P.Nology Releases 'I'm Not A Slave to The System'

While he enjoys a good dancehall, hip hop or drum and bass party, P.nology also admires the message music of urban poets like Bob Marley and Tupac Shakur.

For his latest song, I'm Not A Slave to The System, he expresses his feelings about trailblazers who helped shape black thought. Sharing the mic with him is veteran Jamaican dub poet Yasus Afari.

"i wanted the track to have a poet and ambassador of his craft. i thought Yasus would be perfect for the new single," said  P.nology.

The hard-hitting roots-reggae single is produced by Jamaican DJ Karim with whom P.nology collaborated last year on I Am, his song with American rapper Shifty P.

That track was a good-time blend of ska and 'bashment'. This time, P.nology and Yasus Afari set the record straight about the many iinaccuracies regarding black history.

The promotional banner for I'm Not A Slave to The System features several black heroes including Marley, Pan African icon Marcus Garvey and Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie I.

P.nology was introduced to Yasus Afari through his uncle, Charley Anderson, a former member of British ska band The Selecter. Although they never met, there was an instant connection.

"I sent the track to him with chorus and my verse and he loved it just as much as I did and could see the message I wanted the track to have," said P.nology, who is from Coventry in the British Midlands.

He was born in that city to Barbadian parents, and grew up appreciating West Indian culture as well as genres that makes the United Kingdom music scene arguably the most diverse in the world.

The Blacklist, P.nology's hip hop/Rhythm And Blues EP, was released last August.