Ragamuffin Hip-Hop

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Ragamuffin Hip-Hop
AsherDAndDaddyFreddyRagamuffinHipHopAlbumCover.jpeg
Studio album by
Released1988
Genre Ragga
Label Music of Life (UK)
Profile Records (U.S.)
Daddy Freddy chronology
Body Lasher
(1986)
Ragamuffin Hip-Hop
(1988)
Cater Fe She
(1989)

Ragamuffin Hip-Hop is the only album by the ragga/hip hop duo Asher D and Daddy Freddy, released in 1988 on the Music of Life label.

The album was one of the first ever albums to showcase a fusion of distinctly hip-hop and dancehall elements together. [1]

Track listing

  1. "Ragamuffin Hip Hop" - 5:30
  2. "Africa" - 2:55
  3. "Brutality" - 5:10
  4. "Summertime" - 3:00
  5. "Don't Stop, Do It" - 5:55
  6. "Posse Rock & Move (5:45)
  7. "Rough and Rugged (5:45)
  8. "Run Come Follow We (5:00)
  9. "Asher's Revenge (6:10)

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