Natty Dreadlocks

Natty Dreadlocks (synonyms "Natty Dread", "Natty", "Dready" or "Dread") is a Rastafarian term used to describe a member of the Rastafari community. The term is often used in reggae music and elsewhere to represent an idealised personification of the Rastafari movement as a whole. It combines the term "natty", which means knotted (from knotty), a characteristic of the Rastafarian hair style, "dreadlocks".

Examples of reggae albums/tracks featuring the term

• Guess who's Coming to Dinner, an album by Black Uhuru, where the answer to the rhetorical question is "Natty Dreadlocks"
• Natty Dread, a 1974 album by Bob Marley & the Wailers.
• Ride Natty Ride, from Bob Marley & the Wailers' album, Survival.
• Natty Dread Taking Over, from the debut album Two Sevens Clash by roots reggae band Culture, in 1976.
• "Jah Jah Ah Natty Dread", track six of Lee Perry's Return of the Super Ape also references Natty Dreadlocks.
• "Que me Pisen", a reggae theme from Sumo_(band) Argentinian band
• "Under Mi Sensi", Barrington Levy
• "I Love Marijuana", Linval Thompson
• "Blame it on the sun", a 1975 album by roots reggae band Inner Circle (reggae band)
• "Natty Dreadlocks 'Pon The Mountain Top", track four of Bad Brains's album Build A Nation.