Hmm dats a gud question. 2 me di da quality of the music has gone declined. Any1 wid an instrumental & a mic can call themself an artist, which makes the quality deteriorate. Also fings like clashes, & dances in general r dying. 2-3 yrs ago, I wuld rush 2 da cd shop 2 buy da latest Passa Passa or Hot Monday, But I can't tel u da last time I saw 1. Stage Shows have r also n ot what they used 2 b. Sting used 2 b a must c show. Now its just a show. But in conclusion I don't think it will eva die. Sorry bout the essay

f**kery post. Dancehall just a spread to di world. How it fi f**king dead. U FRAS.

it caan dead..d dj dema move wid d times

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f**kery post. Dancehall just a spread to di world. How it fi f**king dead. U FRAS.

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I think that's kind of the point. To how di ting a spread now it nuh even sound Jamaican again. Real dancehall like how di 80's and 90's did a run nuh dead still, it's just becoming less and less frequent.

Riddim like Daybreak, Atmosphere and Street Dance are perfect examples. Dem bad but dem ah nuh REAL dancehall riddim. Str8

Also, too much artist a follow fool bout shoot up shoot up all di time and chat bout unda gal frock without no style or concept. Dem a gwan like di American rapper dem when a Jamaican artist fi set di trend.

My granny teach me: "Idle Jackass follow cane trash go ah pound"

Dat mi seh

-- Edited by MasSicker at 14:29, 2008-03-25

-- Edited by MasSicker at 14:30, 2008-03-25

Dancehall nuh dead!!! The music is just changing that's all.

Dancehall nuh dead but...its changed. Dont know if evolve is the correct word to use. I listen to a mix the other day and all I heard was a bunch of slow singing pon di ting. Slow singing about who fi get kill. And then I pick up a next one and some of the dancing tunes are pure f**kery. Im reggae for life so I find the good out of dancehall. But I think the dances got alot better a few years ago when culture did start buss. Riddims like Drop leaf, seasons etc.

some good points made i like that... we got so much more people on this site and always da same people posting i wanna see new names pop up...... got alot of leechers here

It a personal opinion as it depends where you are and what you have access to. to the US & JA dancehall is no doubt massive. To europe dancehall is steady but no where near as big as it could be. When Ele, Sean & Junior Reid collab with hip hop artists is that dancehall??? Dancehall biggest problem has always been poor distribution & promotion??? So is dancehall dead? to me NO (as i am part of MZJA it is very much alive)

no

I think its a good question, but as others have said it depends on the concept of a genre of music "Being Dead". I recall when dance music ran the charts and then Hip Hop and RNB took over the charts, ppl then said Dance Music was dead. Dance music wasnt dead it just fell off and was replaced by a more popular genre. Same with Dancehall it is evolving but has it already reached its peak with Sean Paul, Beenie, Buju and others in the main stream or crossing over to actually chart in the US, Europe, etc. Dancehall as a business must still be profitable via stage shows and sponsorship, because artist have to eat as well. With the evolution of the Internet and access to so much music you would hope that distribution and knowledge about Dancehall would become a World Wide thing. Most of the consumers in the market dont understand the music and only see reggae as Bob Marley, Sean Paul, Shabba, etc. Dancehall needs more POSITIVE exposure and needs to be profitable to survive. -Sorry for the essay:)