Artists

This is where I showcase thew artists who have influenced me and those who I think are just straight up HOT! I talk a lot about Jamaican artists' contribution to the development of the Hip Hop genre as it is close to what motivates me to do what I do. So I'll start out with my three favourites and list the rest.

Daddy Freddy

Daddy Freddy gained his fame when he released his first album, Body Lasher, six of the tracks went straight into the Jamaican top ten. After successful touring in the US under the Chrysalis record label, Freddy came to England in the 1980s. His first UK work was a collaboration with Asher D (UK reggae star) called, Raggamuffin Hip-Hop. This album created a new style of music that was a fusion of Jamaican ragga and UK/US hip-hop.

This fame culminated in Freddy attempting and breaking the World Record for World's fastest rapper in 1989 as part of the Capital radio Music Festival. Eventually Freddy broke the record four times taking it from 346 to 598 syllables a minute. First and second time in UK (in Covent Garden and at BBC's Record Breakers on BBC's Record Breakers show where he appeared with Roy Castle) and two times in America (New York Empire State Building and in Washington).

IGN Music included Daddy Freddy's Album, Stress (Chrysalis Records, 1991) among its Top 25 Reggae Albums. According to them "Daddy Freddy is often credited as being one of the first Jamaican artists to experiment with the intersection of Dancehall brashness and hip-hop infused bravado".

He is pictured in this video breaking his own world record for the most syllables in 1 minute.

Shinehead

Shinehead (born Carl Aiken) is a Jamaican reggae singer/toaster/rapper.He began his music by recording for different reggae dancehall sound systems in 1980.His debut was in 1986 on the African Love Music indie label with the underground hit Who The Cap Fits (Let Them Wear It) from the album Rough & Rugged.

Shinehead signed to Elektra records in 1988 and remained with them until 1995.His best known single was the cover version of Sting's Englishman In New York, entitled Jamaican In New York. This single is featured on the Sidewalk University album.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac Amaru Shakur (June 16, 1971 — September 13, 1996), also known by his stage names 2Pac and Makaveli, was an American rapper. In addition to his status as a top-selling recording artist, Shakur was a promising actor and a social activist.

Most of Shakur's songs are about growing up amid violence and hardship in ghettos, racism, problems in society and conflicts with other rappers. Shakur's work is known[3] for advocating political, economic, social and racial equality, as well as his raw descriptions of violence, drug and alcohol abuse and conflicts with the law.

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