Fattie Bum Bum gets regg’go treatment
AMERICAN singer Ras Lidj has put a regg’go music flavour on Carl Malcolm’s Fattie Bum Bum.
The project, released on January 31, is co-produced by both artistes.
“The reception of the song thus far has been amazing. It is being picked up by college radio stations in and around the Washington, DC and Baltimore areas, DJs, and mostly watching the response of the people who heard it for the first time while I was in Jamaica. Jamaicans say, ‘Big chune; me know the chune but a different riddim, me like the riddim’,” Ras Lidj told the Jamaica Observer.
According to the singer, regg’go Music is a contemporary fusion of roots dancehall/reggae and Washington, DC go-go music — a sub-genre of funk.
“Carl Malcolm is a key friend of mine. His wife, Aneeta Malcolm, has been the drummer for my band for the past five years, when she is not touring on the road with him. The concept of doing this particular song was almost a no-brainer; Carl has been a great guide and elder mentor to me and the regg’go movement as well; so as our regg’go band has become seasoned, I feel we earned his honour in granting us permission to redo his classic hit in this style,” he said.
Fattie Bum Bum was originally released in 1975.
Ras Lidj, whose given name is Larae King-Day, said he hopes to spread regg’go globally.
His other songs include All The East EP (2019), a regg’go treatment of Night Nurse, Rastafari Way, Do Good and Lil Drummer Boy.
