The song is about one of Jamaica's best singers. Dennis Brown was called "the Crown Prince of Reggae" by Bob Marley, a title he richly deserved. Brown died of a combination of a coke overdose and a collapsed lung (it's relatively rare for people to die of collapsed lungs anymore, hence the line "it took all the coke in town to bring down Dennis Brown").
The song is about one of Jamaica's best singers. Dennis Brown was called "the Crown Prince of Reggae" by Bob Marley, a title he richly deserved. Brown died of a combination of a coke overdose and a collapsed lung (it's relatively rare for people to die of collapsed lungs anymore, hence the line "it took all the coke in town to bring down Dennis Brown").