Gangsta Dancehall

Much like hip-hop in the US, dancehall went gangsta in the late '80s and early '90s, and that raw street vibe still shocks and rocks Jamaican sound systems today. On these gangsta dancehall classics, deejays like Cutty Ranks, Spragga Benz, and Vybz Kartel spin unflinching and explicit tales of crime and poverty, exposing the damage that guns and drugs have done to the ghettoes of Jamaica.