Nice to speak to you. You've been involved in great stuff, as has Maximum Sound. Great dancehall tune from 2 big names.
Today's tune. Shane O - Hold O. On the Conquest Riddim from last year, 2019. Reggae music is the most that everyone loves. They just need to hear it.
I need to post some Jamaican gospel. I listened to this song a lot a couple of years ago. I'm back in 2020. I should find some more Glacia Robinson too.
Here's something extra. Gospel music from Jamaica. I'll Give My Heart by Jodian Pantry Jodian Pantry's entry in the JCDC Gospel Song Competition 2001.
Easter Sunday morning. Anyone else inspired by reggae. Here's Jabez with I Thirst Enjoy. What Jamaican music are you listening to today.
Vybz Kartel - Ordinary Servant. We'll get back to secular music tomorrow and at some point I'll write an essay about Vybz who is probably the most popular artist ever in Jamaica, yes that includes Bob. He was probably always destined to fail to get international success for reasons I'll go into one day. He has released thousands of songs.
I, and others with me, do occasionally post about new music in the Crucial Reggae thread, I don't think it is supposed to be only about old music, even if the majority naturally will be, so I think you are very welcome to post about these things in that thread too. Something that hasn't been touched on much, if at all, in that thread is the Dancehall side of things from say mid/late-80s onward. We had a 90s Dancehall thread here for a few seconds, but it only lasted a couple of pages and didn't stand much chance to survive. Personally, even if it isn't really my area, I have to say I prefer the more recent Dancehall to the 90s stuff, so I'll try to think of something to post here, along with repeating some of my recommendation of more recent Reggae. I was going to post this in the Crucial Reggae thread, but might as well drop it here instead then: Protoje Announces Label Deal With RCA I don't care too much about Protoje, but I'm looking forward to more material from Sevana and Lila Iké. Here they are together with Naomi Cowan and Jaz Elise doing their respective songs on the "Rock & Groove" riddim (released on the mentioned In.Digg.Nation label), and then halfway through, before they can be stopped, they start freestyling on some old standards (so watch the whole way): The original songs are, in order initially heard, Naomi Cowan "Peace Of Mind", Jaz Elise "Rock & Groove", Sevana "Haul & Pull Up" and Lila Iké "Sweet Inspiration". They also recorded individual performances for 1Xtra on this occation, they're not necessarily Reggae or Dancehall, but I'll post them as well below. I absolutely love this quartet of ladies...
I'd be a bit careful about the "most poular ever" bit. This is kind of the same as with the Beatles, every year there is some Popstar who is bigger, by some statistic. In the 80s in Jamaica it was Yellowman that was bigger than Bob, now it's Vybz, but in reality, no matter how big they are at a certain moment, no one will ever come anywhere near the omiprecense that Bob has, and that includs back in JA. But yes, Vybz is probably the biggest at the moment, and he has been for a long time, I am amazed by his longevity in market that always craves the next thing, and I don't really understand it, but it is what it is. So to tie in with that, and since I like to highlight current female artists, here is Shenseea with her breakthrough track "Loodi", which is a remix of a Vybz track (and I have to say I think she elevates greatly something that sounded pretty average originally).
Here's another more recent one from Shenseea, "Blessed", and I'm not sure if it is an answer song to Popcaan's (it was released later the same year) or if there's a connection, maybe it's just that the "best"/"blessed" couplet was the hip thing of the moment. It relates to the article I posted about Protoje's major label deal since this was Shenseea's first major label release (she was also mentioned). This is as much Hip-Hop as it is Dancehall, but I think it is interesting, because for a long time it has been fashionable in Pop/R&B/Hip-Hop to borrow Dancehall elements and take it high on the charts, but calling the influences "island" or "tropical" or some nonsense instead of giving credit where credit's due, all this while the actual Dancehall artists have had trouble seizing the opportuntity to get in on the action and have a piece of that Pop-pie, but now it looks like maybe some of them are being able to cross over and reap some of the fruits themselves.
