I love to dance. Love dancing to dancehall. Sometimes I wonder if some of the music I like is too grimy, “street” or whatever for some, ahem, more academic types but…

On nights like this where I’m pulling an all nighter to get some writing done, some dancehall sounds just right. Like this song from Lady Saw.

I promoted a show for her once, in Durham in the mid 90s. The place was packed. She took forever to get of the bus, then kept complaining about her stomach hurting on stage…

She grimaced, half gyrated and growled through a fifteen minute set, but kindly stopped on her way out when I wanted to talk to her and gave me her number in Jamaica in case I ever needed to speak with her again.

I’m glad I wasn’t the main promoter of the show, because I would have been pissed at having to pay her two thousand dollars for a fifteen minute show, but since I wasn’t I thanked her for her info, and wished her well.

This song in this fan made video is one of the songs she performed in those fifteen minutes, and at the time was one of her biggest tunes. And she is still going strong in the industry unlike many of her cohorts.

Out of all the female dancehall DJs out there, Lady Saw is easily my favorite, and this is one of my favorite songs by her. A classic. Some people think it’s called “Ninja Bike” but is actually called “No Long Talking”.

Lady Saw – No Long Talking.mp3