Raggamuffin
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Raggamuffin (or ragga) is a kind of reggae rap that includes digitized backing instrumentation. It is a form of dancehall, and has been popular since the middle of the 1980s; (Under Me) Sleng Teng (Wayne Smith; 1985) is usually recognized as the first ragga song. The instrumentation is usually behind dub singing, which is similar to rapping in its focus on rhythmic, assonating and rhyming words.
Ragga is the short form of raggamuffin, a term which held its present musical connotations since the late 1980s or beginning of 1990s. The term raggamuffin is derived from the Middle English personal name [Ragamuffyn], which was usually employed in an insulting manner towards street children. The word later came to mean a person who is shabbily clothed and dirty, often applied to orphans. It was used in this way to describe Kingston ghetto youth, and the youth themselves took on the term to describe their new music.
Raggamuffin meaning & definition 1 of Raggamuffin.
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A homeless or poverty-stricken child. Usually refers to those kids you see in movies set in the 1800s, with those gloves that are cut off at the finger-tips and that wear those beret-like caps. Usually brown-haired and big-eyed.
Raggamuffin meaning & definition 2 of Raggamuffin.
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a word some rastas use to call people instead of their names
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Its an old fashioned chav. Its a sort of person who gets away with everything and is hated by adults.
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anyone who lives in trash can, uses mcdonalds burger wrappers for blankets at night, drinks from puddles, and/or chooses to dress in such a way that makes them look sloppy/disheveled.
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Apache Indian is the stage name of reggae dee jay Steven Kapur. He introduced bhangra raggamuffin also known as bhangramuffin - to the World with his first album No Reservations , which featured rapper Tim Dog and spawned the massive hit Boomshackalak.
Apache Indian merged raggamuffin with Indian music as well as influences from mainstream pop and hip-hop. Born in Handsworth, Birmingham, England, Apache Indian started a trend that has found a huge following.
He is the only Asian to date to have seven Top 40 Hits on the mainstream British charts. Stylistically, Apache Indian moved from mixing Indian music with raggamuffin and hip hop to more traditional forms of reggae on his most recent album, Karma.Apache Indian has recorded with Boyz II Men, Blackstreet, Wreckx n Effect, UB40, US chart topper Sean Paul, Maxi Priest, General Levy, Brian and Tony Gold, Shaggy, Yami Bolo, Boy George, A.R. Rahman, Sameera Singh. Asha Bhosle and Pras of the Fugees.Raggamuffin meaning & definition 6 of Raggamuffin.
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An old pirate word that means [scoundrel]. A troublesome person, mainly a child. A poverty-stricken person.
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The act of grating cheese on your partner in the most intimate of moments!
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- In Jamaica people conjugate around in a large circle to smoke marijuana. Often times, they are smoking blunts that may very well be the size of your forearm. If there is a foriegner in the circle, when the blunt is passed to them, if the person can not hit it and starts coughing, the people start looking at him/her strangley. When it comes around to them again, if they fail to hit it a secound time, then the people will probably start to call him/her names. Raggamuffin is one of the most popular names to call a person who cant hit whatever is being smoked without coughing.
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