One thing\u00a0Ricky\u00a0General\u00a0has learnt since he began his recording career 31 years ago, keep your ears to the ground. It not only keeps an artiste current but earns respect from their peers.<\/p>\n
That is what he does on \u201810 Million\u2019<\/em><\/strong> and \u2018Dolly Body\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, his latest songs. According to the veteran deejay, both singles have enjoyed \u201cnice rotation in di dancehall in New York and South Florida.\u201d<\/p>\n Ricky\u00a0General\u00a0produced \u201810 Million\u2019<\/em><\/strong> for his Orange Diamond Records, while he recorded \u2018Dolly Body\u2019 <\/em><\/strong>for Konsequence Muzik. He stressed the importance of keeping fresh in a competitive market. \u201cWi listen to different genres. Yuh have to move with di times \u2018cause things change,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Ricky\u00a0General\u00a0enjoyed a strong run during the 1990s with two dancehall anthems, \u2018Informer\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, which he did for Stone Love: and the self-produced \u2018Sketell Bomb\u2019<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n \u2018Sketell Bomb\u2019<\/em><\/strong> was a monster hit in Jamaica, Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago. It and \u2018Just Another Day\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, another of his songs, went number one in Barbados.<\/p>\n As a budding artist, Ricky\u00a0General\u00a0was influenced by Super Cat and Ninjaman. His first song, \u2018Slam Bam\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, was produced by deejay Red Dragon. Another of his early songs, \u2018I Am Back\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, was a collaboration with fellow deejay Mega Banton.<\/p>\n The 1990s were fruitful for\u00a0Ricky\u00a0General. In addition to \u2018Informer\u2019<\/em><\/strong> and \u2018Sketell Bomb\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, he scored with \u2018Just Another Day\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, \u2018Gun in A Barrow\u2019<\/em><\/strong> and \u2018Back A Yard\u2019<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 Ricky\u00a0General\u00a0also did several combination singles with Echo Minott, Dennis Brown and Frankie Paul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One thing\u00a0Ricky\u00a0General\u00a0has learnt since he began his recording career 31 years ago, keep your ears to the ground. It not only keeps an artiste current but earns respect from their peers. That is what he does on \u201810 Million\u2019 and \u2018Dolly Body\u2019, his latest songs. According to the veteran deejay, both singles have enjoyed \u201cnice […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3336","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\/3336","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=3336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3338,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3336\/revisions\/3338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}