Baby Cham Ghetto Story Alicia Keyes remix

**PILOT** · 06-18-2006, 11:32 AM

Re: Baby Cham Ghetto Story Alicia Keyes remix

Baby Cham the come back kid here with a strong showing in 2006. Infact officials in the Jamaican government have actually offered comments toward negative publicity on this piece.

Here is the orginal video: Ghetto Story

http://www.jalive.com.jm/showvid.asp?strmArtist=Cham&ftr=&strmTitle=Ghetto%20story

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CHAM’S ‘GHETTO STORY’ BANNED IN JAMAICA: Reggae star’s song about poverty deemed too real.

(June 12, 2006)

*You thought Jr. Gong’s “Welcome to Jamrock” was bleak? Reggae star Cham’s new single “Ghetto Story” is so explicit in its description of poverty and hopelessness in Jamaica that the government has banned it from the island.

"At first they were trying to fight it in Jamaica, but now it's the biggest thing," Cham tells Reuters. "The radio started playing it like probably two weeks after they said, 'No, no, no.' The fans were letting them know that it was the biggest song in the street. But that's how it is in Jamaica, they tend to draw a curtain to the real things going on."

The video for "Ghetto Story" features Cham rhyming into a cell phone as children act out his verses of robbing store clerks and sleeping on foam squares. Shot in one day, the clip caught the attention of MTV, which ran it on "Direct Effect" and "MTV Jams." Cham also recruited Akon for the "Ghetto Story" remix, which recently went to radio. Atlantic will release Cham’s album of the same name in August.

Baby Cham, born Dameon Dean Beckett in Kingston, also had government bans slapped on his earlier tracks "Desperate Measure" and "Ghetto Play," as well as Bounty Killer's "Anytime," which Cham wrote with longtime producer buddy Dave Kelly.

"The government wrote me," Cham says regarding "Ghetto Play." "I was saying to give me the country to run for a day. And they said, 'We need to stop the bashing of the government.' That's not bashing, it's just showing up the government. There's no free speech there. They say you have free speech, but it's not free speech."

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Reggae star draws government ire in Jamaica
By Hillary Crosley

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Reggae star Cham's hot new tune "Ghetto Story" explicitly describes the poverty raging through Jamaica, and has been banned in its homeland.

"At first they were trying to fight it in Jamaica, but now it's the biggest thing," Cham says. "The radio started playing it like probably two weeks after they said, 'No, no, no.' The fans were letting them know that it was the biggest song in the street. But that's how it is in Jamaica, they tend to draw a curtain to the real things going on."

"Ghetto Story" isn't Cham's first song to draw the government's ire. Both of his earlier tracks, "Desperate Measure" and "Ghetto Play," were banned, as was Bounty Killer's "Anytime," which Cham wrote with longtime producer buddy Dave Kelly.

"The government wrote me," Cham says regarding "Ghetto Play." "I was saying to give me the country to run for a day. And they said, 'We need to stop the bashing of the government.' That's not bashing, it's just showing up the government. There's no free speech there. They say you have free speech, but it's not free speech."

Cham's gritty video for "Ghetto Story" features him rhyming into a cell phone and children enacting his verses of sticking up store clerks and sleeping on foam squares. The entire video was shot in about a day. Then MTV came calling, airing the clip on "Direct Effect" and "MTV Jams." Cham also tapped Akon for the "Ghetto Story" remix, which recently went to radio.

Aside from the "Ghetto Story" single, which originally debuted in Jamaica last November, an album of the same name is slated for an August release on Atlantic.

Reuters/Billboard

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**jah_yout** · 06-19-2006, 02:43 PM

Re: Baby Cham Ghetto Story Alicia Keyes remix

yea it's hot...
love how alicia repping her j-a side;
but i do agree that this song is more damning to the j'can gov't than 'welcome to jamrock' which was more generic...;
it does seem like they love to big up the ray-ray songs dem more than the positive tunes caw i can't go 10 minutes without hearing this tune on the radio in n.y.

