{"id":7528,"date":"2013-05-20T09:51:20","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T13:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=7528"},"modified":"2015-01-07T13:33:26","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T17:33:26","slug":"coca-cola-bokkle-cipher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=7528","title":{"rendered":"Coca Cola Bokkle Cipher"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amazingly — given I didn’t know it has existed for a decade — my mellow Marvin Hall<\/a> dropped a YouTube bomb last night in a comment on my recent re-post, “School Bell Nuh Ring<\/a>“: he actually has video of the awesome impromptu dancehall freestyle session that the students from St. Andrew’s broke into on the day that we visited the school while a teacher’s strike loomed large. Check it out!<\/p>\n

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I just love this for so many reasons: they’re being clever, having fun, amusing themselves, teasing the teachers, riffing on a Shabba Ranks tune in fine DJ tradition, and using the simple but totally sufficient accompaniment of a soda bottle banging out that ol’ 3+3+2. <\/p>\n

Here’s the Shabba track that inspired their cipher. Even though it was already over 10 years old, you can see why the tune — and the video — would still be so resonant for Jamaican school kids back in 2003: <\/p>\n

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<3 Jamaica <3 Marvin <3\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amazingly — given I didn’t know it has existed for a decade — my mellow Marvin Hall dropped a YouTube bomb last night in a comment on my recent re-post, “School Bell Nuh Ring“: he actually has video of the awesome impromptu dancehall freestyle session that the students from St. Andrew’s broke into on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[402,381,408,407,95],"class_list":["post-7528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-jamaica","tag-kingston","tag-reggae","tag-video","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7528"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7532,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7528\/revisions\/7532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}