Friday, February 5, 2010

Reggae song sample (only true reggae/DUB connoisseurs!) ?

I have been irking to out the name of the artist that created this classic line:





';When time it come to my sound which is de champion sound';





American Rapper Mos Def has used it, it has been used this electro group kicksquad has used it, and Canadian rapper Kardinall Offishall has used it for his hit Ol Time Killin'





Who is it? Reggae song sample (only true reggae/DUB connoisseurs!) ?
It's sort of complicated. Due to the state of early reggae, there is really no telling who used the term champion sound first. It likely developed from the dancehall or ';state show'; culture, where different soundsystems would battle in a soundclash. Many of these expressions developed from the singers bigging up their soundsystem by saying things like, we a di champion sound, or we a sound killa.





A popular song that uses a similar lyric is:





Tenor Saw- Ring the Alarm





';Some sound sound like a pig jump on, Listen to this sound im a champion, run the dance inna any session, rock up the woman and we rock up the man';

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