How good is Sean Paul?

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How good is Dutty Rock? Is its exposure exceptional or is Sean Paul a hyped face in a crowd that otherwise hasn't gotten much exposure in US pop channels? What is to come of this? And why do Jamaicans make so much music?

― Stuart (Stuart), Sunday, 2 March 2003 18:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

And why do Jamaicans make so much music?

Why wouldn't any country not make music? ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 2 March 2003 19:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ignore that part and talk about Sean Paul. :)

I didn't mean they shouldn't...

― Stuart (Stuart), Sunday, 2 March 2003 19:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hmmm... I've heard lots about him but little from him. I'm quite up for getting into the whole bashment/ragga stuff but Sean Paul seems a bit crossover/wishywashy/r'n'b-ised for me. What's good out there that I can get my mitts on?

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 3 March 2003 01:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

I initially thought his stuff was so lo.com.denom. that I found it utterly depressing, but I don't mind his latest single as much....which is not to say I'd run out and buy it, but I wouldn't turn it off. Where is he from, anyway? He's surely not Jamaican.

A Snow for the new Millenium?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 3 March 2003 01:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

He surely is Jamaican.

― Stuart (Stuart), Monday, 3 March 2003 01:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

I didn't like his first single, but everything I've downloaded has been FANTASTIC. His second single kicks.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 March 2003 01:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm with Alex and Dan. Gimme The Light annoyed me (as well as his changing "Make It Clap" to "Make It Clop" on that remix), but the second single was quite alright.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 3 March 2003 01:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

"gimme the light" annoyed me until i discovered that with the closed caption thing on you can see the lyrics typed out in phonetic patois. but "get busy" kicks my ass, i love the little twisty organ bit.

― your null fame (yournullfame), Monday, 3 March 2003 01:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

The video for "Get Busy" as well makes me inexplicably happy.They play it every 5 minutes on the hip hop mtv channel and I turn it up every time.He was on showtime at the apollo last week and I turned that up as well. I'd never heard of him until I saw that clapping song video which I also really liked cuz clapping always makes me happy in any song.The organ thing is just too cool.And banging on heating ducts in the basement in time with the music is even cooler.That and Missy's video are the feelgood summer hits of the winter for me.Funky fresh dressed to impress ready to party was always my favorite line from "Self Destruction" along with You ain't guarding the door so watcha got the gun for yo daddy-o school em some more-which if i'm not mistaken LL wrote for Lyte but I could be wrong.I am glad that I lived through the Ms.Melody era of rap though.(or lived to tell about it anyhow) What's Special Ed up to these days?

― Scott Seward, Monday, 3 March 2003 03:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Dutty Rock is the best album I've heard since The Streets and Michael Mayer - almost every song blows me away with its inventiveness, its confidence, its sexiness, its energy... Could this be the best party album since Remedy? "Get Busy" especially is absolutely phenomenal - if only Now Thing had had vocals on it I might have been able to appreciate how awesome a producer Lenky is. I don't think anything is as fun though as doing some small (or, indeed large) dance move to the little "hey!!" interjections he litters "Get Busy" with.

It's interesting to compare the album with Beenie Man's Tropical Storm (which I also just obtained) - Sean Paul is obviously much more diverse and accessible than, say, Elephant Man, but he is accessible because he finds a ground of exciting, visceral, anything-goes energy with hip hop. So much of Tropical Storm strikes me as merely placing run-of-the-mill dancehall vocal ideas over run-of-the-mill hip hop groove ideas, or vice versa. Sean Paul is much more in line with the critical concept of an urban diaspora... open-ended multilateral groove-based links between different popular vocal-dance styles.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 17 March 2003 06:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

I hope Sean Paul's success means good things for Kardinal! They've been teasing "Bellydance" for ages now on the radio.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 17 March 2003 06:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

Meant to say "...he finds a common ground of exciting..."

I'm actually working this idea into a full-blown essay (he says now, anyway).

I've yet to hear "Bellydance", but looking forward to it. The Neptunes-produced track on Dutty Rock is quite bizarre though.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 17 March 2003 06:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

five years pass...

I am missing Sean Paul.

― d-_-b (The Reverend), Thursday, 6 November 2008 06:17 (fifteen years ago) link

one year passes...

I am loving Sean Paul. A lot. How'd this happen?

― bear say hi to me (ENBB), Friday, 4 December 2009 19:48 (fourteen years ago) link

one year passes...

I had never listened to anything after Dutty ROck – which I rocked so much in 2002– but thank god I just fixed that. Imperial Blaze is fun pop all the way through. The last five tracks in particular are super strong!

― despite all my rage I am still just a Latter Day Saint (Abbbottt), Monday, 31 October 2011 22:58 (twelve years ago) link

haha i love when people get mad at gimme the light. ALLLLL DAYYYYYYY

― fauxmarc, Monday, 31 October 2011 23:00 (twelve years ago) link

It makes me sad that there are people who would get mad about "Gimme the Light"

― The Reverend, Monday, 31 October 2011 23:40 (twelve years ago) link

four years pass...

Why is "Cheap Thrills" such a big hit? It's pretty unmemorable.

― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 12 September 2016 17:13 (seven years ago) link

BIDDY BANG BANG

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 12 September 2016 17:16 (seven years ago) link

sorry

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 12 September 2016 17:22 (seven years ago) link

it's sia's cynical, hackneyed stab at making a """pop-friendly""" song w/ "island" sounds that have been crossing over lately

idk the first time i heard it it seemed like an obvious hit

― dyl, Monday, 12 September 2016 22:19 (seven years ago) link

should be noted that many of the stations playing it to death are playing the edit without the subject of this thread on it

― dyl, Monday, 12 September 2016 22:20 (seven years ago) link

great fact that i read the other day was that booker prize winner marlon james was sean paul's creative director in the dutty rock era

― just sayin, Monday, 12 September 2016 22:48 (seven years ago) link

I actively dislike the Sia song but I'm real glad to have Sean Paul back on the airwaves

also DUTTY ROCK is a classic

― bunny slopes, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 08:21 (seven years ago) link

Trinity is also excellent.

<3 Sean Paul

― On a Raqqa tip (ShariVari), Tuesday, 13 September 2016 08:42 (seven years ago) link

cheap thrills lyric video has half a billion views!!

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 13 September 2016 11:09 (seven years ago) link

Wow. Good to have something dancehall related on the airwaves

― curmudgeon, Thursday, 15 September 2016 13:45 (seven years ago) link

'dancehall related' is basically the latest omnipresent trend on the airwaves

― dyl, Thursday, 15 September 2016 16:07 (seven years ago) link

He's more than "tropical"

― curmudgeon, Thursday, 15 September 2016 19:26 (seven years ago) link

four years pass...

so what's that supposed to be about, baby?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfTC2o05OEw

― maelin, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 20:21 (three years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdacQUJj7dk

― brimstead, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 22:23 (three years ago) link

dutty yeah

― maelin, Thursday, 4 March 2021 08:43 (three years ago) link

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