Traffic Blocking deejay General Degree, is set to headline Negril’s Different Strokes, one of the biggest retro party series events on the entertainment calendar in western Jamaica, at the Wavz Beach in the resort town, come this Saturday.
Released in May 2002, the Diwali Riddim has soared across borders, genres and generations but were it not for Steven ‘Lenky’ Marsden’s persistence, the Dancehall blockbuster might have never left the ground.
In our selection of some of the newest Dancehall tracks this week, General Degree morphs back on the music scene with a brand new song to reminds us he’s as current as ever.
A street light post in disrepair along the Mandela Highway in the direction of the Portmore exit caught the attention of dancehall artist General Degree.
Former Main Street Dancehall artiste Red Rat has revealed that he was the person ad-libbing and making cartoonish sounds in most of the tracks on the Danny Browne-produced Filthy riddim (commonly referred to as Traffic Blocking) in 1998, which was sampled by US rapper Nicki Minaj for her Megatron track in 2019.
Legendary Dancehall producer Dave Kelly had written Beenie Man’s Old Dog and Frisco Kid’s Think Wi Nice and given General Degree first choice to select either song, but, the Manchester native recently revealed that he opted out, as he was uncomfortable with the lyrics of both tracks.
Veteran Dancehall superstar General Degree, recently revealed that he actually hated his hilarious breakout song Granny and even begged and pleaded with ace producer Danny Browne not to release the track, which immediately became a national hit the day it was released in 1992.
There are a couple of legendary dancehall artistes that continue to pop up in the media from time to time, namely Shabba Ranks, Super Cat, Lady Saw and Lexus just for example.