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By: Defoen

Defoen — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 10:34:07 +0000

Since the likes of Bob Marley and Peter Tosh,the Wailers.The once great reggae music people like myself love,the present generation of what is called music in Jamaica is a disgrace to humanity.Jamaica and Jamaicans inherited a great music by the founding fathers,who worked hard making popular and loved around the world,instead of taking it from where the likes of Bob Marley and Peter Tosh took it by capitalising on it,this foolish generation promoting some shit which is not even deserving of being flushed in my toilet. Too much agression,violence,illicit language,no melody and harmony,only noise.

usic devilish lyrics is a disgrace to. humanity. Not one of those will get a listening ear from me. Jamaican recieved a music

By: aramis

aramis — Wed, 23 Dec 2015 08:04:11 +0000

Well, to be honest to me it seems like the jamaican music industry kind of lost the eye on the ball in change of a quick profit. I mean, in the 90`s music was spewed out with no quality control. When you look at “the golden age” of reggae, what was coming out of Jamaica was innovative music, original and local, infused with elements from popular music genres. When i first heared reggae at the age of 12 in 78`i was blown away! I had never heard anything like it and i had to know more about this style of music, who was the artists, where do they come from etc.. Im not sure if i can say there are so many of todays artists that are really innovative and has that “wow-effect”, alltough I have hopes for some good stuff coming out of the reggae revival movement. When you listen to classics like “heart of the congos” with the congos, or an album like “red” with black uhuru(that was voted best album of the year 1981 regardless of genre in both NME and melody maker), you will hear that those albums are almost creating a genre in themselves, and especially “red” is timeless and sounds fresh even 35years after its release, much thanks to sly&robbies exelent musicianship and production. The same timelessness shows the quality of most Bob Marley albums. How many albums coming out of Jamaica the last 15 or so years is innovative and will still sound fresh after 15 more years? It seems that a lack of quality control for quick cash has sawn off the branch that Jamaican reggae was sitting on. For a lover of original roots reggae I must say that for my part some of the greatest music coming out in the last years, is groundation with their jazz influencd roots reggae. That is a matter of personal taste of course, but I dont think anyone can argue about the quality and sincerity those american dudes has put into their music. If americans play roots music with more pride and musicianship than jamaicans, then i guess thats the music people will buy. Most people dont buy music to make a statement or to support a certain nations music industry, they buy what they think is great music. And jamaican music has gone from taking the world with storm to go in to obscurity, so I guess ones has to look into the quality of the work that has been done. And to be indignated that someone “stole” jamaican music is kind of unreasonable as we are living in a time where cultural exchange happens rapidly. And jamaican music wasnt created in a vacuum either, the great artists that shaped the genre was influenced from alot of different musical expressions.

By: Sidney reid

Sidney reid — Mon, 21 Dec 2015 23:33:14 +0000

If the radio DJ keep playing garbage on the radio and throw asidebthe real nice reggae songs what do u expect. The world knows reggae through Bob Marley and the reggae now is not like Bob used to do its the total opposite so foreign artistes are to the notion that we are just a bunch of idiots for not maintaining our reggae so its a easy take over and I as a Jamaican say “why ñot?” We don’t want it but other people do so take it and I wish all u foreign artiste great luck