It’s a big sound clash in Half Way Tree as Papa Jaro takes on one time champ Daddy Gemi, and it’s a case of the new school running things.
Most people have Jaro as winners of the clash, Mr Harper told us that indeed Jaro came out on top this night in Skateland.
Lyrically Jaro’s deejays were miles ahead and personally I prefer Ainsley’s selection. We have 2 parts to the Gemini side
here so you can make up your own minds.
Highlights include some wicked Johnny Osbourne dubs including the massive ‘Skateland murderer’ over the ‘real rock’ rhythm and ‘Papa Jaro sacrifice the barber’ over the ‘Ali baba’. Another highlight is when Ainsley drops the Anthony Johnson dubplate
special ‘she’s my baby’ over the ‘full up’ rhythm and Supercat dedicates it to “all DJ’s who run off them mouth”
then you hear him say to Ainsley off the mic “just mix me down proper and me gwine fix the bwoy Squiddly’s business” Over the version the apache gets the crowd bawling forward when he drops pure almshouse lyrics straight to his head. Early B is in a rare almshouse mood also as he tells the Skateland massive that Squiddly got his gold chain from pirating ‘history of Jamaica’ before
dropping a dread version of his ‘visit of Selassie I’ in which he gets in some cussing of Squiddly & Peter Metro.
This is a classic session and it features Jaro in top form, essential stuff