Dancehall’s protocol boss Skeng Don, is said to have one of the UK’s songs of the summer via his single ‘London’. This is according to the critics at noted British publication; The Guardian newspaper.
The UK-based media outlet has included the track among it its ‘Songs of Summer 2022′ playlist this year.
The list is the publication’s annual compilation of songs that were deemed to have been a massive impact in the UK through out the summer period and see’s the Spanish town native being named among some of global music’s biggest stars.
“Go down a Hackney backstreet or stroll along the River Lea this summer and at some point you’re likely to hear this gnarly celebration of the city blaring from a car or loudspeaker. Skeng is a rising and yet controversial dancehall rapper from Jamaica whose sound is far darker and more menacing than his peers; the critique says of the dancehall deejay.”
“it shares stylistic touchstones with popular London-centric rap styles like UK drill and similarly to many of those artists, Skeng raps about the realities of street life and has been accused of glamorising weapons and gang violence.”
The track which is a tributary ode to his the ‘Gang bang’ singer’s first tour in England earlier this year, was both recorded and a video created during his time in the country.
By all evidence clearly among UK’s dancehall fan base as well, as it has been likened to the popular London-centric rap styles like UK drill.
“It’s hardly a picnic tune but this track – which he apparently wrote in celebration of his first UK tour here in spring – hints at his comedy chops. It has a whiff of the People Just Do Nothing About it, opening with the line “Hello mate (bloody hell)”, while the video shows Skeng and friends waving around bottles of bubbly on quad bikes in a London park. The rest is, as they say, pure fire: though Skeng’s patois is distinctly thick and fast, it unfolds with serpentine precision over the instrumental’s plucky strings; the guttural purr of its refrain – “Lon-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun’ – lingers for days” Kate Hutchinson as per The Guardian.
The list includes some global music’s biggest name such Latin Music mega star Bad Bunny, rap’s current Queen B -Cardi B as well as head of music’s B Hive herself Beyonce.
The official music video for London was shot in the UK and has so far amassed over 8.4 million streams on YouTube alone.
The Taliban hitmaker joins Koffee’s and Sean Paul as the other two Jamaicans to have been on that list.
