Stamma Ramma
Stamma Ramma
Stamma Ramma hits hard at impact. The Jamaican born rapper grew up sleeping on the streets. “Growing up with no mother or father,” he remembers, “music became my parents.” Raised under the musical auspices of his cousin Louie Rankin he did his first stage shows at the age of ten with veterans Little John and Yellow Man.
Attempting to free himself from street life, Stamma moved to America to finish high school in Philadelphia, where he continued his musical aspirations. He found himself DJing on well known sound system, Seven Star, and heading to NYC on weekends to cut dub plates. A regular at Don One Studio, he worked with Shabba Ranks, Ninjaman, Mad Cobra, Half Pint and Gregory Isaacs, and eventually formed a group with two rappers called Legal Aliens. Signed to Uptown Records, they were working with Heavy D when one of the members was convicted of murder and they were dropped.
Life went on. “I was always in the street part time but when my first daughter was born the music business was slow for me,” Stamma recalls, “so I hit the street fulltime.” Hustling full time, left little time for music, but Stamma’s street rep had a growth spurt which in turn helped his musical reputation “at the time people in the city know me as a gangster, so whenever I step onstage people went crazy.” Over the next few years he released some 45’s in Jamaica, the most successful, “Take Heed,” getting a decent rinse out on Irie FM.
Stamma Ramma’s lyrics reflect dramatic and often dark tales of street life, hustling and how feeling the weight of responsibility for his kids, Stamma he is drawn back to the streets time and time again.
In 2009 producer / writer Peter Wade was introduced to Stamma Ramma, and was instantly intrigued. Wade tracked him down and Stamma voiced “The End” on WonderSound’s “Reggae Got Soul” riddim. “The End” turned out to be just the beginning and Stamma Ramma was signed WonderSound.
“From Biggie Smalls to Bounty Killa…” Stamma says, “they say that you find music in the street. If so then, I am music, you can find me in the street.”
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