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Dancehall Sensation And Vendetta ‘Don’ Alkaline Seeks Top Prize With Second Album
Alkaline, his waters are “Ocean Wave,” and his movement is a “Juggernaut.” Around 2005, in the wake of a skyrocketing Vybz Kartel, “Dutty Wine” and the extreme sports of suggestive dance, “daggering,” a sound movement akin to Hip-hop’s Trap and Drill emerged in the concrete jungles of Kingston. Dancehall artists began relentlessly pushing content boundaries with a rugged and raw brand of Reggae.