Natty Dreadlocks

Natty Dreadlocks (synonyms "Natty Dread", "Natty", "Dready" or "Dread") is a Rastafari term for a member of the Rastafari community. The image of such a man is often used in reggae music and elsewhere to represent an idealised personification of the Rastafari movement as a whole. It combines the term natty (as in "natural") and a style of dreadlocks which have formed naturally without cutting, combing or brushing.
Examples of reggae albums/tracks featuring the term
* police polizia by Alborosie
* Natty Dread, a 1974 album by Bob Marley & the Wailers.
* Natty Dread, a 1997 album by the Charlie Hunter Quartet, consisting of jazz-funk arrangements of the songs on the Bob Marley album.
* ', an album by Black Uhuru, where the answer to the rhetorical question is "Natty Dreadlocks"
* "Ride Natty Ride", from Bob Marley & the Wailers' album, Survival.
* "Natty Dread Taking Over", from the debut album Two Sevens Clash by roots reggae band Culture, in 1976.
* "Jah Jah Ah Natty Dread", track six of Lee Perry's Return of the Super Ape.
* "Que me Pisen", from Sumo's 1987 album Llegando los Monos.
* "Under Mi Sensi", a song by Barrington Levy.
* I Love Marijuana, an album by Linval Thompson.
* Blame it on the sun, a 1975 album by roots reggae band Inner Circle
* "Natty Dreadlocks 'Pon The Mountain Top", track four of Bad Brains's album Build A Nation.
* "Mix up" on the album Trenchtown Mix Up by The Gladiators
* "Natty Dread A Weh She Want" by Horace Andy
* "Pique Natty Dread" by Planta & Raiz
* "'Natty Dread" by Israel Vibration
* "Heart of a Lion (Feat. Notis HeavyWeightRockaz)" by Nattali Rize.

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