Talk:reggae

Etymology

Reggae historian Steve Barrow credits Clancy Eccles with altering the Jamaican patois word streggae (meaning "loose woman") into reggae. However, Toots Hibbert said:

There's a word we used to use in Jamaica called "streggae". If a girl is walking and the guys look at her and say "Man, she's streggae" it means she don't dress well, she look raggedy. The girls would say that about the men too. This one morning me and my two friends were playing and I said, "OK man, let's do the reggay." It was just something that came out of my mouth. So we just start singing "Do the reggay, do the reggay" and created a beat. People tell me later that we had given the sound its name. Before that people had called it blue-beat and all kind of other things. Now it's in the Guinness World of Records.

98.123.38.211 21:56, 10 August 2024 (UTC)