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10 minutes agoMeryl: La Dame
For the past year, whenever someone has asked what music I'm most excited about right now, I've asked whether they've tuned into Martinican shatta. French West Indian dancehall rap is bold, loud, outrageously sexy, and impossible to pin down, channeling a unique constellation of rhythmic heritage (dancehall, trap, zouk, soca) into beats that demand you shake and hustle. The production on MOLIY's 2025 smash "Shake It to the Max" was inspired in part by shatta,
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