AIN’T NO STOPPING LADY SAW

One of the faces of the Digicel Divas of Dancehall campaign, Lady Saw’s newest refrain is “I love my Digicel.”
“I am living the campaign right now, and leading up to Reggae Sumfest lots of exciting developments are in store,” she declared.
Saw, who celebrated a birthday on Sunday with family and close friends at home, is also venturing in the world of song production and she has been working hard on her Summer Bounce rhythm project. Summer Bounce features contributions from Lady Saw herself, Elephant Man, Ce'Cile, Assassin, Mr Vegas and Vybz Kartel.
“These artistes are my friends and they have willingly come to voice for me and for this I am very grateful,” she says. “They have done some really good songs that will surely bounce this summer and beyond,” Lady Saw added.
Saw’s singles are entitled Beg Yuh Some Money and Bills and already they are receiving favourable rotation on FM radio.
Another project that Lady Saw is working on is an album of one-drop songs. She admits that she has been doing more singing in recent times and has been enjoying it. Known as a veteran deejay, she surprised fans a few years ago when she chose to sing the country and western-tinged Give Me A Reason, and then followed it up with other songs quite pleasing to the ear.
“Yes, I will be singing more … that is the mode I am in right now, but that doesn’t mean that you won’t be hearing deejay tunes from Lady Saw,” she noted.
Referred to as ‘The First Lady of Dancehall’, Lady Saw has been described as “a Jamaican bad girl with loads more attitude and sex appeal than hip-hop mistresses like Lil’ Kim or Foxy Brown, plus one of the most distinguishing images in reggae”.
“That’s a description I can live with, but there is much more to Lady Saw/Marion Hall than that,” she says.
Lady Saw, whose career has been rising steadily since the early 90’s has had a long association with Jamaican grassroots New York-based label VP Records with whom she has terminated her record deal. Among the album released on the VP label are Lover Girl, 99 Ways, Give Me The Reason, Raw: The Best of Lady Saw, Strip Tease, Passion and Walk Out.

THE QUEEN MAKES PLANS TO REIGN OVER THE EMPEROR ON HYPE TV

“Addi De Teacha” Vybz Kartel making his Dollar Sign known as it claims the #1 spot for another week, making it three successive weeks.
While Queen Ifrica with Far Away continues to makes threat for number one position, she sits comfortable at #2 and clenches the Shot To Watch title and copping the only New Entry for the chart this week with Lioness On The Rise at #20 on the Penthouse label.
Alliance top gunner Mavado keeps High Unda at #3 for one more week.
Alaine moves one up place with Never Done to take hold of the #4 spot.
Mr. Vegas slips with I Am Blessed into the #5 position leaving #4 after spending four weeks at number one.
“Energy God” Elephant Man makes praises with Hallelujah as it claims the Greatest Gainer title moving three places up in the #9 spot leaving #12.
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Hype TV Top 20 Singles Chart

July 10th – July 16th, 2009
TW LW WC ARTISTE - TITLE - LABEL - Peak Position

01 01 13 Vybz Katel – Dollar Sign – Liv Up Records -3wks@1

02 02 18 Queen Ifrica – Far Away – Jamplified Records-Shot to Watch

03 03 11 *Mavado – High Unda – Liv Up Records (Censor)

04 05 10 Alaine – Never Done – Don Corleon

05 04 16 Mr. Vegas – I Am Blessed – Liv Up Records -4wks@1

06 08 06 Brick & Lace – Bad 2 Da Bone – Birchill Records

07 09 09 Charley Black – Money Dreama – Lazeme Music Prod.

08 06 17 Etana ft. Alborosie – Blessings – Forwards Records– pp@ #2

09 12 06 Elephant Man – Hallelujah -Very Huge Records- Greatest Gainer up3

10 07 16 Konshens – This Mean Money – Head Concussion– pp@ #4

11 10 22 Vybz Kartel – Last Man Standing – NotNice Records– pp@ #2

12 11 16 Harry Taddler – Pray Fi Dem – Down Sound Records-pp@#8

13 15 04 *Mavado – Never Believe You – Daseca (Censor)

14 16 04 Jah Cure Ft. Phyllisia – Call On Me – Sobe/Danger Zone

15 13 22 Mavado – I’m So Bless –Big Ship

16 14 25 Da’Ville – Missing You Right Now – Fashozy Records -3wks@1

17 19 03 Stacious-Good Life-Live Up Records

18 18 19 Mavado – Again & Again – Daseca - pp@#13

19 17 20 Laden –Time To Shine – Big Ship – pp@ #4

20 NE 01 Queen Ifrica – Lioness On The Rise – Penthouse

TW -This Week, LW – Last Week, WC – Weeks On Chart, NE – New Entry & WKS@#1 – Weeks @#1 * Censor

TOP 5 BUBBLERS

TW ARTISTE - TITLE - LABEL

01 Unicorn & Macka Diamond Think Bout Mi Notice

02 Flippa Mafia Unfinished House Liv Up Records

03 Mr.Vegas Up Deh Clifford-Ray Music

04 Daville Never Gonna Cry Fashozy

05 Chino From Mawning Big Ship
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Compilation was done based on information received from the following Sound Systems, Record Shops and Club: Derrick Harriot – Record Shop – St. Andrew, TNG Muzik-Sound System-Kingston, Love Stone–Sound System- Portland, Lazeme- Sound System- Westmoreland, Unique Super Mix–Sound System- St. Catherine, Copper Shot- Sound System- St. Andrew

