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. or Santigold video — or Busta and Hype's "Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See" — but it's hard to grouse when those other acts had already appropriated it from somebody else (aka she's stealing it back). And before you also grouse that Red Stripe is the underwriting sponsor, let me point out that it's thanks to them that the ep is available as a free download. Go get it. --> watch "Jamaican Girls"
Terry Lynn + Johan Hugo "Jamaican Girls" (Red Stripe)
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