Battleship Riddim – Da Wiz / Sniper Records

Battleship Riddim comes in hard and militant, with the title doing exactly what the music promises: tense dancehall built for warning shots and badmind talk. Da Wiz and Sniper Records line up a busy 2012 set with voices from Star Khaliba, Richest, Destiny, Prince Pin, Merital Family and Que Da Wiz, and the sequence keeps the energy moving through cuts like “Funeral Bell, ” “Badmind, ” “Battlefield” and “Watch Yuh Step. ” The release also closes on “Battleship Riddim” itself, which gives it that proper producer-version finish instead of ending cold. Most of the songs lean into threat, survival and street politics, so the whole thing plays like a compact slice of early-2010s hardcore dancehall. It was released in 2012 and listed with 13 tracks, including the version cut from Da Wiz.