Modern dancehall = No creation

[ShadowNINku]

i agree to the phrase Modern dancehall = No creation when it comes too all those tracks that feature the same claping pattern (i.e sean paul get busy, wayne wonder, lumidee ect.)

I still love my dancehall....It's ment to be mixed and to be danced to so having a couple artists on the same riddim does not hurt the comment that my quote said shows how people do not know dancehall enough to see that it is normal that dancehall has many songs under one riddim....they think that dancehall is Diwali riddim...funny It was just such a good riddim where about half of the songs under Diwali are hot compared to riddims where only the best MC's get to make the songs under THosE riddims hits
I am tired of Diwali.....Lumidee using it made me uneasy...sing a nice cute song, use the riddim and become known...all that "uh OOh " is is a freestyle (80's dance muic with singing) song with a dancehall riddim....listen to it, that's what it is
If people knew the other good SGhIt that's out there under the same riddims and how old these riddims are...LOL

 

[Required Audio]

i am very sorry but that IS the essence of dancehall, and to a large degree, reggae in general.

If you don't get that concept you are missing the whole thing.

Now, people could debate whether this is a good thing for dancehall in the larger scheme of things, and that debate will never be settled, but I can say that the use of riddims goes much deeper than you think; there are cultural, social and many many economic issues behind this phenom. Reggae would be very different without it.

it wouldn't be dancehall anymore. It would be rap with different subject matter and dialect.

this is how dancehall has always been, look @ the sleng teng from 1980when. Peep the history on dancehall and it will give you a better understanding of why it is the way that it is. It has nothing to do with lack of creativity. Do you have any idea how many riddims are made a day? If you listen to every song on one riddim how many of those songs sound the same? Somebody posted a good link to a BBC site on the history of jamaican music a while back. peep it http://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutmusic/features/reggae/history_intro.shtml

btw engineroom...i totally agree with you.

 

[Chameleon]

i get what ur saying engineroom