#Reggae Dancehall

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Kim Maureen Drops Official Music Video for "Likkle Lala" Featuring Deezy TBM

Reggae dancehall star Kim Maureen has officially released the music video for her latest single, “Likkle Lala,” featuring the talented Deezy TBM. Directed by the renowned Steven Akpesiri, the visuals beautifully complement the heartfelt message of the song, which captures the love and affection shared between two people. “Likkle Lala” is a perfect blend of reggae rhythms and dancehall vibes,…

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June 15th Playlist

In another lifetime I had a terrific gig spinning reggae at a club in New London, CT as well as doing a reggae radio show on the mighty WCNI. I also got to visit Jamaica once in the late 80′s and attend Sunsplash, an annual reggae music festival and celebration held in Montego Bay. Amazing experiences all around an whenever I get a chance to play this music, it brings it all back vividly. So as we continue celebrating Black Music Month, tonight’s episode is all about dancehall, specifically what we consider the “golden age” of dancehall. Come forward selector! 

Side A

Howling at the Moon-Hank Williams Telephone Love-J.C. Lodge Hot Stepper-Ina Kamoze Shub In-Frankie Paul Serious Time-Admiral Tibet, Shabba Ranks, Ninjaman Who Am I-Beenie Man Benz & the Beema-Bounty Killer The Exit-Dennis Brown Pull it Up-Michael Palmer

Side B

Bandelero-Pinchers A Who Se Me Dun-Cutty Ranks Love So Nice-Junior Kelly Good Time-Coca Tea Lord Watch Over Our Shoulders-Garnet Silk Rock Away-Beres Hammond Down by the River-Morgan Heritage Twice My Age-Shabba Ranks featuring Krystal 

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Patra - Romantic Call ft. Yo-Yo 🇯🇲x🇺🇲

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Dancehall: The Rise of Jamaican Dancehall Culture by Beth Lesser

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R i h a n n a

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For the past two years, I, MSDROPPINIT, have passionately dedicated myself to a mission that goes beyond the conventional. My journey revolves around the preservation of timeless music treasures. While many channels aim for financial gain, my focus remains unwaveringly on the love of music and the essence it carries.

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Self-taught and driven by passion, I've not only crafted my unique style but also designed my two websites to showcase my musical content and offer services in website creation and copywriting. My collection spans diverse reggae recordings—from sound system dancehall sessions to Studio 1's foundation culture, from lovers rock to live dancehall parties and stage shows, capturing the essence of one-hit wonders.

In the rich tapestry of Toronto's reggae roots, I've found my inspiration. The sounds that have woven through generations resonate uniquely in this city. Toronto's sound systems boast an incredibly distinctive style that cannot be replicated elsewhere.

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Kim Maureen and Deezy TBM Collaborate on Sensational New Reggae Hit "Likkle Lala"

Reggae Dancehall sensation Kim Maureen is back, marking a powerful return to the music scene with her brand-new single, “Likkle Lala,” featuring the talented Deezy TBM. The song is an infectious blend of love and rhythm, where the two artists passionately express their deep affection and connection for each other, creating a track that is sure to capture the hearts of fans worldwide. Kim Maureen,…

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Fu-Schnickens

Picks and Shovels is a new, standalone technothriller starring Marty Hench, my two-fisted, hard-fighting, tech-scam-busting forensic accountant. You can pre-order it on my latest Kickstarter, which features a brilliant audiobook read by Wil Wheaton.

I can't remember where I first heard dancehall reggae, but I do remember where I bought most of my dancehall cassettes: at Play De Record, a great hip hop/reggae DJ store on Yonge Street in Toronto whose bins were all killer, no filler. I'd go into the store every couple weeks and more or less pick three albums at random and love every one of 'em. I just discovered that PDR is still in business, which makes me extremely happy:

https://www.playderecord.com/

Look, I know that mostly I use this blog to talk about tech politics, monopoly, impending fascism and the climate emergency, with the odd science fiction review. But all that other stuff (modulo the sf novels) are weighing on my heavily this week, and I feel like posting something a little more lighthearted. So I consulted my editor (me), who called a special meeting of the editorial board (also me), who kicked it up to the publisher (still me), and they all agreed that I could write a post about a weird hip-hop album that's been earworming me in the best way imaginable since 1992.