Thanks for engaging in the thread and for your contributions. I read the article about Proteje, and went down a bit of a rabbit hole clicking some other threads on the page. Let's hope this works out. Successes with big label signings have been few & far between. I do follow the Crucial Reggae thread and understand why the focus is largely on older music. I've thought most of the focus on recent stuff was when it could be linked back e.g. when someone is touted as bringing back the old vibes. Maybe that's just my own bias. I am more of a fan of recent stuff than 90's reggae but there is good stuff coming on a continuous basis for coming up to 60 years which really is remarkable. Speaking of the ladies here is Spice with Black Hypocrisy. Colourism is an issue both in Jamaica and the US which is rarely talked about outside of black communities. Spice has had a number of hits a lot of which I've enjoyed.
Point taken. Comparisons can be invidious. I got into reggae during Yellowman's run and he was everywhere and had so many hits that he dominated on the charts and the streets. Beenie had a pretty good run too. As did Bounty & Buju. There's no touching Bob in a worldwide sense. He's known and heard everywhere in the world and Vybz certainly doesn't approach that. And Bob Marley has achieved an elevated status in Jamaica which is almost godlike. But what a run Vybz has had. He's stayed at the top (in terms of the charts) in Jamaica for much longer than Bob or Yellowman and to date shows no signs of slowing down despite his circumstances. I did do a search on the Crucial Reggae thread for Vybz and he had one mention in passing so hopefully this thread fills a gap regarding dancehall today. Thanks again for the contributions which I'm working through.
I have nothing substantive to add, but just want to say that this is a great idea for a thread (as was the '90s dancehall thread). I wish that they would put out an updated 4th edition of The Rough Guide to Reggae. That book was indispensable (to me at least) for making sense of the various styles/subgenres/trends over the decades. The 3rd edition was published in 2004, so we're coming up on 2 decades unaccounted for in the latest edition. If anyone feels like summing up the last 2 decades of reggae music in a couple of sentences or paragraphs (or more), I'd be interested...
I was tempted to try, but no can't do it, I will say that Reggae is more diverse stylistically and more widespread geographically than ever, unfortunately the market is probably more fractured and smaller than ever as well. Now a question, how many of the tracks featured in this thread have had a physical release?
You're correct that most of the new stuff posted there is what would also appeal to fans of the vintage music, so it gets limited that way. A lot of what I would post here would also be in that vein, but I'll try to be a bit more diverse. As the lyrics start out, "It's not what you expect...", a Reggae rhythm with a sung vocal and a "concious" lyric from Spice, what?! And while I'm all behind the message I'm not sure sure what to think of a singing Spice... I don't doubt her seriousness on the subject though. Like with the Shenseea track above, almost ten years earlier Spice also had her breaktrough with a Vybz collaboration, "Romping Shop" (so this says something about Vybz continued status over time). The themes of that is more typical of Spice (than the one above), and without going into detail suffice to say it was banned by the Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation! (Since then