Express Your Self Riddim – Various Artists

EXPRESS YOUR SELF RIDDIM produced by VARIOUS ARTISTS 2007

With 20 cuts and 13 voices in play, Express Your Self Riddim feels like one of those 2007 dancehall packages that leans hard on big-name energy and a lot of radio-ready reruns. Anthony B’s “Nuh Like We” and Beenie Man’s “Stop” set the tone early, while Vybz Kartel’s “Dis Bad Man” and Turbulence’s “Reason” keep the pressure on with the kind of clipped, militant delivery that suits a tough, forward-driving riddim. The sequence also gives room to Fanton Mojah, Perfect, and Teflon, so it never settles into a one-note shuffle; instead it moves between straight-up sound-system steppers and more melodic hustler talk. Closing out with the “Version” only underlines that this one was built for selectors as much as singers, and the bare-bones instrumental leaves the pattern hanging in a clean, play-it-again shape.

Express Your Self Riddim Tracklist:

1. Anthony B – Nuh Like We (Radio Edit)
2. Anthony B – Nuh Like We (Raw)
3. Beenie Man – Stop (Radio Edit)
4. Beenie Man – Stop (Raw)
5. Don Yute – Tuggy Ruggy
6. Earthworm – Real Bad Man Nah (Radio Edit)
7. Earthworm – Real Bad Man Nah (Raw)
8. Fanton Mojah – Eaty Eaty
9. Guidance Ft Teflon – Too Bad
10. Higher Trod – Too Regular
11. Perfect – Talk Up (Radio Edit)
12. Perfect – Talk Up (Raw)
13. Predator – Controversy (Radio Edit)
14. Predator – Controversy (Raw)
15. Teflon – Right Man Ting
16. Turbulence – Reason (Radio Edit)
17. Turbulence – Reason (Raw)
18. Version – Express Your Self Version
19. Vybz Kartel – Dis Bad Man (Radio Edit)
20. Vybz Kartel – Dis Bad Man (Raw)