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Maybe I slept on this single from Mixpak Records a little, but I’m posting it anyway since it strays from Vybz’s usual course. My friend Felipe described it as some “hipster Vybz” because it’s produced by Brooklyn’s Dre Skull, but, hey I’m not as big of a hater as SOME people and I can respect a good thing when I hear it. Also, check out the cute shirts!!! Felipe, I know you’re jelz now.
My besttie– the one who’s name is tattooed on my arm and for whom I once mopped up red wine pukes from her mother’s bedroom floor whilst she belligerantly laugh/cried– well, she lives in NOLA (New Orleans for those foreigners) and she’s a public defender and you can image that requires some serious unwinding at the end of the day. One her unwinding past times includes visiting the local “country club” (a pool scene for local loungers) or hitting up “bounce” parties. Ignorant and not being privy to this “bounce” scene she sent me this link, a website dedicated to all things “bounce” and appropriately titled nolabounce.com.
This video/song is every which ways up, down and all around on the Jamaican airwaves right now and it gets stuck in your head like peanut butter to the roof of your little stray puppy dogs moutha.*
*Ed. Note: Do you see the “Holiday” dance? The swaying hips, kinda like the side to side version of “jerkin?” Yeah that shit is everywhere too.
I know, I know, it looks like I am a crazy cat person, but truthfully, I kinda am. My dad has like seven or something and we have a tendency to take pictures of them, especially when they look as pretty as my little lass does. To get to the point thou, here is the third installment of images taken on my Holga whilst traveling cross country two weeks ago with my diabetic cat. I’ve started carrying my camera around with me here in Kingston but I haven’t found a developer yet that does 12o film. Soon come.
Do you remember “Chicken Noodle Soup” reigning from Harlem’s DJ Webstar and Young B? Maybe the dance? Whether you do or don’t, dancehall’s ladies man, Serani, has always brought the goodness to the table and without him on this track, I wouldn’t feel nearly as inclined to get tipsy on the dance floor. Get it here and hear it below.
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Whether this is or isn’t the “official” video for Vybz Kartel’s, “Life we Living” riddim, the song links up exactly with Will Smith’s, Persuit of Happiness film and is resonating with me fully since transplanting to Kingston yesterday evening. Tonight I’ll be hitting up one of Kingston’s newer clubs, Fiction, with friends to celebrate my first day in graduate school and hopefully by tomorrow I’ll have some new picks to share with you from the club.
Before crossing the United States to California in my long round-a-bout journey to Kingston, i purchased a Holga to document my travels. Christelle de Castro taught me how to trap light, shoot and play with my new toy. These are the images I took from her apartment the morning I left New York. More to come soon.
The Federation Sound blog just dropped a pretty tasty mixtape called Dutty Chronicles: The Blaze featuring four of Sean Paul’s new song’s from the upcoming Imperial Blaze album, mixed with some Sean Paul greats and few selectors from the Federation Sound crew. Get it here.
Most New Yorkers postulate that to live in New York by association you innately learn worldliness….alright, but in indie film, Wah Do Dem, protagonist Max, a Brooklyn tourist, loses his girlfriend, his cruise ship, and his luggage all in a week before having to jump island to get to the American Embassy and make his way home. Wah Do Dem explores all those things about Jamaica (or any foreign world) that you may fear and love, that you may think you have reigned in, but surprises you at every turn in good and completely unfortunate ways. The film was first conceived two years ago when co-director Ben Chance won a free trip on a Caribbean cruise and decided to bring his friend Sam Fleischner along to do an impromptu film project on all those ironic and feasibly ridiculous mishaps that could occur on a tropical cruise misadventure. With a soundtrack by Brooklyn’s Suckers and Reggae greats The Congos and John Holt, I’m hoping the film proves to be as strong as it sounds. Peep the trailer above.
