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
Impeccable widescreen production from Di Genius (!) on this new Govana, "Strike Force"
CW: the video is violent: https://youtu.be/I7MsoX_sCMA
― rob, Saturday, 19 September 2020 13:15 (three years ago) link
The Denique is good, but Call Me If is *almost* good enough to get me divorced. Top ten song of the year to me.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Saturday, 19 September 2020 15:34 (three years ago) link
haha, well with that endorsement in mind I'll definitely revisit it
― rob, Saturday, 19 September 2020 16:03 (three years ago) link
get divorced to get with Dexta? lol what’s going on here, longneck?
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Saturday, 19 September 2020 19:19 (three years ago) link
lol, I'm still happily married thankyallverymuch. My somewhat exaggerated point was that no one can make adultery sound quite as paSHhhuuuuuhhhhnate as Dexta these days. It makes one want to live more dangerously. In a good way, of course.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Saturday, 19 September 2020 22:38 (three years ago) link
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/Ti4AAOSwvfRdtsx7/s-l300.jpg
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Saturday, 19 September 2020 22:48 (three years ago) link
I mean, to me at least, this is precisely the spirit that is lacking in r&b these days.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Saturday, 19 September 2020 23:14 (three years ago) link