A devastating hurricane named "Gilbert" ravaged Jamaica on September 12, 1988. And as most Jamaicans do in the face of hardships and tragedy they sing about it.
A devastating hurricane named "Gilbert" ravaged Jamaica on September 12, 1988. And as most Jamaicans do in the face of hardships and tragedy they sing about it.
Still listening to this classic in 2024!!! Lovindeer is a one of our best lyricists.
still watching this in 2024
Real eh
2023 still listening. From the Caribbean of Nicaragua.
not even the category 5 hurricane can kill the jamaican vybz proud to be a jamaican
It was a CAT 3 lol
It was a Cat 5
@@TheOfficialprincessa Not when it hit Jamaica, it was still a category three at the time.
Mi to
@@corenchiereynaldo2417think about it if if Gilbert was a category 3 hurricane and category 5 hurricane Ivan never cause as much damage as Gilbert did den nuh muss category 5 man fi Gilbert worse than ivan
I danced this classic when was a child! Hi from Costa Rica!
Me too
me too , I'm from Belize
He took a really bad situation and made a great song, this is so underrated 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
That's Jamaicans for you
Yh
Real talk love that tune
Underated?????? U mad????This song is Rated as one of the greatest of its era.
My father used to bump this all the time. His brother was also named Gilbert🤣 Reggae song but us Hondurenos love it.
I’m from Utila. My father killed this song when it came out
Yes we do love it. Full SPS.
Who's watching in 2019? lol
Me
2020 February, let's hope we DON'T have a hurricane Gilbert this coming weekend, 1 love peace, blessings to all......🇯🇲🇯🇲🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🤴🏾👸🏾
@G M Damn, we got a storm heading our way in England this weekend, forgotten the name, but it ain't sounding too good, considering we just experienced one the other day.....
@G M let's hope not....
2020...
This song is still a darn hit in Honduras in 2016 !
So true!
En el 90 pego esta rola. Un verdadero clásico.
Justice Equality September 2017
...and in the 2019.
Un himno para nosotros los Catrachos♥️
OMG!!! I'm from Costa Rica and I listened to this song and dance so many times as a child and never understand the meaning behind it until now. So proud of the strength of these amazing people in those difficult times. God bless Jamaica
"as most Jamaicans do in the face of hardships and tragedy, THEY SING ABOUT IT".. . wow! That's being brave!
Yes that is tru
I was in Kingston for this hurricane. This song captures every striking thing that we experienced; me sweeping water out the house with the broom, stuff you found in the garden the next day, videos and TVs suddenly going down to $60 JA and $120 JA on the black market, $2 dollar beers now costing $10, etc. The song is legendary. Brilliant!
Still loving this in 2021!!
Lol. Gilbert gimme.
So was I with my family, Lorraine avenue
34 years later and I still remember it like it was yesterday. The water came under the door
The spirit of Jamaicans are even stronger after a disaster. For the friends and family we lost in the aftermath of Hurricane Gilbert, rest in peace. You are not firgotten. For the survivors, we can rebuild and move on to bigger and better things. God Bless.
Was 8 yrs old when Gilbert struck in 1988. Still have the memories of walking in the darkness to go the shelter in the night with my mom and dad after a tree fell into the small house we were living in. It was difficult but we pulled through as a poor country
I me and u same age I was born in october
Me too
@@ricardocampbell9738 me tooo
I was 8 years old too….🇯🇲
I was 6 and it was so frightening and exciting at the same time, I remembered we came out when the eye was passing and thought the storm was over, the sky was so clear and blue, it was so amazing, but we’re looking up into the eye, after the storm cams back and was stronger than before. Best days ever
"Wata come inna mi room" randomly came in my head since yesterday. I have been annoying everybody in the house singing it 😄
try saying whooonaahhhseemeedish? whooooonahhhseemeedish? hit them with a chapter 2
The "Dibby dibby hurricane, move and guh weh!" part is begging to become a gif.
I was 8 when Gilbert came through JA. It was easily the scariest thing I ever experience. I still remember ever word to this song.
