Adele gets R&B, Macklemore get Rap, guess who gets Reggae

[geechiedan]

Billboard names Joss Stone reggae artist for 2015

BRITISH singer Joss Stone, whose throaty style has won her a huge following among neo-soul fans, is Billboard magazine’s Reggae Artist Of The Year.

Stone’s Water For Your Soul is also the respected publication’s Reggae Album Of The Year.

Finishing second was Bob Marley and the Wailers for Easy Skanking in Boston ‘78, a live album.

Stone, who won a Grammy Award in 2005 for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance with the song You Had Me, said she was encouraged to record Water For Your Soul by Damian ‘Junior Gong’ Marley.

The album did not impress Billboard magazine writer Steven Horowitz who described Stone’s ‘reggae experiment’ as “unconvincing”.

He added: “For more than a decade, Joss Stone has been a serial genre-hopper. Switching from R&B to blues, funk to rock, the 28-year-old Brit has powered six albums with soulful vocals beyond her years. The songs are technically impressive, as expected from Stone, but unconvincing.”

According to sales monitor, Soundscan, Water For Your Soul has sold 27,473 copies since its release in July.

Several of the albums on the Billboard end-of-year list are by American bands. The Jamaican acts in the top 10 are Jah Cure (The Cure) at seven, Morgan Heritage (Strictly Roots) at eight, Ky-Mani Marley (Maestro) at nine with gospel singer Carlene Davis’ Dripping Blood completing the table.

It wasn't only Horowitz, either — fans of the genre were PISSED about Stone's victory, and they took to Twitter to voice their displeasure (below):

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Joss Stone won Billboards Reggae artist of the year?? ..... Wait ... Did Steve Harvey announce this? <a href="https://t.co/02r5pbNXGr">pic.twitter.com/02r5pbNXGr</a></p>&mdash; JSOUL BLACK SINATRA (@JSOULSOUNDS) <a href="">December 22, 2015</a></blockquote>
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Joss Stone is not the best anything this or any other year.pic.twitter.com/6HhtygeW5f
— RC (@cannibalman) December 22, 2015

 

[water]

Fucked up shit.

Re-sang Midnite

Next category is Negro Spirituals

 

[4 Dimensional]

What we got left?

 

[King Natty]

eewwll made a thread about this

http://www.bgol.us/forum/index.php?...-reggae-artist-for-2015.876751/#post-16035410

 

[sharkbait28]

Fucked up shit.

Re-sang Midnite

Next category is Negro Spirituals

That could legitimately be a Chappelle Show sketch right there

 

[4 Dimensional]

Fucked up shit.

Re-sang Midnite

Next category is Negro Spirituals

Stolen. Got to use this.

 

[water]

Stolen. Got to use this.

Hahaha

Go right ahead

blacktwitter should light her up with this

 

[BKF]

What we got left?

Got to make up something else but I think we still have the blues (figuratively and literally).

 

[WorldEX]

Produced by herself and Damian Marley. I'm good with that nomination and she is down with the brothers.

 

[BKF]

I don't follow Reggae these days. So who are the stars/big names?

 

[RoadRage]

Fuck out of here with that bullshit!!! They call this Reggae...

 

[knightmelodic]

Speechless. What are people hearing that I'm not? Not only doesn't it sound like reggae, it sounds terrible.

 

[4 Dimensional]

Fuck out of here with that bullshit!!! They call this Reggae...

 

[water]

I don't follow Reggae these days. So who are the stars/big names?

Midnite
Morgan Heritage
Tarrus Riley
Chronixx
Gyptian

 

[water]

At the end of the day we have to create our own award shows and have our people stamp it.


What i see happening is that there is an economic backlash from the racial tensions and white people are NOT buying black music.

This shit is based on sales.

Money is the benchmark for white people.

Ours is the artform.

We have to create the alternative award.

 

[phanatic]

I'm making an album of those chants you hear in catholic church.

 

[The Jamaican]

Midnite
Morgan Heritage
Tarrus Riley
Chronixx
Gyptian

Romaine Virgo
Protoje

 

[water]

 

[GOLDIE]

Thou shalt not think pon this!

 

[Give Me 3ft.]

Speechless. What are people hearing that I'm not? Not only doesn't it sound like reggae, it sounds terrible.

 

[water]

Even then, we have a tough time with media and marketing to compete.

