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"A licky boom boom down": a white reggae MC from Toronto toasting so fast nobody could transcribe it, atop the American charts for seven straight weeks. It was infectious, it was baffling, and it was divisive enough that Jim Carrey parodied it on national television.
The Jamaican dancehall artist who put Kingston rhythms and patois on top of American pop radio. Sean Paul turned reggae into a staple of every club and school dance for five years straight: three number-one hits (one of them a Beyoncé collab), a Grammy, the sound of the mid-2000s.
The doo-wop bassline of "Stand by Me" under a Jamaican-American teenager crooning that beautiful girls have him "suicidal, suicidal" — the inescapable song of summer 2007. Every school hallway sang the hook; half of radio wasn't sure it was allowed to.