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Radio personality Angie Martinez of New York's Hot-97 radio station interviewed Mavado earlier this week on the day of his album launch.
KH: People think of Shaggy as an uptown yute. How true would you say that is?
Shaggy: I didn't know uptown till I came back to Jamaica after Oh Carolina. I used to walk from cross the Causeway (the bridge that links Portmore to Kingston) and go to Skateland. My idol was Yellow Man so I remember going to dance at Skateland and see Yellow Man walk out and di whole dance walk out wid him. I remember going to Cross Roads and seeing Yellow Man walking in his yellow sweat suit. I used to bum drive by Boulevard, Yellow Man drive up in his yellow BMW, him look pon me and seh 'yute, hold it down yute' - those words resonated in my mind for years. Continue
Emerging in the latter half of the 90s, Sizzla helped lead dancehall back to the musical and spiritual influence of roots reggae and heavily Rastafarian subject matter. Born Miguel Collins on April 17, 1976 in St Mary, he is one of the most prolific leaders of the conscious reggae dancehall movement.
He was raised in the community of August Town by devout Rastafarian parents. The 1980s witnessed a dancehall explosion, and with the music came the lifestyle. Sizzla watched carefully, collecting his lyrical ammunition. He began his career in the music industry in his early teenage years.
Continue reading Gambia: A Chat With Sizzla.
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