| Shabba Ranks & Friends | ||||
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| Released | January 26, 1999 | |||
| Genre | Reggae fusion, ragga, dancehall | |||
| Length | 49:10 | |||
| Label | Sony | |||
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Shabba Ranks and Friends is a compilation album released by Shabba Ranks, the album includes most of Shabba Ranks' most successful hits. The album also features many other reggae artists who feature in the songs on the album.
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Mr. Loverman" | Bennett, Gordon, Lindo | 5:36 |
| 2. | "Slow and Sexy" | Dillon, Dunbar, Gordon, Harris III, Law, Lewis, Tucker | 5:19 |
| 3. | "Housecall" (The Morales Remix) | Bennett, Dillon, Dunbar, Gordon, Priest, Thomson | 3:37 |
| 4. | "The Jam" (The Bridge Remix) | Dillon, Longo, Mills, Parker | 3:20 |
| 5. | "Shine Eye Gal" | Gordon, Rose, Simpson | 4:22 |
| 6. | "Telephone Love" | Bennett, Gordon, Hines, Lindo | 4:12 |
| 7. | "Mr. G" | Dillion, Garvey, Gordon, Harmon, Jobe, Phillips | 4:06 |
| 8. | "Pirates' Anthem" | Bennett, Gordon, Lindo, Scott, Tucker | 5:41 |
| 9. | "Universal Love" | Dillon, Garvey, Gordon, Harmon, Jobe, Ky Mani, Marley, Phillips | 4:13 |
| 10. | "Ice Cream Love" | Dillon, Gordon, Lawes | 4:22 |
| 11. | "Two Breddrens" | Dillon, Gordon, Simpson | 4:24 |
Shabba Ranks is a Jamaican dancehall musician. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, he was one of the most popular Jamaican musicians in the world. Throughout his prominence in his home country as a dancehall artist, he gained popularity in North America with his studio album, Just Reality, in 1990. He released two studio albums, As Raw as Ever and X-tra Naked, which both won a Grammy Award as Best Reggae Album in 1992 and 1993, respectively. He is notoriously popular for "Mr. Loverman" and "Ting-A-Ling", which were globally acclaimed and deemed his signature songs.
Robert Dixon, known as Bobby Digital, was a Jamaican reggae and dancehall producer. He was given his nickname "Bobby Digital" because King Jammy, with whom he worked in the mid-1980s, had begun experimenting with digital rhythms at around the same time. He owned the Digital B label, and among the artists with hits on the label are Shabba Ranks and Sizzla. He has influenced reggae artists such as Admiral Tibet.
Dembow is a bouncy musical rhythm which originated in Jamaica. When Shabba Ranks released "Dem Bow" in 1990, it did not take long for the dembow genre to form. Riddims were built from the song and the sound became a popular part of reggaeton. From the original song of "Dem Bow" originating in Jamaica, it then reached New York and the genre of dembow moved next to Latin America thanks to the Panamanian artist Nando Boom who released a Spanish version of Dem Bow by Shabba Ranks, the rhythm eventually reached the Dominican Republic.
The Addams Family Values: Music from the Motion Picture album was released on Atlas Records in late 1993 to promote Addams Family Values, a sequel to the 1991 film The Addams Family.
Rappin' with the Ladies is the first album by dancehall artist and DJ Shabba Ranks, released in 1988. The album contains collaborations with J.C. Lodge and Deborahe Glasgow.
Just Reality is the second solo studio album by Jamaican dancehall/reggae recording artist Shabba Ranks. It was released in 1990 via VP Records, and produced by Bobby "Digital" Dixon.
Golden Touch is the third album released by Shabba Ranks.
Best Baby Father is the fourth album released by Shabba Ranks.
As Raw As Ever is a studio album released by Shabba Ranks, his first to be well received by critics and the public.
Rough & Ready, Vol. 1 is a studio album released by Shabba Ranks. After his previous album, As Raw as Ever, received positive reviews, his good spell continued as Rough & Ready, Vol. 1 likewise received positive reviews and enjoyed some commercial success, reaching #71 in the UK and #82 in Germany.
X-tra Naked is a studio album released by Shabba Ranks. This album is possibly his most successful release, in 1993 the album won the Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album.
Rough and Ready Volume 2 is a studio album released by Shabba Ranks. This album was not as successful as Volume 1 and it was going to be difficult to create an album as successful as its predecessor, X-tra Naked, which won a Grammy. Volume 2 was criticised for lacking variety.
A Mi Shabba is an album released by Shabba Ranks, this album was released after a two-year gap in album releases and received fairly average reviews.
Get Up Stand Up is a studio album by Shabba Ranks, released in 1998. It was Ranks's final studio album, and contains many remixes of songs previously recorded by him.
"Mr. Loverman" is a song released in 1991 by Jamaican dancehall artist Shabba Ranks. The song was written by Ranks, Mikey Bennett and Hopeton Lindon. It was released in 1992 and 1993 as a single, reaching number 40 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number three on the UK Singles Chart, as well as the top 20 in France, Germany and Ireland. In 2003, Q Magazine ranked "Mr. Loverman" at number 866 in their list of the "1001 Best Songs Ever".
Augustus "Gussie" Clarke is a reggae producer who worked with some of the top Jamaican reggae artists in the 1970s and later set up his own Music Works studio.
Sidney Mills is a British Jamaican musician, performing mostly within the reggae genre and best known as a member of the roots reggae band Steel Pulse. Mills was born in the United Kingdom and moved to Jamaica as a child. He was raised in the Saint Thomas Parish, Jamaica and became a musician from an early age, moving to Kingston in the late 1960s to pursue a musical career. Sidney attended Kings College Kingston where he matured as a musician under the tutelage of the likes of Sonny Bradshaw.
The Third Power is a 1991 album by the New York based music group Material. The album mixes reggae. funk, dub and rap music.
MTV Party To Go Volume 3 was the third album in the MTV Party To Go series. The album was certified Gold on December 6, 1993 by the RIAA.
"Shabba" is a song by American hip hop recording artist ASAP Ferg. It was released on July 16, 2013 as the second single from his debut studio album Trap Lord (2013). The song, produced by Snugsworth, features a guest appearance from Ferg's ASAP Mob cohort ASAP Rocky. The song's title refers to Jamaican dancehall musician Shabba Ranks, who makes a cameo appearance in the song's music video and appears on the remix. The single was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
