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- ↑ see: https://www.allmusic.com/album/si-we-r406342
- ↑ See credits: Snow, Murder Love (New York: East West, 1995).
- ↑ Jamaican charting data for "Si Wi Dem Nuh Know We" can be found in, Pace (Johannesburg: Pace-maker, 1995), 41.
- ↑ For the Snow, Ninjaman, and Junior Reid, see: Patricia Meschino, Reggae Roots Vol. 13:3 (1995)
- ↑ see: Patricia Meschino, Reggae Roots Vol. 13:3 (1995)
- ↑ Larry Flick, "Review of Si We... (Charged With Murder)," Billboard, 7 January 1995, 85.