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Mavado - Mama
Mavado 3 years 10 months ago • 1,083 Plays Add to favorites -
Melxdie - Girls R Better (feat. Mavado)
Melxdie, Mavado 4 years 8 months ago • 1,974 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - Fresh Paint
Mavado, Chimney Records 4 years 11 months ago • 1,722 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - Nuh Failure (Ghetto Youths)
Mavado, Armzhouse Records 4 years 11 months ago • 1,313 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - Gyalis For Life
Mavado, Emudio Records 5 years 2 months ago • 1,567 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - Me Alright
Mavado, Ja Productions 5 years 4 months ago • 1,741 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - Big Like Jesus
Mavado, CR203 Records 5 years 4 months ago • 1,089 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - Dancehall Prophecy
Mavado, Ja Productions 5 years 6 months ago • 1,207 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado, Stefflon Don - Diamond Body
Mavado, Stefflon Don, Dj Frass Records 5 years 8 months ago • 1,671 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - Father God
Mavado, Keno 4 Star Productions 5 years 11 months ago • 3,688 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - Enemies
Mavado, Dj Frass Records 6 years 1 month ago • 3,106 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado Ft. Sean Paul - Sanctify
Mavado, Sean Paul, Troyton Music 6 years 1 month ago • 1,867 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - Dress To Impress
Mavado, Yellow Moon Records 6 years 1 month ago • 1,846 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - Slap It Up
Mavado, Deadline Recordz 6 years 1 month ago • 3,003 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - Red Rose
Mavado, Di Genius Records 6 years 4 months ago • 1,880 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - All Night
Mavado, Chimney Records 6 years 5 months ago • 1,646 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - Timer
Mavado, Dj Frass Records 6 years 5 months ago • 2,167 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado & Jahmiel - Badness
Mavado, Jahmiel, Chimney Records 6 years 5 months ago • 1,778 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - Night Falls
Mavado, Ja Productions 6 years 5 months ago • 1,301 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - Laugh And Gwan
Mavado, Lee Milla Productions 6 years 9 months ago • 2,162 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - Touch & Leggo (Crazy Glue Riddim)
Mavado, Dj Frass Records 6 years 10 months ago • 2,447 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - Ride All Night (My Kinda Girl)
Mavado, Chimney Records 6 years 11 months ago • 7,024 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - Fresh Cash (Money Mix Riddim)
Mavado, Good Good Production 6 years 11 months ago • 2,851 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - Forever (Forever Riddim)
Mavado, Armzhouse Records 6 years 11 months ago • 1,805 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - Memory (Obsession Riddim)
Mavado, UIM Records 6 years 11 months ago • 2,033 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - Careless Gal (HumBug Riddim)
Mavado, CR203 Records 7 years 1 week ago • 1,941 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - Way We Roll (Demarco & Popcaan Diss)
Mavado, Seanizzle Records 7 years 2 weeks ago • 6,908 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - Belt Buckle (Money House Riddim)
Mavado, Chimney Records 7 years 1 month ago • 2,130 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - Mama (Lighthouse Riddim)
Mavado, Ja Productions 7 years 1 month ago • 5,028 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado x Fire T YxB - Progress (Remix)
Mavado 7 years 3 months ago • 1,599 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado x Fire T YxB - Story (Ghetto Remix Live...
