How Do You sentence Mr Vegas to a Spanish Town Prison with Biggie Smallz and J Lo

How do you sentence Mr Vegas to a Spanish Town Prison with Biggie Smallz and J Lo

1. Mr Vegas is havin’ a Jay Z moment and it’s official!!!!! In September of this year he announced his retirement from the dancehall. But it just so happens that he is now enjoying probably his best run of hits since his debut smash, ‘Heads High’. ‘Hot Wuk’, ‘Raging Bull’, ‘Tek Weh Yuhself’, and ‘Daggering’ have all ripped dancefloors to shreds in the past year or so. The current smash on the Reggae charts that features the unmistakeable voice of the dancehall star born Clifford Smith is ‘Mus Come A Road’ – The subject matter is not to my personal liking, but then who am I but a girls dem sugar? In a nutshell, Vegas is playing the part of an incarcerated drugs baron who is pledging revenge on his informants, when “him come a road”.

2. Currently on countdowns in New York, London, Birmingham and France it features a sample from another unmistakeable classic dancehall voice, this time in the shape of the Reggae canary, Barrington Levy. The original track, ‘Prison Oval Rock’ released in 1982 vividly described an attempted prison break by inmates of the Spanish Town Prison who wanted to attend the dances that they could hear over the prison walls.

3. Arguably best known for his hit, ‘Here I Come’, Levy’s distinctive vocal delivery was loved by the Hip Hop fraternity so much that when Puff Daddy (as he was then called), was trying to break his new artist Shyne, who incidentally sounded like Puffy’s best known charge, The Notorious B.I.G., guess who was called to spice it up? None other than our very own Barrington Levy on the track, ‘Bad Boy’. So, now we come to the pay off! Remember When Puffy used to date J.Lo and they had that court case that broke up the relationship? Well, the man that got the prison sentence for it was Barrington Levy’s former collaborator, Shyne.

And that’s how you sentence Mr Vegas to a Spanish Town prison with J Lo and Biggie Smallz.

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He may be number 1 in Germany this week, but it’s nothing new for the dutty stinking one as at this time in 1990 – Shabba was in the middle of a 4 week run on top of the UK Reggae charts with ‘Caan Dunn’.

Number two that week was Peter Hunnigale with ‘Fallin’’ and at three was Reggie Stepper’s anthem, ‘Drum Pan Sound’ (the Archive selection is broadcast on Choice 96.9/107.1FM

Number 1’s This week.....

Cocoa Tea ‘Barack Obama’ - Jamaica Music Count Down (Reggae)/ New York/South Florida

D-Major ‘Can’t Get Enough’ – RETV (Reggae)

Etana & Alborosie ‘Blessing’ – Choice FM, London

Keith & Tex & Shabba Ranks ‘Dukku Dukku Remix’– Germany

Mavado ‘So Special’ – BBC 1xtra/RETV (Dancehall)/France

Sugar Roy, Conrad Crystal & Gyptian - New Style, Birmingham, UK

Vybz Kartel ‘Trailor Load Of Money’ - Jamaica Music Count Down (Dancehall)

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