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
shouldn’t that be “sence”?
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Friday, 21 August 2020 14:59 (three years ago) link
yeng
― rob, Friday, 21 August 2020 15:37 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbPa0QH_zxALila Iké Live on TDC
― Nabozo, Saturday, 22 August 2020 18:25 (three years ago) link
reposted that on her dedicated thread coz it needs more post(er)s
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Saturday, 22 August 2020 18:49 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytCD7RtWrgA&ab_Vybz Kartel - Run DancehallHow does this guy get access to a studio in prison again ?
― Nabozo, Saturday, 12 September 2020 16:02 (three years ago) link
Let it be known that I hate YouTube's way of linking up channels etc. Same for the new wiki thing of bringing you in the middle of the text.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytCD7RtWrgAVybz Kartel - Run Dancehall
― Nabozo, Saturday, 12 September 2020 16:39 (three years ago) link
A tease at only 2:00 but Shenseea & Tarrus Riley's "Lighter" is good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3Pavo7eCmI
― rob, Saturday, 12 September 2020 21:08 (three years ago) link
The new Dexta Daps album is very good. It’s More Songs About Fucking And Pussy, including this one with Spice:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCemP9EIXLs“A Plus”...and a few that aren’t:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TI2Gb3-CTA“Most Wanted”
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Sunday, 13 September 2020 11:41 (three years ago) link
A new single from Daddy1, who rob posted about back in July:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur-V7_nweX8Daddy1 - Double Up
― vcrash, Thursday, 17 September 2020 09:18 (three years ago) link
Have you guys gotten into Rytikal yet? Feelin it
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Friday, 18 September 2020 00:43 (three years ago) link
His “Cookie Jar” is very good at least - and very much NSFW:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGOfoh_tOYE
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Friday, 18 September 2020 10:58 (three years ago) link
“My World” is good as well, in a different way (be warned: this video has an overdose of gun toting):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo62cqam424
Those are rad. I especially like the riddim on "My World"
Since everyone in the comments mentions Rytikal's similarity to him, I think we're overdue to note Skillibeng blowing up this year (though I think I actually liked the Rytikal I heard more).
Mr. Universe is the one afaict:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnWRXV3NqQA
― not right at all (rob), Friday, 18 September 2020 12:42 (three years ago) link
"Defy the Odds" worth a listen too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=livBTPJRwP0
― not right at all (rob), Friday, 18 September 2020 12:56 (three years ago) link
Brik pan brik still my fav skillibeng
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Friday, 18 September 2020 23:25 (three years ago) link
Dexta's Call Me If is the undisputed highlight of the Liquid Sunshine Riddim, but the whole thing has a nice vibe:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ78X-MDiyA
Oh, and Danii Boo's Why goes hard:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCwqgNqBj38
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, 18 September 2020 23:30 (three years ago) link
“Call Me If” is also on Dexta’s Vent album, see above
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Saturday, 19 September 2020 10:54 (three years ago) link
production on Skillibeng’s “Defy The Odds” is gorgeous.
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Saturday, 19 September 2020 12:44 (three years ago) link
Same. Seems likely Rytikal will shed the comparison p quickly. As per breastcrawl's post, the production on "Defy" is more interesting than the vocal, though I do like Mr. Universe.
Sorry to dispute, but I think the Liquid Sunshine version I'm most taken with is Denyque & Shanell Muir's "Same Guy," which would have been an event on ILM in 2012:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h9XJSekvL4
― rob, Saturday, 19 September 2020 13:09 (three years ago) link