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T.O.K.

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T.O.K. were a Kingston dancehall group formed in 1996 — Roshaun "Bay-C" Clarke, Alistaire "Alex" McCalla, Craig "Craigy T" Thompson and Xavier "Flexx" Davidson, now billed Ja Flexx — and were among the biggest Jamaican acts of the 2000s, working in four-part harmony at a point when dancehall was overwhelmingly a solo deejay's form.

"Chi Chi Man", "Footprints" and the album Unknown Language carried them well beyond Jamaica. The group announced it was finished in October 2015 and the four went to solo careers; they reunited in 2022, released "NPLH (Home)" with Shams the Producer, and were touring again in 2025 on the twentieth anniversary of Unknown Language.

T.O.K. and others at Chiemsee Reggae Summer, 2013Tobias Klenze · CC BY 3.0 · Source ↗

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Wikipedia; Jamaica Observer (18 October 2015); DancehallMag (13 April 2025); Reggaeville; VP Reggae.

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T.O.K. - Footprints | Official Music Video

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