Toppa Top 10 Archives - Page 16 of 20

Toppa Top 10: The Best Fake Reggae Songs

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton and Jesse Serwer Last year, in one of our first ever Toppa Top 10s, we brought you a list of our favorite "fake reggae" tunes. Not "fake reggae" as in Matisyahu or Eminem ... Read More...

Toppa Top 10: Top Rum, Part Two

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton I have actually been meaning to put together a follow up to my Top 10 Caribbean rums post almost since it went up. I have been quietly collecting and noting more premium r... Read More...

Toppa Top 10: Ten Essential Mento Tunes

Words by Daniel Neely When the kings of mento music (and the longest-running band in Jamaican history)--The Jolly Boys--started making some serious noise again, we knew we had to get with our friend of... Read More...

Toppa Top 10: D.A. Wallach of Chester French’s Favorite Reggae Tunes

Selections by D.A. of Chester French, words by Eddie STATS Houghton When we asked D.A. to select his favorite reggae jams and fill out this double-selection Top 10 (see his Black Chiney Orchestra partn... Read More...

Toppa Top 10: Supa Dups’ Top 10 Jamerican Collaborations

Selections by Supa Dups, Words by LargeUp Not long ago, we premiered a pair of new tunes from Black Chiney Orchestra or, as they're also known, D.A. & the Supa Dups—as in D.A. Wallach of Chester Fr... Read More...

Toppa Top 10: Hollywood’s Worst Fake Jamaican Accents

Words by LargeUp Crew With the possible exception of awful Irish faux-brogues and phony Brooklyn I-talian talk, what way of speaking has been more consistently mangled by actors in the last 30 years than... Read More...

Toppa Top 10: The Best Caribbean Cigars

Words by Dion Peyre Our dude Dion Peyre is an outstanding individual repping Belize to the fullest as an accomplished businessman, promoter for the highly respected Brotherhood Promotions and general c... Read More...

Toppa Top 10: Ten Quintessential British Lovers Rock Tunes

Words by Jesse Serwer, Eddie STATS and Martei Korley With a documentary about the hidden history of lovers rock coming out this week (in U.K. theaters only, naturally), a primer on this somewhat misund... Read More...

Toppa Top 10: Teddy King & DJ Gravy’s Top ’90s Hip-Hop x Dancehall Remixes

Words by Teddy King and DJ Gravy Recently, our own DJ Gravy and DJ Teddy King of Boundless NY partnered on Back in Time, a mixtape gathering some of the best hiphop remixes of '90s dancehall tunes. As yo... Read More...

Toppa Top 10: Top 10 Jamaican Country Tunes

Words by Jesse Serwer Today sees the release of Reggae Gone Country, VP Records' compilation featuring Busy Signal, Beres Hammond, Freddie McGregor and other Jamaican artists covering country and western... Read More...

Fred Locks Presents the Toppa Top 10 Marcus Garvey Songs

Words by DJ Gravy, Photos and Video by Martei Korley As we mentioned the other day, we--along with a lot of other folks--are celebrating the birthday of Marcus Garvey (... Read More...

Toppa Top 10: Schlachthofbronx’s Top 10 Carnival Tracks

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton There is definitely some kind of moment happening around soca these days--a cross-pollination of ideas from house and UK funky that is threatening to breed its own Trinitech... Read More...