100% Dynamite! NYC Dancehall Reggae Meets Rap In New York City

• Supercat – Don Dada (Bobby Konders Mix)
• Yankee B – The Original
• Shinehead – Know how Fe Chat
• Fu Schnickens – Ring The Alarm
• Born Jamericans – Informer
• Shaggy – Mattress Jockey (Siren Remix)
• Jah Batta and Skatee – Style and Fashion
• Rayvon – Girls Fresh
• Red Fox – Dem A Murderer
• Nikey Fungus – Zig Zag Stitch
• Bobby Konders – Mack Daddy
• Louie Rankin – Typewriter
• Mad Lion – Double Trouble (Original Mix)
• Super C – The Rat
• Lady Apache – Rock and Comeen
• Jamalski – Texas Rumpus
• Ken Albert – Gunshot
• Shinehead – Rough and Rugged
• Ugly Man – DJ De Yah
• Rankin' Don – Real McCoy
• Mad Lion – Love Woman So
• Terror Fabulous – Woman Say So

• 1. Supercat – Don Dada (Bobby Konders Mix)
• 2. Yankee B – The Original
• 3. Shinehead – Know how Fe Chat
• 4. Fu Schnickens – Ring The Alarm
• 5. Born Jamericans – Informer
• 6. Shaggy – Mattress Jockey (Siren Remix)
• 7. Jah Batta and Skatee – Style and Fashion
• 8. Rayvon – Girls Fresh
• 9. Red Fox – Dem A Murderer
• 10. Nikey Fungus – Zig Zag Stitch
• 11. Bobby Konders – Mack Daddy
• 12. Louie Rankin – Typewriter
• 13. Mad Lion – Double Trouble (Original Mix)
• 14. Super C – The Rat
• 15. Lady Apache – Rock and Comeen
• 16. Jamalski – Texas Rumpus
• 17. Ken Albert – Gunshot
• 18. Shinehead – Rough and Rugged
• 19. Ugly Man – DJ De Yah
• 20. Rankin' Don – Real McCoy
• 21. Mad Lion – Love Woman So
• 22. Terror Fabulous – Woman Say So

An essential guide to the Dancehall Reggae/Hip-Hop clash that ruled New York in the early 1990s as Shinehead, Supercat, Mad Lion, Bobby Konders and many more rewrote the rules of Dancehall, Reggae and Rap. Killer heavyweight tracks, non-stop. Essential!

From Kool Herc onwards, Jamaicans who grew up in New York City have played pivotal roles in the development of the city’s musical identity. Hip-Hop, born in the Bronx, was always hot-wired to Jamaica and in the 1990s the two became inextricably joined when reggae met rap in New York City. Dynamite NYC brings together the many artists who created this unique scene, linking together two of the world’s most important musical cultures – hip-hop and reggae.?In the early 1990s, Jamaican dancehall - including artists from this home-grown New York scene - became the subject of close scrutiny by the US major record industry who, having made vast profits from hip-hop, searched out Jamaican or Jamaican-descended artists who could potentially crossover into the vast US hip-hop market. Jamaican dancehall artists were signed to big US contracts (Yellowman, Supercat, Capleton, Shabba Ranks). And New York, previously a satellite town of Kingston for visiting Jamaican artists, but now with its own unique dancehall scene became a focal point as artists such as Shinehead, Red Foxx, Jamal-Ski, Mad Lion, and others were quickly signed up to major record companies.??

100%Dynamite NYC features these and many other New York reggae/hip-hop crossover artists in this first album to feature the music from this scene.


REVIEWS

“100%Dynamite NYC is a proper block party selection. What moves this from wicked to essential is its documentation of the cross-pollination between reggae and hip-hop.” FACT

“ Soul Jazz gives proof that Yankee-Caribbean fusions run deep and they also make it an enjoyable lesson.” The INDEPENDENT

SUPER-LOUD VINYL IS IN 2 VOLUMES:
Volume 1 is tracks 1-11. Volume 2 is tracks 12-22.