Mavado 7 years 3 months ago • 1,245 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - Triple Murda
Mavado, Dj Frass Records 7 years 3 months ago • 1,340 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - Get Up
Mavado, Marvoni Records 7 years 4 months ago • 2,778 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - Nuh Friend Fire (Vybz Kartel Diss)
Mavado, Di Genius Records 7 years 5 months ago • 2,141 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - Shatta Girl (Deejay Theory Tropical Mix)
Mavado, Armzhouse Records 7 years 5 months ago • 2,416 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - Mr. Dead (Vybz Kartel Diss)
Mavado, Di Genius Records 7 years 5 months ago • 3,263 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - Brawla (Vybz Kartel Diss)
Mavado, Ja Productions 7 years 5 months ago • 3,487 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - Beat & Teach
Mavado, Lee Milla Productions 7 years 6 months ago • 3,313 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - What You Gonna Do
Mavado 7 years 6 months ago • 2,076 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - Lowe Mi
Mavado, Dj Frass Records 7 years 6 months ago • 3,260 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - Dem Fraid (Popcaan Diss)
Mavado 7 years 6 months ago • 2,414 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - Dem Dead A Ready (Popcaan Diss)
Mavado, Dj Frass Records 7 years 6 months ago • 3,062 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - Funeral (Popcaan Diss)
Mavado 7 years 6 months ago • 3,146 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado Ft. Muskilla - Niggaz Dont Know
Mavado, Muskilla, Seanizzle Records 7 years 7 months ago • 2,368 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - Progress Remix (All The Way Up)
Mavado 7 years 7 months ago • 3,341 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - Dem Run Eeen (Popcaan Diss)
Mavado, Troyton Music 7 years 7 months ago • 4,402 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - Still Love U (Side Chick)
Mavado 7 years 7 months ago • 8,181 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - Fiesta
Mavado 7 years 8 months ago • 2,297 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - Money Girls & Fun
Mavado 7 years 8 months ago • 3,255 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - Go Fi Dem
Mavado, Mad English, 2Flashy Records 7 years 8 months ago • 1,559 Plays Add to favorites -
Alkaline Ft. Mavado - Farewell
Alkaline, Mavado 7 years 8 months ago • 7,583 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - Feel Like
Mavado 7 years 10 months ago • 2,813 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - Set The Trend
Mavado 7 years 12 months ago • 3,449 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - Drop Bomb
Mavado, Di Genius Records 8 years 3 days ago • 2,858 Plays Add to favorites -
Rihanna - Work Refix (Ft. Mavado)
Mavado 8 years 2 weeks ago • 4,842 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - Progress
Mavado, Mineral Boss Records 8 years 3 weeks ago • 2,818 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - So Bazzel
Mavado 8 years 4 weeks ago • 3,326 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - Big Bumpa Gal
Mavado, Dj Frass Records 8 years 1 month ago • 2,756 Plays Add to favorites -
Chimney Ft. Mavado - Nah Use Dem (Banx & Ranx...
Mavado, Chimney Records 8 years 1 month ago • 8,089 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado Ft. Vybz Kartel, Ace Hood & Future - I...
Mavado, Vybz Kartel 8 years 1 month ago • 4,756 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - Big League
Mavado 8 years 1 month ago • 2,415 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - In God We Trust
Mavado 8 years 2 months ago • 1,713 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - Goodbye To My Haters
Mavado, Techniques Records 8 years 3 months ago • 3,176 Plays Add to favorites -
Lean On (Max RubaDub Blend) - Major Lazer, Mavado...
Major Lazer, Mavado, Ishawna, Specialist 8 years 4 months ago • 2,071 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado -Mac 90
Mavado 8 years 4 months ago • 1,569 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - True
Mavado 8 years 4 months ago • 4,773 Plays Add to favorites -
Fay-Ann ft. Mavado - Bad Rule
Mavado, Fay-Ann 8 years 4 months ago • 1,403 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - Gal Yuh Sexy
Mavado 8 years 4 months ago • 1,312 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - Funeral Bell
Mavado 8 years 4 months ago • 1,928 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado Ft Symflo - Clean Suh
Mavado, Symflo 8 years 5 months ago • 1,524 Plays Add to favorites -
RR Ft Mavado - Crazy In Love (Remix)
Mavado, Rre previously RR 8 years 5 months ago • 2,474 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - A Boy Like Me
Mavado 8 years 5 months ago • 1,761 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - Smoke A Mi Law
Mavado 8 years 5 months ago • 1,627 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - Money A Di Right Thing
Mavado 8 years 5 months ago • 1,489 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - Blood Moon [Which League Riddim]
Mavado, TJ Records 8 years 5 months ago • 1,613 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - Shadow
Mavado, CR203 Records 8 years 5 months ago • 1,444 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - Story
Mavado 8 years 5 months ago • 1,547 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - Cherish My Love
Mavado 8 years 5 months ago • 1,639 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - My League
Mavado 8 years 5 months ago • 3,253 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - Up Like 7