I'm pretty sure I bought Fu-Schnickens' debut album "F.U. Don't Take It Personal" at Play De Record. Certainly, I have a memory of stopping on the sidewalk outside of the store to wrestle the cellophane off the cassette and pop it into my walkman. I definitely remember my first walk through the city with the music in my ears. I laughed aloud. Several times. I might have even danced a little:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2wD7FbIzGI&list=PLJw–ySHyZNwsmLcxfW3NWTyxQX7mARas

At the time, I knew nothing about Fu-Shnickens. In the years since, I have listened to F.U. Don't Take It Personal approximately one heptillion times and somehow managed not to learn anything about Fu-Schnickens. Today, I read their all-too-short Wikipedia article and learned that the group was together between 1988 and 1995, that their second album (which I remember not being as impressed with) had a top-40 novelty track with vocals by Shaquille O'Neal, who said the Schnickens were his favorite hiphop group:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu-Schnickens

I get it, Shaq. They're great. First of all, they're incredibly silly. Long before Wu-Tang Clan, they were doing this weird kung-fu movie schtick in their songs (which, admittedly, walks an uncomfortable line between "parodies of racist depictions of Chinese people in the movies" to "racist parodies of Chinese people in the style of those movies"). Their songs are jammed with pop culture references in a way that puts, say, Paul's Boutique to shame. You can get a sense of this by looking at the lyrics transcribed over at Genius (where they are criminally under-annotated):

https://genius.com/artists/Fu-schnickens

Take "La Schmoove," a song that references "The Jeffersons," "Leave It To Beaver," "Superfly," Honey-Nut Cheerios, Popeye, Elmer's Glue, Elmer Fudd, Pippi Longstockings, "Married With Children," "Three's Company," "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang," "Do-Wah-Diddy," the board game Battleship, and Pepe Le Pew. It features rhymes like "we in there like swimwear," "Adios muchachos dorme vous unbuckle my Fu-Schnick shoe," and "Yo zilch kaput me nada none son." It's legit bonkers.

But also: they're really good. The frontman, Chip Fu (Roderick Roachford) raps really fast, has amazing flow, and periodically just starts rapping backwards, like literally saying the same syllables he just said, but backwards, with that same amazing flow. They are steeped in old dancehall, and it shines through (they more-or-less single-handedly revived Tenor Saw's now-familiar "Ring the Alarm").

Many of their songs feature a kind of hiphopified Phil Spector wall of sound, a kind of melodic drone that underlays the beats and lyrics. As soon as I hear that drone, I start smiling, because I know what's coming.

I have been earwormed by these tracks for this entire century and much of the past century. It's always really hard to explain why you like something, but I think that Fu-Schnickens' pop culture stream of consciousness and nonsense syllables are a kind of rhythmic version of my own internal monologue, which is a kind of endless babble of fragments of books, music, movies and TV; dumb jokes; words repeated until they lose all meaning and become meaningless phonemes, all kind of splinters of ideas and words floating around, bumping into each other.

There's lots of dancehall and dancehall-adjacent stuff that's arguably better than this album, like "The Good The Bad The Ugly & The Crazy," the amazing and underappreciated collaboration between Necka Demus, Junior Demus and Super Cat:

https://www.discogs.com/master/158493-Super-Cat-2-Junior-Cat-Junior-Demus-Nicodemus-The-GoodBadUgly-The-Crazy

And I could listen to Shaggy's cover of "Oh Carolina" all day:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtLqmWt2h2g

Or Apache Indian's "Boom Shack-A-Lak":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZzBd41NuZw

Or even better, "Ragamuffin Girl":

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

But none of music is on continuous shuffle-play in the back of my brain the way "F.U. Don't Take It Personal" is and has been since the Clinton administration:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2wD7FbIzGI&list=PLJw–ySHyZNwsmLcxfW3NWTyxQX7mARas

What's more, this is one of the very few (non-Talking Heads, non-David Byrne) albums that my daughter and I like listening to together in the car. It's so perfectly silly, virtuosic, funny, and danceable. Still as good as it was when I was young and had the hips I was born with. I've owned it on cassette and CD and as MP3s. I somehow own the vinyl (though I have no turntable).

I'm grateful to the management of this publication for the opportunity to share it with you.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/17/holy-batfu-its-an-apple/#ba-schnicker-bah-snchnucker

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