Tag archive for ‘Reggae’

• [Featured Artist] Chinese Man

  11/29/10 • (2)

  

  There cannot only be one! Chinese Man is a French collective of producers/DJ, who trained extensively in the “Wu Tang Mountains, not far from Marseilles.” The collective consists of martial beats craftsmen Leo the bug, and SLY who’ve centered the group’s chi beats. The DJ soldiers of Zé Mateo, The Yan and High Ku honed their Wu mastering [...]

• Debating the Boycott of Buju Banton

  11/03/09 • (0)

  

  Last week, SFCritic made a post concerning the continuing debate between dancehall performer, Buju Banton and the LGTBQ community that is protesting his music. The debate concerns the LGBTQ’s proposed boycott of Buju Banton’s performances in the US as a result of a statements, and particularly a song Banton made in the past, which has lyrics describing how [...]

• Boycott The Homophobic Buju Banton

  10/27/09 • (0)

  

  Buju Banton is touring the US, and during his stop in San Francisco he met with a group of LGBTQ activists to discuss their boycott. In his meeting Banton stated, “This is a fight and as I said in one of my songs, ‘there is no end to the war between me and &%$&%$ and it’s clear.’” In [...]

• Here’s Toasting To You

  3/05/09 • (0)

  

  Ever heard of toasting? Not bread, or drugs–but the characteristic style in hip hop and reggae. As described on wikipedia: Toasting is a style of chanting or talking over the record that was first used by 1960s Jamaican deejays such as U-Roy and Dennis Alcapone. This style greatly influenced Jamaican DJ Kool Herc, who used the style in [...]