Step into the roots of Jamaican sound system culture with Jah Wise, the legendary selector of Tippatone HiFi — one of the most powerful sounds of the 1970s.

In this Artiste Reasoning, Papa Michigan sits with Jah Wise to explore: 🎧 How Tippatone rose to fame
🔥 The unforgettable clashes and rival sounds
🎚️ The art of selecting and moving the crowd
🎙️ Dubplates from King Tubby’s, Channel One & Studio One
💿 Vinyl vs digital — how the sound has evolved
🌍 The message in reggae music and advice for new selectors

This reasoning dives deep into the true foundation of sound system culture — told by one of its original masters.

🎙️ Hosted by: Papa Michigan
📺 Series: Artiste Reasoning
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OLATUNJI - "SHE TEMPO" (Official Visualizer)

Produced by Shot Master J

Following the heartfelt patriotism of his first release for the season, "TLY (Trinidad Loves You)", Olatunji Yearwood returns with his second offering "She Tempo", a vibrant, soulful ode to the heartbeat of his career: soca music.
Inspired by the smooth charm of the late Baron, "She Tempo" fuses vintage calypso sweetness with modern Carnival power.
Olatunji personifies soca as a woman, seductive, playful, and powerful taking listeners on a rhythmic love affair full of passion and truth.
With lines like "She hit me front, I hit she back and we whining low", Olatunji captures the essence of the dance floor and the deeper
connection between an artist and his art form.
The song reflects the highs and lows of his journey in the soca industry, celebrating resilience, creativity, and devotion to the culture that raised him.

Currulao is the main traditional genre of Abibifo⁣ɔ music out of the Southern Pacific Coast of 'colombia' and Northern Pacific Coast of 'ecuador'. This group is specifically from Timbiqui, Cauca, a Pacific Coastal town in the biogeographic Choco region. Timbiqui is also the name of the river where the community of Timbiqui is located. This song is about singing to the river asking for a safe passage, to let them go up the river, don't drown us (no me vayas a hogar), don't wet us (no me vayas a mojar), let me go up (dejame subi'). This is a continuation of evidence of our Kmtyu worldview regardless of location and colonial language. Reverence and respect for nature, the oceans, the rivers, and the source of life, water. This can be seen as a libation song for traveling up the Timbiqui river safely. The main instrument is the marimba, made from the palm trees in the Choco rainforest, and said to be a reconstructed descendant of the balafon made by Abibifo⁣ɔ in a new context. We carried Abibiman with us!


original video info:
Provided to YouTube by ONErpmRio Timbiqui · Canalón de TimbiquíDejame Subi℗ Canalon de TimbiquiReleased on: 2004-02-06Auto-generated by YouTube.