# The 9 Best Daggering Tracks of All Time A dance that took over a stretch of dancehall and then got that stretch banned. From 2006 the riddims ran fast and skeletal, the lyric described the dance instead of boasting around it, and in February 2009 Jamaica's Broadcasting Commission outlawed the whole subject on air. - **Origin:** Kingston, Jamaica, 2006 - **Tempo:** 85–110 BPM - **Also known as:** daggerin, dagga - **Tracks:** 9 - **Updated:** 2026-08-29 - **Canonical page:** https://waxonia.com/genre/daggering/ ## The list ### 1. [Vybz Kartel & Spice](https://waxonia.com/artist/vybz-kartel-and-spice/) — [Romping Shop](https://waxonia.com/track/vybz-kartel-and-spice--romping-shop/) *2008* Built on Ne-Yo's Miss Independent without asking, then recalled by EMI's lawyers and re-cut over a riddim of its own. In the weeks between the two versions a schoolteacher's newspaper column reached the Broadcasting Commission, and the February 2009 ban followed. The best record here, and the one that ended the run. [Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Vybz%20Kartel%20%26%20Spice%20Romping%20Shop) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=EIc3t_7_S6M) ### 2. [RDX](https://waxonia.com/artist/rdx/) — [Bend Over](https://waxonia.com/track/rdx--bend-over/) *2009* The dance's own anthem, and the reason a duo who had been cutting dancer records for years suddenly defined a subgenre. Instruction rather than seduction: it tells you what to do, and the riddim leaves room to do it. [Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/RDX%20Bend%20Over) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=y_pmBu_GcFI) ### 3. [Major Lazer](https://waxonia.com/artist/major-lazer/) — [Pon de Floor](https://waxonia.com/track/major-lazer--pon-de-floor/) *2009 · Mad Decent* Diplo and Switch's producer's-eye view, with Vybz Kartel on top and Eric Wareheim's video doing the exporting — a suburban cartoon of daggering that travelled further than any Jamaican footage of it. Two years later Beyoncé built Run the World on the same track. [Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Major%20Lazer%20Pon%20de%20Floor) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=j7IIAf0Bats) ### 4. [Spice](https://waxonia.com/artist/spice/) — [So Mi Like It](https://waxonia.com/track/spice--so-mi-like-it/) *2013* Five years on, the woman from Romping Shop returns with the subject in her own hands. Lighter riddim, sharper writing, and a chorus that argues rather than describes. It is the answer record the era never got while it was still allowed on the radio. [Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Spice%20So%20Mi%20Like%20It) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=3yHmiixs3qI) ### 5. [Aidonia](https://waxonia.com/artist/aidonia/) — [Hundred Stab](https://waxonia.com/track/aidonia--hundred-stab/) *2008* Cut on the Sky Daggering riddim, which tells you how fast the dance had become a product with rhythm tracks named after it. Aidonia's delivery is the quickest on this list and the least interested in charm. [Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Aidonia%20Hundred%20Stab) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=dtF33hd53jY) ### 6. [Mavado](https://waxonia.com/artist/mavado/) — [Squeeze Breast](https://waxonia.com/track/mavado--squeeze-breast/) *2007* A year before anyone used the word, and the apparatus is already assembled: the flat instruction, the sung hook doing what a chorus used to do, the riddim cut back to a kick and a shape. Mavado sounds mournful about it, which nobody else managed. [Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Mavado%20Squeeze%20Breast) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=ayj5Ynu-hxM) ### 7. [Mr. Vegas](https://waxonia.com/artist/mr-vegas/) — [Daggering](https://waxonia.com/track/mr-vegas--daggering/) *2008* The record that handed the thing its name, from the man least likely to — Vegas had spent a decade on crossover singles. Broader and funnier than what surrounded it, and proof that naming a genre is not the same as making its best record. [Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Mr.%20Vegas%20Daggering) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=dp_0p6Hc3_I) ### 8. [Busy Signal](https://waxonia.com/artist/busy-signal/) — [Up in Her Belly](https://waxonia.com/track/busy-signal--up-in-her-belly/) *2008* The finest technician of his generation spending three minutes proving it on material that offers him nothing. Worth hearing for the phrasing; the writing is the weakest thing on this list. [Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Busy%20Signal%20Up%20in%20Her%20Belly) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=_g8q-BgUHWo) ### 9. [PWFT](https://waxonia.com/artist/pwft/) — [All Daygering](https://waxonia.com/track/pwft--all-daygering/) *2026* The one record here that treats the dance as a discipline rather than a boast — ten years in training, a signature trick, hundred hundred hours like a footballer drill. It names Corsica Studios rather than anywhere in Kingston, and it makes the injury folklore the 2009 panic called scandal into the badge it always was on the floor. [Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/PWFT%20All%20Daygering) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=9rP-yyKaCjc) --- Hand-curated by Waxonia. We host no audio; all links point to streaming platforms.