🇹🇹 Black Stalin - Kaiso Gone Dread (1979) 🇹🇹

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Leroy Calliste better known as Black Stalin, is a leading calypsonian from Trinidad and Tobago known for his lyrics against colonial oppression.
With his politically aware lyrics set to a high-tech blend of electric drums, congas, horns, guitar and bass, Black Stalin has been hailed as "one of the kings of soca. A five-time winner of Trinidad's National Calypso Monarch competition (1979, 1985, 1987, 1991, and 1995).

Kaiso is a type of music popular in Trinidad and Tobago, and other countries, especially of the Caribbean, such as Grenada, Belize, Barbados, St. Lucia and Dominica, which originated in West Africa, and later evolved into calypso music.
Kaiso music has its origins in West Africa (particularly in present-day Nigeria) and in the Kingdom of Kongo and was brought over by the enslaved Africans, who (in the early history of the art form) used it to sing about their masters. The people would also gather in "kaiso" tents where a griot or lead singer would lead them in song. Many early kaisos were sung in French Creole by an individual called a chantwell. Kaiso songs are generally narrative in form and often have a cleverly concealed political subtext.