Despite Chaka Demus and Pliers being successful Dancehall artists in their own right, 'Murder She Wrote' (produced by Sly and Robbie) was their most popular hits as a duo, taken from their 1993 debut 'All She Wrote'. I absolutely love the backing and so did they by the looks of it as it's used on both songs. Luckily my brief liaison with Maxine was uneventful and she was happily on her way to the correct boarding gate whilst I was able to go back to my office to enjoy a 21 minute break.Ĭhaka Demus and Pliers, 'Maxine, her face is like a bunch of rose', apparently.Īnd thanks to that encounter it reminded me of these two brilliant tracks which I haven't heard in years. I must've let out a little squeal, as I tried hard to suppress myself from blurting out something disastrous like "hey, just like 'Murder She Wrote'" and sing "If I ever tell you about Maxine". This time a young woman wanted to ask me a question about her flight and checking her boarding pass I noticed her name was Maxine. And since I'm the type of guy who likes to provide a service with a smile, I oblige. However, with 'running the gauntlet', you risk having your time severely dented as passengers see the uniform/hi-viz vest and converge on you like brain starved zombies wanting to ask you all sorts of questions. This should be a round trip lasting no longer than 7 minutes leaving you a total of 23 minutes to enjoy your downtime. On a rare and precious break, I decided to 'run the gauntlet' by going from the office to the coffee shop in the departure lounge. I have always wanted to meet a Maxine because of this song and last week, at work, my dream was finally realised. “I’m really big on citing sources,” he stresses-and here, these footnotes also add up to a killer weekend playlist.Chaka Demus & Pliers - 'Murder She Wrote' (1994) Those images, etched into memory, still do, judging from this short list of hits that continue to influence his work. ”I’m a child of the generation where everyone would sit around and watch the premiere of a Janet Jackson video, and it would run your life for, like, a month,” Jawara says. With his younger sister, Candace, as a patient accomplice and muse, he began re-creating the power bobs and mile-long extensions seen on Missy Elliott, Lil’ Kim, and Christina Aguilera. “In the late ’90s, early 2000s, everything was controlled by the music videos: the way we dressed, the way we looked, the way we talked,” the hairstylist says of the collective fascination with MTV, VH1, and BET. While that dancehall backdrop set the tempo for carefree maximalism, it was a teenage move to another Jamaica-the neighborhood in Queens-that revved up Jawara’s creative pace. His hashtag on the post: #startedasabraider.
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If his career has taken him backstage at Chanel and Fendi during his years assisting Sam McKnight, and now on set with the likes of Solange, Dev Hynes, and Zendaya, those roots are never far.
“That’s when I fell in love with all of it,” he explained in the November issue of Vogue, as part of a story spotlighting rising hairstylists who are reshaping the narrative around hair. Yuh no say Ragamuffin Chaka Demus an youth called Pliers Come to deal with your case, step up my youth, hear dis I know this little girl, her name is Maxine Her beauty is like a bunch of rose If I ever tell you bout Maxine You would a say, I dont know what I know (But) Murder she wrote (Fi real, fi real) Murder she wrote Murder she wrote. If the visual inspiration was new, the hairstyling techniques went way back-to his aunt’s salon in Jamaica, where young Jawara got a hands-on education in over-the-top dancehall looks. A borrowed line from this year’s Migos track, “T-Shirt,” it was just the latest example of Jawara’s encyclopedic catalog of music video references that weave into his editorial work: in this case, the piled-on animal pelts, finger-wide twists, and statement shades worn by the hip-hop group. “Imma feed my family, ain’t no way around it,” the hairstylist Jawara recently captioned his Instagram post of the model Imaan Hammam, decked in a caramel-peach fur coat and a headful of his crisply executed cornrows. Expand your FUSER library with Murder She Wrote by Chaka Demus & Pliers Bring something new to your mixes with this additional playable track.