Mavado 8 years 11 months ago • 2,112 Plays Add to favorites -
Alkaline, Mavado & I-Octane - Above Dem
Alkaline, Mavado, I Octane 9 years 2 weeks ago • 2,870 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - Bad Anytime
Mavado 9 years 3 weeks ago • 1,551 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - Kill Them Slowly
Mavado, CR203 Records 9 years 1 month ago • 1,458 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - She's the One
Mavado 9 years 2 months ago • 1,938 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - Ghetto Bible
Mavado 9 years 2 months ago • 2,263 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - Wildest Thing
Mavado 9 years 3 months ago • 1,200 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - Dem Nuh Man
Mavado 9 years 4 months ago • 1,545 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - Clear D Way
Mavado 9 years 4 months ago • 1,792 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - Nah Use Dem
Mavado 9 years 6 months ago • 1,704 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - Ben Ova
Mavado 9 years 6 months ago • 1,838 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - Duh Weh Yuh Waan
Mavado 9 years 10 months ago • 1,733 Plays Add to favorites -
Mavado - My Own
Mavado 10 years 3 weeks ago • 1,340 Plays Add to favorites -
Chronixx - Shining ft. Mavado
Chronixx, Mavado 10 years 4 months ago • 1,974 Plays Add to favorites
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Mavado Bio
Known to the world as Mavado or more recently “The Gully Gad”, the singer behind the eerie wails of “Anywayyy!” and “Gangsta for life!” which have dominated the airwaves was born David Constantine Brooks on November 30, 1980 in the micro-ghetto community “Cassava Piece” within Kingston, Jamaica. Before getting his break in the music business, Brooks worked as a barber and his two main influences on the direction of his young life were his grandmother and the music of Bounty Killer. “To tell the truth” he explains, “it was me grandmother that first really bring me in the studio, ‘cause she bring me in the church to sing. She always tell me to sing for her and that really give Mavado the courage to get to love music.” But if the sweet sounds of gospel provided the motivation, it was the gruff voice of Bounty Killer that proved to be the more powerful influence. “As a youth, Sanchez and Wayne Wonder were really my two singers, Sanchez have the voice of an angel. But me and my friend always say ‘Yo, Killer is the wickedest!’ So long as it’s Killer, it’s just my song, trust me!”
Idolization became mentorship when local reggae selector Foota Hype introduced the young singer to his hero. To Mavado’s amazement, “Killer start to show we the ropes” of the music business, introducing him to the Daseca production crew. “Them are the youth which really bust Mavado, them come up with the Anger Management riddim, I sing for it, Killer endorse it and the thing just work.” Indeed, “Real McKoy”--Mavado’s 2004 debut single on the Anger Management riddim—made him an overnight sensation in the Jamaican dancehall and established the blueprint for his future success; a sweetly melodic voice combined with a persona more like a gangsta rapper. Dressed in “full black” and speaking to the harsh reality ghetto youth could understand, but in haunting, otherworldly tones, Mavado carved out a inimitable style somewhere between the angel and the warlord. It was the next tune “Weh Dem a Do” with it’s “fly-ay ay up to the sky” hook over the club-tempo Red Bull & Guinness riddim that brought that voice to the overseas market, and earned him magazine covers like The Fader as well as adds to mainstream stations like New York’s Hot 97 and the #27 position on the Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip Hop Chart.
The string of successful 45s continued with “Dreamin” but although Mavado’s star rose in synch with his crew the Alliance, including fellow Bounty Killer protégés Daseca and Busy Signal, success did not come without some turbulence. Dramas were played out in the media eye, such as the murder of his Rastafarian father in Switzerland and an incident wherein Mavado was pushed through a plate glass window at the Constant Spring police station, almost losing several fingers on his left hand.
Mavado’s first full-length album, Gangster for Life: the Symphony of David Brooks, was an ambitious opus which followed the whole up and down arc of this life story. The album has remained in the Top 25 Billboard Reggae charts since its debut in July 2007. Opening with his earlier singles that brought him fame, interludes like and “Cassava Piece Radio” weaved the songs into a coherent musical saga. His father’s death was spoken to on the one-drop tune “Sadness,” while “Pon The Gully Side” and “Last Night” documented the singer’s rough upbringing even as they showcased the more angelic side of his gangster gospel. The album’s hot single “Dying,” a version built around a tribute to Tupac rhymes, was redone with the original lines and showed a new sophistication and a lyrical edge as sharp as any rapper’s.
And rappers soon caught on to his unique disposition. Mavado became the most sought after reggae artist to jump on hip hop records. In 2007, he delivered hypnotizing hooks and witty verses for Uncle Murda’s “Informer,” Wyclef Jean’s “Welcome To The East” and Foxy Brown’s “We Are On Fire” off her latest Brooklyn’s Don Diva album. The following year, icon Jay-Z blessed a verse on the remix of Mavado’s popular “On The Rock”. Lil Kim featured Mavado on her hot song “Caribbean Connection,” and 50 Cent’s G-Unit selected Mavado as the only guest feature on their latest album Terminate on Sight.
