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There are different trends in the reggae and dancehall music and Sizzla Colanji has epitomized all in his Jamaica songs.

Conscious reggae: This is typical of what Sizzla Music is all about. In the year 1992, there some issues in the music industry that resulting in another shift in the style. This time it was back to the roots, as some would say, to the cultural topics and Rastafarian preaching’s, this time the music was seen as “conscious reggae”.

Numerous factors had brought on this change including, violence in Kingston resulting in the death of DJ’s Dirtsman and Pan Head, a counterattack from the international market to Buju Banton’s anti-homosexual lyric and numerous artists turning Christianity.
With this newfound consciousness, the ragga scene became very popular and fresh singers and
DJ’s arrived on the scene. There were artist such as Tony Rebel, Garnet Silk, Rocker T, Sanchez, Luciano, Sizzla and Antony B. some other established and popular deejays, reinvent themselves and turned to Rastafarian faith and began chanting new conscious lyrics.

Reggae fusion: Later in Sizzla music types he had songs such as Run Out Pon Dem which fit in this category. This music genre was made popular in the 90’s, a combination of dancehall and/or reggae with other elements from other genres outside of Jamaica, it was said to have been established in North America, Europe and Jamaica. Reggae fusion is thought of as a subgenre of the dancehall and reggae music and is closely connected to the ragga music. Some of the genres outside of Jamaica that was included in this fusion were R & B, , rock n roll, pop, hip hop, alternative, drum and base, jazz, techno or house music.

Reggae fusion was said to be in use from in the early 70’s, because as far as then you had Jamaican Toots and the Maytals doing a song called “Reggae Got Soul”, this was mixed with funk guitar and Atlantic or Stax sound. At this time they did not attached a name to it, so it was referred sometimes like reggae pop or reggae funk, but always something with reggae as a prefix. Later in the 90’s when other artist started making that combination with other genres, the name “reggae fusion” was established.

Reggae fusion is characterized as a subgenre of reggae and sometimes as a fusion genre. It was called a reggae subgenre, because of the influences that derives from the Lovers rock and the Dancehall in the 80’s and 90’s. It is also used to classify artist who normally toggle between hip hop and the reggae, artist which includes Heavy D and Sean Kingston. There are some artists who will use instruments and DJ above it and cannot be classified as dancehall or reggae, such as Shaggy, Elephant and Beenie Man.

There are factors that explain why this genre rose to such popularity on the international markets. The most outstanding reason is that it was more marketable than the raw dancehall in the late 90’s in the U.S. The Dancehall was doing very well in the 80’s through to the middle of the 90’s and this success was achieved even with the hip hop and R&B prominence in the American market. But there was a shift in the late 90’s, the Dancehall lyrics changed to be more hardcore, which resulting in the use of the Jamaican idiom more heavily. Persons could not understand what most of the artist was saying, because this was not Standard English.

In finding creative ways to stay afloat in the American market, they started to fuse the lyrics and deejaying the style of dancehall with more hip hop and pop instruments.
This proved to be extremely successful as artist such as Beenie Man and Shaggy went to score major success in the US when they both release albums in 2000, even moving up the charts on the Billboard.

The music critics thought that this was because of the fusion which propelled the marketability of the music internationally. But whatever the reasons it has continued to be a force in the music industry and has continued to see more improvements and new materials even today. In this genre Sizzla music has created new levels of what Jamaican artistes and musicians can achieve in reggae and dancehall.

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