New Dancehall

[Benny Bunter]

A thread I think dissensus has been crying out for. Thought it would be good to start with a roundup of some of the big names at the moment and their best stuff over the last year or so

I'll start with Intence, who's obviously he's been discussed a fair bit here before. He's my favourite out of the new wave of mcs

His biggest hit. Yeng


Breakthrough hit on the excellent lifestyle riddim. Go hard


Barty flute riddim selection. Nuh regular bwoy


Another barty flute riddim


On the brilliant simple ting riddim



More flutes. A tune so good it had its own dissensus thread

 

[Benny Bunter]

Skillibeng - just signed a big deal with Sony apparently and recently released a 35 track album

Breakthrough hit from 2019. Brik pan brik


YK Gat duh


Crocodile teeth


Defy the odds


Mr universe


50 Bag

 

[luka]

I had Shiels and Silver Dollars drinking Prosecco, smoking DMT and listening to this stuff on a loop before lockdown. They loved it. Every song we played about five times.

 

[Benny Bunter]

Rytikal came through this year

90s


My World - flutes again


Cookie Jar


King inna war


Dolla bill

 

[luka]

the more you drink the better this stuff sounds. Unfortunately I won't be drinking this month at all. I need a rest.

 

[luka]

This is a Barty favourite he's always making us listen to this one

 

[Benny Bunter]

Rebel Sixx, RIP. Trinibad. Another barty tip off. His best 5 imo

Scamma lifestyle


Adolf


Sun tzu


Cramp dem


Deal with it

 

[Benny Bunter]

I'll do some more later, just getting up to speed

 

[Benny Bunter]

the more you drink the better this stuff sounds. Unfortunately I won't be drinking this month at all. I need a rest.

Yeah me too, had quite a boozy xmas and been listening to it non stop. Back to work tomoz

 

[luka]

How have you been getting a sense of the terrain? Lucky dip youtubing?

 

[Benny Bunter]

Youtube, yes, to start with, then later spotify is really good for nosing around - the 'appears on' section takes you to all the riddim albums artists have appeared on, which is useful. Also skipping through the obligatory top 100 dancehall biggest hits playlists that appear on spotify. But you have to put the work in to seperate the wheat from the chaff, wouldn't really call it lucky dip.

 

[luka]

i only like the stuff about killing as a rule.

 

[luka]

I don't like anything happy go lucky.

 

[Benny Bunter]

Well we still have the sad broken afrobeats/dancehall thread for the happy stuff, we could keep this thread gangsta

 

[luka]

I don't mind really. That's just me.

 

[Benny Bunter]

It is the most exciting stuff though generally

 

[luka]

It's different in the eighties maybe, but by the time you get to the nineties I'm definitely a big fan of guns. The exception being the religious fervour of Sizzla and Capleton in 1997.

 

[Benny Bunter]

One thing I've noticed is the trinibad videos nearly all have ridiculous amounts of guns in them, like much more even than the Jamaican vids. You can't move for them.

Tbh i've kind of moved on to just listening on spotify rather than watching the videos, it does get a bit much for me at times.

 

[Pandiculate]

really liking Skillibeng, Popcaan seems to be in a load of his videos

 

[Pandiculate]