I really don't like that song "Running From Jamaica". I find it very bitter and grudgeful as they would say in JA. My parents and thousands of others emigrated to the UK, the States and Canada because of the crippling poverty, lack of opportunities and the violence in JA and they would not have left if they had a choice because they loved it there. Even so, they worked very hard and sent what they could to JA including the occasional barrel crammed with food and clothes. No one even bothered to say thank you and they had no idea how hard life was in the UK with the racism, freezing cold, s**t, jobs and the cramped accommodation they had to endure.
Groups like the Wailers must have understood what life was like for Jamaicans in London because they spent time here but some of the other artists and people in JA generally need to understand how hard we have to work here just to keep our heads above water.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzQHSW7Bvs4