Natty Dreadlocks

Natty Dreadlocks (synonyms "Natty Dread", "Natty", "Dready" or "Dread") is a Rastafari term for a member of the Rastafari community. The image of such a man 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 (as in knotty") and a style of knotted and twisted dreadlocks, worn for spiritual reasons. The term is also used to refer to the dreadlocks hair style.

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.
• "Que me Pisen", from Sumo's 1987 album Llegando los Monos.
• "Under Mi Sensi", a song by Barrington Levy.
• I Love Marijuana, an album by Linval Thompson.
• Blame it on the sun, a 1975 album by roots reggae band Inner Circle
• "Natty Dreadlocks 'Pon The Mountain Top", track four of Bad Brains's album Build A Nation.
• "Mix up" on the album Trenchtown Mix Up by The Gladiators