Bunny: The Gangster Wailer

The Wailers battled to make it in the mafia type environment of the Jamaican music business. Bunny Wailer emerged as the group's muscle and backbone throughout those difficult days.
Clips of Bunny Wailer courtesy of Totown / Michael W. Adams. Full video 👇
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[@edsmith4821]

Bunny not gangsta he just stand up for your rights . Every song the Wailers wrote was a reflection of the real struggle they went through .

[@ShangoHeruGinen1791]

Well a rudeboy is a Jamaican gangster who fight the system and Bunny was a rudeboy. He had a gentle spirit but if you messed with him that rudeboy side would come out.

[@zacharyjohnson6453]

Teddy boys, rude boys, and Bandidos were all cut from the same cloth

[@chicfini]

​@@zacharyjohnson6453👍🏿

[@ralphups7782]

i meet bob marley as a young kid, and got into instant argument about smoking . he was right he was about my dads age and knew what kids should do before they were adults. that quickly brought me back to earth indeed

[@gokolink]

Tell us more please!

[@lauranicholls9421]

Bunny was an. Aries. Ram. They’re rarely calm. Very. Fiery people.. Thanks for sharing ..💚💛❤️💚

[@judas8897]

Big up Bunny , the original Don Da Da.

[@1Meeks]

Nothing gangster about What real Revolutionary people thinks or Do💯

[@brianmitchell8479]

RIP Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer 🎤🎼😭🇯🇲🇬🇩🇹🇹🇬🇾🇺🇸. It does seem like Bunny Wailer was mild mannered but if you tried him the ghetto would come out of him.

[@jamesedgar7221]

I Think the Great lesson we should learn from this great video documentary, is that oppressed people will continue to be oppressed as long as they imitate they ways of behaving and functioning of the oppressor.

[@GordonBeckles]

Exactly... how long will it take before "we" understand we'll never rise until all of us learn to love mutual interest over self-interest.

[@ottoflouer1750]

Yeah gorden bro I wish more would see this is the way

[@SSKMusicBeats]

@@GordonBeckles exactly we lack Ubuntu

[@daveman9468]

@@SSKMusicBeats I would say colonisation attemted to surgically remove Ubuntu from all the subjugated peoples.

[@JD-ny3vz]

@@daveman9468 Yes great point

[@Enta_Da_Sage]

The album Blackheart Man from Bunny Wailer is one of the best reggae albums of all time. Bunny was next level as a lyricist and singer.

[@digitalsmooth8377]

Love that one but my favorite is Rootsman Skanking

[@hekimaasilia6207]

This is very debatable my friend. He was indeed the least talented in the trio.

[@digitalsmooth8377]

@@hekimaasilia6207 We're talikng about Bunny's solo albums...

[@ikongchin3088]

Seh who ????

[@patriciawilson9666]

@@hekimaasilia6207 Bullshit.Bunny was far and away the best singer of the three by any standard.Blackheart Man is an an acknowledged Reggae classic.So is Bunny Sings the Wailers.

[@dellydzima]

It was a bumpy road for them. But they made it to history.

[@CWellthaGiant1]

Bunny wailer is a genius just like Marley and Tosh!

[@NoLefTurnUnStoned.]

Tosh wasn’t really anything like a genius. He was just in a band with two. Genius is an overused word.

[@vita9010]

​@@NoLefTurnUnStoned.They were all talented. His loathing of touring is why he didn't have more international success.

[@noriwilliams4637]

@@NoLefTurnUnStoned. How would you know Tosh wasnt a genius ?

[@NoLefTurnUnStoned.]

@@noriwilliams4637 Hmmm, I probably should have said “In my opinion”. It’s pretty subjective on one level and objective on another. But I think genius should only apply to people who tick certain boxes. On reflection I’m not really sure Bunny, as talented as he was, would really be included in that. Genius is a word often used to describe very talented people. But in my humble opinion very few very talented artists could actually be classed as geniuses.

[@raymondvandewalle934]

I saw Bunny Wailer at Red Rocks. He opened for the SCI. He was simply amazing. He sang and preached the gospel of love, and Jah...he made all in the magical theater there feel One...he is not a gangster...however, I feel this video gives great insights, somewhat and then some from his life and career. Thankful for this vid

[@underflo43tky]

criminal he was opening for SCI. what year was that?

[@OGxCSH]

Big ups for another great video R A.S.....very informative

[@tekenta-neter7944]

Great video. Thank you for changing my life Bunny! Love you forever

[@ernnnnmm]

Tosh much more Gangster! They all gangster!!!! But Tosh most militant gangster!!

