They actually do feel very similar. Kartel is a quintessentially Jamaican lyricist and performer in the grand tradition. Not afraid to show his soppy side. Very clever, very witty, very self aware. Very similar to yellow man indeed. I'm not sure there has been a precipitous moral decline since the 80s myself. In music or more generally across society.
Where I can sympathise with droid is you listen to that intence thing and wince when he goes we fuck gyal and sell Coke it's so dumb I can understand if you're judging the whole field of contemporary dancehall on that one tune we've experienced a precipitous decline in standards no doubt at all
US influence waxes and wanes in my experience and I'm not sure it's necessarily a sign of declining standards. There might be other factors involved which cause that push and pull.
But also I don't think many people would be happy to reject all 80s or 90s dancehall on the grounds that it was less 'innocent' than what preceded it. That would seem quite odd.
Youre missing my point. its not the lack (or existence) of innocence, its the flattening of affect that comes from the lack of restriction.
That doesn't sound totally mad and certainly there are plenty of people within Jamacia who feel dancehall has lost its identity but I think it's still unique. I don't think anyone else could make music like that and I don't thInk you could sell that music to a mass audience in America either. You might think it sounds American but I'm pretty sure it would sound weird and alien to them.
Ok. I don't understand that point I'm afraid. Could you possibly restate it for a thicko?