The Official Soca Thread

[BigMan]

:shaqooh:It's time for Carnival

big up @JulesWinfield and all my Caribbean posters and Caribbean music loving posters.

its time for an official soca thread

please post your favorite joints, videos, dances, memories, history, etc.

for those who don't know:

Soca music​

Stylistic origins

• Kaiso
• calypso
• chutney music
• Cadence rampa
• funk
• soul

Cultural origins Early 1970s; Trinidad and Tobago
Typical instruments

• Bass guitar
• drums
• acoustic guitar
• vocals
• trumpet
• trombone
• drum machine
• synthesizer
• sampler

Soca music (also defined by Lord Shorty, its inventor, as the "Soul Of Calypso") is a genre of music that originated within a marginalized subculture in Trinidad and Tobago in the early 1970s, and developed into a range of styles by the 1980s and later. Soca was initially developed by Lord Shorty around 1972/1973 in an effort to improve traditional calypso which seemed to be on its last legs in Trinidad by the start of the 1970s with the rise in popularity of reggae from Jamaica and soul & funk from USA with the younger generation.
. Soca is an offshoot of kaiso/calypso, with influences from chutney, cadence, funk and soul.

Soca has evolved in the last 20 plus years primarily through musicians from various Anglophone Caribbean countries including Trinidad and Tobago, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Barbados, Grenada, and Saint Lucia . There have also been significant productions from artists in Venezuela, Canada, Panama, Guatemala, United States, United Kingdom and Japan.

 

[Akata Man Bromo]

WOAT music

 

[BigMan]

 

[BigMan]

WOAT music

neg train once reps come back

 

[No Homo]

I fell off keeping up with it few yrs ago but i still get the itch to listen from time to time

for having Skinny up there reppin Carriacou

@Dip your fam from the islands?

 

[BigMan]

I fell off keeping up with it few yrs ago but i still get the itch to listen from time to time

for having Skinny up there reppin Carriacou

@Dip your fam from the islands?

Jamaica and Aruba
Got fam from all over the Caribbean tho
Been bumping jab jab recently like crazy

 

[radio rahiem]

neg train once reps come back

Got you.

 

[BigMan]

@CoochieMane @Jisselle @Aphrodite @Princess Coco @Luken @rahtid

 

[No Homo]

WOAT music

Dont get negged you good ppls breh

 

[radio rahiem]

I’ve been actually doing a old time soca listening lately. Mighty sparrow, Byron Lee and the dragonnires, Explainer etc

 

[Keep_It_Hip_Hop_Fam]

Kes and Patrice Roberts...song of the year

 

[September]

Oh we in here. Finna live in this post

Some of my faves of this carnival season and last










If this was a song feat Major Lazer, it would’ve been played out for the summer


I can sit here and post 100s of videos but I’ll fall back

 

[Akata Man Bromo]

Stop negging and put me on

 

[BigMan]

Oh we in here. Finna live in this post

Some of my faves of this carnival season and last










If this was a song feat Major Lazer, it would’ve been played out for the summer


I can sit here and post 100s of videos but I’ll fall back

feel free to post what songs you want

 

[No Homo]