Ghetto Palms: Freestyle / Go Go Riddim
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Every week resident FADER selector Eddie STATS runs through dancehall riddims and other artifacts from the ghetto archipelago.
This week I wanted to shine a light on the Freestyle riddim, the extremely stripped-down soundtrack to Busy Signal’s current 45 “Cool Baby” along with a riddim run of Bobby Konder’s “Go Go” riddim. “Go Go” has been playing in the juggling for some months now–I think ex-FADER editor Nick Catchdubs put me up on it back around New Years–but it fit not only rhythmically but conceptually (freestyle, go-go— get it? If there was a hi-NRG riddim I would have thrown that in, too). At the end I tacked on one extra Collie Buddz tune on 2006’s Sidewalk University riddim (if you need justification, see the Collie Buddz clause established in Ghetto Palms #2).
