Before gun-touting lyrics dominated dancehall music in the 1980s, Jamaican music had its share of satirists who reveled in the double entendre and poked fun at politicians. Ricky Di Lova longs for a return to those days.<\/p>\n
On his new song, \u2018Stand Pipe\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, the Florida-based Jamaican dabbles in sexual connotations, reminiscent of songs he listened to in his youth back home.<\/p>\n \u2018Stand Pipe\u2019<\/em><\/strong> offers a play on words. This style of writing has been done in Caribbean music on a whole going back decades with songs like Shaving Cream\u2019 in the \u201870s. It\u2019s time to bring back suggestive lyrics in music,\u201d said Ricky Di Lova, who produced the song for his Turbulence Intl Productions.<\/p>\n While \u2018Stand Pipe\u2019<\/em><\/strong> is his first song for 2025, he retains a busy recording and writing regimen. \u2018Stand Pipe\u2019<\/em><\/strong> is a result of those hectic sessions.<\/p>\n \u201cThis song is perfect for the summer and all-year long. The riddim brings a get up and dance vibe and the lyrics are fun. I\u2019m trying to bring some humor into dancehall so people can \u2018full joy\u2019 themselves,\u201d Ricky Di Lova explained.<\/p>\n Ricky Di Lova has been in the music business as an artist and producer for over 30 years. His introduction to music came through listening to sound systems in two communities \u2014 Majesty Gardens in Kingston, and Central Village, a community in nearby St. Catherine parish.<\/p>\n Since migrating to the United States, he has released several songs and produced \u2018riddims\u2019 such as\u00a0\u2018Should Have Known Better\u2019<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Before gun-touting lyrics dominated dancehall music in the 1980s, Jamaican music had its share of satirists who reveled in the double entendre and poked fun at politicians. Ricky Di Lova longs for a return to those days. On his new song, \u2018Stand Pipe\u2019, the Florida-based Jamaican dabbles in sexual connotations, reminiscent of songs he listened […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10801"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10821,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10801\/revisions\/10821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}