{"id":3575,"date":"2010-06-06T08:57:35","date_gmt":"2010-06-06T07:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/?p=3575"},"modified":"2012-03-08T22:05:32","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T22:05:32","slug":"2005-ugandan-dancehall-video-of-the-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/2005-ugandan-dancehall-video-of-the-week-2\/","title":{"rendered":"2005 Ugandan Dancehall Video of the week #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the second installment from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/2005-ugandan-dancehall-video-of-the-week-1\/\" target=\"_blank\">Uganda stash<\/a> is &#8220;Bell&#8221; by DJ Micheal.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"730\" height=\"548\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gSW-r2dV5BE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is pretty great on a number of levels. Firstly it features a gaggle of Ugandans hanging out in some top garms. Can you spot the guy in the Burberry cap? How about those dance moves?<\/p>\n<p>Secondly I really love the track, especially the unnamed female vocalist who is blatantly ripping off Lumidee.<\/p>\n<p>But finally, you have to dig DJ Micheal&#8217;s entrepreneurial spirit. Dancehall is often about self promotion, but here he grabs the mic and gives airtime to Bell Lager, presumably to help fund the filming.<\/p>\n<p>Once again details are bit sketchy, but I think we can safely say that the man&#8217;s work speaks for itself here.<\/p>\n<p>DJ Micheal is unsurprisingly also known as DJ Michael, and there are a few more vids from him on Youtube. Many of these were a bit poppy for my tastes (and the &#8220;bling&#8221; imagery is even more grating in a Ugandan context than a US\/UK one) but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jnrlvnrqyG0&amp;feature=related\" target=\"_blank\">Muko Muko<\/a> is worth checking&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the second installment from the Uganda stash is &#8220;Bell&#8221; by DJ Micheal. This is pretty great on a number of levels. Firstly it features a gaggle of Ugandans hanging out in some top garms. Can you spot the guy in the Burberry cap? How about those dance moves? Secondly I really love the track, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/2005-ugandan-dancehall-video-of-the-week-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;2005 Ugandan Dancehall Video of the week #2&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reggae"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5045,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3575\/revisions\/5045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}