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This meeting took place in early December, but for those of you who are not aware here it is…Mavado and Vybz Kartel at a conference with the Jamaican government as a step towards stemming the violence as a result of their ongoing feud. The result of this meeting is The Gaza Gully Peace Treaty of 2009…sounds funny but true. Check out the video…
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Seani B chats to Kevin Lyttle and Spragga Benz at The Urban Music Festival 2004
Spragga Benz was featured in Billboard’s Best Of The 2000’s One Hit Wonders only because he collaborated with Kevin Lyttle who, along with several other artists, was named one of Billboard’s One-Hit Wonders…of the decade. The song that gained Kevin Lyttle that title is Turn Me On which hit No. 4 on the U.S. Pop charts in 2004.
An artist gets that title if he/she makes it in the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and never hitting the top 25 mark the next time around. In other words…the artist was hot then flopped, simple as that!
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You know s**t’s changing when prominent Jamaican entertainment bigwigs start recommending a truce between dancehall artists and gay rights groups. This would be unheard of back in the days.
According to an article in the jamaicagleaner.com, music industry veteran Clyde Mckenzie says that after nearly 20 years of protests by gay rights groups against dancehall acts in the United States of America and Europe, the time may be right for dancehall’s elite to negotiate a truce.
Mckenzie cites, for example, the current gay rights groups protests against Buju Banton in the U.S.A.
He further stated, “If the lobbies maintain momentum, it has the potential to do a lot of harm. Dancehall may be in danger of going back to the days of ethnic charts and Jamaican clubs.”
Yow! Reggae Mix Online says, this thing is definitely flaring up like wild fire and it appears our dancehall artists are in for a long fight.
Steven Jackson
jamaicaobserver.com
After nearly three decades of chart dominance, there is no new musical genre waiting in the wings to dethrone dancehall, yet stakeholders are split on the meaning of its longevity.
Chino
Some say the music continues because the society has not evolved since the ’80s. Contrastingly, others say dancehall is no longer dancehall and should be retroactively classified as a new genre. Read more…
Dave Stelfox
guardian.co.uk
Reggae’s already had one digital revolution. On the night of February 23, 1985, at a packed venue on Waltham Park Road in Kingston, Jamaica, the producer Lloyd “Prince Jammy” James used a soundclash against the Black Scorpio Sound System to unleash the song that changed Jamaican music forever. Wayne Smith’s Under Mi Sleng Teng was based on a stripped-down Casio keyboard loop, with a thunderous computerised bassline. It was the first wholly electronic reggae recording, and its distinctive rhythm marked the birth of the style that came to be known as dancehall. Read more…
Dancehall arena has now changed drastically for the worst
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(Many Dancehall artistes today have taken the themes of sex and violence way overboard. Absolutely nothing is left to the imagination…people go to parties to listen to this sewage of lyrics and actually claim to have fun. I am sorry for the generation of youth growing up on this filth called Dancehall Reggae. I often wonder what music this generation would play for their children as examples of music from their time…)/Richard Francois, Stabroek News
Some seem to think Dancehall music need cleansing, in other words, clean up the dirty language. Point well taken, but haven’t we heard this argument before?
I am not a big fan of the dancehall scene as it is today for various reasons too long to list, but will say that after a certain age I think we grown folks should leave dancehall to the youths and let them express themselves.
There was a time when we had our share of grown folks crying foul about the music that was playing back in our youthful days. Eventually the youths move into the next phase of their lives and then it’s their turn to critique their offsprings’ choice of entertainment.