Miley Cyrus twerks to Dancehall

Yes its true. Anyone who has been following ex Hanna Montana star Miley Cyrus new music career should not be surprised by her MTV twerking performance. A good piece of PR for Miley we may add, now particularity white women worldwide are now aware of this dance phenomenon called "twerking". Anyway that's another story. 

However Miley's career has fast forwarded from cute Disney friendly material to edgy pop and hip hop music seen on her new album. What struck us is Miley's influences reflected in her new musical direction is  definitely a page from reggae and dancehall. Case in point this hit song," we cant Stop" note the line at 1:12 and 2:21 time mark "We run tings, tings dont run we" . Miss Cyrus has been listening to her reggae music.....maaad.

 

The line somehow now part of anerican cultural lexicon has its origin in Jamaican slang and parlance, proof positive harken back to 1998 and the hit song of the same name  by Flourogon, "We run tings" Case closed. Even listen how Miley sings it and you will hear the Jamaican intonation in the lytric.

No surprise as some of you might known Miley has taken the plunge already into full fledged reggae with her involvement with the recent  reggae convert Snoop Lion's single ,"Ashtrays and Heart breaks" (whatever that means) which we like despite the lack of soul and message in the song.

It was bound to happen Eddie Murphy catches the reggae bug, drafts Snoop Lion for the real reggae hit

Yes people it was just a matter of time, Snoop Lion has proved that reggae is hypnotic, engaging and infectious and it appears Eddie Murphy has caught the reggae vibe and enlisted his friend Snoop to add a "real Jamaican" feel to the song. Mind you this is not Eddie Murphy's first foray into singing who can forget "Party all the Time". However we give respect where respect is due as we rate Eddie as the "Don Daddy", "the Dupes", "the King" of Stand Up Comedy, but sorry boss, the reggae vibe is not so easy. Not dissing the King but "come on son", only credit we can give Eddie is a half pass because he been a returning visitor to Jamaica for the past 20 years so he has been around the culture. 
Check it out:

The song is allright if you are looking for an easy skank but  just a few pointers (Eddie) if you are looking for authentic reggae.

1. Sing Woh Yooo (al a Bob does not always work)
2. Wearing a tam is not mandatory
3. A Lion of Judah flag in the background does not necessarily equate to real rastafarianism
4. Having Snoop Lion as the DJ on the track sure as hell does not spell real reggae

But after all is said and done we like the message and we see the love for the music, just PLEASE  Eddie and Snoop respect the roots and foundation of our music

Nuff said.

Oh BTW before we go here we go again we see Snoop shooting  another video for the next single off his album "Reincarnated" this song " Torn Apart " features hot british singer song writer Rita Orta. 
We love Rita she is talented singer but  Snoop a reggae video shot in Thailand not Jamaica ....hmmmm lets see how this one come out, here is the trailer  

A Mad Moment, you tell us what you think?

Snoop Lion, the next King of Reggae?

Well yes that what Snoop Lion's music is heading.We like many other people are looking forward to the debut next week March 15 of the movie "Reincarnated" the documentary on the transformation of Snoop Dogg to Snoop Lion, reggae artist. We are sure the movie will do well based on Snoop's worldwide love and admiration.

However when we look at Snoop's latest video in support of the album we are still saying Snoop is still missing the reggae mark. The single called "Here comes the King" has a lot of scenes that raises doubt on the issue.

Snoop still singing and chanting in a pseudo Jamaican accent sounding like a bad Hollywood actor trying to catch the Jamaican accent. 
Snoop  dressed in traditional rasta  fashion looking a little awkward
Snoop despite his rastafarian conversion having scantily clad women in the video (Fyah- Capelton voice)

Hot 97's Miss Info called this video part comical and part bizarre and we agree. We hope Snoop is not just playing a character. Will he still be Snoop Dogg sometimes and Snoop Lion sometimes..hmmmm.

The video is shot at the picturesque Trident Hotel in Portland, Jamaica

We hope that the album features some local producers like Don Corleone, Shane Brown or Gussie Clarke who we are sure can give Snoop some good direction.

Diplo and Major Lazer, the producers will add their own twist to the reggae/dancehall flavour, we spoke on Diplo's influence earlier Click on the link below:
 
Diplo's love affair with Jamaica continues  

We suggest Snoop just drops the accent and buss out a free style on a bad dancehall beat. Snoop has maaad flow and if you have any doubts on the Snooooop Doggg just refresh your mind to this:

Maaaaad

Snoop Lion, Reggae's New Hope......We dont think so

So here we go despite all the hype of Snoop Dogg changing his mane to Snoop Lion we said we would give it a chance and listen for the music. Cant throw any shade on Snoop who is a legend in the rap game and obviously has a lot of love for Bob Marley (cough, cough) but we love the attention and awareness he has brought to the reggae world based on his new found musical direction. So Snoop has also enlisted Major Lazer as his producer and although we are sure he will have more music to come we are not feeling the first single. We love Snoop's hip hop swagger and he was am monster in the West Coast 2012 BET Cyper (you tube it) but Snoooop, you do us all a disservice with this stuff.

We know Snoop loves the kids, but grass skirts, non recognizable dancing and nothing sounding remotely Jamaican (other than the ites green and gold) this cant pass as the authentic reggae.Truth be told I had the same reaction when I saw Vanilla Ice's Ice Ice Baby I was like what the hell is the fool doing, this song is going nowhere, and that song went on to become the first full rap song to top the Billboard Charts plus  topping the Australian, Dutch, Irish, Italian and UK charts, so don't be surprised if you see this Snoop single on the charts (shaking our heads profusely) Enjoy