there has been so much explicit Dancehall that I can't see how JBC can be bothered, or they'd just have to ban everything.) Spice has made several more collaborations with Vybz, and I guess she is now his female counterpart in Dancehall, so teaming up the King and Queen, as it were. (Their connection makes her making that "Black Hypocrisy" track more complex, as he is often accused of "bleeching".) Just like with Vybz I think she has limited appeal for the mainstream market (compared to for exampel Shenseea), because she is so hardcore Dancehall. Her lyrics are as noted on the extreme side, which makes them nothing unique in Dancehall, but the thing I like with her is that it is done with a large amount of humour and tongue in cheek, everything, both lyrics and visuals (you really need the videos along with it to get the full experience and the fun spirit of it) are taken to such extremes that it becomes cartoonish, but in a cool and fun way, at least that's my take. I have also seen Spice live and it was exactly as you'd expect, completely and totally over the top, with a dance troupe that performed what can only be classified as a circus act, I thought it was great fun! I can see how it's not for everyone though, and as I was thinking of a video to post I started thinking how most of them (at least the fun ones) probably break the rules for what's allowed to post here (hardly "safe for work", as is a phrase I see used)! I'll take a chance with this, which is generally on the milder side (I'm not sure what the difference, if any, is with this and the more popular "raw" version of the video), and for anyone unfamiliar with Spice this is by far her most popular track (which has also reached to a more mainstream audience): I think it is amazing and almost unbelievable how he has manged to stay on top, I mean how does it even work practically? That sounds to much like work, but if you'd like some aural orientation, by listening through what have been the very biggest tracks, I have a couple of playlists you can check out. I have put together (and continually add to) the complete Reggae Gold and Strictly The Best series (a couple of series of compilations that have run from the early 90s until today), the playlists run in reverse chronology, so they start with what's most recent. These have Reggae and Dancehall and basically anything that relates to Jamaican music, but these are just the big hits, so there's of course plenty of other things happening outside the scope of these. Obviously you can't play all of it (I once did when I was clearing out an apartement, took me over a week of continous playing all wake time), but you can pick a year and sample. Reggae Gold, a playlist by 99thfloor on Spotify Strictly The Best, a playlist by 99thfloor on Spotify (The Reggae Gold compilations come out each summer and is a mixture of everything, the Strictly The Best compilations come out in winter and are usually divided in two volumes where one is Dancehall/deejays and one is Reggae/singers.) From the last five years there will probably be hardly any, but before that it's not uncommon, Spice for example has had a bunch of her songs out on 7", but it's mostly those from before she had really become big. I looked up some statistics, and another notable thing is that while she has yet to release a proper album she has (according to Wikipedia) done 83 singles and 63 videos, which also tells a lot about how these things work.
