Natty Dreadlocks is a Rastafari

Rastafari movement

The Rastafari movement or Rasta is a new religious movement that arose in the 1930s in Jamaica, which at the time was a country with a predominantly Christian culture where 98% of the people were the black descendants of slaves. Its adherents worship Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia , as God...

an term used to describe a member of the Rastafari community. The term is often used in reggae

Reggae

Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.Reggae is based...

 music and elsewhere to represent an idealised personification of the Rastafari movement as a whole. It combines the term "natty", which means knotted (from knotty), a characteristic of the Rastafarian hair style, "dreadlocks

Dreadlocks

Dreadlocks, also called locks, a ras, dreads, "rasta" or Jata , are matted coils of hair. Dreadlocks are usually intentionally formed; because of the variety of different hair textures, various methods are used to encourage the formation of locks such as backcombing...

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Examples of reggae albums/tracks featuring the term

• Guess who's Coming to Dinner
  Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (album)
  Guess Who's Coming to Dinner is the title of a reggae album by Black Uhuru. The album was first released under the title Black Uhuru in 1980, and revamped as Guess Who's Coming to Dinner in 1983...
  
  , an album by Black Uhuru
  Black Uhuru
  Black Uhuru are a Jamaican reggae group formed in 1972, initially as Uhuru . The group has undergone several line-up changes over the years, with Duckie Simpson always maintaining group control and ownership...
  
  , where the answer to the rhetorical question is "Natty Dreadlocks"
• Natty Dread
  Natty Dread
  Natty Dread is a 1974 reggae album by Bob Marley & The Wailers. An important transition in Marley's discography, Natty Dread was the first album released as Bob Marley & the Wailers and the first recorded without former bandmates Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer...
  
  , a 1974 album by Bob Marley & the Wailers
  Bob Marley & The Wailers
  Bob Marley & The Wailers were a Jamaican reggae, ska and rocksteady band formed by Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer in 1963. Additional members were Junior Braithwaite, Beverley Kelso, Cherry Smith and Aston and Carlton Barrett...
  
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• Ride Natty Ride, from Bob Marley & the Wailers
  Bob Marley & The Wailers
  Bob Marley & The Wailers were a Jamaican reggae, ska and rocksteady band formed by Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer in 1963. Additional members were Junior Braithwaite, Beverley Kelso, Cherry Smith and Aston and Carlton Barrett...
  
  ' album, Survival
  Survival
  Survival is the struggle to remain alive and living. The term may refer to:- Companies and organisations :* Survival International, a non-governmental human rights organization working for tribal peoples- Literature :...
  
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• Natty Dread Taking Over, from the debut album Two Sevens Clash
  Two Sevens Clash
  Two Sevens Clash is the debut album by roots reggae band Culture, recorded with producer Joe Gibbs at his own Joe Gibbs Recording Studio in Kingston in 1976, and released on Gibbs' eponymous label in 1977...
  
   by roots reggae band Culture
  Culture (band)
  Culture was a Jamaican roots reggae group founded in 1976. Originally they were known as the African Disciples.The members of the trio were Joseph Hill , Albert Walker and Kenneth Dayes ....
  
  , in 1976.
• "Jah Jah Ah Natty Dread", track six of Lee Perry's Return of the Super Ape
  Return of the Super Ape
  Return of the Super Ape is a reggae album produced by Lee "Scratch" Perry, credited to The Upsetters. The album was originally released in Jamaica in 1978 and was the last album by The Upsetters to be released before Perry closed down his Black Ark studio....
  
   also references Natty Dreadlocks.
• "Que me Pisen", a reggae theme from Sumo (band)
  Sumo (band)
  Sumo was a 1980s Argentine alternative rock band, merging post-punk with reggae and ska. Headed by Italian-born Luca Prodan, it remained underground for most of its short activity, but was extremely influential in shaping contemporary Argentine rock. Sumo introduced British post-punk to the...
  
   Argentinian band
• "Under Mi Sensi", Barrington Levy
• "I Love Marijuana", Linval Thompson
• "Blame it on the sun", a 1975 album by roots reggae band Inner Circle (reggae band)
• "Natty Dreadlocks 'Pon The Mountain Top", track four of Bad Brains
  Bad Brains
  Bad Brains is an American hardcore punk band formed in Washington, D.C., in 1977. They are widely regarded as among the pioneers of hardcore punk, though the band's members objected to this term to describe their music. They are also an adept reggae band, while later recordings featured elements of...
  
  's album Build A Nation.