[@ubuntu2661]

Blessings my brother for the knowledge that are sharing with us about our Ancestors. ONE LOVE ❤❤

[@johnmurphy6556]

One of the best videos I have seen on the Wailers and the insight you provided was excellent. 10/10

[@ReggaeAppreciationSociety]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@phillipmhundwa642]

The mighty Wailing Wailers. Three Superstars in one group. Awesome

[@ammabeee7952]

Another well presented video..Big up yourself for sharing Please do 1 on Peter Tosh asap..

[@ReggaeAppreciationSociety]

Big up ✌️ Thanks for the support! Check this out 👉 much more to come kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y4XOk3Zsps57o6c

[@TheAto2000]

Wow,it's eye opening to learn about the hardships the original Wailers went through in consistently ripped off by certain people.Bunny was indeed tough.I'm aware about him and Peter not being at Bob's funeral ,but not what he said to Chris Blacckwell.

[@tamarstclair2432]

Excellent video, well researched.

[@jahfetmoore527]

Bunny had the most distinctive voice, Peter had the best vocal range and Bob had the best stage presence. I despise Chris Blackwell for bringing division among a group of brothers but I guess it was inevitable.

[@HannahXX]

Chris Blackwell isn't responsible for the Wailers split. Bob wanted to work solo (with Lee Perry) in 1970, years before any of them met Chris Blackwell. Perry convinced Bob to carry on with the trio and they lasted a few more years. Lee Perry is the reason Bunny and Peter are on those first two Island albums.

[@jahfetmoore527]

@@HannahXX that’s what you’d like to think but he is. The moment you’re pushing one to be the leader and it’s the one who so happens to be half white then you’ll definitely have a problem.

[@HannahXX]

@@jahfetmoore527, I hear you, and I know it's widely believed that Chris Blackwell started the practice of crediting releases to "Bob Marley and The Wailers," rather than simply "The Wailers." But as the recording credits show, the practice started almost a decade earlier, in 1964. And in fact, it was Peter, not Bob, who first had their name on a Wailers record. In mid-1964 "Amen" was credited to "Peter Touch & The Wailers." About a month later, "Where Will I Find" was credited to "Bob Marley And The Wailers." A little more than a third of the Wailers sessions were credited to the Wailers alone. The other two-thirds of the credits include the name of one of the Wailers (sometimes along with "and The Wailers," sometimes not).

[@Godloveszaza]

Bob was a better singer than all. You hoed him.

[@jahfetmoore527]

@@Godloveszaza no he wasn’t

[@howardsimpson5609]

Loved Bunny !!❤️

[@venrisfreckleton5617]

Bunny Wailer is not a Gangster. It is an unfair Nomenclature.

[@wekpomsbenin6830]

It's just a figure of speech my friend...I interprete the word loosely like it should be. Love the commentary. You are filling a much needed niche!

[@tatu8663]

He wasn't gangster. He was lionheart.

[@landomartini2003]

He was a "Rude - boy" ,not a ganster , you got the wrong interpretación!!

[@Charlesmarcel-ee4ke]

They was called tuff gong for a reason in they youth days in trenchtown 👍🇯🇲🥭🧉

[@gostrum1]

@@Charlesmarcel-ee4ke Exactly 👌, It’s not a joke, surviving in Trenchtown.

[@LKaramazov]

Looking at that album cover!!!! “ I’m still wait-Ing” and bunny goes high “ I’m still WAITING”! Classic! Thank Jah that I heard them sing!

[@richardgarnos6715]

RIP Joseph Marley..."Soul Rebels" is one of the best albums recorded

[@michaelg.mcdonald8608]

Excellent documentary- concise abd informatatary

[@winstontownsend2516]

Good to hear this from a brother other than another.yea we must tell our story bless up big bro.

[@chwillikies490]

I am up set Bunny Wailer was not a GANGSTER, I love the Wailers Bunny have always been my favourite. Rest in perfect peace my RASTA BROTHER'S... 💯 ♥️ 😇 🔥 😭 🌹 Ms 🇦🇬.. All praise to our mother and father of our UNIVERSE.

[@ReBirth246]

very thorough and informative account. Well articulated. Give thanks for d knowledge i-ah

[@JKDBruceLee]

📚 Rest In Peace. Nice video

[@ReggaeAppreciationSociety]

✌️ Thanks for the support. Jah bless

[@charpentierniko4613]

Big up and blessing from Réunion island

[@taedzamtambanengwe5061]

Respek! I'd like to know what ridim is playing in the background please...

