{"id":8344,"date":"2024-03-22T09:59:09","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T09:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=8344"},"modified":"2024-04-05T07:18:36","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T07:18:36","slug":"shaggy-claps-back-at-critics-over-his-style-of-reggae-likens-it-to-bob-marley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=8344","title":{"rendered":"Shaggy Claps Back at Critics Over His Style of Reggae, Likens It to Bob Marley"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reggae\/dancehall legend\u00a0Shaggy\u00a0says his success as an international artist brought much criticism as many of his fans and critics accused him of \u201cselling out\u201d reggae music.<\/p>\n

Shaggy first got noticed for his \u2018Oh Carolina\u2019<\/em><\/strong> reggae cover in 1993, and his success began with the Grammy Award-winning reggae\/pop cross-over album\u00a0\u2018Boombastic\u2019<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0in 1995. The rest is history, but not without the growing pains as he describes the pressure from critics when he became a cross-over artist.<\/p>\n

\"\"\u201cYou know when the purist used to hit me and say \u2018oh Shaggy is you know he\u2019s selling out he\u2019s doing this, he\u2019s doing that. I looked at it as being in good company because they said the same thing about Bob Marley,\u201d Shaggy said in a video posted to his Instagram account.<\/p>\n

Shaggy is one of the most successful artists of this generation as he bridged the gap between music before the technology and streaming era and pairs his career as an artist with being overall creative with voice acting and other ventures. The Jamaican legend has also taken on the mammoth task of mentoring younger artists in Jamaica through his Island Music Conference to ensure they understand their rights and are exposed to opportunities as Jamaican creatives.<\/p>\n

Shaggy\u2019s posture has been one where he has been sharing lessons from his own experience to ensure no gatekeeping.<\/p>\n

In his latest interview, the artist revealed that he was not bothered by accusations of being a \u201csellout\u201d, a Jamaican slang to describe someone who has turned their back on their people and is disloyal. According to him, he looked at\u00a0Bob Marley, who was accused of being a \u2018sellout\u2019 when he decided to share reggae music with the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey said the same thing\u00a0about Bob Marley. They called him a sellout. They said he was doing cross-over watered-down white people\u2019s music, you know. So ironic to this day, the very songs that they criticized are now the blueprint of what reggae music is today,\u201d Shaggy said.<\/p>\n

He added that his decision to cross over was conscious and deliberate as he didn\u2019t want to sound like the others and decided early that he wanted to brand himself differently despite the opinion of \u201cpurists.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo clearly, the guy was ahead of himself. Same thing with what I was doing. I was criticized for doing those styles of music, but I just couldn\u2019t do the same thing that Dennis Brown, Peter Tosh, and Bob Marley did, and the only way I could have done it and made my own mark was to do the music that was a little different. Step out. And do something that was hybrid so I could make that mark,\u201d Shaggy said.<\/p>\n

With multiple Grammys in his pocket and a career that has marked over three decades, Shaggy is arguably a force to be reckoned with, and it appears that he\u2019s not done yet as he is mentoring other talented artists like Teejay and giving them the formula for cross-over success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reggae\/dancehall legend\u00a0Shaggy\u00a0says his success as an international artist brought much criticism as many of his fans and critics accused him of \u201cselling out\u201d reggae music. Shaggy first got noticed for his \u2018Oh Carolina\u2019 reggae cover in 1993, and his success began with the Grammy Award-winning reggae\/pop cross-over album\u00a0\u2018Boombastic\u2019\u00a0in 1995. The rest is history, but not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":8336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[260],"class_list":["post-8344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-breakingnews"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8344","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\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8345,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8344\/revisions\/8345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}