Thursday, January 23, 2020

Dancehall icon Lady G performing live at Rebel Salute 2020

I've been following this beautiful artist since 1988. She is a legend and knows how to "bring it" onstage!!!  

Saturday, January 18, 2020

L A M B A D A !!!!

Kaoma (featuring  Loalwa Braz) performing their international hit "Lambada" live in 1991.


Kaoma was a French-Brazilian recording act made up of former members of the band Touré Kunda: Chyco Dru (bassist), Jacky Arconte (guitarist), Jean-Claude Bonaventure (producer and keyboardist), Michel Abihssira (drums and percussion), Fania (vocals), and Loalwa Braz (lead singer), Chico & Roberta (dancers). Chyco Dru is from Martinique, Jacky Arconte from Guadeloupe, and Loalwa Braz from Brazil. They gained international success for their 1989 hit single, "Lambada".


In 1989, they had a major chart-topping hit with their dance music single "Lambada," a direct cover of Brazilian singer-songwriter Márcia Ferreira's 1986 dance hit "Chorando se foi," which itself was a legally authorized Portuguese-translated rendition of the original 1981 slow ballad, "Llorando se fue" by the Bolivian group Los Kjarkas. 
"Dançando Lambada" and "Mélodie d'amour" were the next two singles and were also hit singles, although they failed to earn the same success as "Lambada". "Lambada" peaked at number 46 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. It reached number 4 in the UK Singles Chart.
The same year, the band released its first album Worldbeat which achieved worldwide success, becoming, along with Beto Barbosa, one of the legends of Brazilian lambada. At the 1990 Lo Nuestro Awards, Kaoma won two awards for Pop Group of the Year and New Pop Artist of the Year.
In 1991, Kaoma released the album Tribal-Pursuit which provided the singles "Danca Tago-Mago" and "Moço do dende".
On January 19, 2017, Braz was found dead in her car. 

Nadia Batson -"So Long"

Nadia Batson was born on December 7 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago and raised in Baratariaa small commercial town on the East–West Corridor outside Port of Spain City. Singing and writing since the age of eight, Batson started singing Quseedas, muslim ballads, while attending the St Joseph TML School. As a teen she became part of an all-girls group called Silhouette which won the popular Party Time show with an acapella version of En Vogue's remake of the Beatle's "Yesterday". She also attended high school at St. George's College until her graduate year in 1993. Batson began singing professionally at the age of 17. Batson joined Andre Tanker's One World Contraband where she stayed until his death in 2003. She then became the lone female voice in Kes the Band until 2011, when she left to form an all-female soca band called SASS in July 2011. She is of Afro-Trinbagonian descent and has ancestry in the Caribbean island of Saint Lucia.

In the fall of 2011, Batson announced the launch of her all-female soca band, SASS Nation, alongside lead vocalists Terri Lyons and Megan Walrond. SASS Nation is now one of Trinidad and Tobago's premier soca bands and Trinidad and Tobago's only established female soca band.

Friday, January 17, 2020

FULL EXTREME

The Ultimate Rejects made this song over 2 years ago and it's still BLAZING in my head space. WE JAMMIN' STILL!!!!

Wednesday, January 15, 2020

King Yellowman & Peter Metro Live at the Rockers Award Show (1984)

Happy Earthstrong King Yellowman!!!

Happy Earth Strong to my musical mentor and friend, KING YELLOWMAN !!!!

The legendary King Yellowman (Winston Foster). 

Winston Foster (born January 15, 1956), better known by the stage name Yellowman, is a Jamaican reggae and dancehall deejay, also known as King Yellowman. He was popular in Jamaica in the 1980s, coming to prominence with a series of singles that established his reputation.


