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- From: klm3298@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (K-Mello SGP '92)
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- Subject: Re: The Reggae Thread
- Message-ID: <1992Nov4.211730.5800@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
- Date: 4 Nov 92 21:17:30 GMT
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- In article <Bx4IvC.Kvz@acsu.buffalo.edu>, simon@acsu.buffalo.edu (Patrice A. Simon) writes:
- > ...deleted
- > True. Isn't Chubb Rock Jamaican? By the way, so is a lot of other
- >rappers, which could explain the reggae/ragga/dancehall influence emerging.
- >
-
- Yes, Chubb's is Jamaican, and there are a lot of rappers out there that are
- from Jamaica, Trinidad, etc. And most of them usually put something with some
- dancehall flavor on their albums.
-
- > ...deleted
- > The new single "Dem No Worry Me" was also given a hip-hop remix by
- >DJ Eddie F. The weakest of all though, since Eddie only put a well known
- >break over most of the track (same beat used on PRT's "Shakilya" I think).
- >I don't think any hard-core dancehall regular would like this - it's just
- >as commercial as Hammer is to the rap world. Something like the original
- >version with Heavy D or even "Big, Bad & Broad" (also with Heavy) could
- >pass.
- >
-
- I can't see it, especially since I don't think DJ Eddie F is one of the dopest
- producers in the world, but he does come up with something dope every so often.
- (Didn't he produce "You Can't See"?)
-
- > By the way, I was shocked by Ice Cube's new single "Wicked". Is this
- >'being true to the game?' Sounds like "Jump" and "Jump Around" mixed together
- >with a dancehall DJ put in since it's selling these days. At least on first
- >listen.
- >
- >--
- >Patrice Simon
- >simon@acsu.cc.buffalo.edu v5097ucd@ubvms.buffalo.edu
- >opnsimon@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu
- >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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- K-Mello
- SHYGUY Productions '92
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