Da Rare Groove Rastamouse

# Zooba zooba zooba dan

# Zooba zooba zooba day

# Rastamouse and Scratchy and Zoomer

# Also known as the Easy Crew

# Crime fighters They're very special agents

# Playing reggae when the work is through

# Give it up, give it up

# Give it up for the Easy Crew

# Solvin' mysteries in the neighbourhood

# Always there to make a bad ting good. #

Wicked! Me love this.

Woo! Me sorry me late, Easy Crew.

Where you been, Zoomer? We been waiting to jam.

Me stopped off at Fats' car-boot sale.

Me scored some X-Mice comics for my collection.

These are so hard to find. Them is proper rare.

Them is some crucial comics, Zoomer.

But now the Easy Crew's together, let's jam.

RADIO CRACKLES

Rastamouse, come in. Come in! Are you reading me?

Message from President Wensley Dale. Come immediately!

Woo! Him sound proper distressed.

Hmm. Easy Crew? Let's shift.

Ah, Rastamouse.

What's the problem, President? You looking proper upset.

You nah wrong there, Rastamouse. Me never feel so vexed.

Me had this rare thing thief today, and now me feeling bare perplexed.

Easy Crew, me lay it out for you. This morning me went down

to me dustproof, floodproof, quakeproof

vault where me keep me proper rare records.

The rarest of them all being

an original recording of the Mouseland Mashup.

-Me know that tune.

-ZOOMER AND SCRATCHY SING

Oh, yeah, that's one rare groove and no mistake.

-Me only take it out of me vault to look at it.

-You nah play it?

Nah way, man. That record too rare to wear out playing it.

Anyways, me was called away by some crucial presidential business.

But when me get back, someone had thieved me rarest groove.

Nah worry yourself, Wensley Dale. The Easy Crew will get your record back.

-Thanks, Rastamouse.

-OK, Crew. It's time to get on the case.

Let's look for clues.

-Nothing here.

-Or here. Me think this thief is clever.

-Wha' gwan, Rastamouse?

-Hmmm.

-Morning, Easy Crew.

-Yo, Sasha.

Me wonder whether you seen anything suspicious around the mansion lately?

Only thing missing is a lot of dust and junk.

Me having a massive clean up,

getting rid of Wensley old comic books, tennis rackets and stuff.

Did you happen to throw anything out from the office?

You know, that's where me find that dusty old record

and its tatty old sleeve.

Uh-oh.

Me can't believe you throw away me rare groove.

Me sorry, Wensley.

Me thought that record was just some old rubbish.

Rubbish? That be the rarest groove in Mouseland.

Calm yourself, Wensley.

Sasha, can you tell me where you put Wensley's record?

Me put it with the rest of the rubbish. Outside for Carlton.

What? No, no!

Come on, Crew.

We gotta shift if we want to save that record from the rubbish dump.

Carlton, stop! Hold it right there!

-Hey, Rastamouse, wha' gwan?

-CRASH

You hear that? That record is in pieces, for sure!

-What record?

-Sasha left some stuff out for you this morning.

Right, Carlton?

-Sure enough, Rastamouse. Me took it for recycling.

-Oh, no.

There was this one box of stuff, that was too good to recycle.

And what did you do with that box, Carlton?

Me give it to Fats for his car-boot sale.

All proceeds go to the orphanage, you know?

Phew! Then we still got a chance.

Thanks, Carlton. You heard the man. Easy Crew, let's ride.

-Yo, Fats.

-Easy, Rastamouse. You lookin' for a bargain?

We got loads, and all in a good cause.

Nah man, me looking for a rare groove.

It was in a box of stuff from Wensley Dale's crib.

Hmm. Me remember that box.

There was some books, tennis rackets, and a dusty old record.

You remember what happened to it?

If it nah here, someone must ha' bought it.

OK, Crew. We've got to split up and find that record.

Yo, Bandulu. Me looking for a rare groove record.

A real golden oldie with a tatty sleeve.

-You see it anywhere?

-Me sorry, Scratchy.

All me pick up is these dishes. Perfect for me cheese pies.

-MUSIC PLAYS

-Hey. Wha' that?

That's it! The Mouseland Mashup tune!

It's coming from... Eh, that's strange.

But me sure me heard that tune.

