Kick Off Riddim (2016) – Suffarah Ent Track Starr Music Group

The Kick Off Riddim comes in as a hefty 15-track dancehall package, with a cast that mixes raw cuts and radio edits and keeps the energy moving from one voice to the next. Di Artist Redd’s “Me Name Weh Me Name” has that blunt, no-nonsense attitude you want from a dancehall cut, while Glanza’s title tune lands with the sort of quick-hit bounce that makes a riddim feel like it’s moving in real time. Munga’s “Free Up” with Alandon also adds a sharper edge, and that track was already getting picked up in 2016 conversations around the riddim. Produced by Suffarah Ent and Track Starr Music Group, it sits neatly in that mid-2010s wave of compact, club-ready Jamaican projects where the idea was to keep the selectors busy and the dancers locked in.