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Baby Cham Is All Grown Up On New
Ghetto Story LP
Whenever an established artist changes their nom de guerre, as Cham has recently done, dropping the “Baby” from his name to signify his new grown-ass status, they run the risk of throwing off the following they’ve built for themselves...
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Boom Tunes
• “The Mass” (1996): Cham’s debut 45 on Dave Kelly’s Stink Riddim. The 14-year old Baby Cham came to Kelly a few years earlier with a tune for the Pepperseed riddim but Kelly refused to record him until he finished school.
• “Can I Get A...” (1998): A catchy (and profane) call-and-response on the Brukkout riddim, this tune etched the signature chant “Bust the dance, gi’ them the dance...” into reggae’s collective unconscious.
• “Desperate Measures” (1999): Openly threatening Jamaica’s leaders for their neglect of garrison youth, the popularity of “Desperate Measures” got it banned from the radio on the island, a dubious achievement which “Ghetto Story” ultimately repeated.
• “Babylon Bwoy” (2000): With this song on the Bounce riddim, one of the 1st to incorporate dirty south double-time into a reggae track, Cham shifted his lyrical aim to Jamaica’s police force.
• “Vitamin S” (2003): For once foregoing controversy, this playful exposition on the medical benefits of regular sex became a sleeper hit on the Fiesta riddim, which it shared with Beenie Man & Ms. Thing’s “Dude”
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