recognition is due that Popcaan probably has 2013's maybe-trying-too-hard-but-still-apt summer anthem here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWUfahDBcs0
― rob, Thursday, 13 June 2013 02:09 (eleven years ago) link
rebel mc returns and pulls in a few chums.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Guc3xSj7wQs
loving this.
― mark e, Thursday, 13 June 2013 10:31 (eleven years ago) link
Mavado + Spice, who has been on fire this year (Mavado not so much):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSqm64JnO4c
― rob, Friday, 21 June 2013 02:52 (ten years ago) link
Blak Ryno "#1 Stunna"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sef897XINcw
― rob, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 22:43 (ten years ago) link
Konshens "Tan Up An Wuk"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXXR7QWLJbw
― rob, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 23:24 (ten years ago) link
that Agent Sasco/Di Genius track, "Tell Unuh," chilli posted a couple months ago is great. Sasco is also my favorite on the hyper infectious Moggela Riddim:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gC8cBncDRyk
Konshens is good on that one too ("How We Living").
― rob, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 23:35 (ten years ago) link
Agent Sasco has been great this year.
'Next Top Model', 'Tell Unuh' and 'Shell' are all terrific.
― gregus, Saturday, 20 July 2013 00:10 (ten years ago) link
Very true and I haven't even heard Yeezus yet.
― rob, Saturday, 20 July 2013 17:12 (ten years ago) link
poor neglected thread, here is a great Chronixx tune:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ7Yoj5QwiA
this should probably be noted though I'm not sure it works (Mavado f. Nicki Minaj):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ylbysq2r90E
― rob, Tuesday, 27 August 2013 01:42 (ten years ago) link
it's a bit of an attempt to rewrite "hold yuh" on nicki's part
have been feeling these
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yhIUmJjJrI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKJIIHgy1E0
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 27 August 2013 14:38 (ten years ago) link
I'm coming around to it, but the Mavado/Nicki thing feels a little undercooked. Nicki's rap is definitely a near carbon copy of her "Hold Yuh" appearance. I quite like her singing at 2:38 and the last minute or so works much better imo. It's too bad they decided to use both her vocal approaches, which is something no one has ever said about Minaj before.
both those songs you posted are great and they remind me that there are a few major hits that haven't been posted in this thread yet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAnrv0Kye0w
― rob, Tuesday, 27 August 2013 17:12 (ten years ago) link
hi dere Vybz Kartel, this is a total jam:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiVPv8kI2Kw
― rob, Tuesday, 10 September 2013 01:36 (ten years ago) link
there's been a ton of great 90s influenced stuff this year. JA music is so adept at using its past this stuff all sounds fresh to me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOvUW2NOcdQ
this is nice too, though the intro with Konshens voicing So Mi Tan over the Real Rock riddim is such a tease, would love to hear more that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQyGMHNR614
― rob, Tuesday, 10 September 2013 01:48 (ten years ago) link
great finds! that "hi" is taken from some stock rap sample, no?
― chilli, Tuesday, 10 September 2013 02:24 (ten years ago) link
can any of you guys ID this song/artist?
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0NGiffZvTwg
― dwfx, Tuesday, 10 September 2013 02:47 (ten years ago) link
RIP Prince Jazzbo
http://www.factmag.com/2013/09/12/legendary-reggae-artist-prince-jazzbo-has-died/
― rob, Thursday, 12 September 2013 19:46 (ten years ago) link
dwfx, that song doesn't ring any bells. What's it recorded from?
I have played "hi" on repeat since I posted that. The lyrics are amazing.
