Passport Buddy Riddim – 1992 – Father And Son

Father and Son’s Passport Buddy Riddim sits right in that early-’90s Dancehall pocket where sharp one-drop pressure meets sly, streetwise songwriting, and the label’s connection to King Jammy and John John gives it extra weight in the dance. The rhythm pulled in a deep bench of voices, but the cuts from Admiral Bailey, Beenie Man and Johnny Osbourne land especially well, each leaning into the riddim’s tough, mid-tempo swing in a different way. Riddim-ID also notes that the same 1992 rhythm was tied to a separate Ghetto Red Hot version, which helps place Passport Buddy in that busy Jammy-era production run. The sequencing moves from the harder, gun-talk cuts through to the looser, more playful tunes, so the whole set feels planned like a sound system side rather than a random compilation.