[@ReggaeAppreciationSociety]

Big up ✌️ just an instrumental put together in the lab

[@taedzamtambanengwe5061]

@@ReggaeAppreciationSociety mad Respek! May I have a copy please???

[@hondablood3]

Cool video, thanks for sharing!

[@ReggaeAppreciationSociety]

Blessings mon ✌️ Thanks for watching

[@MudiEzekiel-dr2xd]

I'm a big fan of them

[@cs7742]

TREEE O " CLOCK ... ROAD BLOCK ... 🔥 !.

[@zurimoore2545]

Thanks for makeing this

[@ReggaeAppreciationSociety]

👊

[@zurimoore2545]

Bunny wailer is a wise man of words

[@zurimoore2545]

Rest in power to ALL of them 🇯🇲🇺🇲🇮🇱

[@fesquemonkey9784]

The Blackheart Man🖤

[@electricreds6415]

Love it keep releasing

[@bernadettegeorgeyesheisthe49]

Bunny wasn't a gangster he stood up for his rights

[@rolandpritchard1731]

Music business, hard business. But all said and done the 1 good thing that Chris blackwell and island records did was bring reggae out from the to briton and the world a long with virgin records and Trojan plus blackwell, blue beat. It gave the foot hold for to labels to follow in the 70ts and now look how big reggae is, its world wide, its wider than wide.

[@ReggaeAppreciationSociety]

Yeah mon. Chris Blackwell did an amazing job in promoting the music and sending it global. The business is just mafia business

[@lolli9788]

He was a Gangster in his own right yes🖤 the black heart man

[@TyKingsSon]

Great story bro, what a rocky road they had.....

[@Thebigsheethouse9865]

The video was too short but absolute quality let me wanting more

[@kirkseale2198]

They were pray on by t the vultures in the industry in those times still keeping and stil producing Top Class music for the people that is real struggle to bare with as man more so a group

[@cs7742]

HOW YA MEAN ... A REBEL MUSIC ... 🔥 !.

[@rewereset1584]

I am my brothers and sisters keeper 👂🏼👈🏼

[@Infinitebrandon]

Thats my man 😊. F "snoop lion" . Bless Bunny

[@Number1ReggaeHunter]

I always thought of peter tosh as the gangster one of the wailers.

[@TimesUhave2BA_radicalintellect]

They was all tuff guys… why you think they call bob tuff gong… ntn soff bout nunnadem

[@nilonen]

The case of Lee Perry's career is strange. Both a sufferer and an exploiter. I guess his dealings with Coxsone and Gibbs taught him some lessons about the Jamaican music business. Exploit or be exploited. Cutthroat world. Bad business.

[@ikongchin3088]

Now u kno how it did guh n still guh

[@IAMWEFARMERZALMANAC]

Thank You!!! Keep it coming

[@ReggaeAppreciationSociety]

More to come!

[@rhondaturner1661]

Wouldn't believe 1/2 of what bunny said

[@HITILIT]

Great video!! In all the documentaries I’ve watched, so little time is spent on the pre-Island Records years. I am so interested in that gangster side of those early Jamaican recording industry years. I also knew that Planno was Bob’s first Rasta teacher but had Never heard all those other stories before watching this video. Thank You!! I am learning so much…

[@thenowchurch6419]

Bunny's father was a herbsman and Bunny got into the business early. That is how he ended up getting put in prison for about a year. Bob and Peter never saw the inside of a Jamaican prison from behind the bars. Edit. Correction: Peter did indeed see the inside when he got attacked and abducted by the police at least two times. The Stepping Razor took a lot of punishment. Bunny was a very spiritual and calm person, but like Bob and Peter he was a revolutionary and was not going to take disrespect and demeaning behavior lightly. That was a classic clip when he talked about telling Chris Whiteworst that it would be a small hole through his left eye but a big one through his headback! LOL.

[@ReggaeAppreciationSociety]

The man was the Tuff in Tuff Gong😆

[@Yoast248]

Both Bob and Peter saw the inside of a Jamaican prison from behind the bars.

[@JonathanFrasier-c1r]

Bunny was the one to speak up when things wasn't right he always paid attention when someone try to screw them smart guy you always had a friend in the group think like that ❤️ it

[@Pvrpleheart257]

Charlie yuh dey fi get to mention Rita oye! She dey deh with the boys from teenage years

[@zurimoore2545]

That's crazy what they Had to go thru in the past GOD REST THEIR SOULS

[@chriss6136]

Awesome video Thanks for all the information! the story with Lee "Scratch" Perry was crazy hahah

[@deanl0]

Yes and He kept on touring till' he was 80

[@authorless]

Never realized "Small Axe" was about Coxsone Dodd.

