Mad Dog Riddim (2008) – John John Records

You can hear John John Records leaning into a sharp, stripped-down dancehall pull here, with Elephant Man’s “Dawg A Bark” and Vybz Kartel’s “Art A War” doing the heavy lifting while Lady Saw comes through with the sly bite of “Nastiness. ” The riddim has that tense, percussive edge that suits big-voiced deejays, and it’s the kind of 2008 juggling that keeps the energy moving without crowding the mix; even the title version feels like part of the argument. There’s a little extra history around it too, since this was one of John John’s revisits to the earlier Mad Dog idea, recast for the late-2000s dancehall moment. The set runs seven tracks in total, including edited cuts for the main songs and the bare riddim version, with the tracklist closing on “Mad Dog Riddim. ”