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Ragga-Bòday

An instrumental composition music incorporating elements of dancehall (or Ragga, short for the word Raggamuffin)

And DiaspoRara, style of (Haitian Root music) and Voodoo dance songs that's played without Verses, just repeated choruses, hooks and melodic tunes.

Key elements of Ragga-Bòday music

include include a blend of Dubsinging, DJsinging, chanted vocals and Calls and Responses and its extensive use of Haitian French-Creole, rather than Jamaican Patois and focus on the track instrumentals (or "riddims").

Characterized by and performed on traditional musical instruments such as:

Metal trumpets which are made from recycled metal, bamboo trumpets, Vaksin (vaccine) the vaccine perform repeating patterns in hocket and often strike their instruments rhythmically with a stick while blowing into them,

The Ragga influence can be felt through the use of pre-programmed music, similar to Dancehall "riddims".

The Ragga influence can be felt through the use of pre-programmed music, similar to Dancehall "riddims".

Which encourages dancing due to its use of dance-oriented rhythms which usually involve lots of frottage dancing.

The word was coined by Negre Marron Records' Founder, CEO and Label director René Guemps.
Hey Myrtha!

Are you going to the Ragga-Bòday concert with us on Saturday? It's gonna lit!!!
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Rara-Bòday 

The name is a portmanteau of the Afro-Haitian Rara and Rabòday, sub-genre of Rabòday Music which get its stylistic origin from Rasin music (Haitian Root Music).

Key stylistic element:
Vocals include a blend of SingRapping, chanted Vocals with lots of Collisions, Calls and Reponses which are sung in Haitian Creole, usually Feature a Folk-Lead artist, guest artist or Backing Vocalist or a Rapper who 'd contribute a guest verse.

Other Key elements:
Singable folk-based melodies that's loaded with raunchy, sexually explicit rhymes and cryptic, bawdy and pithy lyrics and full of "Voye pwen,” (Haitian Creole) or “sending a point.” (English) which means to indirectly accuse/speak of someone, to imply, to give a hint, to indirectly place the blame on an individual

The concept usually includes using Electromechanic musical instruments and Electronic Music Technology or Electronic Musical Instruments , which is distributed via digital audio formats over the Internet.

Rara-Bòday is often played in Afro-Creole Music Festivals, inghtclubs from mainly the Afro-Creole and Afro-Latino American and Crenglish speaking countries of the Caribbean, the Antilles such as Haiti, Dominican Républicain (DR) Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Cuba, Martinique, Dominica, Panama, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Trinidad
Brasil, Hondunras and Columbia as well as Canada, France, Western Africa and Haitian communities in the Untited States most notably New Orleans.
Hey Destin,

Is it true that Rara-Bòday musician s use the Rara-Bòday song s as a way to “voye pwen,” which in English literally means “sending the point"?

Frisbee body rolls 

In 1975 Ken Westerfield invented a Frisbee freestyle move call body rolls, (rolling the disc across out stretched arms and chest, or back), then introduced the move at a North American Series (NAS) tournament in Rochester, NY called the AFDO, (American Flying Disc Open). The hottest move of the day was called the Canadian Mind Blower. Westerfield would roll the Frisbee across out stretched arms and chest, to out stretched arms across the back (front to back roll). Today body rolls are an integral part of every freestyle routine
Articles on Frisbee body rolls are in several Wikipedia and FPA ( Freestyle Players Association) history of freestyle.

Body count 

1) How many people you've had sex with.
2) How many people you've killed
Popular kid: Hey looser! What's you're body count?
Quiet kid:idk like 5
Popular kid: Pfffft, no way!
Quiet kid: Nah, I think we're talking bout something different.

Ease my body 

A slang from mostly the Caribbean. It means to relieve yourself by passing gas/farting so that you would feel better, It also means to release any unwanted waste from the body so that you will be relieved.
Hey, bro l am feeling kinda gassy and bloated can you excuse me to ease my body?
That burger went through me can l use the bathroom to ease my body?
Ease my body by Slapstickity March 7, 2023

Hog Body 

A term said by drag queen, Adore Delano, on the 6th season a Rupaul's Drag Race. It means a body with a wide mid-section, and in the case of Drag Race, a mid-section that is not cinched. The first time it's used on the show is when Adore defends herself after a judge, Michelle Visage, critiqued her for not wearing a garment to cinch her waist.
Michelle Visage: Why is your waist not cinched?
Adore Delano: I just want to show my hog body.
Hog Body by your_slutty_mom May 16, 2020
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