Beyond that why do you see such a heavy hip hop influcence? Because the generations of Jamaican's currently at the healm was rasied on Hip Hop music a lot mroe then they were on Roots. Beyond that today's 'reggae' music has a MUCH more diverse audience then it ever has. Damian Marley alone has probably made as much good music as many of the so called legends have their entire careers. They are dead and as Coach Patino said, they ain't walkin through that door. Let's be realistic, it is hard to replace Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Dennis Brown etc. While the percentage of good music to actual music being produced has rapidly declined, The net for quality music has never been higher. Now you have 1000 records come out and 100 of them are good. It used to be that you would have 100 records come out and maybe 75 of them were good. Sade “Baby Father (Bovell Reggae Mix)” (Label unknown) Romain Virgo “Dark Skin Girl” (VP/Juke Boxx)īeres Hammond “Pull Up” (Blacka Dread Records) Queen Ifrica “Hard Times Like These” (Hard Zone) Marcia Griffiths “A Beer and Girl… (the Sweetest Time)” (Penthouse)īusy Signal and Million Stylz “As Me Forward” (Necessary Mayhem)Īlaine feat. Gappy Ranks “Pumpkin Belly” (Greensleeves)īusy Signal and Bounty Killer “Something a Go Happen” (Juke Boxx) Gong’ Marley “Land of Promise” (Def Jam/Universal Republic) Top reggae and dancehall tracks of 2010 (in no particular order):Ĭhristopher Ellis, Stephen Marley, and Jah Cure “End of Time” (Ghetto Youth Int.) With that in mind I list some of the songs that I have been featuring in the dancehalls and on the radio during 2010.

“Rise up ye mighty race”-when one considers the roots reggae anthems that have inspired people all over the world, we have to ask ourselves: why is it that we are no longer hearing that type of music again, with just a few obvious exceptions? We love reggae and we love dancehall, but we don’t need imitation hip-hop, R&B, and banging house beats from Kingston featuring Jamaican patois vocals.

The rest of the world looks to Jamaica as the ‘head of the stream’ for reggae and dancehall music, but compared to some of the glorious recordings that Jamaica has given us over the decades, the output for 2010 left much to be desired. Please allow me to pre-empt this list for Wax Poetics with a statement to the reggae industry in Jamaica.

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