[@Enta_Da_Sage]

That was one of the lil facts that was cool to learn on this video. I always wondered to who specifically they were referring to in that song.

[@eazystreet1343]

Small are for big 3 (record companies)

[@joedee1863]

If you a BIG TREE Den I'm a small axe, Sharpened to cut you down Sharpened to cut you down 🎵

[@HITILIT]

@@joedee1863Coxsone and two other companies aligned to shut all other studios out of the recording game. They called the alliance Big Three.

[@lifesunmediafilmsfashionma1485]

Bunny is a real “REBEL-utionary” not a gangster. I used to sell him pounds while in college. His a true warrior of light.

[@Thebigsheethouse9865]

Really in-depth and accurate beautiful video

[@ReggaeAppreciationSociety]

Blessings mon ✌️ Thanks for watching

[@thechief8694]

The music is nice, but a little too loud. I can’t hear the narrator

[@ReggaeAppreciationSociety]

Noted👍

[@taedzamtambanengwe5061]

I love the music!!!!

[@omarsadiqYouTube]

Good video bro

[@ReggaeAppreciationSociety]

Glad you liked it. More to come

[@Paintcan11]

My daughter was terrified by Armagideon as a toddler 😂

[@a.ellahi3745]

One Love ✌🏽

[@kingpleasure7538]

Great journalism

[@JQueen-ul5eh]

Man they went thru a lot! Bunny wasn’t with all that foolishness and thieving. They wasn’t about to get no lawyers and go to courts, Bunny just got straight to the point! Literally 😂 ⚔️

[@ReggaeAppreciationSociety]

😄👍

[@chicfini]

Had to save this one. Awe awch hmmm😞😞😞🙄🙄🙄

[@paul65874]

ganter are the devil boy bunny no ganta. Bunny whith JAH RASTA NO GANTA

[@LKaramazov]

“ 14 months hard labor” ? Better than the “ 15 years hard labor” the guy got in that Prince Far I song “ ghetto living”.

[@scottjohnson5307]

Militant if anything not gangster just serious nuff yard mon ars so .even more so the time and place played apart like America getting concious in the late 50s during Harlem renaissance blues greats .artist etc

[@underflo43tky]

bunny also had it out with snoop dog. lol. i remember he was scheduled to play a festival in the 2000s or 2010s and Lee Perry was on the bill and Bunny canceled because LP sold the rights to the Wailers songs or something.

[@universallovepeaceharmony2258]

In Chris Blackwell’s autobiography he mentions Bunny and Peter being hard work whereas Bob held a beneficial arrangement together. I love Blackheart man album and it is hard to reconcile such a beautiful spiritual voice and lyric with this reality. However, the track Blackheart man is the odd one out as he warns don’t go near him! We all know how hard it is to walk the talk!😎

[@whodatdiehard7729]

Bunny!!! AkAMakaveli

[@lawrencenjawe9875]

Very interesting and revealing...Well, many people's perceptions of Bunny being the CCC (Cool Calm and Collected One) turned "gangster' will be completely changed by this narrative😄😄😄. Certainly runs contrary to any biographies I've read about Jah B being the cool, docile one. Mortimer Planno's reputation as a highly respected Rasta philosopher and teacher has taken a hit !!! 😳 And..... Point of correction: The Wailers queued up with Perry in the late 60s not the late 70s....Thanks for the video @REGGAE APPRECIATION 👍

[@thenowchurch6419]

Being cool calm and collected is not the same as being docile. Please take note. Bunny was cool but also tough and certainly never docile.

[@thenowchurch6419]

I need some sources and evidence of the accusations made against Planno in this vid. How come Peter Bob and Bunny never once mentioned any of that in any interview? As far as I know Planno was asked by Bob to manage them and he stepped away after he was unable to do much for them and Skill Cole took over for a while before Danny Sims did a little something.

[@lawrencenjawe9875]

@@thenowchurch6419 Honestly my comment Planno is more of an enquiry than a fact.. I'm asking myself the same questions as you are....

[@thenowchurch6419]

@@lawrencenjawe9875 I am hoping the brother who runs the channel will provide some verification. Bredda Kumi a key Rastaman.

[@zillogullu33]

@@lawrencenjawe9875 The Planno part shock mi fyah...

[@alexpearce4040]

Beautifully told piece of history. Victimized by their own, ironically freed by a white man

[@Xyz_Report]

Bunny never wanted to tour scared of flying and Peter felt that he was better than Bob …

[@mrkarpaa3520]

The king❤

[@Jahfriend]

Rudies that turned rasta you often have to travel the wrong road to eventualy get to the right street 🦁👍

[@sebasdebordeaux8347]

Bob and he were stepbrothers ?!?!? didn't know this..

