really love this new Lila Iké "Solitude" (part of a new EP I haven't heard all of yet):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxrY8TWKJL0
could be crossposted to "are you cut out for social media"
― dip to dup (rob), Friday, 22 May 2020 14:57 (four years ago) link
The Iké EP, ExPerience, is excellent. Rather than heading in a roots-revival direction like I'd assumed based on "Where I'm Coming From", it's much more like updated (80s) lover's rock. At least until the last track where she takes on Sly & Robbie's riddim for The Tamlins' "Baltimore," which if you're going to voice a classic is a goddamn good choice, not to mention it's pretty groovy anyway
― dip to dup (rob), Saturday, 23 May 2020 13:20 (four years ago) link
Agreed. I love the diversity I'm discovering in Jamaican music "behind" the traditional roots - dancehall binary. And each song has something different to offer but keeps that unique Jamaican singing style. Mother of God the way she hits those notes on 'Second Chance'. This EP is placing on my year-end list.
― Nabozo, Saturday, 23 May 2020 13:51 (four years ago) link
Yeah I love how commanding her voice can be, but then the vibrato maintains a constant note of vulnerability. More broadly, the roots-dancehall binary is definitely overstated, obscuring genres like rocksteady and lovers plus tons of artists worked in both areas and there has always been plenty of mixing of the two genres/impulses.
In sadder news (but relevant to my last point), RIP to Bobby Digital
― dip to dup (rob), Saturday, 23 May 2020 13:59 (four years ago) link
Going to rewind this a few times:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NncTZuDiNqs
― dip to dup (rob), Saturday, 23 May 2020 14:03 (four years ago) link
Listening to "Solitude", "Stars Align" and "Forget Me" in a loop. So, so good.
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Saturday, 23 May 2020 15:38 (four years ago) link
glad you both are into this too!
Swing Ting & Shanique Marie's "Give Thanks" is a nice vibe:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCF6X1L5AUE
(this time I'll say: DO watch the video)
― dip to dup (rob), Saturday, 23 May 2020 18:10 (four years ago) link
Did you guys watch Beanie Man verzuz Bounty Killer on Facebook or Instagram? Kinda fun
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 24 May 2020 05:06 (four years ago) link
x-post--- Bobby Digital produced Sizzla "Black Woman and Child " album that I liked, plus the Shabba Ranks song "Dem Bow" that of course later got ransofrmed into reggaeton dembow rhythm
https://www.loopjamaica.com/content/iconic-dancehall-producer-bobby-digital-dies-59
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 24 May 2020 05:10 (four years ago) link
Kinda fun is underselling it
― just sayin, Sunday, 24 May 2020 08:30 (four years ago) link
surprised more ppl here weren't into it???
― just sayin, Tuesday, 26 May 2020 09:42 (three years ago) link
I've completely slept on this whole phenomenon. Is there a painless way to rewatch it?
― dip to dup (rob), Tuesday, 26 May 2020 12:48 (three years ago) link
https://youtu.be/216ILslDOfs
not sure if this is the full thing because I thought it was a bit longer than an hour, but if you search Beenie man verzuz on YouTube you should find a lot of versions.
they start off with rap and rnb collabs which are ok, I mean it's still entertaining because these guys are kings but when the showtime riddim comes on later it's *rocket taking off emoji*
― just sayin, Tuesday, 26 May 2020 22:13 (three years ago) link
How about when the cops showed up (I am still wondering if that was real or staged)
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 28 May 2020 03:16 (three years ago) link
I love this Alkaline track from earlier in the year. Even though the lyrics don’t seem to back it up, the title just has to be a Gladys Knight reference, no?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QddyEM61qTQAlkaline ft. Black Shadow • Gladdest Night
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Sunday, 7 June 2020 20:22 (three years ago) link
...or is YouTube commenter "troll ute" right and is this all there is to it:
troll ute 4 months agoGladdest night is a singer bredda so alka a say the girl going to sing on his mic. Get it bredda 😂😂😂
so sad the song...
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Sunday, 7 June 2020 20:34 (three years ago) link
UPDATE: ah, no - he's just repaying the compliment with interest, I guess:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9o8m1q3JIf8
"Alaskan Pipeline" - get it bredda?
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Sunday, 7 June 2020 20:42 (three years ago) link
Yeah, I like that song too. Alkaline seems to be kinda... back... in 2020?
