{"id":794663,"date":"2019-04-09T14:12:01","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T20:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=820277"},"modified":"2019-04-09T14:12:01","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T20:12:01","slug":"shabba-ranks-super-cat-to-headline-caribbean-music-showcase-best-of-the-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/shabba-ranks-super-cat-to-headline-caribbean-music-showcase-best-of-the-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Shabba Ranks, Super Cat to Headline Caribbean Music Showcase Best of the Best"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/GettyImages-1081240290.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Jamaican <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/dancehall\/\" id=\"auto-tag_dancehall\" data-tag=\"dancehall\">dancehall<\/a> greats Shabba Ranks and Super Cat will headline the 13th annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/best-of-the-best-puts-a-spotlight-on-dancehall-101466\/\">Best of the Best concert<\/a>, taking place May 26th at Bayfront Park Amphitheater in Miami, Florida.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This year\u2019s event specifically pays tribute to Nineties dancehall with a lineup that boasts artists like Frisco Kid, General Degree and General B. The bill will also feature other artists from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/reggae\/\" id=\"auto-tag_reggae\" data-tag=\"reggae\">reggae<\/a> and soca worlds such as Bushman, Round Head, Skinny Fabulous and Noah Powa.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Tickets for Best of the Best are on sale via the event\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/bestofthebestconcert.com\/tickets\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a> with early bird prices available through May 1st. General admission tickets start at $49, while two different VIP packages are also available.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5RVQyYJ5odk?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cEvery year we look to celebrate Caribbean music and this year is no different,\u201d said co-promoter Steve \u201cJabba\u201d Beckford in a statement. \u201cWe decided to carve out an era, which so many of us love and reminisce on all the time. This era was groundbreaking for dancehall and reggae music in many ways\u2026 We had some of our biggest artists in dancehall during the Nineties era [and] many of them still reign today. We decided to pay homage to Nineties dancehall, with some of the hitmakers of the time. Not to mention for the first time in America the Emperor Shabba Ranks and Don DaDa Super Cat will be sharing the same stage.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/shabba-ranks-super-cat-best-of-the-best-concert-lineup-820277\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamaican dancehall greats Shabba Ranks and Super Cat will headline the 13th annual Best of the Best concert, taking place May 26th at Bayfront Park Amphitheater in Miami, Florida. This year\u2019s event specifically pays tribute to Nineties dancehall with a lineup that boasts artists like Frisco Kid, General Degree and General B. The bill will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-794663","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 00:47:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}