Winston Foster was abandoned by his parents and grew up in the Maxfield Children's Home and the Catholic orphanage Alpha Boys School in Kingston, and was shunned due to having albinism, which was not typically socially accepted in Jamaica. Alpha Boys School was known for its musical alumni.  In the late 1970s Yellowman first gained wide attention when he finished second (to Nadine Sutherland) in the 1978 Tastee Talent Contest.  Like many Jamaican deejays, he honed his talents by frequently performing at outdoor sound-system dances, prominently with Aces International. He had success as a recording artist, working with producer Henry "Junjo" Lawes.  In 1981, after becoming significantly popular throughout Jamaica, Yellowman became the first dancehall artist to be signed to a major American label (Columbia Records).
His first album release was in 1982 entitled Mister Yellowman followed by Zungguzungguguzungguzeng in 1983 earning instant success. Yellowman's sexually explicit lyrics in popular songs such as "Them a Mad Over Me" boasted of his sexual prowess, like those of other reggae singers/deejays, earned Yellowman criticism in the mid-1980s. Yellowman appeared in Jamaican Dancehall Volcano Hi-power 1983 which featured other major dancehall musicians such as Massive DreadJosey WalesBurro Banton and Eek-A-Mouse. 
Yellowman proclaimed, "I never know why they call it slackness. I talk about sex, but it's just what happens behind closed doors. What I talk is reality." 
He had success in 1987 with a version of "Blueberry Hill", that topped the charts for several weeks in Jamaica. Yellowman had met Fats Domino where he performed on the island earlier in the decade, and Domino had presented him with a copy of his version. 
By the mid-1990s, Yellowman released socially conscious material, rising to international fame along with singers such as Buju Banton. Yellowman became the island's most popular deejay. During the early 1980s, Yellowman had over 40 singles and produced up to five albums per year. 
He re-invented himself with his 1994 album Prayer, which stepped away from the slackness that gave him his initial fame. His latest albums are New York (2003) and Round 1 (2005). Yellowman was also a featured guest vocalist on the Run-DMC track "Roots Rap Reggae".  Yellowman continues to perform internationally with his Sagittarius Band, and has toured through places such as Nigeria where he retains a following of fans, as well as Spain, Peru, Sweden, Italy, Germany, Britain, France, Kenya, the United States and Canada. 
In 2018, it was announced that he would be awarded the Order of Distinction (Officer Class) by the Jamaican government.

Sunday, January 05, 2020

Uh Huh !!!!

The Dubplates featuring King Yellowman, Papa Robbie, Daddy Brady & Big Hair.....

Koffee live at Rebel Salute 2019

This talented young lady has a bright future!!

The EMPEROR Shabba Ranks Live at Reggae Sundance 2016

Shabba is as RAW AS EVER !!!

General Grant & Super Cat Live (2014)

VIBES!!!!!!

Lucky Dube Live In Uganda -"No Truth In The World"



Lucky Philip Dube (pronounced duu-beh;  3 August 1964 – 18 October 2007) was a South African reggae musician and Rastafarian. He recorded 22 albums in Zulu, English and Afrikaans in a 25-year period and was South Africa's biggest-selling reggae artist. 

Lucky Dube was born in Ermelo, formerly of the Eastern Transvaal, now of Mpumalanga, on 3 August 1964. His parents separated before his birth and he was raised by his mother who named him Lucky because she considered his birth fortunate after a number of failed pregnancies.


As one of the first artists to bring African reggae to the mainstream, Dube bridged cultural gaps within the African diaspora. What Lucky Dube's music did was "[present] a praxis of cross-culturality and visionary possibility"  that the diaspora at large tends to erase. Dube gave Africa a voice and put its culture on the global stage by joining the global reggae community. 

Through taking Jamaican roots music back to its roots, he recontextualized the oppression and political struggles that reggae seeps itself in, bringing the basis of the diaspora back in conversation with the diaspora at large to allow for a more pan-African form of cultural expression. 

Dube's roots reggae brought African people to the table in terms of conversation about the black diaspora by mimicking Caribbean artists' assertions of African authenticity or racial utopia.

 Lucky Dube ultimately shows how Africans have to find their way into the conversations of the Black Diaspora by mimicking their assertions of African authenticity or racial utopia. Dube catalyzed roots reggae's appearance as a popular form of protest song. This helped “legitimize and strengthen the oppositional gesture in popular African music and culture, particularly for those generations born after decolonization.


On 18 October 2007, Lucky Dube was killed by robbers at a Johannesburg suburb called Rosettenville. shortly after dropping two of his seven children off at their uncle's house. Dube was driving his Chrysler 300C, which the assailants were after. Police reports suggest he was shot dead by carjackers who did not recognize him and believed that he was Nigerian. Five men were arrested in connection with the murder; three were tried and found guilty on 31 March 2009. Two of the men attempted to escape and were caught.The men were sentenced to life in prison.

