However, Sizzla can be captured at his very best in the excellent "Fat & Yu Clean" and sees him in devastating form in the Doctor Marshall produced "Jerusalem". Solid efforts included are "Do What Jah Say aka Leaving Babylon", "Babylon Get Demolish" and "Battlefield".
Most of the Sizzla tunes gathered here are delivered over driving, hardcore dancehall riddims from producers such as Louis "Flabba" Malcolm, Cordell "Skatta" Burrell, Preston Onfroy and Winston "Weepow" Powell, to name a few.
Although still releasing modern roots tunes, Sizzla has more and more moved into the hardcore dancehall scene, which caused some controversy in recent years as he started to deliver "slackness" tunes. To call Sizzla's output in the years since then prolific would be an understatement as it truly has been phenomenal, even by Jamaican standards. At the same time producer Bobby "Digital" Dixon put out the equally excellent "Black Woman And Child". The latter released Sizzla's debut set "Burning Up", which was followed by the highly acclaimed, "Praise Ye Jah", his breakthrough album from 1997. There he built a local reputation on the Caveman Hi-Fi sound system, before he started to do recordings, first for the "Zagalou" label and then for Xterminator producer Phillip "Fattis" Burrell. Sizzla - real name Miguel Orlando Collins - was brought up by devout Rastafarian parents in the August Town district of east Kingston. Both artists' cultural oriented tunes have drawn notable attention on the Island as well as internationally and have received critical acclaim from reggae connoisseurs all over the world. Being two of the most prolific acts on Jamaica they have made a serious impact with songs that were fueled by righteous passion and contained fierce criticism towards Babylonian wrongdoers. Strongly influenced by the teachings of the Bobo Ashanti elders, Sizzla and Capleton - also known as Kalonji and the Prophet (also King Shango) respectively - have firmly established their names in the forefront of modern reggae and dancehall music since the second half of the nineties. ****CAPLETON - TOE TO TOE VOLUME 3 (WITH SIZZLA)****Īfter matching the likes of Mikey Spice with Garnett Silk and Glen Washington with George Nooks, this third volume of Jet Star's "Toe 2 Toe" series features the well-respected "firemen" Sizzla and Capleton in a head to head, toe to toe clash.
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