
Presented, produced and edited by Steve Topple. CanaryPod: #ToppleUncaged meets… Treesha and Bay-C show notes

Treesha’s almost anti-capitalist anthem Money Don’t Mean A Thing describes the fallacies of thinking that cash makes you whole. Both Treesha and Bay-C have used the riddim to create songs which make political and social points. Featuring elements of dancehall, it is bang on trend with its distinct afrobeat sound. The Change Like Weather riddim is one of the more impressive productions of the year.

You can have multiple great songs with the same rhythm, ensuring that no vocal idea remains undeveloped. The beauty of this format is that it allows for a method of genre development based on iteration the pressure is not only to innovate, but to improve. In the early days of dancehall, each version was released as a separate single, but since the early 2000s a batch of versions will usually be released as a digital album.

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