Why aren't Jamaican Dancehall artists blowing up like spanish reggaeton artists have the past year?

[BigMan]

who said these were dancehall? the cadences are more hiphop (first song could be a modern grime song while h 2nd sounds like crunk from 10+ years ago) even if you listened to it w.o the music




this sounds like dancehall vocally w/ a HipPOP type beat. It doesn't sound like Trap though.

i didn't say it was dancehall. these are examples of some of the most popular dancehall artists making hip hop sounding tracks. if you look at my post i said Jamaican artistes are making songs that sound exactly like American pop/hip hop
and for the Popcaan song i'm talking about the beat and i never said anything about trap music

 

[Cheech&Chong]

90s dancehall reigns supreme

 

[Poitier]

Not too long ago you were bigging up alkaline

Now you suddenly hate dancehall. What changed now

He releases music too slow

 

[IllmaticDelta]

i didn't say it was dancehall. these are examples of some of the most popular dancehall artists making hip hop sounding tracks.

my question is, are they passing those off as hiphop or dancehall?

if you look at my post i said Jamaican artistes are making songs that sound exactly like American pop/hip hop
and for the Popcaan song i'm talking about the beat and i never said anything about trap music

dancehall has to modernize their sound if they want to keep up and sound current like the examples below

 

[Poitier]

Afrobeats also made Dancehall irrelevant.

Those Nigerians have those African drum poly rhythms.
AAs have the 808s.

Dancehall production really is bland when you compare it to other Diasporic sounds.
I also think the POP songwriting lags behind.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Afrobeats also made Dancehall irrelevant.

Those Nigerians have those African drum poly rhythms.
AAs have the 808s.

Dancehall production really is bland when you compare it to other Diasporic sounds.
I also think the POP songwriting lags behind.

trad dancehall producers are going to have to jump on the trap wave like these latinos if they want to compete with the modern sounds unless they want to go the edm/tropical house route

 

[BigMan]

my question is, are they passing those off as hiphop or dancehall?




dancehall has to modernize their sound if they want to keep up and sound current like the examples below

the Spice and Shenseea songs theyre calling hip hop

Afrobeats also made Dancehall irrelevant.

Those Nigerians have those African drum poly rhythms.
AAs have the 808s.

Dancehall production really is bland when you compare it to other Diasporic sounds.
I also think the POP songwriting lags behind.

i agree with this
Afrobeat has the feel of 2000s dancehall where everyone can just vibe too
as i said before the production has fallen off drastically.
but while dancehall is stagnating right now, there's a resurgence in reggae in Jamaica. it won't cross over into the US but there's a lot of dope reggae artistes coming out in the last couple years

 

[Danie84]

A 90s Kid miss that Barrington Levy/Super Cat/Buju/Shabba/Terror Fabulous DanceHall

 

[director_of_bands]

Im no dancehall expert but please tell me that Spice chick is not what dancehall is becoming yall need to put a stop to that nonsense now!!

 

[BigMan]

Im no dancehall expert but please tell me that Spice chick is not what dancehall is becoming yall need to put a stop to that nonsense now!!

She’s the biggest female artists in Jamaica I like her but I don’t want to hear that from her

 

[director_of_bands]

She’s the biggest female artists in Jamaica I like her but I don’t want to hear that from her

ok so she must have better songs out there....on the song posted in here it's like she's trying to morph into a u.s.southern trap artist

 

[IllmaticDelta]

the Spice and Shenseea songs theyre calling hip hop

That's what I figured since there was nothing dancehall about those songs

 

[Swahili P'Bitek]

There are still some nice singjays and deejays, but as for right now reggae is more exciting, so many great reggae artists out now who are much more innovative. I believe that roots reggae is currently more popular worldwide than reggaeton.

 

[BigMan]

That's what I figured since there was nothing dancehall about those songs

my issue is that these songs are for the Caribbean market.....its going to influence more dancehall artistes to make songs like this instead of proper dancehall

 

[BigMan]

another dancehall/trap mashup
konshens been moving into the american market and doing tracks like this tho