Still no hip hop though?Those ethnic minorities......they are only good at playing traditional instruments.The minute they get their hands on modern gadgets they make a mess of the whole thing.

My appreciation of hiphop is very narrow, it's true; somewhere around 2 or 3 percent of what I have heard. Still a better ratio than Zydeco or Dancehall though!

i like sizzla's music a lot. i saw sizzla and luciano in the bahamas in '98. i did feel slightly uncomfortable during one of his black power songs, being one of six white people i counted at the concert, and also because there were two girls behind me who didn't appreciate my whiteness at all, but i was with a couple people who were there to hold my hand when a gunfight broke out. being high as a kite and paranoid didn't help the situation much. aside from all the drama, they were great performers. praise ye jah is a great album but i probably won't be going to any live performances anytime in the near future.

beenie man and bounty killer both have songs with homo-not-so-friendly titles.

Alright then smartarse.

Wot, no South Wales hip-hop?

i've got a tystion CD, although i have no idea if they are from north or south wales

If memory doesn't fail me they are from North Wales.Wow that is prehistoric welsh hip hop,man.

a welsh person once saw that in my collection and was flabbergasted, particularly when i said i'd picked it up in japan

Tystion were/ are fucking ace. Couldn't understand a word of it.

I have a few videos of the burgeoning Swansea hip-hop scene in the mid-90's. It's utterly crap, but highly amusing. I think Luke Buttredger might have been south Wales. They were moderately amusing as well. I'm pretty sure GLC are from those parts, but they're certainly not worth mentioning.

It's all about Datblygu and Llybyr Llaethog round here though.

i know, next thing they will be asking for the vote as well.

pampidoo - synthesizer voice
natural vibes intro
pinchers - enemies
assassin - good over evil
???????
assassin - we no care yu a who
elephant man - stamina
bugle - can trick we
aidonia - one motion
elephant - buss up ya steel
????????
????????
mr vegas - hice it up
???????
mr vegas - see it go
capleton - wha dis
busy signal - man a thug
tony matterhorn - pour some liquor
hawkeye - police alarm
mr vegas and lexxus - wine inna dance
tony matterhorn - goodas
mr vegas - hard man
mr vegas - winery
mr vegas - gal over gun
assassin - hotter than her
aidonia - ukku bit
wayne marhall - my lungs were made for smoking
movado and busy signal - full clip
m.i.a. - galangalang - dave kelly mix
elephant man - touch
mr vegas - tek way u self
busy signal - pussycat
aidonia - golden eagle
mr vegas - shock out
bunji garlin - top shatta girl
aidonia - smoke weed
busy signal - take off your clothes
busy signal - chat back
elephant man -
turbulance - dun di place
aidonia - lyrics
elephant man - loud and clear
damian marley - dreadful
collie budz - come around
bugle - wine
tenor saw - live on radio
bonus - daddy freddy / asher d / demon boyz live

pampidoo - synthesizer voice
natural vibes intro
pinchers - enemies
assassin - good over evil
???????
assassin - we no care yu a who
elephant man - stamina
bugle - can trick we
aidonia - one motion
elephant - buss up ya steel
????????
????????
mr vegas - hice it up
???????
mr vegas - see it go
capleton - wha dis
busy signal - man a thug
tony matterhorn - pour some liquor
hawkeye - police alarm
mr vegas and lexxus - wine inna dance
tony matterhorn - goodas
mr vegas - hard man
mr vegas - winery
mr vegas - gal over gun
assassin - hotter than her
aidonia - ukku bit
wayne marhall - my lungs were made for smoking
movado and busy signal - full clip
m.i.a. - galangalang - dave kelly mix
elephant man - touch
mr vegas - tek way u self
busy signal - pussycat
aidonia - golden eagle
mr vegas - shock out
bunji garlin - top shatta girl
aidonia - smoke weed
busy signal - take off your clothes
busy signal - chat back
elephant man -
turbulance - dun di place
aidonia - lyrics
elephant man - loud and clear
damian marley - dreadful
collie budz - come around
bugle - wine
tenor saw - live on radio
bonus - daddy freddy / asher d / demon boyz live

 

Hardy inna de dancehall 3
I guess I was just born to dj this stuff. Racing thru 47 (count 'em) ragga, bashment and dancehall tracks from 2006 / 07. Plenty of elephant man, busy signal, mr vegas and aidonia amongst others. Major riddims represented are theNookie, Dem time deh, Stage show, Buh buh lups (I aint even make this up), Vagina, Old truck, Gully slime and the particularly babylon levelling extraordinary rendition, theBad Belly.This music keeps supplying the rhythm, sex, dumb choruses, comical homophobia, silly noises and humour lacking elsewhere in the often sterile contemporary musical moonscape. Or maybe that's just me. Take a chance. Right click HERE and 'Save as...'

http://www.spymania.com/pgs/dancehall3.html

Nice little mix.

I like Galang by MIA

i hate everything about m.i.a.

i don't own any dancehall records but i like to listen to it every once in a while, like when mtv soul or whatever that channel is called puts on jamaican shit. i don't listen to the lyrics at all, don't know what they are talking about and from the videos and beats, i'm assuming it's about spanking some booty.

i wouldn't support dancehall because of their racist and/or homophobic stances, but that doesn't mean i don't like listening to it every once in a while.

and yeah, the only bob marley that's any good is his work with lee perry.

M.I.A. = Not my idea of a dancehall artist.

I don't like MIA either, but I think this song is great. Bird Flu is OK as well.

that's like adding daddy yankee or any other reggaeton bollocks to a dancehall playlist.

i've only heard about 2 minutes of reggaeton but it sounded awful, i bought a baile funk mixtape a year or two ago and that sucked big time.
i don't get why everyone was talking about those styles a couple of years ago.

thanks

because reggaeton is huge with latino people, really huge. people here just love to crank it on their car stereos and play it on parties and danceclubs, and this is just one country out of latinamerica.

raggaeton gives me headaches, literally.

i love reggaeton and dancehall and dubstep to dance to, i probably would nevet sit around wit headphones on listening to it, but dancing is fun, so dancehall is good.

the first time i heard sizzla was in john cardiel's skate part in the transworld video sight unseen, i loved it.