(Part 2) Best dancehall music according to redditors
We found 38 Reddit comments discussing the best dancehall music. We ranked the 28 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
His song, "Proud To Be Black", was a reggae dancehall one-hit-wonder. Anyone who listened to reggae in the late eighties/early nineties knows this track.
When I just listened to it from the link in /u/Jawnt's post I immediately recognized it and assumed Robbie probably was probably doing a cover of the real song. You can imagine my surprise when trying to google the original singer and it turning out to be him.
Even if you are only familiar with a little dancehall from back then you are bound to recognize a couple of the tracks on this compilation album of hits which includes "Proud To Be Black".
Arsenal supporters are shocked to find out our Robbie was singing back then but trust me, folks who listened to dancehall back then would be doubly shocked to find out he now hosts a football YouTube channel with over 120k followers and over 40 million views.
As a subscriber to his channel and a gunner I've been admiring what he does but now I have even more respect for the man.
I just spent all last week compiling about 24 hours worth of Christmas tunes! My favorite albums are:
And personal favorite songs are:
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|name|Michigan & Smiley|
|about artist|Michigan and Smiley were a Jamaican singing combo of the late seventies first wave of Dancehall music, founded by Papa Michigan (born Anthony Fairclough) and General Smiley (born Erroll Bennett) and included Yellowman, Eek-a-Mouse, Lone Ranger, General Echo, and others. They first recorded at Clement Coxsone Dodd's famous Studio 1, pressing their first number one hit, "Rub a Dub Style", which featured their innovative call and response style vocals overdubbed on the classic Studio 1 rhythm, "Vanity". ([more on last.fm](http://www.last.fm/music/Michigan & Smiley))|
|album|Rub-A-Dub Style, released Apr 1979|
|track|Rub a Dub Style|
|images|artist image|
|links|wikipedia, discogs, track on amazon, album on amazon|
|tags|reggae, jamaicandancehall|
|similar|Early B, Devon Russell, Lone Ranger, Half Pint, Sound Dimension|
|metrics|lastfm listeners: 27,086, lastfm plays: 106,381, youtube plays: 243,723, radd.it score: 3.5|
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In fact, almost anything from the annual Real Authentic Samplers. The first one is here:
http://www.amazon.com/Real-Authentic-Sampler-Various-Artists/dp/B000000Q9U
It even has a Christmas tune.
Now you've gone and made me post my favorite Christmas song. I hope you're happy now.
(And here's another classic from the same album... 'cause we can all appreciate Santa in a big-time Toyota, gallivanting all day.)