and Kanye Yeezy) or
Five Steez... so I stuck
with Steez ‘cause I understood what the word
meant and it sounded
cool.
Kingston is definitely the undisputed capital of
reggae music, so
why hip-hop?
Why become an
emcee in a world
of deejays?
eight and two verses.
Also the hip-hop production was widely varied. It had a crazy range.
And the rappers at the
time had a lyrical range
as wide as the production. I just wanted to be
a part of it and express
myself within those limitless boundaries.
Five Steez: “I bomb
atomically, Socrates
philosophies and hypotheses can’t define
Sly Rankin: At the time, how I be dropping
I fell in love with how
these...” (This is a verse
much the rappers were from Inspectah Deck
saying. They had a min- on the Wu-Tang Clan’s
imum of sixteen bars.
classic track entitled
Dancehall songs had
“Triumph”). That’s why.
I heard superior rhyme
skills and more room for
expression in Hip Hop
than I did in Reggae and
Dancehall. I also liked
that it could have almost
any sound and sample
from any genre, including Reggae and Dancehall.
As many people
may or may not
know, the origins of hip hop
are deep-rooted
in Kingston, more
specifically in the community of Trench
Town, where a
man by the name
of DJ Kool Herc