― rob, Thursday, 12 September 2013 19:58 (ten years ago) link
I don't live in the UK but this new Stylo G seems poised to be pretty massive:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz-LhRmIJno
― rob, Friday, 13 September 2013 17:05 (ten years ago) link
lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dOGyzVzVk8
― rob, Saturday, 5 October 2013 18:08 (ten years ago) link
It's curious that it's coming out in 2013, but Busy Signal spitting over Sarkodie's "U Go Kill Me" is nice:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vlsCRnoDlg
― rob, Saturday, 5 October 2013 18:15 (ten years ago) link
I kind of stopped paying attention to Tommy Lee Sparta after he swerved from the horrorcore/goth stuff and got goofy, but this video makes a strong case for his aesthetic remaining potent, the vibes anything but pure:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5Dci1u6L3s
― rob, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 01:45 (ten years ago) link
Samantha J's "Tight Skirt" making a compelling argument for teenpop-dancehall:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uqs4uuq8cPY
― rob, Sunday, 27 October 2013 01:19 (ten years ago) link
Loads of good stuff on the Toasted riddim, all of it super slack (apart from Kartel's brilliantly out of character "School"):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4j1keZzX5k
― rob, Sunday, 27 October 2013 01:23 (ten years ago) link
Busy should be getting subsidized to release these:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3WYse6XfCQ
― rob, Wednesday, 20 November 2013 03:06 (ten years ago) link
This Shy FX and Liam Bailey song sounded good when it came out, but in this freak snow & freezing cold we're having in Oregon, it's like a revelation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW-AHPZ5YEM
― rob, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 19:35 (ten years ago) link
I need to finish going through everything on this thread and your ilx nomination list...lots of good stuff
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 14:54 (ten years ago) link
thanks man! I plan on posting an EOY list with links at some point, probably closer to christmas. I've been super busy and need to catch up on recent stuff. interesting to see what dancehall others nominated--quite a few tracks where I couldn't pick between two songs from one artist (like "Chronixx's "Here Comes Trouble") ended up getting nommed--I was trying to be a bit more strategic with my nominations this year, though tbh I think Differentology is the only one with a shot.
― rob, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 15:25 (ten years ago) link
Yep, seems like that's the one crossing over a bit
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 16:10 (ten years ago) link
signs of life from Ward 21:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqBopETgbd4
― rob, Thursday, 12 December 2013 04:21 (ten years ago) link
I already mentioned this on the Bunji Garlin "Differentology" thread, but I really love this melancholy comedown:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiYTfkvdtNg
and this imperious viking call to arms:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3c5gH9UzvU
― rob, Thursday, 12 December 2013 04:23 (ten years ago) link
the year in making fun of dancehall artists:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xyAAjIiDSA
listening to more soca will be my new year's resolution for 2014
― rob, Monday, 23 December 2013 18:50 (ten years ago) link
argh, missed that s:
― rob, Monday, 23 December 2013 18:51 (ten years ago) link
resisted this all year, but it's christmas right:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zCoCa6b6cU
― rob, Wednesday, 25 December 2013 05:11 (ten years ago) link
missed this Cham a few months back. rediscovered on this excellent mix by The Large:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmSGDaW1btw
― rob, Friday, 27 December 2013 22:38 (ten years ago) link
also just realized I never posted Dye Dye here (this couldn't be much more NSFW, even the nominally clean version):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s47FeilYwQs
― rob, Friday, 27 December 2013 22:40 (ten years ago) link
my favourite dancehall of the year, in no particular order:
agent sasco - tell ununhaidonia - fi di jockeyblak ryno - #1 stunnadenyque - all night longkonshens - drink and ravelea-anna - find my lovepopcaan - unruly ravesamantha j -tight skirtstylo g - soundbwoytommy lee - maniacvybz kartel - hi
― gregus, Sunday, 29 December 2013 00:54 (ten years ago) link
I'll heartily cosign that whole list and add:
chronixx - odd ras & here comes troubleninjaman - dawg nyam yuh suppertifa - lyrically educatedmacka diamond - dye dyeqq - ghetto galj capri and konshens - pull up to mi bumpervybz kartel - schoolshy fx - soon comedenyque - make me believe you
glad someone here likes that Samantha J track. I posted that to my women-in-dancehall tumblr and picked up like 100 teenaged followers.
― rob, Sunday, 29 December 2013 01:10 (ten years ago) link
i have to thank you rob, i'm pretty sure my first listen to most of those tracks came as a result of your posts on this thread.
i cosign those tracks in your list, many of them nearly made my list.
― gregus, Sunday, 29 December 2013 01:38 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7L7PTS_4jY
new thread: rolling dancehall & reggae 2014
― rob, Thursday, 2 January 2014 21:41 (ten years ago) link