What Is Ragga Music?
Raggamuffin music generally shortened as ragga basically is a sub-genre of dancehall melody or reggae, in which the instrumentation mainly comprises of electronic music, sampling generally plays an important role in ragamuffin music as well. Wayne Smith’s “Under Me Sleng Teng” was created by King Jammy in the year 1985 on a Casio CZ-series synthesizer and is normally identified as the seminal ragga song. “Sleng Teng” augmented Jammy’s popularity to a large extent, and quite a few other producers quickly launched their personal editions of the riddim, along with many other different vocalists. Ragga is regularly applied as a synonym for dancehall reggae, but more characteristically, it is applied for a dancehall with a deejay chatting instead of singing on top of the “riddim”.
