Why didn’t you Rasta nikkas put me onto Dancehall earlier

[Doctor Wily]

From the beginning.

Early 80s (pre modern dancehall)



Late 80s -post Jammy's influence.



Anything after the duck dance riddim is considered modern dancehall.



Wether you like the early 90s/mid to late 90s
Early passa passa of the early to mid 2000s
To the afrobeat influenced dancehall that's out now its all the same shyt.

 

[Blessings]

Cause you wasn’t outside and stayed in like a square

 

[FukkaPaidEmail]

Cause you wasn’t outside and stayed in like a square

nikka I was a child

 

[---]

He's kinda right dates are off by a lot but dancehall has peaked.

Can't find a comedian artists like snagg puss or red rat. Serious ghetto yute chat from bounty. Gallis like Beanie, and Rasta like Capleton or a herbalist like Richie Spice on a single riddims anymore.

Also no more super groups or groups popping up together. Last group that burst on the scene and caused noise was Scare Dem Crew or the Alliance.

Dancehall needs variety again.

Too much of the same ting.

 

[MajesticLion]

Late 00s dancehall had some riddims that just had hits over hits. Check track listings for artist names and titles. Conscious riddims/tunes is a whole other list.





Movie Star riddim. Standouts: Kartel, Ryno, both Mavado tunes, Elephant Man will murder any riddim.




Trippple Bounce riddim. Standouts: Chino/Genius, both Kartel tunes, Beenie, Mavado, Ele again, Vegas.





Day Rave riddim. Standouts: Mavado, the Kartel/JahVinci tune is meh but Jahvinci's chorus makes it worth it, Ryno, Ele/Ding Dong. Missing from the mix is Busy Signal, added below.





Sixteen riddim. Bugle/Serani, Mavado and especially Bounty Killer. Don't even bother with anything else.




12 Gauge riddim. Standouts: Killer/Aidonia, Killer by himself. All else is filler.




Shoot Out riddim. Standouts: Demarco, Mykal Rose, Mykal Rose/Damian Marley refix, Busy Signal, Buju, Demarco/Elephant Man.

 

[null]

Im mad


My memory of Dancehall is Elephant man and Hearing beanie man say ZaggaZow or whatever 400x a day and that made me the whole genre ..but nikka it’s some HEAT that I have been sleeping on and imma blame you nikkas

...


Put me on some more heat ..and I don’t mean that here comes the hotsteppa kinda bullshyt either

I already got buju in the tuck

-

 

[Swahili P'Bitek]

80s-mid 00s- Golden age
Late 00s-early 10s- Silver age(lacked commercial success but for anybody not and follows the genre, was very very good)

Mid 10s-Now-Bronze age

 

[skylove4]

Dance hall is truly a great genre of music, at least the early 00’s stuff, I don’t know much from today. When that nikka was bleaching his skin heavy and he was the biggest star I stoped listening to that shyt
Kudos for BET on Sunday afternoons for putting me on as a kid

 

[YeahN1ggaImmaLurker!]

 

[Secure Da Bag]

Kudos for BET on Sunday afternoons for putting me on as a kid

Are we talking Caribbean Rhythms with Rachel's fine ass self

 

[skylove4]

Are we talking Caribbean Rhythms with Rachel's fine ass self

Hell yeah

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

Some newer shyt thats

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

lets go back to where it all started with an extended remix of the late, great goat.
RIP to the legend.