Started From The Bottom Riddim

“Started From The Bottom Riddim” keeps the idea pointed right in the title: ambition, survival, and the come-up, all cut through a dancehall lens. Cash Money Records lined up a tidy six-song set in 2013, and the sequencing plays the joke and the truth at once, with Alozade on “Lala By, ” Beniton Menacre on “Start New, ” Busy Signal’s “Me Deh Yah, ” Dockery’s “Started From The Basement, ” and Stylo G’s “Started From Jamaica” circling the same hustle from different angles before Drake’s original closes the loop. The riddim sits in that post-2010 era where Jamaican voicing and a global crossover reference could live on the same tracklist without forcing the point. Busy Signal sounds especially at home here, but Stylo G’s “Started From Jamaica” is the sharpest cut, turning the concept into a local answer with real bite.