Vybz Kartel and Tommy Lee Sparta drop a collabo from jail.
Recently jailed dancehall Star Tommy Lee Sparta has released a joint track with imprisoned fellow dancehall mogul Vybz Kartel and fans are already calling it the collabo of the year.
The song dubbed as Dark Ages, which features five full verses, was released as a surprise collabo on YouTube and has gained over four hundred thousand views. The 5-minute and 8-second single has five full verses with none repeated throughout the track. Shadows and graves.Demon dem come out and reap dem soul and dem brain…How dem gwan like seh dem bad suh?. Darkness will reign Dem rifle yah will claat you…Shadows and graves. they both sing in the song.
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Clarks Originals unveiled the full 10-minute mini-documentary today on YouTube, after initially announcing on its Instagram page on Sunday that the video, which features Koffee, Protoje, Sevana, Lila Iké, The NoMaddz, England footballer Raheem Sterling, and British artist M1llionz, would be released this Friday.
On Sunday, the company drew the ire of particularly the Gaza Nation, after they previewed snippets of the documentary, with well-known Clarks booty champions Vybz Kartel, Super Cat, Popcaan, and Jahvillani “missing in action”.
Today’s move seems to have been undertaken in a bid to appease Dancehall fans who accused them of disrespecting the men who are behind the popularity of the footwear and high sales among Jamaicans across the world. Kartel’s name and song were mentioned a few times by Koffee, Lila, Sterling, and Protoje who also made several historical references to the boots in the Dancehall space.
Clarks Originals drew the ire of some Jamaicans after they previewed snippets of a new documentary dubbed
Clarks and Jamaica, which seems to be devoid of Dancehall artists responsible for making the brand famous in Jamaica, like Super Cat, Popcaan, Vybz Kartel, and Jahvillani.
In an Instagram post this morning, the British footwear company shared a teaser that highlighted non-Dancehall artists, all of whom, with the exception of the duo The NoMaddz, have never paid homage in song to their brand.
The footwear company had noted on its Instagram page that: “to celebrate this special relationship, we spoke to some of the biggest names in Jamaican culture to find out what Clarks means to them”.
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Vybz Kartel
With this month marking seven years since Dancehall titan Vybz Kartel was sentenced to life imprisonment, we reflect on his dominant force and studio contributions to the genre.
The King of Dancehall reinvents himself so often that it’s difficult to compare albums from one year to the next. Nevertheless, we have taken on the task of ranking the Worl’ Boss’ 15 studio and compilation albums. The process relied on a couple of rating systems including peak Billboard chart positions, tracks that received heavy airplay throughout the years along with all-time fan-favorites and crowd-pleasers.
Here are Vybz Kartel’s albums, ranked from worst to best.