Friday, January 03, 2020

Nkulee Dube -"Back To My Roots"

Nkulee Dube, the daughter of the late great Lucky Dube performing one of his classic songs "Back To My Roots".
(Reggae On The River 2017)





Thursday, January 02, 2020

Dave & Ansell Collins- "Double Barrel"

Dave Barker (born David John Crooks, 10 October 1947, Kingston, Jamaica) is a session vocalist, and Ansell Collins (born 1949, also in Kingston) is a keyboard player. They were working for producer Lee "Scratch" Perry in Kingston in the late 1960s and joined forces in 1970 for the reggae single "Double Barrel". Released in late summer by Techniques Records, part of the Trojan Records label, it topped the Jamaican and UK charts in May of the following year. It was the first record that drummer Sly Dunbar (then aged 18) played on. In the US, the song appeared on an album of the same name, on Big Tree Records (BTS 2005).
The follow-up release, the similarly styled "Monkey Spanner" also enjoyed international success. Most of their recorded work was written by Winston Riley. After cutting an album, Collins and Barker parted company; Collins becoming a session player and Barker, now resident in the United Kingdom, singing with several soul groups. 
In 1986, Ansell Collins appeared as one of Ernest Reed's (Jimmy Cliff) back-up musicians in the reggae-themed comedy film, Club Paradise. He was billed as "Ansel (sic) 'Double Barrel' Collins". Collins has played and worked with The UpsettersBlack UhuruThe Mighty DiamondsBarrington LevyGregory IsaacsU-RoyPama International and Jimmy Cliff.
"Double Barrel" was sampled by Special Ed on the song, "I'm The Magnificent". Two of Barker's introductory exclamations ("Don't watch that, watch this!" from "Funky Funky Reggae" and "This is the heavy, heavy monster sound!" from "Monkey Spanner") were quoted by vocalist Chas Smash, in the introduction to the Madness single, "One Step Beyond".
In 2012, they reunited for several live shows including a performance at the Notting Hill Carnival.

Red Plastic Bag Performing "Ragga Ragga"

Although Red Plastic Bag (born Stedson Wiltshire) began performing in 1979, it wasn't until the mid-'80s when he dedicated his life to singing professionally. By combining the sounds of reggae and soca, Red Plastic Bag became one of the most popular performers in his native Barbados, then all over the Caribbean, and by the 1990s his hit "Ragga Ragga" catapulted him into the international limelight, eventually becoming so popular that it was recorded in seven different languages. Red Plastic Bag and his longtime co-songwriter, Mac Fingall, became known as two of the most prolific songwriters of the calypso genre, performing together as well as separately into the 2000s.

"Bassman" (Razor Sharp Remix) by the late great "Mighty Shadow"

Winston McGarland BaileyHBMDLitt (4 October 1941 – 23 October 2018), better known by his stage name The Mighty Shadow or Shadow, was a calypsonian from Tobago.

Bailey was born in Belmont, a suburb of Port of Spain in Trinidad, but grew up in Les Coteaux, Tobago, with his grandparents. He started singing calypsos at the age of 8.
At the age of 16 he moved back to Port of Spain, where for a time he was homeless while trying to establish himself. In 1970 he performed as part of the chorus in Mighty Sparrow's 'Young Brigade' calypso tent, and by the following year he had begun to establish himself as a calypsonian in his own right. He chose the stage name "Shadow" (he didn't use "Mighty" himself) after coming across some workmen digging a road while he was walking. One of the workmen was in a hole below the road surface and the others were calling him "Shadow", and Bailey said: "I felt like they was calling me". In his early years he performed wearing all black, with a large hat covering part of his face.
The Guardian newspaper, speaking of Shadow's stagecraft, argued that he had "a persona and outlook that stood in dramatic contrast to the classic bravura of the typical calypsonian, one that might have been expected to generate either bemusement or scorn in his native Trinidad and Tobago", and yet noted that on the contrary his stage presence and music "proved so original, so eerily amusing and so engaging that [he] quickly came to be hailed as one of the greats".
He won the Road March in 1974 with "Bassman" (where he also placed second with "I Come Out to Play") by a record margin, and won again in 2001 with "Stranger", making him the competition's oldest winner. He won the Calypso Monarch contest in 2000 with "What's Wrong With Me" and "Scratch Meh Back". His music used bass more prominently than most calypsonians, of which he said "I did 'Bassman', then I started to use melodic bass lines, not like they used before, and when I performed in the calypso tents in the early days, I had one extra sheet of music, just for the bass." Shadow is also known for his unique dance in which he jumped to the tempo of his music in "skip-rope style" with both feet in the air at the same time.
He was the second calypsonian to win both the International Soca Monarch and the Trinidad Road March competitions simultaneously, a feat he accomplished in 2001 with "Stranger". He rivaled fellow calypsonians Mighty Sparrow and Lord Kitchener after winning the Road March in 1974.
Shadow is the subject of Christopher Laird's 2017 film King from Hell, featuring concert performances and an interview.
He died on 23 October 2018 at the age of 77 at Mount Hope Hospital in St. Joseph, after suffering a stroke two days earlier.