Yep was 8 yrs old too….memories 🇯🇲
Teach Dem interview with Lovindeer brought me here!!!
I have a brother in law name Gilbert 🤣🤣🤣🤣💯👑🎶🎶🎶🥃🇯🇲 2022 and still listening 🎶 🥃
I don't remember an extended version, but this is even better! Greatest weather-related song ever written. Can't believe it was only 26 years ago,
Now it’s been 32 years
I dont think they play the extended version on jbc. I don't remember it at all
@@sweetradical yes they did I remembered the Olivier Samuels part
@@sailorsaturn6307 now it’s 34 years
my childhood was so lit!
Real talk I miss those days
💯💯🔥🔥😂😂
Who is watching this on the 31st anniversary of Gilbert, September 12, 2019?
Watching it today. Bring back nuff memories even though i wasn't there physically. That was a terrible time for us, now look at Bahamas 🇧🇸 😥 We ferls it knows it 🇯🇲
Watching, hoping and praying none of this ever repeats itself here in England, nor back home......🇯🇲🇯🇲🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🤴🏾👸🏾
Classical performance by d late volier "Maffy" Johnson
Anyone else listening in 2020? Just introduced to this song for the first time today. Hilarious with the video, man.
I have to say that Lovindeer was just a lyrical Genius......dish immigrate like flying saucer without a valid visa ha ha
Let me apologize...Mr Lovindeer is still alive so he IS A lyrical genius...Fyahhhhhh
Symon Templar Dish take off like flying saucer , the roof migrate without a visa
@@symontemplar1418 ight
I’m a jamacan
Lmao mi dead wid dat deh one and song jus start
Great song...who else is listening in 2023
My government surname is Gilbert and I remember when this song came out 🤣😂 gosh they harassed me in school 😁
😆 🤣 😂
😭😭😭😭😭
Lovindeer tear down the place in this time with this some. In a crucible time this song created optimism and harmony between us as Jamaicans. BIG UP Lovindeer this song full of content.
R.I.P. to Volier "Maffy" Johnson as Natty in this video. Jamaican entertainers are the best!
I tell you C. A. T... what is life Here today gone tomorrow. Rest in peace brother. So much memories
Whos here in 2021? Raise your hands 👋🤚🏻🤚🏼🤚🏽🤚🏾🤚🏿
they played this video on Trinidad tv all day in the late 80's
Marcia Forbes from PHASE 3 Productions did this video. No funds - just driven by her conviction that Lovindeer's song was too good to go by without visuals! So she called on her friends, staff, colleagues to be the talent, I was one of them! We had a blast recording this video...cannot believe it's been so many years....but all now my NUH LIKE bully beef!! lol
Yes! You all did great!
+Chantal Hylton-Tonnes - excellent work! i don't think ppl know the talent and hard work required to put something like this together!
Chantal Hylton-Tonnes Thanks for the history and congratulations! Great work.
Big upself this will always be apart of our jamaican memories..
Big up yuhself
Its unbelievable how this song is still relevant
We are great people, who can take bad things and make joke ; Gilbert , was a wicked storm . This is 30 years ago, but it still funny .
Rip Maffie aka Volaire Johnson the dread ..thanks for your large body an catalogue of work in the ent. Industry. We miss an appreciate you. Gone too soon
Only ole’ school dancehall reggae heads could understan’ 🇯🇲 🎶
Anyone else watching this Sept 12, 2019. Gilbert still stands firmly in the hurricane record books 30+ yrs later. 888mb atmospheric pressure for all the meteorologist out there.
Who else is playing this in 2020?
“Hurricane IDA”wi the jam this track,Big up all Belizean 🇧🇿 in LOUISIANA fighting this HARRICANE.STAY BLESS and ONE LOVE ❤️
this is a classic they don't make them like this anymore....great story....great satire....today's generation can learn something
Word!
Lyrics = genius level 👌🏾💯🤣🔥🔥
Hurricane Ian in 2022 brought me here for the memories.
