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Lt. Stitchie Interview - Major Label Success, Return to Dancehall, Christianity & New Album
04/28/2019 by Angus Taylor
In Part 2 of our interview with Lt. Stitchie, he talks about international major label success, returning to the dancehall in the 90s, his conversion to Christianity and his new album Masterclass…
You recorded your first album for Jammys in 1987.
Wear Yuh Size for Jammys. It was called Wear Yuh Size in Jamaica but also named Great Ambition by Jammys for overseas. I don't know the wisdom in that, I'm still young in the business (laughs) but that's how Jammys decided to get it done.
How did you first decide to start using different voices for different characters in the same tune?
Because of the same story Dulcimina [JBC radio serial on air 1967-1980]. The same story on the radio where I got the name Ranking Noseworthy. Noseworthy was a character. This is a story where one person had sev
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“THE POWER OF DETERMINATION,” THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF LIEUTENANT STITCHIE!
STITCHIE… traces his journey from dancehall star to spiritual man in the autobiography
HAILED as an original when he entered the dancehall arena in the 1980s, deejay Stitchie gave secular music a break a decade later and became a Christian.
He traces his journey from dancehall kingpin to spiritual man in the autobiography, The Power of Determination, released in December by his Drum and Bass Publishing.
“One of my key ambitions is to share the word of God not just in churches with their congregations, but also with those in the dancehalls through the gift God has given me,” said Stitchie through a statement.
Stitchie is scheduled to balance genres on January 18 by performing on Rebel Salute in Priory, St Ann.
Born Cleve Laing, Stitchie started his career on the Spanish Town sound system circuit in the early 1980s as Lieutenant Stitchie.
He topped local charts in 1987 with
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Interview with ... Lieutenant Stitchie
As the number 1 deejay on Stereo One sound struktur, I had many clashes with other sound systems and their dj's and I defeated them all. I've never lost in a lyrical showdown since the infancy of my career to this day and my lyrical prowess and supremacy has never been in question from then, even until current. I've changed the face of dancehall music from being just about rhyming to writing stories using colorful adjectives, figures of speech; like similes, metaphor, personification and so on. I introduced lyrical styles by spelling while delivering a powerful message in a song, stuttering deliberately while flowing on a rhythm flawlessly, speed rapping lyrics on a rhythm at tremendous pace without losing the tempo and simultaneously, delivering the lyrics with tydlig förståelse and not a babel. I introduced lessons; like biology, english language, west indian history and so, from high school curriculum to dance