[@Jay-hr3rh]

So, while these guys were singing about peace, love, unity, and Jah, they were really gangsters in real life.

[@deanl0]

What do you think was going down in the Trench Town 🪨

[@elainereid1386]

Rest 💘 in power 💞 and love bunny One of JAH 🙏🏿 prophets I give thanks and praise to JAH 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿❤️ RASTAFARI Emporior HAILLIE SELLASIE THE FIRST KING 👑👑👑 OF kINGS ❤️ LORD 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿❤️ of Lords CONQUERING LION 🦁 OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH EARTH'S rightful RULER Fly away home 🏠 to ZION Amun RASTAFARI AMUN

[@Troy-g3q]

He stood by his principals.

[@Kurtiskase00]

Big heart but can be very dangerous and that's facts.

[@marcofacen9564]

I remember a written interview/article saying that Bunny had 2 phones ringing nonstop an he answered the calls he thought to be interesting with YES! No ? needed. :)

[@rolandpritchard1731]

Out from the island to briton.

[@tb22k]

😢😢rip to bunny but this is funny 🤣 0:38

[@zurimoore2545]

Can you do jo mersa marley next HE passed away recently GOD REST HIS SPIRIT

[@ReggaeAppreciationSociety]

Excellent suggestion 👍 will work on it

[@zurimoore2545]

@@ReggaeAppreciationSociety THANK you

[@biblereadingoutreach2284]

Proverbs 1:10-19 My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil: Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse: My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path: For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives. So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

[@eugenennaji4228]

The 13 pic of this video showed four people. Is one of them Beverly Clark or Rita Marley?

[@ReggaeAppreciationSociety]

Rita ✌️

[@ericksunga186]

Why did he have a confrontation with chris blackwell??

[@willieluncheonette5843]

Blackwell promised to underwrite a tour of England but at the tour's conclusion he sent the band a bill for the expenses and Bunny quit. Another reason---In 1973, Blackwell declared that the Wailers would play "freak Clubs" on the upcoming portion of their American tour. That was enough for Bunny to decide to return to JA and let the Wailers continue without him.

[@1985dwain]

Where do you get this information from

[@ReggaeAppreciationSociety]

It's covered in several books about the wailers but the most detailed is the one about the Life of the Stepping Razor by John Masouri

[@tomgarcia9200]

do one on black uhuru please

[@ReggaeAppreciationSociety]

Already done 👉 kzbin.info/www/bejne/jnLChpqkh5mSg7M

[@glendoncodling1012]

PETER TOSH IS THE FIRST PERSON TO SITTING IN A HERB 🌿 FIELD.

[@fredvan6043]

Seriously? So no one had ever sat in a herb field before? Amazing. 🤔

[@Mr2013skywalker]

I met the general at airport in Jamaica

[@zurimoore2545]

That dirty what lee scratch perry and coxsone Dodd and mortinir plano what they did to the wailers Never messed with the wailers

[@charpentierniko4613]

3 Lions on the same hill

[@fasttrackblastback8286]

When did family man come into the band? Who played bass before him?

[@ReggaeAppreciationSociety]

If I am not mistaken they poached him from Lee Scratch Perry's studio. Before then they used the in-house band at Studio One

[@joedee1863]

Fast track - when Bob was in England he saw Aston and Carlton play on top of the pops and loved their driving drum n bass beat. He contacted them and they decided to rehearse together. Bob remembered what 'scratch' told him, for his music to get wider appeal the music needed to have a more dynamic driving beat. Once Bob did this everyone remarked how the shape of his music had changed and was poised to 'catch a fire'

[@fredvan6043]

In the beginning, that would have been (Skatalites bassist) Lloyd Brevitt.

[@theloniusmclean3584]

Do you have any proof of this?

[@ReggaeAppreciationSociety]

If you want proof go check John Masouri's book on Life of the Stepping Razor 👍

[@rudeboyger]

Rude Boy 😎😎😎

[@nguzoloveinlofi3832]

I’ve read many books about Bob Marley and The Wailers and in everyone there’s always several people relating how Bunny was “off-putting,” “scary,” and/or "unsettling?" I’m like he’s the smallest one, why was everybody so scared of him LOL 😂?

[@driversseat1707]

The most feared Jamaicans were small in those days

[@NoLefTurnUnStoned.]

@@driversseat1707 Like Italians lol