I was born 9 years after hurricane gilbert,but the endless stories from my parents make me feel like i was in it lol
Wish Lovindeer would make a song about 2020
Believe it or not, in the third year of bachelor degree in Geology, in a class of Natural risks and Hazard while we were working on a project about Managua, the teacher put this song through the speakers. He told us this song was playing in club when he was there ! This took place in France in 2022. Sometimes this is how the songs travel i think, great memory !!
Heard this joint in Trinidad maaaaaad years ago and I'm now finding out this was about a storm 🙃😆😅😂
Yes it was about a storm in Jamaica in 89
Lovindeer first made dancehall music popular in Trinidad with a song called 'panty size'.
I remember September 1988 hurricane Gilbert came to Jamaica 🇯🇲 I was getting ready to go to school because I didn’t know there was a hurricane coming. When it came in one hour our roof was gone. We had to run to my grand aunt house 🏡 for shelter. #memories
I'm glad you never got hurt by that devastating hurricane then.......
This was the greatest time in my childhood… everyone was in the same bed… Mom Dad bothers cousins…. And we just spoke all kind of stories… My parents didn’t told how horrible the hurricane was for the Jamaican economy as kids…. They made sure we had a good time when it happened…
Que buena canción, me trae muchos recuerdos, era una adolescente entonces, cuando El Salvaje Gilberto pegó en el Caribe y salió esta súper melodía!
El mejor genero de mi infancia y en la actualidad es mi musica favorita me recuerdo mi infancia cuando me escapava por las noches para irme ala fiesta en mi pueblo el hatillo tegucigalpa honduras saludes ahora radico en Dallas tx
Who's watching on Gilbert anniversary - Sept. 12, 2018
I was just in my early teens when this storm came to JA, no mother or father, my dad had just passed away! I was staying with him! I had to stay in to CHUCH @ Sheffield Westmoreland! Wow I have came a long way!
Im from Sheffield too. I remember people had to shelter at Sheffield SDA. God bless
Still love this 1988 hit by Lovindeer.
"Dem seh thank yuh lord for mr gilbert" the entire song is just too funny! how an island of only a few million people has produced so much brilliant music across so many genres, i will never understand...
Noh true 👍
I'm watching in 2024 from in the United Kingdom ❤
Man!!! Dis a jus vintage classic!!! On the 30th Anniversary of Gilbert it was like yesterday... Yep! I was around back then... Wile Gilbert😨😨😨 Thank God I live to tell the tale🙌 Thanks for posting👍
Those were the good days, Jamaica is nice no matter how bad circumstances are we are happy, positive people. I remember singing this in All age school. Rain a fall breeze a bow chicken batty outta door. Tears :(
Me too 😂
May 20th 2019 I remember dancing to this high school 1980s
Heard this song in Social Studies last week. I was surprised when i found myself and my classmates laughing our pants off at the end of a subjet that we all hate. 😂😂😂 #SoGladIFoundThis
This song is still hilarious in 2021...RIP to the rasta man Mr Johnson
Am still loving this song...up up up 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
Hurricane Elsa in Jamaica 😩, where ma 2021 gang at?😅
Still singing on Hurricane Gilbert Birthday!
RIP Maffi still think of you my friend.
35 yrs ago. 12.09.88 An experience to remember
Recuerdos de Honduras😍
Te amo mi catracha
raise your hand if you went through Gilbert and was dancing through the disaster to the song lol. *raises hands*
+Toure Evelyn: My parents and I opened the rum instead. We were drunk by time it was all over!
hahaha
+Toure Evelyn Hands raised ..... LOL
Hand raised, lol. Loved it. x
+ProudXaymacan lol
I love this song, my grandfather was Jamaican ❤️ I'm ear this so g where I'm was little girl in Costa Rica,now I'm 42 years and I'm steel like listening to this song,but before when I was little girl don't now what the song really say 🥲🌸💚
Who else is loving this in 2017??????
Hurricane Irma brought back memories of mighty Gilbert.
