A fork of Rural Dictionary
1. A type of drum and bass music characterized by extremely fast drum programming, rolling and pitch-changing snares, reggae and various rastafarian/ ganja smoking samples, excessive use of the "Amen Snare", and absolutely soul-crushing basslines.
2. The best form of music ever created by man, NAY, ANY creature in the universe.
Me: Dude, last night I was smokin' a fat blizzie while listening to Soundmurderer's "Wired For Sound", which is my favorite ragga CD.
Joe: What's ragga?
Rag-a-muffin or raggedy street youth or street youth style
u look ragga
Being on a mad one, or being crazy
That boy over there has taken so much cocaine he is on a ragga tip
An instrumental composition music incorporating elements of dancehall (or Ragga, short for the word Raggamuffin)
And DiaspoRara, style of (Haitian Root music) and Voodoo dance songs that's played without Verses, just repeated choruses, hooks and melodic tunes.
Key elements of Ragga-Bòday music
include include a blend of Dubsinging, DJsinging, chanted vocals and Calls and Responses and its extensive use of Haitian French-Creole, rather than Jamaican Patois and focus on the track instrumentals (or "riddims").
Characterized by and performed on traditional musical instruments such as:
Metal trumpets which are made from recycled metal, bamboo trumpets, Vaksin (vaccine) the vaccine perform repeating patterns in hocket and often strike their instruments rhythmically with a stick while blowing into them,
The Ragga influence can be felt through the use of pre-programmed music, similar to Dancehall "riddims".
The Ragga influence can be felt through the use of pre-programmed music, similar to Dancehall "riddims".
Which encourages dancing due to its use of dance-oriented rhythms which usually involve lots of frottage dancing.
The word was coined by Negre Marron Records' Founder, CEO and Label director René Guemps.
Hey Myrtha!
Are you going to the Ragga-Bòday concert with us on Saturday? It's gonna lit!!!