{"id":453,"date":"2005-02-11T15:40:49","date_gmt":"2005-02-11T19:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tradermike.net\/movethecrowd\/2005\/02\/diggin_in_the_crates_dancehall_vol_1\/"},"modified":"2005-02-11T15:40:49","modified_gmt":"2005-02-11T19:40:49","slug":"diggin_in_the_crates_dancehall_vol_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/11\/diggin_in_the_crates_dancehall_vol_1\/","title":{"rendered":"Diggin’ in the Crates: Dancehall, Vol. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s some dancehall reggae<\/a> (mostly) from the 90s. This was the genre that I turned to once I started falling out of love with hip-hop. This stuff brings back some great memories, from seeing the Shabba Ranks & KRS-ONE tour (I was at the show in L.A. when KRS beat down the sound man) to the first time I saw Buju (and Beres Hammond) live to me getting life off of women winin’ to a good riddim whenever they drop some dancehall at a club. Man, there’s nothing like some dancehall to get a party heated up! <\/p>\n

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For your continued listening pleasure be sure to check out some of Todd’s radio.blogs<\/a>. That brotha’s dropping bombs on what seems like a daily basis. And Honey’s got more new releases<\/a> this week. She’s promised to post new releases every week, so be sure to bang on her site every Friday. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s some dancehall reggae (mostly) from the 90s. This was the genre that I turned to once I started falling out of love with hip-hop. This stuff brings back some great memories, from seeing the Shabba Ranks & KRS-ONE tour (I was at the show in L.A. when KRS beat down the sound man) to… Continue reading Diggin’ in the Crates: Dancehall, Vol. 1<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":235,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/10\/29\/reggae_the_next_big_ting\/","url_meta":{"origin":453,"position":0},"title":"Reggae, the Next Big Ting?","date":"October 29, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"Madison is predicting that reggae (dancehall) is on the rise. I'd love to see it happen but I feel a sense of d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu. 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