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"The Stopper" — Cutty Ranks

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Cutty Ranks's 1991 title track for Fashion Records, and the record at the centre of his own long-running claim. He says he wrote the song that El Chombo took into Spanish in 1997 as "Dame Tu Cosita," and that when a 2018 remix with Pitbull and Karol G turned it into one of the most-watched videos on the planet, neither the credit nor the money followed him.

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Type: Recording / song →
Era: Dancehall and the digital turn →
Confidence: Probable
Sources: Jamaica Gleaner, 9 January 2026; Wikipedia, "Cutty Ranks"; Fashion Records discography.

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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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