JA influence on the world's music in 2013

So, this is a bit late, but I didn't have the time to do it last year, nor find it suitable at any other point this year. I'm not even gonna write up because its a waste of both our times. Straight links, couple embeds and a sentence or few about the notable ones.

Amplify Dot - "I'm Good" feat. Busta Rhymes samples Buju Banton "Champion"
MO - "Hot"
Tanika ft. Sneakbo - "Hooker Heels"
Daley - "Silly Games" - Janet Kay cover
Show N Prove - "Zimmer Frame" (samples Prince Buster "Al Capone")
J Spades ft DVS - Live Life (dancehall style mic chatting)
Giggs - Yes Yes Yes (first four bars of each verse), "Cool Nuh" ft. Wretch 32
Shy FX - "Soon Come" ft Liam Bailey
Ms Dynamite & Shy FX - Cloud 9
Ellie Goulding "Burn" #1
Sean Paul and The Saturday's "What About Us?" - UK #1
Stylo G - "Soundbwoy" - #18 - first UK bashment artist to top 40 in 10 years
Sneakbo - "Ring a Ling" - #21 (someone imitated Shabba Ranks' "Ting A Ling")
Sean Paul - "Other Side of Love" - #7

Rudimental's platinum-shifting album had a couple Jamaican influenced stuff like the drums on Emeli Sande-assited "More Than Anything" and drums on certain parts of "Right Here" and their dub-inspired "Solo". They also covered Paramore's "Now" + Bob Marley "Sun is Shining" in a ska style and fashion on Radio 1 Live Lounge

Miguel on Jools Holland - "Do You" x Bob Marley "Stir It Up" - vid isn't on Youtube.

Diddy went to Jamaica to experience the culture inna him body.

Beyonce put a slice of "Limb by Limb" into "Baby Boy" and got "Dutty Wine" trending via her Superbowl halftime show
Bruno Mars traced his hit single's influences "Locked Out of Heaven" back to The Police then back to reggae via the Marley's and special guest Rihanna at the Grammy's. His explicit reggae song is "Show Me"
BET Awards had a reggae segment with Chaka Demus & Pliers, Dawn Penn, Beenie Man and Elephant Man. 106 & Park did something for Carbbiean Day parade
Rihanna dancing to Busy Signal

Beyonce ft. Mr Vegas - Standing on the Sun
Asap Ferg "Shabba" + Shabba on the remix
Selena Gomez - "Like a Champion" samples Buju Banton "Champion"
Busta Rhymes - "Twerk It" ft. Nicki Minaj + remix feat. Vybz Kartel

Busy Signal + Major Lazer - "Bumaye". Their best song so far. Absolute shellings.

Eddie Murphy ft. Snoop Lion - "Red Light" isn't as cringe as it looks on paper. It's actually ok, considering
Drake - No New Friends (blatant result of listening to dancehall), "5AM in Toronto" uses Popcaan's "Y pree"
2 Chainz - "Feds Watching" produced of Pharrell on a Jamaican vibe. Someone at the end chatting patois.
A$AP Rocky - "Wild For The Night" produced by Skrillex on the reggae side of dubstep
French Montana - "Freaks" + Remix feat. Mavado, Wale and Rick Ross
Jay-Z - "The Crown" samples Sizzla "Solid as a Rock" / "Versus"
Kanye West "I'm In It" feat. Assassin / "I Am a God" samples Capleton / "Send It Up" samples Beenie Man "Memories" / there's one featuring Popcaan but I can't be arsed to find it.

Musiq & Syleena Johnson released a reggae album called 9ine. Snoop Dogg played dress up and renamed himself Snoop Lion for album Reincarnated.

Popcaan - "Unruly Rave" vid directed by one OVO guy
Drake in Mighty Crown dance
Mavado ft. Nicki Minaj - "Give It All To Me"
Lady Saw ft. Flo Rida - Heels On

Some European hits
Phar Phar - La Mig Rulle Dig
TopGunn - 21 - album hit #21 in Denmark
Djames Braun - Kvinder Og Kanoner - #28 in Denmark
MØ - Pilgrim - #11 in Denmark
Klumben - "Mit Hjerte" - cover of Wayne Marshall "My Heart" - #25 in Denmark

Cheek ft. Jukka Poika - "Jossu" - #1 Finland.
Nicholas Mayorca - "Mi Cancion" in Spain. Not sure on chart position but 4m views on YouTube.
Yandar - Te Pinaron Pajaritos - 7m views on YouTube.
Chaka y Rakata - "Raka Raka" this ran clubs in Havana, Cuba.
Prince Royce - "Darte un Besos" - 436m views on YouTube.

Burna Boy is basically a bashment artist based in Nigeria. His whole style. Explicit examples are "Smooth Sailing" and "Yawa Dey"(below)

Maleek Berry supplied Wizkid with a bashment-flavour for banger "The Matter"

Marvin Sparks x Raekwon interview

Wu-Tang's in-house "Chef" better known as Raekwon proved he is still a force to be mentioned alongside the hottest rappers in the hip hop game with the release of Only Built For Cuban Linx... pt. II - sequel to his 1995 debut album. Marvin Sparks caught up with the hip hop legend to discuss rapping for drug dealers, people caring "more about stats than raps", his inclusion in MTV's Top 10 Hottest Rappers list, and converting to Islam. Marvin Sparks: It has been almost fifteen years since the first Only Built For Cuban Linx, an album that was a 5-mic classic when The Source magazine held weight. Why did you decide make a sequel?

50 Cent premieres Rick Ross Baby Mother Sex Tape

If you aren't familiar with the beef between Pimpin Curly and Officer Ricky, get familyar! Originates from Rick Ross dissin 50 on The Inkredibles produced banger Mafia Music. "We're steppin on your crew 'til the motherfucker's crushed And making sweet love to every woman that you lust I love to pay her bills, cant wait to pay her rent Curtis Jackson baby mother aint askin for a cent Burn the house down, you gotta buy another..." Fifty responded with a (lame) diss to which Rick Ross issued a 24hour deadline to make another. Fif' declared war, telling Ricky he's going to end his career Fiddy's first step was to interview Ricky's first baby moms, Tia, talking slick about Ricky being broke, which was later backed up by a financial affadavit released by Fif'. Took her and her bestie shopping for mink coats. Second was going to head of Def Jam South DJ "We The Best" Khaled's mum's house and place of work. Why? Fif' claims Kh...

White band win Reggae Grammy x Koffee x Skillibeng

So a white American reggae band called Soja won the Best Reggae album award at the Grammy's? And you care because? You feel Jamaicans are losing reggae because the Grammy's (a white institution) gave their white American man award to a white American reggae band? You blame the Jamaican government for not showing enough love and support to the music because this is the result? But you don't realise you are giving the Grammy's that much power and don't see where the problem lies? Well let me tell you; the problem is within you. I understand the outrage. Jamaicans built the music and are rarely compensated for all the hard graft. There have been countless examples of the music being used by someone else, often to better results because we live in an ignorant and racist Western world. Historically, white reggae artists like The Police or UB40 are able to achieve better results in the white man's world than reggae artists that are far superior to them. Bruno Mars , J...

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