RAMPING SHOP HITS BILLBOARD HIP HOP CHART AT #96

Vybz Kartel wrote another piece of dancehall history this week when his Ramping Shop collaboration with Spice hit the Billboard R & B/Hip Hop charts, making that single his biggest international hit to date. The song has been powered by airplay from the big urban stations, HOT 97 and POWER 105.1 in recent weeks, which has propelled the single onto the Billboard chart where it entered at #96.
Kartel has recorded popular collaborations before such as the dancehall remix of "Frontin'" with Jay-Z, Pharrell & Wayne Marshall for Def Jam in 2004. He has also done a remix of Colors" with Sean Kingston and Kardinal Offishall, and has collaborated with Missy Elliott (Bad Man), Pit Bull (Descarado) and Jim Jones (Straight off the Top) in the past. It has been an incredible year for Vybz Kartel so far in 2009 where he has registered an impressive five number one hits in only six months.
Kartel will be centrestage tonight July 11, 2009 at the Portmore Gaza Awards which will be held at the Caymanas Park in Portmore, St. Catherine.

sassa step competition heating up

The contest to make an appearance in Mr. Vegas’ Sassa Step video is heating up with almost 2,000 votes tallied between five finalists culled from hundreds of videos submitted by dancehall aficionadas all
across the globe.

At this point, the competition is being led by an ultra-creative video by Ruby Red out of Taiwan leads with 638 votes while Skatty Natty from London is a close second with 564 votes. Ruby Red’s video flirts with disqualification because it is four minutes long, a time span she uses creatively doing the Sassa Step in the airport, on bikes, in a gym, and she even does an acrobatic upside
down version in front of what looks like a monument in Taiwan. Ruby Red also gets literal in the video by doing the move on a set of steps, and then pushes the envelope further by doing it on a pedestrian crossing. Skatty Natty from London appears to the best technically sound Sassa Stepper showing off her dainty moves for the camera in her backyard, but perhaps loses creativity points because she is limited
to a narrow area with an old bicycle in the background. Nevertheless her addition of some old Bogle moves to her Sassa Step moves boost her chances of winning.

The other finalists are Shy N from Japan who does his thing on a sidewalk which runs parallel to a wall that explodes with bright graffiti and he gets great style points by adding break-dancing movements and some creative work with a parking meter. Mez from New York appears to have the moves down pat but he is hurt a bit by the fact that he uses a stationary camera that only captures his moves below the waist. Takuya from Japan also makes a decent video with some enthusiastic moves but is still mired in the bottom of the voting tallying only 34 votes.

Two months ago, Mr. Vegas announced a contest geared towards dancers who could compete for a spot in his new Sassa Step video through video submissions. Hundreds of videos were received and the final list was winnowed down to five dancers. Mr. Vegas will foot the travel expenses of the winner of the contest to come to Jamaica for the video shoot. The contest has been extended by three weeks to allow online dancehall fans to vote for their favourites. The Sassa Step dance was originally created by the Ravers Clavers crew from Nannyville.

To view the finalists and vote click on the website
www.contest.mr-vegas.com

Mr. Vegas will be going on a one month “I Am Bless” promotional tour in Europe beginning this Friday which will see him promoting his soon-to-be released album with the same name as the tour. He will
visit countries such as France, Italy, Belgium, Spain and Germany.

BOUNTY KILLER BEHIND BARS

Entertainer Rodney 'Bounty Killer' Pryce will appear in the Gun Court on Friday July 10, 2009 to answer to assault, unlawful wounding and illegal possession with a firearm charges. The artiste turned himself in this morning July 9, after being presented with a warrant for his arrest.
This stems from a 2007 incident in which he reportedly pulled a gun on a motorist who was an off duty officer, he was subsequently beaten by his entourage.

The deejay is facing a raft of charges. He is also facing traffic charges for running a red light and breaking other traffic laws, as well as an assault charge for allegedly beating a pregnant woman.

Digicel Flips it to ATI!

Digicel on Wednesday, July 1 announced an epic campaign called ‘Flip It To ATI’, in support of the telecoms company partnership with the ultimate party weekend, Appleton temptation Isle (ATI), which hit the Negril Hip Strip on August 5 - August 9.
After three- year hiatus, the Alex Chin-led Absolutely Entertainment and Appleton Jamaica Rum as come together to stage the 2009 renewal of the largest party weekend and Curran wants everyone “Flipping it to ATI”. She said Digicel would be doing some crazy giveaways on high-end flip phones, as well as giving them away at ATI lead-up parties and during the weekend.
The company’s sponsorship manager, Shelly Ann Curran, made the announcement at the exclusive media launch of ATI, held at Carlos Café, and said that big things are going to happen in support of the campaign, which boasts energy god Elephant Man as the spokesperson.
“The campaign is a fun and energetic one, so we brought on Elephant Man as the campaign spokesperson because he embodies everything this campaign is about,” said Curran. She also explained that Digicel would be having their own ATI lead-up events. “It’s going to be crazy in the Quad Nightclub every Friday, starting on July 3, with Flip Fridays. There, we’ll be giving away credit, some hot flip phones, and you can even register for a chance to be in the Digicel VIP down in Negril. We’re also taking Flip It Fridays to Montego Bay to the ATI Pier Pressure parties in Montego Bay.”
Curran did mention that the cutting-edge telecoms giant would be present in Negril in a “major and stylish way” as Appleton Temptation Isle treats party lovers with 11 intense events and immerses them in a sea of never-ending Appleton and great music, on the world famous Negril hip-strip.

QUEEN IFRICA - LIONESS ON THE RISE MUSIC VIDEO