I noticed my tastes are a little off-kilter than the usual Reggae fan. One of those different flavors is InI Kamoze's "51 50 Rule." Anybody out their actual listen to it? It is a great return home that apparently fell on deaf ears. Even Sizzla shows up on the tune "Raw." I guess his fans have not forgiven him for the brief lyrical gangsta phase that put him pop chart topping with "Here Comes the Hotstepper!"
This record changed things. One of Reggae's greatest ever releases. And it is a debut! There is no filler. Not one miss. InI Kamoze's take on the same old things took a completely different tangent than the usual straight lines. This record is what James Brown is to hip hop. Sly and Robbie's riddims here are still being sampled. This record is both timeless and very eighties!
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