![]() ![]() The rest of the song comprises bar after bar of the kind of gun talk that’s cemented Bounty’s place as “the Warlord” of the dancehall.but you’ll never hear it. By the time the infamous bassline comes in, chopped up under Bounty’s lyrical assault, it’s time to smack the needle again because, by now, wall-pounding will most likely have escalated to chair-flinging and table-flipping. If a second pass lets you hear the first actual lyrics, consider yourself lucky. It’s rare for the 45 to play past the treble-heavy opening clarion call of Jammy’s “Sleng Teng” riddim and Killer’s blood-curdling bawl of “Peeeeople dead….DEAD-UH!” before the needle is smacked off the vinyl and the venue descends into pure pandemonium. ![]() By that upside-down measure, Bounty Killer’s “Lodge” may be the all-time biggest tune you’ve never heard. One of dancehall’s central paradoxes, in fact, is that the bigger a tune is, the less you actually get to hear it. A true bashment anthem is recognizable less by its hook than by the chorus of whistles and wall-pounding it earns from an engaged audience. ![]()
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