Yeah I’m from Kingston, JA-born in Rockfort, grew a likkle and did my basic school an ting there. I was a teenager dem times, me just tink about things real pretty and jus like, you know? Heaps a things.
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Ha, just a bare song talking about girls an fancy, and nem ting. Yeah I started out deejayin in the dance. It was in 1993 comin, the soundsystem was Matlock. What soundsystem did you do the dubplate for? Well my first exposure-the first time I record a song-it was a dubplate, still. In school I was just naturally havin a joy with music daily until you know, I grow up.
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Well music is an inborn concept to I an I, still. Stream: Erup, ‘Click Mi Finger” Grahmzilla Refix
PRETTY LOOKS RIDDIM DUBPLATE FULL
Since it coincides more or less with the entry of “Click Mi Finger” into mainstream video rotation and the leak of a sick club refix (streaming below…about a billion times too fast for most reggae heads but if you fuck with Crookers, Radioclit, Douster, et al, give it a bligh.) it seemed like an auspicious moment to post the full Q&A with Erup from his Gen F profile in the last issue of FADER.
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Heavyweights Vegas and Beenie Man merit similar treatment, but like a true classic, the track seems to inspire the best performances from everyone who jumps on, including the lone female deejay Spice who comes out the gate with a mad double-time (I just wished she had stayed on it for the whole song, instead of launching into a Pointer Sisters melody). The breakaway tune though, is definitely “Fight” from Erup, who seems to be on some kind of wavelength with the Truckback crew, maybe because he turns in the most melodic version of any riddims he voices, and being proper musicians the Locke brothers are right there with him, composing him a spooky, lighters-up bridge of his very own. Not surprisingly the initial run has brought out a rogue’s gallery of Jamaican artists literally from A to Zebra, who I think got a furlough from his 10-year rape sentence specifically to rail against white people over this beat (possibly he missed the whole Obama post-racial thing while incarcerated). Truck Back has ripped the veil off a new riddim called Spark Plug, which encapsulates the main things that are good about dancehall-incredibly tough snares, arabesque chords, frenetic energy-but is still spare enough to let any deejay fit in between the beat.