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Cutty Ranks

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Cutty Ranks (born Philip Thomas, 1965) is a Jamaican deejay from Kingston who, having worked as a butcher, became a pioneer of hardcore dancehall in the late 1980s and 1990s with a gruff, aggressive delivery. He broke through with tracks such as 'The Bomber' and 'A Who Seh Me Dun', and his 1991 debut album 'The Stopper' was released by Britain's Fashion Records. His records, including 'Limb by Limb', were later widely sampled in jungle, drum and bass and hip-hop.

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Type: Person (artist, selector, producer…) →
Era: Clash and 1990s spectacle →
Confidence: Probable
Sources: Wikipedia; AllMusic.

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Cutty Ranks - Limb by Limb (Original Mix) (Official Video - 60 FPS)

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Official youtube upload (channel: Fashion Records); embedded as a discovery-only reference pending editorial review.

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Cutty Ranks — "The Stopper" (Fashion Records, 1991)

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Uploaded by FashionRecordsReggae, the channel of the label that released the record -- a rights-holder upload, and the record Cutty Ranks says "Dame Tu Cosita" came from.

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Pitbull x El Chombo x Karol G — "Dame Tu Cosita" ft. Cutty Ranks

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The 2018 remix that turned a 1997 Panamanian record into billions of views, uploaded by Ultra Records, its label. Note the credit line: Cutty Ranks is on it, which is not the same thing as being paid for it.

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Recordings

Limb By Limb - Cutty Ranks

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Official spotify upload; embedded as a discovery-only reference pending editorial review.

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In stories

Story · Well supportedWho owns the riddim?

A rhythm built in a Kingston studio in 1989 travelled to Panama, through New York, into San Juan, and became the pulse of the biggest Spanish-language pop music on earth. A Los Angeles court is now preparing to put the question of who owns it to a jury.