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Summary:

The reading was on all of the reggae artist from back in the day, like around my parents time ( & thats old ). They were talking about an establishment that brought up big major stars such as Gregory Isaacs even though he died just last year, Dennis Brown, Junior Delgado, the Tamlins, Black Uhuru, Luciano, Beenie Man and Yami Bolo. They were big major hit reggae artist and was just trying to have some light shined on them before they had made it to be so successfull. They was also talking that when people hear that something nice is happening in Jamaica the first thing they think of is Kingston. It is the capitol, but its not the only main town that is used to help bring up jamaican artist, its just a more popular place. Kingston is so big they classify it by numbers. Its more of the connection to the movie Shottas where the movie was filmed in Kingston 10, waterhouse. well back then kingston didn't have numbers.

Quote:

" They're not working today; Sly's come in just to talk and nobody's quite sure where Robbie is." ( Bradley 356 )

- My feeling towards this quote is that it is untrue. I may have interpreted it wrong, but i think it isn't true. if you read the paragraph before this quote they call up reggae artist that are king of the dancehall right now and are still doing it big. Like for instance Beenie Man he recently just made a chune last week called " Hot after we " and he's still in the business and working today.

Reaction:

My reaction on the reading is basically that i had a very big connection with what i read. The connection was so big i had to go and show my parents.They had a lot of old school back in the day artist that they were talking about and it made my parents feel like they was apart of something. To their surprise i like some of the old school music they listen to, so it gave me a more broad understanding of what went on back in my parents time and not just from their perspective, but by others and the author himself.