Video Game Riddim – Block 17 Productions

Block 17’s Video Game Riddim moves with a clipped, arcade-bright dancehall pulse, all lean drums and a playful edge that keeps the energy up without getting sloppy. The 2019 set is packed with nine artists across 16 cuts, but Camar Flava’s “Careful, ” Gangoolie’s “Gyal A Beat Dem, ” and Kareem New Wave’s “Nah Hear Dem” do the heavy lifting, especially with the raw versions giving each tune a rougher street push. There’s a familiar Block 17 feel here if you’ve followed their run into 2020, when they were already stacking up instrumentals like Steel Clip, Killa Village, and Jubelee; this one sits neatly in that sequence as one of the sharper dancehall entries in the catalogue, with the instrumental closing the set in clean style.