The 1990s was a transformative era for Jamaican music. Not since Bob Marley and the Wailers in the 1970s had the island’s music spread its tentacles around the world with such ferocity. Dancehall music had become a global phenomenon led by artistees like Shabba Ranks, Ninjaman and Yellowman.
Another category of artistes, notably Cocoa Tea and his contemporaries Freddie McGregor, Beres Hammond, Frankie Paul, combined streetwise dancehall with melodic, soulful rhythms.
