Recording
Romping Shop
Vybz Kartel & Spice
- Released
- 2008
- On one list
- Daggering
- Updated
- 2026-08-29
Ranked No. 1 in Daggering
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.
Analysis
8 sections, no single moment the energy jumps to.
- Tempo
- 112.3 BPM
- holds throughout
- Dynamic range
- 1.2 dB
- compressed hard — very little between the quiet and the loud
- Length
- 3:34
- measured from the YouTube master
The record, end to end
Click the track to jump · ← → move between sections
- 0:00Apeak0
- 0:48Bsteadybar 23
- 1:08Apeakbar 32
- 1:31Bpeakbar 43
- 2:14Apeakbar 63
- 2:38Cbreakdownbar 74
- 3:00Apeakbar 85
- 3:23Doutrobar 95
0:00 · A · peak
sits at the top of this record's range · sung · one of 4 stretches of the same music (A)
- Lasts
- 0:48
- Energy
- 98
- Brightness
- 31
- Density
- 75
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
holding a level — the groove, neither rising nor falling · sung · one of 2 stretches of the same music (B)
- Lasts
- 0:20
- Energy
- 82
- Brightness
- 100
- Density
- 54
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
sits at the top of this record's range · sung · one of 4 stretches of the same music (A)
- Lasts
- 0:23
- Energy
- 100
- Brightness
- 69
- Density
- 37
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
sits at the top of this record's range · sung · one of 2 stretches of the same music (B)
- Lasts
- 0:43
- Energy
- 88
- Brightness
- 87
- Density
- 48
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
sits at the top of this record's range · sung · one of 4 stretches of the same music (A)
- Lasts
- 0:24
- Energy
- 100
- Brightness
- 64
- Density
- 35
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
energy falling away mid-record, percussion thinning · sung
- Lasts
- 0:22
- Energy
- 80
- Brightness
- 0
- Density
- 100
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
sits at the top of this record's range · sung · one of 4 stretches of the same music (A)
- Lasts
- 0:23
- Energy
- 99
- Brightness
- 64
- Density
- 34
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
the closing fall · instrumental
- Lasts
- 0:11
- Energy
- 0
- Brightness
- 27
- Density
- 0
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
Brightness and density are scored against this record's own sections, not against music in general — they say how its parts differ from each other, and nothing about how it compares to anything else.
- drums
- the drum kit, separated from the mix
- bass
- the bass part, separated from the mix
- vocals
- the voice, separated from the mix
- other
- everything else — synths, guitars, keys, strings
Separated into parts by a source-separation model, so each lane is the instrument it names.
- peak
- sits at the top of this record's range
- steady
- holding a level — the groove, neither rising nor falling
- breakdown
- energy falling away mid-record, percussion thinning
- outro
- the closing fall
Measured from the YouTube master on . Section labels describe how the energy of the recording moves, not its musical form — a machine can see loudness climb and jump, it cannot hear a chorus arrive. Anything we were not confident enough to state is left out rather than shown with a caveat.