how to be a japanese reggaephile

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How to Be a Japanese Reggaephile
Step one: Move to Kingston or Brooklyn, and try not to get killed
By Josh Chamberlain
Tuesday, July 28th 2009 at 2:14pm
Minako Ikeshiro

Mighty Crown, triumphantIn 2001, longtime hardcore reggae fan Hidetsugo Haji faced a dilemma. He wanted to be a part of the "real thing," but he lived in Japan, which lacked some basic pieces: a ghetto, for example, and the everyday struggles that come with such blatant economic disparity, not to mention the extraordinary opportunity to look such inequality in the face and overcome it. But thanks to dancehall reggae's vibrant cassette-tape circuit, buoyed by live dancehall sessions and soundclashes between famous sound systems like Stone Love, Bass Odyssey, and Killamanjaro, he knew where to go.

"In Japan, I grew up listening to Stone Love cassette tapes," says "King" Haji, the alter ego he uses when deejaying with his now-Brooklyn-based sound system, King Jam Unlimited. "We listened to soundclash cassette tapes and knew the Biltmore in Brooklyn and other famous clubs. We knew many famous West Indians lived there. In New York, when you think of reggae, you think of Flatbush-Church right away. Tourist books say New York and Brooklyn not really safe, but it is a place I know we can get more close to the Caribbean community."

So that's where he went...

http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-07-28/music/how-to-be-a-japanese-reggaephile/

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Re: how to be a japanese reggaephile

first ting, the Japanese like to go awn as if dem no ha no poverty ovah deh..no homeless etc but dem do an dem ha poor sections...mite not cawl dem ghetto but dem ha it...wat dem really mean is dem no ha no black..not dem want any

an as di dis <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Not only does the music work, it sells. Fireball, a Japanese dancehall reggae group, had 2,500 fans turn out for a show in Tokyo this past spring, a number any Jamaican reggae star would aspire to, in New York or otherwise. And in August 2008, 40,000 Japanese reggae fans converged on Yokohama Stadium for the Yokohama Reggae Sai (&quot;Sai </div></div>



whoeva write dis neva go a reggae show wid yaad artist a Japan...show ram wedda outdoor r wi mek ongle di dancehall artists go do show eena a club...renk an facety bout reggae artist lucky fi get 2500...evn dance a yaad get more dan dat

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Re: how to be a japanese reggaephile

i was thinking the same thing when i read it...
it's amazing what passes for journalism sometimes...and di bredda look kinda 80's lol