I wrote when Vybz Kartel released his first album way back in 2003, wow that long ago, that he was probably reggae's first nihilist. Nihilist = rejecting all religious and moral principles in the belief that life is meaningless. That's probably too extreme but... Vybz in general is not about hope, positivity or escape. He's about living in the ghetto and staying there, which 60 years after independence is what a lot of Jamaicans face. He doesn't tell you to lively up yourself and knows that when reggae music hits you then you do feel pain. There are street dances where the selector will only play his music. That's unprecedented. His music is for the permanently dispossessed. And it helps that he is a brilliant lyricist who has shown no real interest in breaking internationally and instead was, until his incarceration, building his own "empire" in Kingston. His ambition was not to get an international recording contract but to be a Don. Talk about relatable.
I looked up Chronic Law, who started this thread, in August 2019 to see how many songs he had on youtube. For Jamaican artists a song on youtube is effectively a single right? He had 212 and by the time I finished, it took a few days, had probably released some more. OK, some were probably the same song with a different title but that level of releasing songs is not abnormal. I won't attempt such an exercise again but here's the list: 1 Chronic Law & Squash One Family 6ixReal Records 2019 2 Chronic Law Weakness (Still Ago Smile) Hemton Music / FlydieWise Production 2018 3 Chronic Law Stress Free Eastsyde Records 2017 4 Chronic Law & Sanity DSane1 Nuttn Dont Nice Prosperous Riddim MarkusRecords 2019 5 Chronic Law Circumstances Air Records 2019 6 Chronic Law Rich Gyal G6ixx Riddim Shab Don Records 2019 7 Chronic Law Bless Me Conquest Paradise Riddim Damage Musiq 2019 8 Chronic Law & Kash Good Weed Charge Up Riddim Dunwell Productions 2019 9 Chronic Law Hillside Elite Generation Records 2018 10 Vybz Kartel & Chronic Law Can't Kill We TJ Records Dismay Riddim 2019 11 Chronic Law Pain Papi Don Muziq 2019 12 Chronic Law Too Easy Shab Don Records 2019 13 Chronic Law Friendship Super Hero Riddim Kwashawna Records 2019 14 Chronic Law Anything A Anything One Time Music / Sonovic Music 2019 15 Chronic Law Hide My Tears (Mother's Song) BMusicProductions 2018 16 Chronic Law & Fya Doops Upset Days (Good Times, Bad Times) Eastsyde Records 2018 17 Chronic Law Every thing change now East Syde Records. 2018 18 Chronic Law Guide My Step Swagg Records 2018 19 Chronic Law Love Ina Mi Heart Bloody Judgement Riddim Itz-Beez-Da TrackStar 2018 20 Chronic Law They Will 2019 21 Chronic Law Family Different From Link Best Dem Records 2019 22 Chronic Law Cyaa Lonely 1 Option Riddim 2019 23 Chronic Law Cold Dews Papi Don Muziq 2019 24 Shane E & Chronic Law The Dream Ultimate Street Team Music / Hemton Music 2018 25 Chronic law Cell Block Cell Block Riddim Bragga Phelps Records 2018 26 Chronic Law Fight Elite Generation Records 2019 27 Chronic Law Peak Crown Royal Riddim] Countree Hype 2019 28 Chronic Law God Don't Sleep East Syde Records. 2017 29 Chronic Law Mi Remember Osmosis Riddim Hungry Lion Records 2019 30 Chronic Law Feelings Weekend Love Riddim YGF Records, Devario Productions & Ridwaan 2019 31 Chronic Law Style Lifestyle Riddim Frenz For Real 2019 32 Chronic Law Firm Ground Same Way EastSyde Records & Sycka Beats 2017 33 Chronic Law Live Life Johnny Wonder & Adde Instrumentals 2019 34 Chronic Law Miss Yuh 2019 35 Chronic Law My Story Dunwell Productions & Unruly Ent 2019 36 Chronic Law Nuh Call Me Nuh Gangsta 2019 37 Chronic Law Born Fi Dis Attomatic Records 2019 38 Chronic Law Walk Alone Flydie Wise Production 2018 39 Chronic Law Trouble East Syde Records. 