The Saxon Crew live on BBC 1 Xtra

Saxon Studio International is a reggae sound system from London, the first UK sound system to win an international competition.
Saxon Studio International began operating in Lewisham, South London, in 1976.
The sound came to prominence in the early 80s because of the "fast chat" style which was pioneered by its deejay Peter King. Other Saxon MCs included Tippa Irie, Smiley Culture, Asher Senator, Papa Levi, Daddy Colonel, Daddy Rusty and Daddy Sandy, each of whom developed this style and went on to release records, some (such as Smiley and Tippa) achieving Top 40 hits in the UK national chart.
Singer Maxi Priest also began his musical career on Saxon.
In 1992, Saxon won the UK Cup Clash (a tournament for reggae soundsystems).
In 1994, Saxon became the first UK soundsystem to win the World Clash.
Saxon continue to play internationally, including an annual outing at London's Notting Hill Carnival. Their style has influenced artists such as Massive Attack (who invited them to play at the 2008 Meltdown festival, which they curated) and The Bug (who has collaborated with Tippa Irie and Saxon selector Trevor Sax).

Recordings and releases

Many recordings of Saxon sessions circulate unofficially on cassette tape, CDR or mp3.
However, an official recording of a mid-eighties session in Paddington, West London, entitled Saxon Studio International: Coughing Up Fire!!! was released by the Greensleeves Records subsidiary label UK Bubblers in 1984.

Classic Hip Hop - Doug E. Fresh live at the Apollo (1989)

"Keep Risin' To The Top"....

The legendary Bunny Wailer "Roots Rock Radics Reggae" (1988)

The lone surviving Wailer....Live and direct!!! 

Tanya Stephens "To The Rescue"....

Tanya for the save!!!

Dancehall Icons Beenie Man & Bounty Killer Live At Sumfest 2019

Arguably the greatest rivalry in reggae/dancehall history.
Music is unity. 

Steel Pulse "Rally Round" LIVE AND DIRECT!!!

RED, GOLD, BLACK & GREEN!!!

Queen Fyah....."Zion Calling"

MORE FYAH!!!!!!

Beres Hammond performs "Tempted To Touch" live on BBC 1 Xtra

Watch the master at work...

Koffee performs a cover of Burna Boy's song "Ye" on BBC 1 Xtra


I actually like her version better than the original...

The Roots (Schoolhouse Rock style)....

The truth is uncomfortable for some. 

Curepe Scherzando Steel Band Performing "Bassman" by the late great Mighty Shadow



Get some vibes !!!!!

Wednesday, January 01, 2020

Papa Robbie and Daddy Brady Live!!!

PAPA ROBBIE AND DADDY BRADY AT FALL REGGAE JAM 2019

PAPA ROBBIE from an alternate universe....



PAPA ROBBIE



Intelligence: ♾
Strength: ♾
Speed: 95
Durability: 97
Power: ♾
Combat: 100

Super Powers: Flight, Telepathy/Mind Control, Super Strength, Super Speed, Vibes, Alchemy, Rhythm, Mutant Healing Powers, Enhanced Hearing, X Ray Vision, Extreme Durability, Sh*t Talking Grandmaster/Roastmaster and Infinite Sarcasm.

Place Of Birth: Earth
Alter Ego(s): Robert Ellington
Aliases: Shango / Vibes Master
Alignment: Chaotic Good
Gender: Male
Type/Race: Human / Demigod
Height: 6 ft. 4
Weight: 230
Eye Color: Brown /Mystic Green 
Hair Color: N/A
Affiliations/Teams: The Razor Posse, The Stono Rebels, The Gullah Geechee Nation, Dem Boi, The Reggae All-Stars, and The Dubplates.

Occupation(s): Success Coach, Educator, Habitual Line Stepper and Reggae Artist.
Base: Charleston, SC
Relatives: Father of Catastrophe/ Husband of Auset

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PAPA ROBBIE LIVE AT MOJA 2014

Papa Robbie bringing some vibes....

Tobe Nwigwe on "Sway In The Morning".......FLAMES


Peter Metro at Rebel Salute (2014)

Peter Metro live and direct at Rebel Salute (2014). 
Peter Metro is one of the foundation dancehall artists that I grew up listening to. Lyrics!!!