3. Inner Circle and Chronixx – News Carrying Dread
“The Bad Boys of Reggae” Inner Circle invited current-day reggae artists including Jesse Royal, Bugle and Assassin to their Circle House Studio in Miami to voice a new version of their Tenement Yard riddim made famous by Jacob Miller. Chronixx’s “News Carrying Dread” was the cream of the crop, a cautionary tale about talking too much that carried a ’70s classic seamlessly into 2015. —Jesse Serwer