In other news, I have started loving the new Buju & John Legend. Let's just say it grew on me.:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9pMjc0-Vlk
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Monday, 8 June 2020 07:32 (three years ago) link
How about this remix of a remix for an international collaboration?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvGG16PDi2USkip Marley • Slow Down (P2J Remix ft. H.E.R, Davido & Oxlade)
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Monday, 8 June 2020 16:30 (three years ago) link
big thumbs up for "Gladdest Night"
― dip to dup (rob), Monday, 8 June 2020 16:50 (three years ago) link
Alka's "Cree" is great too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPOaeg2dMe4
― dip to dup (rob), Monday, 8 June 2020 17:18 (three years ago) link
I like the riddim on this admittedly pretty one-note Popcaan "Buzz":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zB-G7kRO9o
― dip to dup (rob), Monday, 8 June 2020 17:29 (three years ago) link
about us by vybz is great, produced by bobby konders
― just sayin, Friday, 12 June 2020 11:02 (three years ago) link
...and here it is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0qINmN2DLk
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Friday, 12 June 2020 12:56 (three years ago) link
that's rad! great video too. Kartel should do a prison abolition song next
― dip to dup (rob), Saturday, 13 June 2020 12:50 (three years ago) link
Busy Signal - World Crisis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j495vK6F-ZI
― dip to dup (rob), Friday, 26 June 2020 12:22 (three years ago) link
this isn't going to convert the skeptical, but I quite like it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyY-eSMlGJM
Chronixx & Kabaka Pyramid "Same Prayer"
― rob, Tuesday, 30 June 2020 17:37 (three years ago) link
Yeah, i'm a fan! Basically i like anything chronixx does tho'.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 17:49 (three years ago) link
Lol same I even like that edm song on Chronology
― rob, Tuesday, 30 June 2020 18:35 (three years ago) link
you mean I Can? um. i gotta draw the line somewhere
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 18:42 (three years ago) link
haha yeah it's misguided and treacly, but I like his voice so much that sometimes I don't lunge for the skip button when it comes on
― rob, Tuesday, 30 June 2020 19:24 (three years ago) link
Buju's new album is a, let's say, mixed bag, but this Lloyd Bradley interview/profile is p interesting: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jul/02/every-black-man-have-to-fight-buju-banton-on-prison-and-liberation
― rob, Thursday, 2 July 2020 19:09 (three years ago) link
New Kartel album is kinda hot though. I don't hear a Fever, but a lot of the tracks are extremely catchy.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, 3 July 2020 08:34 (three years ago) link
who could be mad at beenie doing zungguzungguguzungguzenghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SozyhvPxf5Y
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 3 July 2020 18:27 (three years ago) link
pretty sure I could listen to that riddim every day for the rest of my life!
Intence "Yeng" is a good time, love the bits of steel pan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDHgA4RR7NY
"Blessed" was the best new-to-me track off the first half of the Buju album (I bailed before finishing it I must confess; also "Yes Mi Friend" resonated emotionally):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzmzKtOaVf4
"what the bloodfire is this a gwaan in America?"
― rob, Friday, 3 July 2020 18:40 (three years ago) link
“Yeng” is great, it is indeed the steel pan that makes it.
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Monday, 6 July 2020 16:52 (three years ago) link
'yeng' is my shit, heavy rotation so far this year
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Monday, 6 July 2020 19:08 (three years ago) link
haven't enjoyed much from Masicka in a while, but "Just a Minute" is cool:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ9Pi1J5ehI
contra the Aidonia comp discussion upthread, I feel like Govana has really come into his own this year; here's Likkle Bit A Money:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERpkRVPGgJg
more Intence; "Antisocial" is great:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYfUEtC40MU
and Daddy1 "Pretty Pon Snap" took a while to click with me but now I dig it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP00LWcEOXw
― rob, Thursday, 16 July 2020 23:06 (three years ago) link
“likkle bit of money”!
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Friday, 17 July 2020 22:50 (three years ago) link
>> literal trigger warning for the video tho, not surprisingly coinciding with the shot in the middle of the track :-((
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Saturday, 18 July 2020 14:15 (three years ago) link
I finally made a thread for Chronixx
― rob, Wednesday, 22 July 2020 14:08 (three years ago) link
Sevana has never really clicked for me, but "Mango" might be an exception:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-yeBrtOeek
Definitely intrigued by the idea of hyper-arranged rnb-dancehall
― rob, Friday, 31 July 2020 14:24 (three years ago) link
This is pretty fucking marvelous right? Aidonia & Govana, “Yeah Man”https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9R-tGfG9JmM
― rob, Wednesday, 5 August 2020 01:47 (three years ago) link
YES
― just sayin, Wednesday, 5 August 2020 02:36 (three years ago) link
it is
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 5 August 2020 08:24 (three years ago) link
yah, this is dope
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 5 August 2020 15:53 (three years ago) link
Really loving the new Popcaan mixtape as documented on his dedicated thread
Love to see him crossing the reggae/dancehall divide (which is being blurred so productively this year, I am super excited) on this new Protoje jam "Like Royalty":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFxyPB_LcBA
― rob, Friday, 7 August 2020 14:29 (three years ago) link
dont know where to put this, but its fun - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000l6zw
"The biggest dancehall rhythms of the last 35 years, as selected by 50 of the world's leading dancehall influencers - DJ’s, producers, journalists and artists.
Including contributions from Clevie, Tony Kelly, Sly Dunbar, Wayne Wonder, Buju Banton and Sean Paul."
― just sayin, Monday, 17 August 2020 06:14 (three years ago) link
I really like how much space some new riddims have, like on Intence's "Authentic"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgAS9kql9T8
― rob, Friday, 21 August 2020 14:16 (three years ago) link
^produced by Zimi who also did "Yeng" so that makes sens
― rob, Friday, 21 August 2020 14:19 (three years ago) link