| Don Dada | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 1992 | |||
| Genre | Dancehall [1] | |||
| Label | Columbia [2] | |||
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Don Dada is an album by the Jamaican musician Super Cat, released in 1992. [3] [4] It was his first album for a major label, and also one of the first dancehall albums for a major label. [5] [6] The album title refers to Super Cat's nickname. [7]
The album peaked at No. 37 on Billboard's Top R&B Albums chart. [8] Super Cat promoted it with North American and Japanese tours. [9] [10]
"Nuff Man a Dead" first appeared on the Dancehall Reggaespanol compilation. [11] Heavy D rapped on "Them No Worry We". [12] It was Super Cat's intention to record an album that appealed to both a Jamaican dancehall audience and an American hip hop audience. [13]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [14] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |  [15] |
| MusicHound World: The Essential Album Guide | [2] |
The Milwaukee Sentinel wrote: "Mixing the latest dancehall styles with phrasing reminiscent of pioneers such as U Roy, I Roy, Big Youth and Dillinger, Super Cat makes some of the most refreshing (and interesting) Jamaican dance music in a long time." [16] Newsday called the album "a bracing collection of tough rhythms, tougher lyrics and a pocketful of contradictions." [17] The Times concluded that, "in much the same way that rap glories in its tuneless, declamatory style of vocalese, so the hardcore dance-hall style reduces reggae almost entirely to rhythm and rhyme; all harangue and no harmony." [18]
USA Today determined that "the rapid-fire rapper serves up equal measures of social conscience and disco fever"; the paper later listed Don Dada as the eighth best R&B album of 1992. [19] [20] The Philadelphia Inquirer deemed the album "a deft mixture of rapping and singing supported by intelligent and not overly repetitive tracks." [21]
AllMusic wrote that "the recurring ability of the songs to consistently provide a simple groove for Super Cat to fervently rap over the top of is amazing, and the virtuosity with which he can constantly provide the necessary vocal concoctions is noteworthy." [14]
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Them No Worry We" (with Heavy D) | |
| 2. | "Ghetto Red Hot" | |
| 3. | "Them No Care" | |
| 4. | "Dolly My Baby" (with Trevor Sparks) | |
| 5. | "Don't Test" | |
| 6. | "Must Be Bright" | |
| 7. | "Don Dada" | |
| 8. | "Think Me Come fi Play" | |
| 9. | "Big and Ready" (with Heavy D and Frankie Paul) | |
| 10. | "Coke Don" | |
| 11. | "Nuff Man a Dead" | |
| 12. | "Oh It's You" | |
| 13. | "Fight fi Power" | |
| 14. | "Yush Talk" |
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