I Fux With...Conscious Dancehall

Busy Signal - Loaded

Calling Busy a "conscious" musician is somewhat disingenuous. He does the slack stuff as well as anybody and, much like his friend Mavado, he knows how to rack up a musical body-count. But, unlike almost any popular (male) Dancehall deejay, his makes an effort to educate as well as entertain . This album is widely acclaimed as the best Reggae/Dancehall album that came out last year (I would personally go with Serani's). It has my favorite song of last year, "Jail", and quite possibly the most absurd concept song ever, "Unknown Number". His flow on "Knocking at your door" is just insane, and "Real Jamaican" makes my African ass wanna be Jamaican for 3 munites 22 seconds. Enjoy.

I Fux With...Emo-Dancehall

Serani - The Future

Autotune is the worst thing to happen to R&B in the last decade. On the other hand, it is the best thing to happen to Dancehall (well, other than the Gully god) in the last few years. Unlike in R&B, where autotune is seemingly used as a gratuitious way to hide bad singing, In dancehall, it is used by cats like Serani and Demarco to add Queen-like operatic emotional sensationalism to their singing (think good Emo)...Or maybe I'm just deluded. Either way, Serani's album is straight bananas. Enjoy.

Trenchtown

I've Posted a couple of times on Jr. Gong, it's only appropriate that I post on Papa Gong. Having grown up with a father who was Bob Marley Stan, I've sort of grown tired of his more popular stuff. But once in a while I come up on some early or lesser known stuff that remind me of how incredible Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, and Bunny Wailer (The Original Wailers) were. Here are a few tracks that I've been rocking lately.

Iron Lion Zion

There She Goes

Mellow Mood

Memphis

How Many Times


Here's a link to my favorite Wailers Album
Bob Marley and the Wailers - Rock to the Rock

Jr Gong - One Loaf of Bread

Di trials an di perils deepa dan di blue lagoon,
Dem nuh wan fi nuh dem history yuh nuh see say dem a goon

Damian Marley - One Loaf of Bread

For Gabs

The sound quality on the Youtube clip is horrible so here's a stream of the song.

Gregory Isaacs - Private Secretary

Gregory Isaacs

Gregory Isaacs - Night Nurse

My favorite Reggae singer for the next week or so.