New Dancehall

[Benny Bunter]

But I'll bet everyone who's read this page has clicked on that Alkaline video now, you bunch of fucking sickos!

 

[DannyL]

I've seen quite a few videos like that Alkaline one, where they'll just kidnap someone, tie them to a chair and mock and torture them for the duration of the song, then just shoot or hang them at the end. Not sure exactly when this trend developed but it definitely seems to have gone beyond anything I've seen previously in rap and dancehall videos in terms of gratuitous violence. One I saw, can't remember which, they actually chop some guy into pieces.

Sometimes you're just like, what the fuck have I just watched?

I had no idea this was a trend. Christ.

 

[william_kent]

the youth are fully embracing the darkness for sure

 

[version]

There's a CASisDEAD video like that from a few years back.

 

[Benny Bunter]

There's a CASisDEAD video like that from a few years back.

Who are CASisDEAD?

Have you watched the Alkaline video? Did you enjoy it?

 

[luka]

Who are CASisDEAD?

Have you watched the Alkaline video? Did you enjoy it?

dull north london rapper from about ten years ago

 

[Benny Bunter]

I remember posting this one in the Joker thread on NY eve when I was smashed.

 

[Roobric]

I usually open videos in a tab and then do something else, so I often miss how horrific they are. I really pissed someone off once telling them to watch a Sikka Rymes video I'd not viewed myself that turned out to be a couple minutes of graphic torture

 

[Benny Bunter]

Think I've seen that and an even worse one by him where they just execute about 5 or 6 guys they've got tied to chairs one by one.

Sikk bastard.

 

[Roobric]

Makes this kind of thing seem positively wholesome!

 

[Benny Bunter]

Makes this kind of thing seem positively wholesome!

Ha-ha, only in Jamaica.

Should have been this year's style a style riddim with that exotic pungi thing it's got, but none of the newer big names jumped on it, unfortunately.

 

[Pandiculate]

flow on this is mad

 

[luka]

fucking hate that rap shit

 

[Roobric]

Should have been this year's style a style riddim with that exotic pungi thing it's got, but none of the newer big names jumped on it, unfortunately.

That is a bit surprising. It sounds built for multiple versions, and surely Stadic has the connections. Not sure you could improve on Vaccine for classic dancehall zeitgeist capture though

Thanks for "pungi" btw. I had no idea what to call that sound

 

[Benny Bunter]

Thanks for "pungi" btw. I had no idea what to call that sound

Snake charming flute - no idea if it actually is a real pungi or not in the song but it could be.

In Neon Screams he compares the autotuned voices in dancehall to a pungi, that's where I first heard the word.

 

[Benny Bunter]

Love that first line in Skeng's Gunman Shift.

Intellectual: Murdah People Edition...

Sounds like the name of some kind of twisted boardgame or something.

 

[Benny Bunter]

flow on this is mad

fucking hate that rap shit

Skillibeng has had quite a strange year where he's been swinging drastically between these technical rappity rap double time flows, and then stoned, pornsick rambly freestyles where he just repeats one word over and over and calls it a chorus. He's probably at his best when he's somewhere in between these two extremes.

 

[Benny Bunter]

Several Jamaican cops are now facing disciplinary action for their alleged involvement in a new social media craze that involves uniformed personnel lip-syncing to Dancehall artist Skeng‘s Guvman Shift.

Jamaican Cops Face Disciplinary Action, Remedial Training After TikTok-ing To Skeng’s ‘Gvnman Shift’

Several Jamaican cops are now facing disciplinary action for their alleged involvement in a new social media craze that involves uniformed personnel

www.dancehallmag.com

 

[Benny Bunter]

He puts new tunes out literally every couple of days, so some of em are just sort of rambling freestyles or so-called 'nonsense' tracks, like this new one, which he got quite a lot of stick for but I like them

So Alkaline's just dropped this nonsense track, widely interpreted as taking the piss out of Skillibeng.

 

[Roobric]

That's pretty hilarious but also kind of good? I also liked Yo! though.