Old School Mondays:: The (Don't)Stopper Edition

First off, let me apologize for the lack of OSM-age last week. I hate to skip it, but time was scarce last weekend, and we wanted to ensure we got the awesome Paper Bag vinyl contest posted bright and early (as an aside, if you haven't entered that contest, do so now, as today will likely be the last day for it). But now we're back, and I wanted to return with a jumbo version to make up for last week's absence. But what to post? I was a little stumped for ideas, but then I remembered a song I went hunting for last week after writing one of my posts.

The song is The Stopper by Cutty Ranks. I've certainly said this before, but back at the start of the 90's, if you were into hip hop, chances are you were into some dancehall reggae as well. I certainly was, and to this day hearing any of the big songs from back then will bring a smile to my face. This is exactly what happened when I saw Skratch Bastid and Scratch flipping The Stopper-styled funk while preparing for their new T.O. club show. That got me in a Dancehall reminiscing mood, and so I went looking for some other old favorites.

So, like it or not, that's what you're getting: a "here are some old dancehall songs I enjoy" OSM. I'm actually quite happy because while doing this list I finally remembered a song I'd been trying to think of for a while. It's Mack Daddy by Bobby Konders (with chatting from Mikey Jarret - chatting! I know the lingo friend), and I'd been trying to remember the name of this song for a while so I could find it - although this should have been easier, I forgot it was on Red Alert's Propmaster Radio Show mix which I have a cassette copy of. Anyway, this song is classic, I remember there was a period of a fews months where we'd yell "Mack Daddy....Mack Daddy, Mack Daddy...Mack Daddy!" at random intervals because of this song. Well, at least I would anyway.

To go along with this we've got a couple of other all-time favorites, Typewriter from legendary hardman Louie Rankin (who I've talked about a couple times, but I care not, that album is an all-timer in terms of old school herohill lore), and Ghetto Red Hot from the always awesome Super Cat. To wrap things up we have something for the ladies, the classic Flex from Mad Cobra. I actually found this tape in one of my boxes, and I had to laugh because I honestly couldn't remember one other song on it except for Flex - which suggests I might have bought it mainly for that smoothed out dancehall love jam, and that is comical/horrifying.

So there you have it, enjoy. Oh, and BO!

MP3:: Cutty Ranks - The Stopper

MP3:: Bobby Konders & Massive Sounds - Mack Daddy

MP3:: Super Cat - Ghetto Red Hot

MP3:: Louie Rankin - Typewriter

MP3:: Mad Cobra - Flex

Cutty Ranks - The Stopper


Super Cat - Ghetto Red Hot


Mad Cobra

Labels: Cutty Ranks, Dancehall, Hip Hop, Old School Mondays, Reggae, Super Cat