The buccaneers were pirates who attacked Spanish shipping in the Caribbean Sea during the late 17th century.
The term buccaneer is now used generally as a synonym for pirate. Originally, buccaneer crews were larger, more apt to attack coastal cities, and more localized to the Caribbean than later pirate crews who sailed to the Indian Ocean on the Pirate Round in the late 17th century.
The term buccaneer derives from the Caribbean Arawak word buccan, a wooden frame for smoking meat, preferably manatee. From this became derived in French the word boucane and hence the name boucanier for French hunters who used such frames to smoke meat from feral cattle and pigs on Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic).English colonists anglicised the word boucanier to buccaneer.
About 1630, some Frenchmen who were driven away from the island of Hispaniola fled to nearby Tortuga. The Spaniards tried to drive them out of Tortuga, but the buccaneers were joined by many other French, Dutch and English and turned to piracy against Spanish shipping, generally using small craft to attack galleons in the vicinity of the Windward Passage. Finally they became so strong that they even sailed to the mainland of Spanish America and sacked cities.
Wallace Wilson (born January 17, 1978), better known by the stage name Red Rat, is a Jamaican dancehall reggae recording and performing artist. He was born in Saint Ann's Bay, Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica. He is known for his up-beat music, comical style, and signature catch phrase "Oh, No!".
Wilson's father was the guitarist for Byron Lee & the Dragonaires and two of his older brothers were professional musicians before him.
Red Rat's debut album, Oh, No.. It's Red Rat (1997) featured songs such as "Shelly Ann", "Dwayne", "Tight-up Skirt", "Cruise" (featured in the movie The Big Hit), and "Big Man, Little Yute". It became one of the best selling records from Greensleeves Records.[citation needed]
His second album, I’m a Big Kid Now, followed in 2000, with yet more hits and critical acclaim. His musical diversity and mainstream popularity led to a series of collaborations with artists such as Treach of Naughty by Nature, Kele Le Roc, Renee from Zhane, NEXT, British icons Groove Armada and his cousin, Canadian hip-hop artist, Dan-e-o.
Clifford Smith (born 1974), better known as Mr. Vegas, is a Jamaican dancehall star.
Smith was born in Kingston in 1974. The moniker "Mr. Vegas" was given to Smith by his schoolyard football-mates, who thought that he kicked the ball like a Las Vegas dancer. In his early years as a singjay, Vegas sang covers of Jamaican hits at local parties and shows, and acquired a reputation as a troublemaker. During a scuffle over stolen master tapes, Vegas was hit in the face with a crowbar and had his jaw wired shut for six weeks. Vegas claims that, after hearing Beenie Man's hit "Who Am I", he immediately demanded that his still-healing jaw be unwired, changing his speech pattern but allowing him to practice toasting.
He found fame in 1998 with hits such as "Yu Sure", "Jack It Up", and "Latest News". For his first major hit, Vegas played off of[clarification needed] "Who Am I" to create "Nike Air", which became a huge hit in Jamaica.[citation needed] The next single, "Heads High", followed its success in Jamaica with a chart run in the UK and a #69 peak on the US R&B chart, and Vegas became increasingly in demand as a guest artist by acts such as Sean Paul.[citation needed]
Intro: Ay, Ay! dem nah know sey wi dun move like King
Solomon inna dis time.
A whole heap a gal pon wi mind. Buccaneer!
Chorus: Plenty more nice gal out dere fi slam, one
million, two million.
Dolly house an stuckie a nah part a wi plan.
wi haffi sample every nation, sing along.
(repeat)
Verse 1: Mi sing, just di other day wi go pon a world
tour
twenty-tree artists plus mi twenty-four
di first place mi perform dat a Baltimore.
Dere so mi meet a rich gal come from Singapore
as di show dun di crew lef same time
mi feel kinda sad caw mi miss Yuki wine
but di next destination calm dung mi mind
mi sleep with a sweeter gal a North Caroline
go South Caroline an den stomp Tennessee
circle California then touch Miami
rest mi waistline a Washington D.C.
then gear up fi di gal dem inna New York City
Chorus X4
Verse 2: Well, call mi old dog if di whole a unno want
Yu fi see mi dung a Africa a trod
straight mi nuh saint,
as Bounty say mi will slam all di aunt
as mi talk bout dat it a rewind mi brain
back to do night when we a perform a Spain
di next day mi lef Margarita inna pain
di mudda an di cousin an di sista di same
>From china, an Japan
Italy, Switzerland, Germany, an Iran
South America an di Caribbean anywhere wi go wi have a
whole heap a gal.