Extra Raw: the Best of Lady Saw

Performer: Lady Saw
Artist: Beenie Man; Ce'cile
Distributor: n/a

Notes: As one of the few female deejays in the largely male-dominated field, Lady Saw is virtually peerless when it comes to sexually charged toasts that hold their own against Jamaican dancehall's male heavy-hitters. Her albums of the `00s saw her exploring more socially conscious terrain in addition to her usual bawdy anthems, and her post-millennium-focused collection, EXTRA RAW: THE BEST OF LADY SAW, serves as a useful companion to her late-`90s released best-of, RAW.

Since its inception, Jamaica's dancehall culture has been known for its extreme displays of masculinity, male sexual bravado, and gangsta braggadocio, all of which made female DJ Lady Saw's rise to superstardom all the more significant. Debuting in the mid 1990s, Saw easily matched her male counterparts in terms of gusto and skill, and while her lyrical content was by no means mild (in fact it was "slack" enough to get her censored in Jamaica), it was from a distinctly female perspective. "The First Lady of Dancehall" opened the door for many other female dancehall singers, and even took home a Grammy in 2003 for her guest appearance on No Doubt's "Underneath it All."

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