**rudemonk** · 06-20-2006, 12:43 PM

Re: Baby Cham Ghetto Story Alicia Keyes remix

did either song lyrically pull any punches, I mean jr dropped a lot of verse, but he is much harder to take a swing at, much easier for the powers that be to have a go at Cham.

**mangoskin** · 06-20-2006, 01:12 PM

Re: Baby Cham Ghetto Story Alicia Keyes remix

yeah, it's on the air all the time here,

**jah_yout** · 06-20-2006, 02:00 PM

Re: Baby Cham Ghetto Story Alicia Keyes remix

unnu hear the remix with akon?

**mangoskin** · 06-20-2006, 02:21 PM

Re: Baby Cham Ghetto Story Alicia Keyes remix

not yet

**bigbooie** · 06-20-2006, 02:51 PM

Re: Baby Cham Ghetto Story Alicia Keyes remix

All now mi cawwn get fi hear it.

**rudemonk** · 06-20-2006, 06:15 PM

Re: Baby Cham Ghetto Story Alicia Keyes remix

I like the akon piece but Alicia gave me chills, lol...the akon piece has a few rough spots to me.

here's alicia remix:

http://www.thestreetspace.com/streetspac...(RadioEdit).mp3

and Akon:

http://www.thefader.com/blog/files/gsremix.mp3

and here's the lyrics:

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[Intro: Akon] (Baby Cham)
And this is my story (True ghetto story)
And this is my story (Real ghetto story, Hey!)

[Verse 1: Akon]
See I was born poor like many men and didn't have nothin
Came to America try to make somethin out of somethin
You see we Africans we love huntin
Found my way up to the top like it wasn't nothin
And hooked up with some Puerto Ricans up in Jersey
We used to be called the Baldwin posse
Had it locked we zoned it up to Union City
And a couple of projects in New York City

[Verse 2: Baby Cham]
I remember those days when Hell was my home
When Me and Mama bed was a big piece a foam
An mi never like bathe and my hair never comb
When Mama gone a work me go street go roam
I remember when Danny dem tek me snow cone
An mek him likkle bredda dem kick up Jerome
I remember when we visit dem wid pure big stone
An the boy Danny pop out something weh full chrome

[Verse 3: Akon]
But cats know better than to play around me
And knew I kept the AK displayed around me
And I moved down to the A to find more cheese
And I found out cars make more than we

[Verse 4: Baby Cham]
I remember when we run, Fatta get him knee blown
An mi best friend Richie get, two inna him dome
I remember so the avenue tun inna warzone
An ,Mickey madda fly him out, cau she get a loan
But, Mickey go to foreign and go tun Al Capone
Mek whole heap a money and sen in our own
Now a we a lock the city and, that is well known
Yesterday Mickey call me pan mi phone
Mi say Mickey.....

[Chorus: Baby Cham] (*Akon)
Wi get di ting dem
Dem outta luck now
Mi squeeze seven and the whole a dem a duck now
Wi have whole heap a extra clip cau we nuh bruk now
(This a survival story, True ghetto story)
Rah...Rah..Rah...Rah
Wi get di ting dem, So dem haffi rate wi
(*And this is my story, Akon story)
Cau we a tek it to them wicked of lately
And now the whole community a live greatly
(This a survival story, True ghetto story)
Rah...Rah..Rah...Rah

[Verse 5: Baby Cham]
I remember bout '80, Jamaica explode
When a Trinity and Tony Hewitt dem a run road
That a long before Laing dem and even Bigga Ford
When Adams dem a Corporal nuh know the road code
I remember when we rob the chiney shop down the road
An rumour have it sey the chiney man have a sword
But we did have a one pop wey make outta board
So you know the next day mama pot Overlooaad

