The blending (or watering down) of dancehall with other musical genres has slowly been securing its footing in Jamaican music. While producers have started to tag new hybrid forms of dancehall with meaningless additives like “pop,” “island” or “urban,” what is most likely happening is the globalization of Jamaican sound. With all the combos and (sometimes painful) collabos happening in dancehall right now, it’s refreshing to hear when someone gets it right. Prodigal Entertainment did just that by dropping this new one from UK grime beacon Wiley. It’s the first track off Prodigal’s soon-to-be-premiered Showa Eski riddim, which will also include other crossover artists like Lady Chann, Ward 21, Natalie Storm, Einstein and Rage. But we’re not calling it “grimehall” or “island grime.” We’re just gonna sit back, vacate our heads and stomp out the beat.
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“While producers have started to tag new hybrid forms of dancehall with meaningless additives like “pop” “island” or “urban,” what is most likely happening is the globalization of Jamaican sound.”
Wiley is not JAMAICAN…nor is the music that he creates… grime, dancehall, and other island blends have their footing in the music world and minimalizing their affect by saying it’s the globalization of ‘jamaican’ sound is just a terrible generalization of all caribbean (and related) genres. those labels are effective because they’re inclusive.
i enjoy the song, but really it just hurt my heart to read ur blurb because wiley’s an antiguan-brit not jamaican (his sound isnt very jamaican-esque either) … sad to use wiki as my source here, but it still does the trick..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiley_(rapper)
I was referencing the producer of the Showa Eski Riddim, Prodigal Entertainment, which is Jamaican based and did use dancehall/reggae roots to create this grime track. I wasn’t referring to Wiley as being Jamaican.
Reeses,
Where in the wiki does it say he’s of antiguan descent? From my knowledge his mother is jamaican and his father is trini.
And what exactly are you saying? that other sounds of the caribbean are as globalized as Jamaica n music? Please clarify if you get a chance.
And by the way reeses, UK Grime, US hip hop, kuduro and several other youth music forms all have their roots in Jamaican sound system and dj culture. So dont let small island insecurity get in the way of accepted ethnomusicological research.
@Harry he does day something in one of his freestyles i saw about Antiguan decent so i’m guessing he mom is Antiguan and his dad is Trinidadian
@harry peep around 1:40 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM_4qkePbAE