupy Wall Street movement, + a video made with it for the Anti-Bully campaign in 2016. Then Inez put it on and it sounded...very different than i'd remembered it....
Militant General to the Emperor adds:
Sifting through Leigh’s works one of the overlooked nuggets that was discovered was his 1985-1986 “I Won’t Be Your Victim” …my mind and thoughts were gripped by the words I heard while my heart & body were moved by the groovy sounds of the irresistible rhythm that made me want to become apart of it…so I did.
Check out the video for the new version of the track below:
