![]() First published in 2005 and written by Anthony Codrington aka Top Cat, the 5 time MC of the Year from the British Reggae Awards, Black Music Awards, and BBC Three Counties Awards and three times Record of the Year Award winner, as well as recently in 2022 picking up the DJ Magazine Award for being a Game Changer in the Music Industry for the vocals on the classic track RIP Groove, and boasts well over a dozen chart topping number one singles to his name, there aren't many out there who have more experience and success with that experience. This is the original paperback edition of the groundbreaking first book to explain the skills of the elite emcees of Dancehall, Jungle, Garage, Grime, and Hip Hop. If you have said yes to all of the questions above then you need this book in your reference library. With hits like Over U Body, Smoke The Sensi, Wine Up U Body, Sweetest Thing, as well as more recent hits with Shy FX Every Day, Chase & Status Just Come Back, Roughest Gunark remix, as well as his hits with Congo Natty like Champion DJ, Badder Than Them aka Imperial Majesty, and classics like Push Up U Lighter, as well as the UK Garage remix of Request The Style aka RIP Groove, Top Cat is a Living Legend of the UK urban music scene.ĭo you want to learn to MC like your favorite dancehall deejays or hip hop rappers?ĭo you want to be able to do the fundamental skills so well that can put you on a par with the emcees you look up to?ĭo you have more half a loaf for a brain? Top Cat scored hits for Fashion Records with Gallist/Sess Weh U Want, Request The Style, Bunn The Sensi, as top 5 singles in the Reggae Charts. In 1992 both Top Cat and Tenor Fly joined Fashion Records to record projects for release, working with Chris Lane and Gussie P at A Class Studio. Recording his first album Sensimilla Man for another Legendary producer and member of Sir Coxsone sound Blacker Dread, Top Cat then joined Sir Coxsone sound and was part of the MC team of Daddy Freddy, Tenor Fly, Ricky Tuffy and Jah Prento that toured the UK, Europe and the US during that time. His first his Love Mi Sess (produced by the Legendary Reggae producer Joe G RIP) topped the Reggae charts in February and March 1989 as was awarded Record of the Year and the Entertainment Enterprise Awards that year. You don't want to be that guy.Top Cat has been making hit songs for over three decades. Everyone knows "that guy" that's always hitting people up to do stuff for him and give him things. ![]() That's like someone you don't know asking you to DJ for free. At the end of the day, you're asking someone to do some work for you. Also, I would never call up someone for a special and ask for it for free. It's better if you've got their email and if you've got a personal relationship. Some people don't want to be DMed on Twitter for a special. They have to trust that you're going to do what you have to do. But you have to build friendships with people. They might be cutting dubs for their soundsystem, and they'll ask us if we want anything-like, "Hey, so-and-so is in the studio for the next few hours, let us know if you want a vocal." And then we'll send some money quick and make it happen. For Gorgon Sound, our link is a guy from Switzerland from OBF Soundsystem. Obviously with artists that live in Jamaica, we can't go knock on their door and be like, "Can we get this?," so you have to have someone who knows the artists and deals with them. Neek: It takes a while to build up links and get to know people that can link you with artists. You had to go to a dance and meet people. Kahn: In the days before DMs and Facebook, you couldn't send out mass messages to everyone. Make real-world connections-not just online ones It takes a lot of time and effort to get this peak, so we asked the guys to give us the low-down on mastering the dubplate game.ĥ. In the age of digital DJing and disposable mp3s, this is very rare indeed. Nearly all of the tunes they spin are dubplates (tracks cut to acetate or vinyl long before they are released to the public), specials (exclusive versions of tracks that include the DJs' names and special lyrics), or VIPS (versions of songs that no one else has). Paul Carnival-the Bristolian version of Notting Hill Carnival-when they were little kids as a key musical inspiration.īandulu crew doesn't put out tons of tracks, but the ones they do release are usually anthems. It's in these guys' blood, after all: Hi5's uncle is part of trip-hop legends Smith & Mighty, and all four of them cite going to the St. ![]() Together, they're a formidable force in bridging the gap between dubstep, the toughest grime rhythms, and the UK-via-Jamaica soundsystem culture to which both of those genres owe a huge debt. In the past couple years, they've taken youngers Courtney "Hi5Ghost" Beckford-24, and a former MC at Neek's SureSkank parties-and Boofy, 22, under their wing. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |