He's Yellow Like Cheese...

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...and you can love him any way that you please. I'm speaking, of course, of Yellowman. I've always loved his voice and a few of his songs ("Nobody Move Nobody Get Hurt," "Budget," "Computerize"), but where does he fit into the whole DJ/Dancehall scene? Does he still get respect in Jamaica? What you do think of him?

― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 04:12 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought of Yellowman when I saw a Michael Jackson thread. Yellow was ahead of the game when he wrote "Beat It" in 1986:

Michael Jackon makes me mad
He make me mad
Michael Jackson makes me mad
He make me mad
Just beat it

What a cornball -- but that voice!

― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 04:14 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

shit, I didn't know he was the one that did "Nobody Move Nobody Get Hurt." love that track, Eazy E sampled it to good effect on his E-Z Duz It record.

― Joseph Pot (STINKOR™), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 02:35 (twenty-one years ago)

he's WAY underrated. My buddy Nasa went on a Yelloman bingle when we were, like, 12. We'd shovel driveways till we had enough for an album, I'd buy a K Solo tape, he's buy a Yelloman album on Shanachie. I made fun of him for years until I actually listened. Yelloman is truly one of a kind!

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 03:02 (twenty-one years ago)

nine months pass...

might be underrated elsewhere but in Jamaica he's huge, or at least was in the 80s, like Bob Marley-huge. not sure about now but i'm sure he still known and respected there.

what a criminally short thread :- (

― Amon (eman), Monday, 30 May 2005 03:02 (twenty years ago)

and that "Beat It" song he did is classic, I need to download that.

― Amon (eman), Monday, 30 May 2005 03:04 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eIBN5Kh6YI

― am0n, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 17:31 (seventeen years ago)

I went to Sunsplash in 1984 and the Yella Fella was undisputed King of Reggae that year, headlining and performing after Gregory Isaacs (who was probably headliner in '83). He was dropped off by a helicopter--started his set at about sunrise if I remember correctly, though there's not much chance of that :)

― ellaguru, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 17:44 (seventeen years ago)

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