The last record on the list was an r'n'b record that featured a dancehall artist. Here's a dancehall record that features an r'n'b artist. Baby Cham is one of the best singers to come out of Jamaica in the last decade, and in 2006 he released the excellent record 'Ghetto Story', which told of his life's hardships in the ghetto, and how he managed to survive and get out of it. This is of course a subject that African-Americans can relate to as well, and the song spawned several versions featuring different American artists, the most successful being this version with Alicia Keys. At first I wanted to put the original record in my chart, to bring it on with pure unadulterated dancehall, but eventually I decided that the added value brought by Alicia makes this cover superior. Her soulful trills blend in perfectly, and even her rap is fine. In the long chain of artistic pieces that documented the slow journey of blacks to get out of the ghettos and become part of Western society, this record earns a respectable place.
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