Those rackets, Bagga, where they from?

Them was in a box, you see.

A box that came from Wensley D.

That's what the guy said, when he sold 'em to me.

They came from Wensley Dale?

Was there a tatty old record in the box with them?

-Sorry, man. Bagga not seen a record.

-MUSIC PLAYS

Ooh! That's the groove. Where it come from?

There.

Yo, Carmen. Me sure glad me caught you. Me need that record.

Record? What record?

The one you picked up at the car-boot sale.

It looks tatty. But it's bare rare.

I never bought no record. I just got here.

-Ya sure?

-Sure I'm sure.

-Oh, man.

-You feeling OK, Zoomer?

Me nah sure, but me sure me heard that rare tune.

Pah pop! Pah! Pop, pop! Yeah!

-Yo, Ice Popp.

-Yo, Rastamouse. Wha' gwan?

-That tune you singing.

It nah sound like your usual rap.

That's true. Me got this tune in my head today and me can't get it out.

So me trying to give it me own special Ice Popp hip-hop remix.

-And where you hear this tune?

-You know, I'm not sure.

-Nah problem, Ice Popp. Catch you later.

-Later.

Ya had any luck finding this rare groove, guys?

Me find nothing, Rastamouse. No clue, no groove.

-Me thought me hear it, but...

-You say you heard it? Me heard it too!

But when me look, nothing!

Someone must be playing it. And if someone be playing it,

-they musta bought the missing record.

-But who?

-And where?

-Shh-shhh. Me hear it.

-Me too!

There.

Stop that car!

Oh, no, he's getting away.

-The car gone.

-And whoever driving it take the rare groove with them.

Me nah so sure about that. Listen. Shh.

-Hold on, me can still hear it.

-Me too!

It's coming from the record store. Come on.

That's one rare groove, Stylus.

For sure. Me not heard it since back in the day.

-Did you buy it at the car-boot sale?

-Nah way.

You'd be one lucky mouse if you own this record. It's super rare.

Me would love to own a copy,

-but me got to make do with hearing it on...

-For Real FM.

-Say what?

-That's right. Little Patch been playing it all day.

You mean it been on the radio all this time?

Come on, Easy Crew. We got to go and see Little Patch.

Yo, Little Patch.

Me hoping you can help and tell us about the rare groove you playing.

Sure. Me went to the car-boot sale early this morning.

Soon as me saw that record me had to have it.

That's bare rare.

So you bring it back to the Jammin' Dodger?

That's right. And as soon as me play it,

everyone been phoning in, asking to hear it again and again and again.

That old classic? All the listeners love it.

But that groove belong to Wensley and you know him nah meant

-for it to get flung out with the rest of him stuff. So...

-So me know.

Me got to give it back to the Pres. Seems a powerful shame, though.

Rastamouse, you found me groove!

Me nah mean to take your record, Pres.

Me thought it was on sale for real.

Ho-ho. Me understand, Little Patch. But now me got it back,

me never letting it out of me record vault again.

-Me been thinking about that.

-About what, Rastamouse?

That groove may be rare, but since Little Patch made it

her groove of the day, it become the biggest hit in Mouseland.

Where you going with this, Rastamouse?

What me saying is, it a big shame to lock it away

and never hear it no more.

You could almost say it would be a bad ting.

But, you could make a bad ting good by setting the groove free.

Set the groove free? Hmm. Well, it's been in me vault for ages,

and me nah actually hear the tune for a very long time.

Hmm. Me hear what you say, Rastamouse.

Here, Little Patch, take it. Play it.

A groove this rare deserves to be heard.

All right, President.

-That was one strange case.

-For sure. There wasn't nah thief.

And the thing that had been thieved had nah been thieved at all!

If you get what I mean.

Come on, Easy Crew. We done enough investigating for one day.

That old classic has got me all pumped up.

Time to make a new groove. Let's jam.

RADIO CRACKLES

Easy Crew, come in, come in! Are you reading me?

Message from President Wensley Dale. Listen up, you three.

Rastamouse, come in, come in.

Thanks to your wicked plan, all of Mouseland loving me rare groove.

Thanks. Me love that. Irie, man.

# Give it up, give it up

# Give it up for the Easy Crew

# Solvin' mysteries in the neighbourhood

# Always there to make a bad ting good. #