Nah

There is a phone in everyone's hand

Making a short is super easy with an iphone

We need to pimp the online & streaming game.

http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/17/afrostream-is-netflix-for-african-and-african-american-movies/

 

[4 Dimensional]

Nah

There is a phone in everyone's hand

Making a short is super easy with an iphone

We need to pimp the online & streaming game.

http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/17/afrostream-is-netflix-for-african-and-african-american-movies/

I've already peeped afrostream and I already have some reservations about their backing. But that's a different topic. I say that because my website is damn near the authority of black film preservation and archiving. If I'm not mistaken, they are based out of France.

I see what you're saying though. The stuff we need is in front of us, but creating that platform is where we struggle. Brothers and sisters got tons of ideas, but little to no knowledge or way to execute them. It takes a special individual with the right networking, drive and time to do it.

We need labels, production, and distribution of our own, which we'll still have to deal with the man at some point. Not saying it's impossible, but the industry is powerful as shit.

 

[4 Dimensional]

Nah

There is a phone in everyone's hand

Making a short is super easy with an iphone

We need to pimp the online & streaming game.

http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/17/afrostream-is-netflix-for-african-and-african-american-movies/

Weird, for some reason there was a double post of my original statement you quoted and when I tried to delete the duplicate, it also delete my original.

 

[Tha Baldavenger]

I don't pay that shit any attention. Vybz had a killer year, and his music has been on fire. He put out more hot tracks from jail, than artist with production teams and marketing budgets

 

[shaddyvillethug]

What we got left?

Africa

 

[shaddyvillethug]

Where did u fine this

 

[Ill Paragraph]

Peace,

Produced by herself and Damian Marley. I'm good with that nomination and she is down with the brothers.

So you're good with it because she's "down with the brothers?" Is that all it takes for somebody like you?

 

[geechiedan]

Black History
Rare c. 1960 Printed Circular “NOTICE! STOP Help Save The Youth of America DON’T BUY NEGRO RECORDS”
c. 1960, Printed Circular, “NOTICE! STOP Help Save The Youth of America DON’T BUY NEGRO RECORDS”, Mint.
An original Printed Circular, 8.5” x 5.5” (by sight), matted to 11.75” x 8.75”, 1 page, (no date), being a flyer to warn against “Negro Music”. Printed in bold black upon light blue heavy paper, this historic circular reads in full:

“NOTICE! - STOP - Help Save The Youth of America - DON’T BUY NEGRO RECORDS - (If you don’t want to serve negroes in your place of business, than do not have negro records on your juke box or listen to negro records on the radio.) The screaming, idiotic words, and savage music of these records are undermining the morals of our white youth in America. Call the advertisers of the radio stations that play this type of music and complain to them! Don’t Let Your Children Buy, or Listen To These Negro Records”. The text at bottom reads, “For additional copies of this circular, write CITIZENS’ COUNCIL OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS, INC. 509 Delta Building New Orleans, Louisiana 70112 - Permission is granted to re-print this circular.”

Professionally mounted with acid free materials for display. An Important and Classic piece which is in superb condition.

https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/11672453_c-1960-printed-circular-dont-buy-negro-records


read the excerpt from a book on black music

https://books.google.com/books?id=C...epage&q=don't buy negro records flyer&f=false

 

[shaddyvillethug]

Peace,



So you're good with it because she's "down with the brothers?" Is that all it takes for somebody like you?

Peace

Ive had my eye on him too Fam.

 

[badboyyawdie]

Fuck out of here with that bullshit!!! They call this Reggae...

Wow terrible. Who Buddy she suck?!

 

[naijachief]

So what? If you are not a fan of reggae music, this should not mean much to you. Who was nominated last year? Who won it last year? I'm sure most would have to google to find the answers.

 

[dirtyd]

It's Billboard so i'm not shocked, the same company that thinks Lauryn Hill is a better rapper than 2Pac.

 

[kefta]

Context of racism/white supremacy!

 

[PJN]

You typing them words like you serious, I'm just going to assume you're not.

Produced by herself and Damian Marley. I'm good with that nomination and she is down with the brothers.

 

[SKATTA]

These white folks are doing to damn much.

And black folks listening to their bullshit....

 

[GAMETHEORY]

game over

and at this stage there isnt much blacks in America can do even though they have the purchasing power that no other race in America can match

 

[Mr. Met]

What we got left?

Maybe acapella.