CD Review: Various, Retro Respeck

Various Artists
[Eight76 Records]

“Retro Respeck” is one of those various artistes compilation albums, which is a “must have” for lovers of good Jamaican music! Here is an offering of popular classic songs (mainly R&B) reinvented by some of the industry’s best voices, familiar and unfamiliar ones.  Read more... (419 words + 1 image)

CD Review: Lady Saw, Strip Tease

By M. O'Brian Cunningham

 Lady Saw
[VP Records]

The queen of lewd and sexually explicit lyrics retains the title with her new CD Strip Tease.

In 1994, the infamous lady of hardcore decided to change her tune and tone down her slackness, because of the barrage of fire she endured.  Read more... (616 words + 1 image)

Slackorality

Dancehall Lyrics and Oral Sex

Expanded from the article Slackorality published in Beat Magazine, Aug/Sep 2004, Vol. 23, No. 4.

Vybz Kartel

Wayne Marshall and Vybz Kartel tease, Why you chewing it when you should be screwing it? I know you never see a curry or a stew in it, in their 2003 hit Why You Doing It?  Read more... (2018 words + 6 images)