Shaggy

Shaggy turned dancehall into a pop passport without erasing his Kingston accent. A former Marine, with the raspy voice of a cartoon hustler, he moved through the 1990s and 2000s with a rare mix of humor, sex, reggae and radio calculation. Boombastic opened the door, Hot Shot took over the whole house, and then came alliances, comebacks and an artist who knows lightness can also be strategy.

Why listen to Shaggy?

Few artists have made street swagger sound so international without tearing it from the street.