Bam Bam

"Where's your child? heh heh heh heh"

I think that a lot of people get so into the supposed "Golden era" of reggae-1972-79-and they seem to assume that the digital era produced only a small number of standout singles. Myself, I'd been willing to argue for the value of this period. Check out Jammy's produced stuff or George Phang (Half Pint's "Greetings" is phenomenal)...there is a hell of a lot more stuff out there...I'll have to think.

In addition to a great Sister Nancy bit (on "One Two") you get Brigadeer Jerry, Yellowman, Eek-A-Mouse, etc. over some classic rhythms. Somewhat on "similar ground" to "Bam Bam".

http://www.gasolinealleyantiques.com/cartoon/images/Dakins/dakin-bambam.JPG

this fucking song

the best.

it's not bad. i just never want to hear it again. and not because i don't like it, but because i know exactly where i'll be when i hear it. in a club with a bunch of filipino hip hop kids who only want to listen to "golden era" hip hop

i've been to that club

never had the privilege

transport connection

Strangely I think I sort of prefer "Little More Oil" to this, which is probably sacrelige, but I like jaxon have heard this song once too many times.

is it a san francisco thing?

Haha probably.

you don't watch America's Best Dance Crew??!

there's also a gigantic wiki about it!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filipino_hip_hop

let's just say my (filipino) wife owns maybe 2 vinyl records and this 7" is one of them

JabbaWockeez

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2xSLsiBiwA >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> bam bam

and general echo 'arlene'

fucking love kabba modern

FUCK THIS SONG IS SO FUCKING GOOD

http://genius.com/a/the-30-year-journey-of-sister-nancy-jamaicas-first-female-dancehall-star

Rob Kenner article

she had not even heard the song that includes an extended sample of her 1982 release “Bam Bam”—alongside guest vocals by Swizz Beatz and Rihanna. For well over a minute of the 3:16 track, Nancy’s voice plays on repeat, the melody slightly pitch-shifted to match Rihanna’s, but otherwise unaltered from the 1982 album cut that made her name famous. “It come like the whole of her song them put inna Kanye West tune,” said Nancy’s brother Briggy, indignantly. “That is more than an honor, remember that. I think Fila or the youth who put out him sneakers need to give her two of dem sneakers. She can eat her food.”

Nadisha had sent her mom a text about “Famous”—which would eventually be nominated for two Grammy Awards: Best Rap Song and Best Rap/Sung Performance—after catching wind of it on Instagram. But Nancy herself was not particularly excited. Upon its original release, Bam Bam" never really caught on in Jamaica. But the rest of the world went nuts for the tune—Afrika Bambaataa played “Bam Bam” at the influential NYC club The Roxy in the early ’80s, and the song has been a fixture in the hip-hop world ever since. It’s been sampled by rappers many times before Kanye, starting with Main Source back in 1991. “I don’t really listen to none of them,” she said. “I just can’t understand what they’re saying, so I don’t try to hear.”

But of course Kanye West isn’t just any rapper. Once his album The Life of Pablo debuted in April of this year, it racked up approximately 250 million streams on TIDAL in 10 days—and was illegally downloaded perhaps twice that many times in just a week. Still, there were other things demanding Nancy’s attention. She had been getting more bookings for shows—flying out to gigs almost every weekend—so much work that she was finally able to retire from her longstanding 9-to-5 job as an accountant at a local New Jersey bank the previous September. “I had to have something to fall back on because the music wasn’t prominent at that time,” she recalls. “I didn’t know ‘Bam Bam’ was so big until I moved here 20 years ago.”

Cool article, thanks. Didn't know that Winston Riley made both Stalag 17 and Double Barrel