2018 40 Chronic Law Fren Killa Supreme Riddim Dunwell Productions 2019 41 Chronic Law Dead Already Hemton Music / FlydieWise Production 2019 42 Chronic Law Unborn Child Sonovic Music / One Time Music 2019 43 Chronic Law & Dane Ray Aha (Last Laugh) One Way Riddim Hemton Music and Attomatic Records 2019 44 Chronic Law Organize Crime Hemton Music & Shabdon Records 2019 45 Chronic Law We Alright One Time Music 2019 46 Chronic Law Look Weh Money Cause Outta Nothing Production 2018 47 Chronic Law Government Cashflow Rinse & KevStar Records 2018 48 Chronic Law Problems Quandary Riddim Bertdem RecordsQuandary Riddim 2019 49 Chronic Law Never Stop Try Temple Swing Records 2018 50 Chronic Law Face Shot Shab Don Records 2019 51 Chronic Law Falsifier 6ixReal Records 2019 52 Chronic Law Perfidious Circle East Syde Records. 2018 53 Chronic Law Voyage Knock 6 Records 2018 54 Chronic Law My Time Now HighLife Music Entertainment 2019 55 Chronic Law Buy Bi Bye Lifestyle Riddim Young Tycoon Family 2019 56 Chronic Law No Shy Side VVS Riddim Bilion Music Group 2019 57 Chronic Law Big Life Brafazz Entertainment 2019 58 Chronic Law Large Life High Life Music 2019 59 Chronic Law & Jahvillani General Differently Unique Riddim YGF Records, Devario Productions & Ridwaan 2018 60 Chronic Law Born Evil Witch Riddim Brafazz Entertainment 2018 61 Chronic Law & Qpid Nation We Nah Dead Fi Now East Syde Records. 2017 62 Chronic law man born evil Brafazz Entertainment 2019 63 Chronic Law Yo Have Me Young Genz Muziq / Premier Music 2019 64 Chronic Law Naa Lef It YGR / C1M 2019 65 Chronic Law Pull Up Uptown Riddim Young Tycoon Family 2019 66 Chronic Law Celebrate Seanizzle Records / Slock Entertainment 2019 67 Chronic Law Cyaa Rush We Outta Nothing Production 2018 68 Chronic Law Anytime Zimi Ent 2019 69 Chronic Law Money Hunter Money Hunter Riddim Elite Generation Records 2019 70 Chronic Law Dem Seh We Couldn't Dweet Tru Productions 2019 71 Chronic law bring a friend 2019 72 Chronic Law & Jakal Fren Fi Stay Real 2019 73 Chronic Law Gal Yuh Perfect Touch Pal Riddim Silver Sun Music 2019 74 Chronic Law Wild Wild West Karey Records 2019 75 Chronic Law Hilltop Gyalis Track Starr Music 2019 76 Chronic Law Nuh Play Dancehall Posse Riddim TJ Records 2019 77 Chronic Law Nobody Nuh Perfect aka Typical Life One Aim Riddim Elite Generation Records 2019 78 Chronic Law Night Time Anthem Medley Night Time Riddim Bragga Phelps Records 2017 79 Chronic Law Press Di K 2017 80 Chronic Law & Bully Frass Strength Bragga Phelps Music 2018 81 Chronic Law & Crownboss Murda Devario Production 2019 82 T'Jean & Chronic Law Energy 2019 83 Chronic Law & Slippery Skeemaz Currency OSJ Records 2019 84 Chronic Law Good Girl Bad Style Eastsyde Records 2019 85 Chronic Law Easy Grave Diggin Riddim] Attomatic Records 2018 86 Chronic Law Full House A Rifle Bragga Phelps Music 2018 87 Chronic Law Funeral Bell EastSyde Records & Valinteno Records 2018 88 Chronic Law Bruk Dayz East Syde Records. 2017 89 Chronic Law Bad Road East Syde Records. 2018 90 Chronic Law Real Know Real Bragga Phelps Records & Eastsyde Records 2018 91 Chronic Law Money Pree 2018 92 Chronic Law No Lie 2018 93 Chronic Law All Night YGM Riddim Yung Genz Musiq & EastSyde Records 2017 94 Chronic Law Warm And Wet Bragga Phelps Music 2018 95 Chronic Law Tropical Oasis East Syde Records. 