First recorded in 1969 with producer Leslie Kong, this song was included on the 1970 Monkey Man album (brought to the UK by the famous Trojan Records label) and became popular around the world when it was included on the soundtrack to the popular 1972 movie The Harder They Come.
The group's frontman Toots Hibbert wrote this song. It's a very repetitive, danceable song, but it carries a sincere sentiment. Hibbert felt that his home country of Jamaica, and especially Jamaican musicians, were under a lot of pressure, as it was very hard for them to make a decent living.
"Pressure Drop" is a phrase that Toots used to say, meaning if you do bad things to innocent people, then bad things will happen to you. He explained to Uncut: "Somebody was supposed to pay us our first £1,000 or £2,000 but we never get it. I wrote this song which, instead of trying to fight this person or do him any harm, it said, pressure going to drop on you. But he knew I was talking to him."
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