"Pressure Drop" is a song recorded in 1969 bythe Maytals for record producerLeslie Kong. The song appears on their 1970 albumMonkey Man (released in Jamaica byBeverley's Records) andFrom the Roots (released in the UK byTrojan Records). "Pressure Drop" helped launch the band's career outside Jamaica when the song was featured on thesoundtrack to the 1972 filmThe Harder They Come, which introducedreggae to much of the world.^[2] In 2004,Rolling Stone rated the song No. 453 in its list of the500 Greatest Songs of All Time.^[3]This song has been covered often, most notably byRobert Palmer,the Specials,Keith Richards,Izzy Stradlin and the Ju Ju Hounds,the Oppressed andthe Clash.

In an interview in 2016, songwriterFrederick "Toots" Hibbert said that "Pressure Drop" was a song aboutkarmic justice.

It’s a song about revenge, but in the form of karma: If you do bad things to innocent people, then bad things will happen to you. The title was a phrase I used to say. If someone done me wrong, rather than fight them like a warrior, I’d say: 'The pressure’s going to drop on you.'"

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