LAST week, Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her 90th birthday, another milestone for the long-serving British monarch. In Jamaica, not everyone was impressed.

Among them, roots singer Kongo Man Ash, who takes the British Crown to task on his new song, Elizabeth.

“Wi not being aggressive or ignorant. Wi looking at things like reparations wid dis song an’ ’cause she’s (Queen Elizabeth) head of the colonial system, wi address the head of the stream,” said Kongo Man Ash.

Financial compensation from the British Government for descendants of Africans who were enslaved in the Caribbean has been a hot topic for academics, Rastafarians and politicians in recent years.

Queen Elizabeth and British Prime Minister David Cameron have scoffed at the requests, calling them unrealistic.

Elizabeth is produced by Earl Melbourne, who was born in Britain to Jamaican parents. During the 1980s, he was drummer for Matumbi, dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson’s band.

Born Paul Gordon in Kingston, Kongo Man Ash followed his father Burford and older brother Oliver (a former singer with the Fabulous Five Band) into the music business in 2005 when his first song, Ladies Call Me, was released.

Never Go To Heaven and Open Up Your Arms are among his previous recordings. Elizabeth was cut in February on Melbourne’s Cool It Off rhythm.

Kongo Man Ash is scheduled to release a self-produced EP in the summer.

— Howard Campbell