ragga
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.88 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A subgenre of reggae and dancehall influenced by hip hop and digital production techniques such as sampling.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Tosh's brand of roots reggae, with its emphasis on uplifting anthems and melodic riffs, now sounds as dated as The Wailers' earliest incarnation as a straight-up ska band, especially when listened to alongside the shuddering bass of most contemporary ragga tracks."
- "The song samples Ricky Martin's hit Shake Your Bom-Bom but adds ragga's roughness. When Bam Bam comes on, the crowd goes wild."
- "A sub-genre of reggae, ragga is a modern Jamaican sound with ties to the oldest traditional music of that island-nation. The name is taken from the word “raggamuffin”, a term used for disenfranchised youth. One popular ragga singer called Half Pint said, “A lot of people interpret raggamuffin as if it [is]^([sic]) a criminal morality.”"
- "Fling a ragga riddim like it's '03"