His ability to voice his experiences and capture the imagination of Jamaican youth every step of the way caught the ears and eyes of a new and broader fan base. He knew exactly how to make his emotional appeal universal.
Chapter 2
Mr. Brooks…A Better Tomorrow
On the brink of a bright future, there was still trouble ahead for the “Gully God.” In March 2008, accusations from the Jamaican police force were plaguing him once again. Charges were dropped in July 2008, but in the meantime countries like Guyana, St Vincent and Grenadines had banned him from their countries due to his notorious reputation. Also British police shut down his show after receiving “a credible security threat,” one of his entourage members was critically injured at his show in Miami and then the United States denied him entry when he tried to set foot in New York City. With his visa problems still looming, he missed out on a series of shows including arguably one of his most important career opportunities - the chance to perform alongside with hip hop mogul Jay-Z at Madison Square Garden.
However despite controversial attention, there was no stopping Mavado. Just like clockwork the indomitable force kept on ticking to make sure he remained the topic of good conversation. Mavado continued to make generous donations to an organization that helped battered women and for his recently launched charity Connect Jamaica, which donated computers to underprivileged schools across Jamaica.
His music was also crossing new boundaries. The dancehall luminary landed his single “Real McKoy" as the theme song for the fourth Grand Theft Auto trailer entitled "Everyone's a Rat." The hit song was also used in the Grand Theft Auto IV in-game radio station, Massive B Sound system. For the U.S presidential campaign, Mavado cleverly flipped his popular “On The Rock” to “We Need Barack” for tycoon Russell Simmons and Green Lantern’s official Barack Obama mixtape. According to the UK’s Guardian, Mavado’s tune was “the most interesting of the compilation's contributors.” Mavado was also selected for a special Nike 2008 Olympics campaign, where Mavado made an exclusive track “On The Go (Faster Than Bullet)” for Olympic sprinter Asafa Powell’s Train for Speed, a 35-minute interval workout sold on I-Tunes which is coached by the track superstar over a reggae/dancehall soundtrack. Nike also created an exclusive custom sneaker for the dancehall star which represented his neighborhood Cassava Piece.
The newfound celebrity caught the attention of more mainstream media. Rolling Stone Magazine rated Mavado as the “Best Reggae Artist” in their Best of Rock April 2008 issue. Also Billboard Magazine noted the significance of his collaboration with hip hop mogul Jay-Z. “When Jay Z, who has never recorded on a reggae track, rhymed on a remix of singer Mavado's current hit, On The Rock, it became arguably the greatest endorsement ever given to any dancehall record,” Pat Meschino stated in the article.
Mavado made dancehall an on-screen production in October 2008 when he took home his first major award for Best New Reggae Artist at the prestigious MOBO (Music of Black Origin) ceremony held annually in London.
At the top of 2009, the rising superstar unveils the second chapter of his stirring street narrative Mr Brooks…A Better Tomorrow on VP Records. The talented singjay has crafted his strongest album yet — a bittersweet struggle over the dichotomies in his world — past vs. present, good vs. evil, hope vs. despair, and freedom from strife. It is a true reflection of who Mavado (David Brooks) is today.
This sophomore installment of his latest hits and daring exploits are built on apocalyptic synthesizer progressions to which Mavado chats and sings simplistic yet profound lyrics with strong conviction and ease. His contagious hook and clever outlaw antics from the album’s first single “So Special” (produced by Linton “TJ” White) has already turned this #1 Jamaican and U.K. smash in into a U.S. commercial radio hit remaining on Billboard’s Top 100 Hot R&B/Hip Hop Airplay and Song chart for over a month (peaking at #52).
The chart toppers do not end there, Mavado pours out his heart and soul on every track from his new diary. While his community is plagued by violence and corruption, Mavado unites the ghetto youth on rally cry anthems like “Overcome” (produced by Stephen McGregor) & “Don’t Worry” (produced by Daseca) and gives thanks to Jah for all his good fortunes on “So Blessed” (produced by Stephen McGregor). And a Mavado album would not be complete without a steamy track like “In Di Car Back” (produced by Stephen McGregor), where sexual escapades and desires run rampant on this spicy melody.
Mavado has gone from obscurity to ghetto super stardom with his enigmatic gangster façade. Part prophet, part superhero and part fugitive, Mavado is the voice of the streets and represents dancehall for the next generation.