2017 96 Chronic Law Sex Drive Knock 6 Records 2018 97 Chronic Law Full Package Hemton Music 2018 98 Chronic Law Hurt You Fresh Boys On Da Track 2019 99 Chronic Law Nah Kool Off (Audio) StrateG Records - Deadline Recordz 2019 100 Chronic Law We Coudn't Dweet Road Winner Riddim Truproductions \ Brawlamusic 2019 101 Chronic Law Flourish Papi Don Muziq & Flydie Wise Production 2019 102 Chronic law ride pon me 2019 103 Chronic Law Chronic Law Wap Dem 2018 104 Chronic Law Change East Syde Records. 2018 105 Chronic Law Stand Strong 2019 106 Chronic Law Weak Heart 2019 107 Chronic Law & Daddy 1 6ix Badness Skibbo Don Music 2019 108 Chronic Law Buss Dem Head Yung Rich Records 2019 109 Chronic Law Money Physician Outta Nothing Productions 2019 110 Chronic Law Ano Holiday Badness (dancehall) Lando Records & Outta Nothing Production 2018 111 Chronic Law Love Weed Starz & Dreamz Music 2018 112 Chronic Law 1 Spliff Nuh Enough 2019 113 Chronic Law Touch Down Refix ( January 2019) 2019 114 Chronic Law Mammy Prayer Deano Deann Records / Fire Thunda 2019 115 Chronic Law Guns Out Fighta Jet Riddim Elite Generation Records 2018 116 Chronic Law If A Neva Mommy 2019 117 Chronic Law Sport Mode Dane Raycords & K-Swiss Production 2019 118 Chronic Law Hill Top Freestyle Hemton Music 2018 119 Chronic Law Infidelity Infidelity Riddim Halcyon Music 2018 120 Chronic Law Normal Pree Swagg Records 2018 121 Chronic Law Mummy 2019 122 Iyara & Chronic Law Bank of America 2019 123 Chronic Law & Unknown Gringo Money Machine Shab Don Records 2019 124 Chronic Law No Joke Kollege Rok Records Anuh Town Alone Riddim 2019 125 Chronic Law Cherish (Just U) 2018 126 Chronic Law Say 2018 127 Chronic Law Life Changes 2019 128 Chronic Law Work East Syde Records. 2019 129 Chronic Law Tribute Kai Kai Records 2019 130 Chronic Law Heartless 2019 131 Chronic Law From The Other Day 2019 132 Chronic Law Nah Kill Up MI Self Bragga Phelps Records 2018 133 Chronic Law Celebrate Now Seanizzle Records 2018 134 Chronic Law No Saint Ear Bud Riddim DJ Smurf Music 2018 135 Chronic Law Naah Worry My Head 2019 136 Chronic Law Luxury Life - January 2019 Shab Don Records 2019 137 Chronic Law & Fyah Doops Mummy Cry Tears 2018 138 Chronic Law Far Away 2019 139 Chronic Law Converter East Syde Records. 2018 140 Chronic Law Buss Case Bragga Phelps Music 2019 141 Chronic Law Live Good Blacq Magiq Riddim Fyba Glass Music 2019 142 Chronic Law One Day 2017 143 Chronic Law Protect My Own Elite Generation Records 2018 144 Chronic Law High Roller Fully Aktiv Riddim 2018 145 Chronic Law & M Gee Money Badness Mechanic Inc. Music 2019 146 Chronic Law I'll Be Okay 2019 147 Chronic Law 4 Or More ( Masicka Diss) 2019 148 Chronic Law Holding On Elite Generation Records 2019 149 Chronic Law Naa Work Out 2018 150 Chronic Law Cyan Kool (Beenie Man Diss) 2019 151 Chronic Law Gyal Dem A Mad Ova Outta Nothing Production 2019 152 Chronic Law Firmer 2019 153 Chronic Law Paradox 2018 154 Chronic Law 666 Bragga Phelps Music 2018 155 Chronic Law Braffing (Raw) Morning Bliss Riddim Luigi Society & Jr Bloodline 2018 156 Chronic Law & SkilliBeng Gyalis Code (Wanna Be Like Us) East Syde Records. 2018 157 Chronic Law Fire Audiam 2018 158 Digree & Chronic Law 6ix Outside {Freestyle} WhyteLite Production & Kahtion Beatz 2019 159 Chronic Law Ready 2018 160 Chronic Law Challa Weekend East Syde Records. 