“I didn’t expect anyone to unearth this track for something like a crime or drama series and use it,” he continued. The slang ‘kuff’ referred to the power of my lyrics that could, figuratively speaking, knock out any guy that tried to attack,” Chaka Demus told The Gleaner.
“When I first wrote Original Kuff, it was about clashing in dances, nothing related to what this series is about. She finds the body of a murdered woman, which launches an investigation by detectives, played by James Badge Dale and Dohn Norwood, into Cape Cod organised crime. The series stars Monica Raymund as Jackie Quiñones, a national marine fisheries service agent in Massachusetts who abuses alcohol and drugs. There's also Mexican cumbia (Banda Zeta), Puerto Rican mambo (Tito Rodriguez), doo-wop (El Dorados and DeCastro Sisters), old-timey revivalists (Carolina Chocolate Drops), garage-punk revivalists (Living Things), hip-housers (Outhere Brothers), South African rave-hop reptiles (Die Antwoord) and more.Ragga dancehall still packs some power, says veteran recording artiste Chaka Demus, whose 1980s single, Original Kuff ,became part of the track list for the Starz crime drama series, Hightown. Bellini's "Bum Bum" and Johnny Lamprecht & Trommelzauber's "Bom, Ubom, Ubom" appear to both be soccer chants by German groups trying to sound tropical. But did you realize dancehall reggae toasters Yellowman, Sister Nancy and Chaka Demus & Pliers all have "Bam Bam" numbers, as did reggae forefathers Toots & the Maytals before them? Old-school Jamaican soca (Byron Lee and the Dragonaires' "Sugar Bum Bum") and new-school Nigerian dancehall (Timaya's "Bum Bum") are not immune, either.Īnd that's only the beginning! The Jimmy Castor Bunch's funk-rock boogaloo 1976 cover of Exuma's Bahamian junkanoo "Bom Bom" and Trio's deadpan 1983 German dada-wave "Bum Bum" are irresistible, when you get to know them, and Sam and the Womp's Balkan-Brit 2012 grime-pop Euro-hit "Bom Bom" is not far behind. You no doubt already know a few of these: The Black-Eyed Peas' "Boom Boom Pow" for sure maybe Britney Spears' "(I Got That) Boom Boom" with Ying Yang Twins, or Lil Kim's "Shake Ya Bum Bum," or Selena's "Bidi Bidi Bom Bom," or John Lee Hooker's shoot-ya-down hard blues classic "Boom Boom" in either his original 1962 version or the Animals' 1964 Brit-invasion cover, or the heavy-boogying 1979 rock radio smash "Boom Boom (Out Go the Lights)" by Pat Travers. Its sibling syllables "bom bom," "bum bum" and "bam bam" (plus assorted shuffled combinations thereof) have proven popular as well, serving as surrogate drumbeats in songs - especially songs for dance parties - all across the planet, as this rather ridiculous playlist attests. Its definition undoubtedly shifts a bit depending on context and nationality - though butts and bombs are recurring themes - but "boom boom" seems to be a kind of universal musical language.
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