A Video to Understand the diff btw ONE DROP - ROCKERS - DANCEHALL

[Litelet]

If it still doesnt work, press *ctrl* while you clink on the download link,

its probably because your internet system block the popups

[stepping razor]

In the 70`s and 80`s there was no label for one drop - rockers - dancehall its a made up thing in the 90`s so they knew what to call things and put them in a catagory in the record shop. To pin point rebel music.
There was Roots - Lovers Rock - Rub A Dub - Then Dancehall. These and the new sayings were at different stages of reggae history.

peace

[blackbeltjones]

Awesome! All I had to do was register. Great video! A kick drum is worth a thousand words I now know what rockers/steppers is...

..however this video created more confusion haha I had always assumed dancehall was a progression of deejaying and toasting with a less leftist and spiritual message; not a genre defined by the drum beat. So some scientist songs are dancehall songs!?

[Litelet]

Yes, scientist is a typical dancehall sound eng!
As well as Jammy...

Of course you can give the name "dancehall to whatever you want.. but what you so call "dancehall" I would call it "ragga" or "raggamuffin". Note anyway that they all have this drumbeat!
For me rub-a-dub too, usually refer to a kind of deejay vocal, a 80s melodic loop of the vocal with little variation, inspired by the deejay style. This kind of vocal...

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Even if as said, it was first used in the early 80s to describe the structure that I call "Dancehall" in the video...
For ex, Marley sing it in Bad Card... "Ina Rub A Dub Style"... *Real Situation* is another one...