[Verse 6: Akon]
How could that be? Chop shops in the city call me the ring lead
Never thought I flee, some how the Po' Po' still caught up with me
But then I got locked up, then while we shacked up
Focused on locked up, then they let me out but
Two years later my brother Screw got shot up
And got the whole block royal like now what

[Verse 7: Baby Cham]
Jamaica get screw, tru greed an glutton
Politics manipulate and press yutes button
But we rich now ,so dem caan tell man notin
Cuz a we a mek Mama a nyaam Fish an Mutton..Ehhhh
Ova dehso mek mi tell unnu some'in...
Tru mi dey a foreign now a guy kill me cousin
An mi here sey TD deh dey but him sey he wasnt
Anytime mi fly down him a get bout dozen....Cause......

[Chorus: Baby Cham] (*Akon)
Wi get di ting dem
Dem outta luck now
Mi squeeze seven and the whole a dem a duck now
Wi have whole heap a extra clip cau we nuh bruk now
(This a survival story, True ghetto story)
Rah...Rah..Rah...Rah
Wi get di ting dem, So dem haffi rate wi
(*And this is my story, Akon story)
Cau we a tek it to them wicked of lately
And now the whole community a live greatly
(This a survival story, True ghetto story)
Rah...Rah..Rah...Rah

[Verse 8: Baby Cham]
I remember those days when Hell was my home
When Me and Mama bed was a big piece a foam
An mi never like bathe and my hair never comb
When Mama gone a work me go street go roam
I remember when Danny dem tek me snow cone
An mek him likkle bredda dem kick up Jerome
I remember when we visit dem wid pure big stone
An the boy Danny pop out something weh full chrome
I remember when we run, Fatta get him knee blown
An mi best friend Richie get, two inna him dome
I remember so the avenue tun inna warzone
An ,Mickey madda fly him out, cau she get a loan
But, Mickey go to foreign and go tun Al Capone
Mek whole heap a money and sen in our own
Now a we a lock the city and, that is well known
Yesterday mickey call me pan mi phone
Mi say mickey.....

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**rudemonk** · 06-20-2006, 06:49 PM

Re: Baby Cham Ghetto Story Alicia Keyes remix

next one coming-

Roundcube Webmail :: Welcome to Roundcube Webmail

http://www.iol.ie/~sizzla/Baby.Cham--Rude.Bwoi.Pledge.mp3

I dunno bout this one yet...it's got a joyride build but...I guess it will go big.

**bigbooie** · 06-21-2006, 02:48 PM

Re: Baby Cham Ghetto Story Alicia Keyes remix

MAN THAT IS HOT!!!!!!!

**niceniss** · 06-23-2006, 09:24 PM

Re: Baby Cham Ghetto Story Alicia Keyes remix

me prefer akon remix to alicia keys. her version noh tek at all!

**rudemonk** · 06-30-2006, 03:43 AM

Re: Baby Cham Ghetto Story Alicia Keyes remix

to be honest I can't choose. once they come out on 7s or 12 I will probably just blend the three of them.

and that next cham tune is growing on me...

**jah_yout** · 06-30-2006, 02:59 PM

Re: Baby Cham Ghetto Story Alicia Keyes remix

power 105.1 plays a mix with all three of them together...i don't know if it's official or if it's their own remix

**rudemonk** · 06-30-2006, 04:34 PM

Re: Baby Cham Ghetto Story Alicia Keyes remix

probably their own mix. one thing though I can't stand about these nyc stations is when they chop off the end of the reggae tunes!! they let all this other pure crap play out but chop a minute off cham or whoever?

I will listen for the mix I'm sure it's something they put together- their footprints blend was horrible so I hope they did right by these...the other funny thing is hot 97 and 105 play the same damn songs in practically the same damn order, you can sometimes juggle back and forth and even on beat sometimes. It's stupid. A city like NY, you have to go to pirate radio to get anything really fresh and worth listening to.

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