October 2009

WATCH IT: Terry Lynn + Johan Hugo "Jamaican Girls"

Would the hipster elite embrace real dancehall if it were marketed like M.I.A or Santi(o)gold? Or if it wasn't played tongue in cheek, like Major Lazer? Enter Terry Lynn and this video off her acclaimed ep collaboration with producer Johan Hugo of Radioclit. While she bristles with the rawness and realness that comes from a hard knock life growing up in Kingston, Hugo brings the cred to make the twitterati pay attention. The video  appropriates visuals that could have come from an M.I.A.

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