Jamaicans owe all of their music to African Americans/ADOS people.
SKA bµllsh!t ain't nothing but dreads attempt at making 1950s African American Rock N' Roll
1951
First SKA record 1959
On Reggae:
"Reggae developed from ska and rocksteady in the 1960s. Larry And Alvin's ‘Nanny Goat’ and the Beltones’ ‘No More Heartaches’ competed for the status of first reggae record. The beat was distinctive from rocksteady in that it dropped any of the pretensions to the smooth, soulful sound that characterized slick American R&B, and instead was closer in kinship to US southern funk, being heavily dependent on the rhythm section to drive it along."
Reggae - Wikipedia
"The Kingston-born Dodd used to play records to the customers in his parents' shop. During a spell in the American South he became familiar with the rhythm and blues music popular there at the time. In 1954, back in Jamaica, he set up the Downbeat Sound System, being the owner of an amplifier, a turntable, and some US records, which he would import from New Orleans and Miami.
With the success of his sound system, and in a competitive environment, Dodd would make trips through the US looking for new tunes to attract the Jamaican public. While he did, his mother Doris Darlington would run the sound system and play the tunes. Dodd opened five different sound systems, each playing every night. To run his sound systems, Dodd appointed people such as Lee "Scratch" Perry, who was Dodd's right-hand man during his early career, U-Roy and Prince Buster."
You only make music because of us.
"When the R&B craze ended in the United States, Dodd and his rivals were forced to begin recording their own Jamaican music in order to meet the local demand for new music. "
Coxsone Dodd - Wikipedia
Coxsone Dodd is the father of Jamaican music. Jamaicans use him and his sound systems by way of Kool Herc to claim they invented Hop Hop, eventhough Kool Herc has said himself Jamaican sound systems were not used in and had nothing to do with Hip Hop. Well check out were Dodd got his sound system and ideas for outdoor parties from. The same outdoor parties Jamaicans claim African Americans didn't have until they showed up in America and created it.
"Though Dodd grew up in Kingston, it was while working as a cane cutter in the U.S. South that he was exposed to both outdoor dance parties and rhythm and blues. Returning to Jamaica, he became one of the originators of the huge portable sound systems that became a sensation on the island in the 1950s, providing a movable feast of mostly American rhythm-and-blues records."
Sir Coxsone Dodd | Jamaican record producer
On toasting
Jamaicans claim they introduced toasting to African Americans and that is how rapping got to America. When we know that a damn lie and African Americans have an extremely rich history rapping, rhyming, poetry, call and response, and jive talking that goes back to the slavery days.
How the hell you taught us something we taught you?
"Count Matchuki, born Winston Cooper in 1934, is widely considered the first toaster. He was raised in a family that had more money than others so he grew up with two gramophones in the home and was exposed to swing, jazz, bebop, and rhythm & blues. He says that he got the idea to begin toasting over records after hearing American radio. He told this to Mark Gorney and Michael Turner as they recount in a 1996 issue of Beat Magazine. “I was walking late one night about a quarter to three. Somewhere in Denham Town. And I hear this guy on the radio, some American guy advertising Royal Crown Hair Dressing. ‘You see you’re drying up with this one, Johnny, try Royal Crown. When you’re downtown you’re the smartest guy in town, when you use Royal Crown and Royal Crown make you the smartest guy in town.’ That deliverance! This guy sound like a machine! A tongue-twister! I heard that in 1949. On one of them States stations that was really strong. I hear this guy sing out ‘pon the radio and I just like the sound. And I say, I think I can do better. I’d like to play some recordings and just jive talk like this guy.”
Jive Talking and Toasting part two - Foundation SKA
Just wanted to get some straightening. Folks running around talkin bout what they have to African Americans but dont know they own history.
More to come.
SKA bµllsh!t ain't nothing but dreads attempt at making 1950s African American Rock N' Roll
1951
First SKA record 1959
On Reggae:
"Reggae developed from ska and rocksteady in the 1960s. Larry And Alvin's ‘Nanny Goat’ and the Beltones’ ‘No More Heartaches’ competed for the status of first reggae record. The beat was distinctive from rocksteady in that it dropped any of the pretensions to the smooth, soulful sound that characterized slick American R&B, and instead was closer in kinship to US southern funk, being heavily dependent on the rhythm section to drive it along."
Reggae - Wikipedia
"The Kingston-born Dodd used to play records to the customers in his parents' shop. During a spell in the American South he became familiar with the rhythm and blues music popular there at the time. In 1954, back in Jamaica, he set up the Downbeat Sound System, being the owner of an amplifier, a turntable, and some US records, which he would import from New Orleans and Miami.
With the success of his sound system, and in a competitive environment, Dodd would make trips through the US looking for new tunes to attract the Jamaican public. While he did, his mother Doris Darlington would run the sound system and play the tunes. Dodd opened five different sound systems, each playing every night. To run his sound systems, Dodd appointed people such as Lee "Scratch" Perry, who was Dodd's right-hand man during his early career, U-Roy and Prince Buster."
You only make music because of us.
"When the R&B craze ended in the United States, Dodd and his rivals were forced to begin recording their own Jamaican music in order to meet the local demand for new music. "
Coxsone Dodd - Wikipedia
Coxsone Dodd is the father of Jamaican music. Jamaicans use him and his sound systems by way of Kool Herc to claim they invented Hop Hop, eventhough Kool Herc has said himself Jamaican sound systems were not used in and had nothing to do with Hip Hop. Well check out were Dodd got his sound system and ideas for outdoor parties from. The same outdoor parties Jamaicans claim African Americans didn't have until they showed up in America and created it.
"Though Dodd grew up in Kingston, it was while working as a cane cutter in the U.S. South that he was exposed to both outdoor dance parties and rhythm and blues. Returning to Jamaica, he became one of the originators of the huge portable sound systems that became a sensation on the island in the 1950s, providing a movable feast of mostly American rhythm-and-blues records."
Sir Coxsone Dodd | Jamaican record producer
On toasting
Jamaicans claim they introduced toasting to African Americans and that is how rapping got to America. When we know that a damn lie and African Americans have an extremely rich history rapping, rhyming, poetry, call and response, and jive talking that goes back to the slavery days.
How the hell you taught us something we taught you?
"Count Matchuki, born Winston Cooper in 1934, is widely considered the first toaster. He was raised in a family that had more money than others so he grew up with two gramophones in the home and was exposed to swing, jazz, bebop, and rhythm & blues. He says that he got the idea to begin toasting over records after hearing American radio. He told this to Mark Gorney and Michael Turner as they recount in a 1996 issue of Beat Magazine. “I was walking late one night about a quarter to three. Somewhere in Denham Town. And I hear this guy on the radio, some American guy advertising Royal Crown Hair Dressing. ‘You see you’re drying up with this one, Johnny, try Royal Crown. When you’re downtown you’re the smartest guy in town, when you use Royal Crown and Royal Crown make you the smartest guy in town.’ That deliverance! This guy sound like a machine! A tongue-twister! I heard that in 1949. On one of them States stations that was really strong. I hear this guy sing out ‘pon the radio and I just like the sound. And I say, I think I can do better. I’d like to play some recordings and just jive talk like this guy.”
Jive Talking and Toasting part two - Foundation SKA
Just wanted to get some straightening. Folks running around talkin bout what they have to African Americans but dont know they own history.
More to come.
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