We pull apart the quintessential ragga riddim. The track that’s most widely considered to be the dancehall prototype would be Wayne Smith’s (Under Mi) Sleng Teng (1984). Although the seminal drum ...

Reggae’s snare drum pattern was the base, but with the help of then-rising music software FruityLoops, Puerto Rican producers added their own spin with spliced samples, electronic-based melodies ...

Shawty Redd was still a teenager when he met up with the rapper Drama to produce his debut album, Causin' Drama, which would come out in early 2000.Drama had very strong ideas about drum patterns ...

We first got word of Major Lazer and Justin Bieber’s latest collab “Cold Water” early last month and now the song can be heard. It features loose guitar-driven dancehall drum patterns, and ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A development of reggae in the late '70s, but really coming into its own in the '80s with the ...