2017 161 Chronic Law Everything High Life Music 2018 162 Chronic Law Terrible Weather 2019 163 Chronic Law Wha Dem A Pree East Link Records 2018 164 Chronic Law Wi Wul It 2019 165 Chronic Law Hunt Wi A Hunt 2019 166 Chronic Law & YardhypeMusic (6ix) Loud YardhypeMusic 2018 167 Chronic Law People Fi Burn Public Enemy Riddim Hemton Music 2017 168 Chronic Law No More R. I.P 2018 169 Chronic Law & Versi Brawling Murder Money Fever Riddim Shab Don Records 2018 170 Chronic Law & Shinedown On My Way 2018 171 Chronic Law Shallow Grave Elite Generation Records 2019 172 Jahvillani & Chronic Law Lavish YGF Records, Devario Productions & Ridwaan 2019 173 Squash Ft. Chronic Law Nozzle (Raw) Hemton Music 2017 174 Chronic Law Yo Have Me Young Genz Muziq 2019 175 Chronic Law It Nuh Easy High Life Music 2019 176 Chronic Law Head Crown Lift 2018 177 Chronic Law Gun With Gyal Bragga Phelps Records 2019 178 Chronic Law Nah Stay Suh Forever 2018 179 Chronic Law Good Girl High Life Music 2019 180 Chronic Law Life Goes On (Gone Too Soon) Elite Generation Records 2019 181 Chronic Law Miss Yuh Dawg High Life Music 2019 182 Chronic Law Shouldn’t Lose You 2019 183 Chronic Law Endz [Jahvillani & Masicka Diss] 2019 184 Chronic Law Cyaa Lonely 2019 185 Chronic law & Di -ruption mommy seh Elite Generation Records 2019 186 Chronic Law Gone too Soon 2018 187 Fya Doops & Chronic Law Positive Medz 2018 188 Chronic Law & Di Ruption Faith Move Mountains (Official Audio) prod by. Elite Generation 2019 189 Chronic Law She know Wa Gwan - February 2019 High Life Music 2019 190 Chronic Law Dem Only A Talk (Raw) Chip City Riddim 2016 191 Chronic Law & Shakka Pee Paper Chase Outta Nothing Production 2019 192 Chronic Law Always High High Life Music 2019 193 Chronic Law Xbox 2019 194 Chronic Law Six 2018 195 Chronic Law Godly Path 2019 196 Chronic Law It Easy Fi We (Diss Jahvillani?) High Life Music 2019 197 Chronic Law Neva Lef It ( April 2017) [East Syde Records] East Syde Records. 2017 198 Chronic Law Weed Mi Want Summer Dash Riddim Outta Nothing Production 2018 199 Chronic Law Stay Real DJ Smurf Music 2019 200 Chronic Law Gyal Thief Outta Nothing Production 2019 201 Chronic Law Nuff Gyal Sky Bad Musiq 2019 202 Chronic Law Gone Lef Dem 75 Productions 2019 203 Chronic Law Heartless Motion Time Riddim One Motion Records 2019 204 Chronic Law Hill Top Badness Hemton Music 2018 205 Chronic Law Bad Fi Real Blacq Magiq Riddim Fyba Glass Music 2019 206 Chronic Law Money Talk Drop Dem Riddim Drop Top Records 2019 207 Chronic Law & Shevv Di Goddess 1Don Live W Yah Records 2018 208 Chronic Law Hillside (Acapella) Elite Generation Records 2019 209 Chronic law Me Run Di Place 2019 210 Chronic Law No Weed No Medz (Freestyle) Ord Productions 2019 211 Chronic law Face Full Up (Raw) 2018 212 Chronic Law & Mad Dog & Furness Find Dem Dark Knight Riddim Outta Nothing Production 2018 I don't know how many tracks Spice has put out but it would be a lot more than Chronic Law as she's a much more major artist than he is.
Here's Munga Honorable with a track that's not like he usually does. Coronation Day from 2013. Even Haile Selassie did not "get" Rastafarianism. His best tune in my view but he seems to have dropped off in the last few years.
Here's a song I've listened to countless times. Morgan Heritage - Nothing To Smile About. The story is a tourist (from Norway) comes to Jamaica and wonders why, when living in a tropical paradise, Jamaicans aren't smiling all the time. So they take him for a drive to show him what the tourists don't see. They look at the condition of police stations, the schools and the poorer areas with hungry children. There's no answer when the tourist asks how the politicians can allow such a state of affairs. It's thematically the song as Phil Collins - Another Day In Paradise. That makes two shout outs Phil Collins has had in this thread!
Not pure dancehall by any means (elements of footwork in there, among other stuff) but the first Equiknoxx album Bird Sound Power is brilliant.