God protect Jamaica from Hurricane Mathew God be with you all
Thx you too
Mixey
this was one the songs ppl used to play back home during hurricane
Leave it up to Jamaicans to make songs off disasters
A mi fe tell yuh. Remember dem come out wid some tee shirt saying"i survived Hurricane Gilbert on September 12 1988 shortly after ?."Them sell like hot cake .😊😊😊
I was just going to say the same exact thing. I guess it's true, great minds think alike.
@@M.O.G. Yesterday was September 12 , 31 years now Gillie ravished Jamdown .
Yes mi fi tell yo jamaican song that
I’m a jamacian
I remember seeing this as a young kid in Jamaica. Back then it was just funny but now as an adult I realize how lyrical it really is.
Growing up in GT bumping to this as a kid! 🔥 🇬🇾
I heard this excellent reggae song in Nicaragua in 1989 and danced to it many times
Memories with my parents.🙏🏿🇯🇲
Dish take off like flying saucer the roof migrate without a visa ,,, funniest lyrics around but soo true to the situation
And we here again with Dorian devastating bahahamas say a prayer for all affected and hope America step up and help they say there a super power,, let’s see your super powers then
Lol
I have been looking for this song for years. Brings back so many memories
one cold beer cost $10 😊 , if that was only soo listen in 2023
youngman in Suriname. hear this song first time love it always
Wa wa wild gilbert! well gilbert yuh gone ha ha Now wi can chat behind yuh back Wa wa wild Gilbert [Chorus:] Water come inna mi room Huh huh! Mi sweep out some with mi broom Di likkle dog laugh to see such fun And di dish run away with the spoon Come now come now come now
35 years ago Gilbert lick Jamaica... I wonda if all Dem people still deh bout. Good thing our house was 100%concrete.. and it still standing to dis day.
I was 3 years old when I was supposed to start my very first day of school. Never understood why I couldn't go and I was so upset. Mom said between the hurricane and myself she didn't know which one was louder with the hollering. Lol. Never got back electricity until November. Eat corned beef till I sick. AND THANK GOD FOR SLAB ROOF!!!
Amazing how God has a way of bringing people together if they don't do it on their own and share with others!
September 12, 1988... I’ll never for get this, it was scary to say the least...Gilbert was a monster!
I got goosebumps watching this video, it brought back a whole lot of memories.
Goosebumps on bamsee?
Such lyrics wow sounds so good on this Gilbert 35 anniversary
Imagine 30 years already, I remember it as if it was last week.
Dont
@G M I was 14 then, I'm now 46. I don't consider that old, do you? If you do its bc you're stupid.
@G M no I have a good memory. You're just dumb and stupid.
@G M is that your routine? What do you use to tighten "down there?" Maybe you could try it on your mouth as well.
@Lex Luger How do you know what I'm using? Sick, creepy and disgusting much? You obviously need a life. Maybe you hang out by a pond or some dutty water somewhere. Go get a life lousy, loose, loser.
This song brings back memories , iwas due to give birth, anytime, but the good lord held it off until the other Monday
Dis can’t stale. 😉🇯🇲♥️
Y'all can't imagine the looks on peoples face when I my first name was Gilbert. One brethren even said to me "Gilbert, U come back?" All in all, though, great song and humorous too.
The 90’s ! what a vibe! , this song came out early that decade though , nobody had a clue about how many good songs movies and vibe would come up along it ! Poor kids today don’t have a clue !
30 years!!! Still sound good
4 more thousand views till a million. Ive been watching and pushing this masterpiece since 840,000 views
This song still shot in 2019. Hurricane Dorian out right now cat 5 in Bahamas and headed to Florida.
Bad ass song till this day.Cant forget that hurricane Gilbert.
When did the song actually come out?
Classic before its time. Glad we are able to make light fun of hurricanes but this one took it over the top I enjoyed it
This number was so carefully crafted.. Lol.. Mr Lovindeer.. You are a genius
2023 lol i still love this song
Who is watching in 2018 !?
Still listening in 2017. My son (8 yrs) says he loves the riddim