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Intro: Setting the Scene in Kingston
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The episode opens with Chuck and Josh in characteristically warm form, Chuck revealing that he clapped on beat 4 rather than beat 3 before recording — deliberately, 'just to make it super reggae.' Josh explains that this is called 'skenging,' a term with roots in Kingston slang for 'gun.' From there, Josh makes a definitive geographical claim: unlike jazz or blues, which have contested multi-regional origins, reggae came from exactly one place — Kingston, Jamaica — with no ambiguity whatsoever. [1] — Josh "Where'd jazz come from? Where'd blues come from? Well, it came from here and here. No, reggae 100% came from Kingston, Jamaica." 02:30 The hosts establish the timeline early: reggae is, on the grand scale of music history, a remarkably young form, with 1968 widely cited as its birth year.
Most music historians point to 1968 as the year reggae was definitively born, marked by songs like Desmond Dekker's 'The Israelites' and the first use of the word 'reggae' by Toots and the Maytals.
