Listen to CUTTY RANKS

Cutty Ranks (born Philip Thomas) is a former butcher that became one of the first to pose an actual challenge to the dominance in the ragga world to Shabba Ranks. A representative of the sound system genre in the early '80s, he joined with Donovan Germain's Penthouse label in 1990, with a stone voice sound, much like Shabba Ranks's, running over the "gun talk and slackness" common to this era of ragga. Shabba Ranks also makes use of relatively le...Read more