{"id":11065,"date":"2025-07-25T11:55:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T11:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=11065"},"modified":"2025-07-25T11:55:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T11:55:13","slug":"celebrating-the-sleng-teng-at-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=11065","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating the Sleng Teng at 40"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To mark the 40th anniversary of the Sleng Teng rhythm, VP Records will release a seven-inch vinyl edition of <strong><em>\u2018Under mi Sleng Teng\u2019,<\/em><\/strong> the song by Wayne Smith that spearheaded its remarkable success.<\/p>\n<p>A release from the Queens, New York-based company gave the release date of the song as August 22. It will be serviced to sound system operators globally<\/p>\n<p>The VP Records reissue is part of big plans for Sleng Teng\u2019s latest milestone. Lloyd \u201cKing Jammy\u201d James, who produced the song, says he will release a <strong><em>\u2018Sleng Teng\u2019<\/em><\/strong> Worldwide album featuring artists from around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Jack Reuben, manager for the legendary producer, hinted of things to come.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe line-up for this album reads like a dream team, I won&#8217;t drop names but rest assured it will be worth the wait,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>While King Jammy is credited as producer of the Sleng Teng, the beat was actually created in late 1984 by musician Noel Davey at the producer\u2019s recording studio in Waterhouse, Kingston.<\/p>\n<p>Smith\u2019s song was the first release on the uptempo rhythm which helped spark dancehall music\u2019s digital age. Other songs on the Sleng Teng include <strong><em>\u2018Under mi Fat Thing\u2019<\/em><\/strong> by Anthony Redrose and <strong><em>\u2018Buddy Bye\u2019<\/em><\/strong> by Johnny Osbourne.<\/p>\n<p>The seven-inch <strong><em>\u2018Under mi Sleng Teng\u2019<\/em><\/strong> is one of several songs that will be reissued by VP Records this summer. Others include <strong><em>\u2018We Nah Leave\u2019 <\/em><\/strong>by John Holt, a King Jammy-produced version of Junior Murvin\u2019s <strong><em>\u2018Police And Thieves\u2019,<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>\u2018Hang on To Your Love\u2019<\/em><\/strong> by The Tamlins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To mark the 40th anniversary of the Sleng Teng rhythm, VP Records will release a seven-inch vinyl edition of \u2018Under mi Sleng Teng\u2019, the song by Wayne Smith that spearheaded its remarkable success. A release from the Queens, New York-based company gave the release date of the song as August 22. It will be serviced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11065","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\/11065","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=11065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11066,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11065\/revisions\/11066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}