Hasani Walters, STAR Writer 
Kanye West - File
Dancehall music has once again found favour with international stars.
The latest occurrence being in Kanye West's Billboard charting song Mercy which features a sample of the high-pitched vocals of Fuzzy Jones, a once hugely popular song/dubplate intro man.
Mercy, which sees Kanye West collaborating with fast-rising hip-hop acts Big Sean, Pusha T and 2 Chainz, samples Jones' intro in Super Beagle's Dust A Sound Boy which was produced by Winston Riley on the Stalag rhythm.
The song was released on April 6, 2012, as the lead single from the compilation album, GOOD Music.
Jones' vocals can be heard saying: "Well it is a weeping and a moaning and a gnashing of teeth in the dancehall. And who nuh have no teeth gwine run pon them gums. Cause when it come to my sound which is the champion sound the bugle has blown fi many times and it still have one more time left, cause the amount of stripe weh deh pon our shoulder."
He can be heard at the start in part, and in full about mid-way through the song which was produced by Lifted.
In a recent interview, Lifted did with Karmaloop TV, he said that he was unsure as to who added the Jamaican element to the song as he was not the only one who worked on the track.
sound clashes
Fuzzy Jones' intros were popular in several songs and dubplates for sound systems which oftentimes used them in sound clashes.
Among the songs he can be heard in are Little John's Fade Away, Banana Man's Jump & Spread Out, Michael Batis' Die You Die and Gregory Isaacs' The Ruler. Jones died in 2005.
Recently, international stars Estelle and Pleasure P also sampled the genre in Witness using a rhythm produced by Clifton 'Specialist' Dillon which featured Buju Banton's Boom Bye Bye and Mad Cobra's Flex. A line of the latter was also sampled in the song.
Kanye West - File
Dancehall music has once again found favour with international stars.
The latest occurrence being in Kanye West's Billboard charting song Mercy which features a sample of the high-pitched vocals of Fuzzy Jones, a once hugely popular song/dubplate intro man.
Mercy, which sees Kanye West collaborating with fast-rising hip-hop acts Big Sean, Pusha T and 2 Chainz, samples Jones' intro in Super Beagle's Dust A Sound Boy which was produced by Winston Riley on the Stalag rhythm.
The song was released on April 6, 2012, as the lead single from the compilation album, GOOD Music.
Jones' vocals can be heard saying: "Well it is a weeping and a moaning and a gnashing of teeth in the dancehall. And who nuh have no teeth gwine run pon them gums. Cause when it come to my sound which is the champion sound the bugle has blown fi many times and it still have one more time left, cause the amount of stripe weh deh pon our shoulder."
He can be heard at the start in part, and in full about mid-way through the song which was produced by Lifted.
In a recent interview, Lifted did with Karmaloop TV, he said that he was unsure as to who added the Jamaican element to the song as he was not the only one who worked on the track.
sound clashes
Fuzzy Jones' intros were popular in several songs and dubplates for sound systems which oftentimes used them in sound clashes.
Among the songs he can be heard in are Little John's Fade Away, Banana Man's Jump & Spread Out, Michael Batis' Die You Die and Gregory Isaacs' The Ruler. Jones died in 2005.
Recently, international stars Estelle and Pleasure P also sampled the genre in Witness using a rhythm produced by Clifton 'Specialist' Dillon which featured Buju Banton's Boom Bye Bye and Mad Cobra's Flex. A line of the latter was also sampled in the song.
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