From its origins within the context of reggae and dancehall music, the use of 'big up' has evolved and expanded.

从它起源于瑞格舞曲和歌厅之中开始，‘big up’的用法已经被扩大开来了。

By the time I'm about 10, 11, I start loving dancehall music.

当我大约 10、11 岁时，我开始喜欢舞厅音乐。

The major labels didn't know what to do with a Jamaican reggae dancehall artist.

- 主要唱片公司不知道如何对待牙买加雷鬼舞厅艺术家。

Dancehall is a faster version of what was playing at the time, which was reggae.

-Dancehall 是当时正在播放的雷鬼音乐的更快版本。

And we were determined to let Sean be Sean -- authentic Jamaican dancehall.

-我们决心让肖恩成为肖恩——真正的牙买加舞厅。

So, how does a kid with an American father and European-Jewish mother end up with valid links to Jamaican dancehall?

那么，一个父亲是美国人、母亲是欧洲犹太人的孩子是如何最终与牙买加舞厅建立有效联系的呢？

Back in those days, the major labels didn't know what to do with a Jamaican reggae dancehall artist.

- 在那些日子里，主要唱片公司不知道如何对待牙买加雷鬼舞厅艺术家。

Was just a landmark fucking record for Sean -- I mean, for all of us, for dancehall in general.

-对于肖恩来说，这只是他妈的里程碑式的记录——我的意思是，对于我们所有人，对于一般的舞厅。

This is not even about reggae dancehall anymore.

这甚至与雷鬼舞厅无关。

It wasn't anything ever seen in dancehall or Jamaican music history, really.

- 这在舞厅或牙买加音乐史上从未见过，真的。

You got to remember, dancehall, back in the days, was a niche kind of thing.

你得记住，舞厅，在过去，是一种小众的东西。

For the next album, I wanted to go back to more dancehall, more reggae-reggae.

-对于下一张专辑，我想回到更多的舞厅，更多的雷鬼​​雷鬼。

We started what was a dancehall revolution at that point.

那时我们开始了一场舞厅革命。

If Sean was gonna be representing dancehall and Jamaica to the world, Sean needed to be on the hottest rhythm of that moment.

如果肖恩要代表舞厅和牙买加走向世界，肖恩需要处于那个时刻最热门的节奏。

And you start getting bookings abroad, especially in Miami, D.C., and Atlanta, where there were, like, little community strongholds of dancehall enthusiasts and Jamaican people, our diaspora.

你开始在国外预订， 特别是在迈阿密、哥伦比亚特区和亚特兰大，那里有舞厅爱好者和牙买加人的小社区据点， 我们的侨民。

" If you ever hear Haunted Dancehall (Nursery Remix) by Sabres of Paradise on daytime Radio 1, turn the TV on, " wrote Chris Price, a BBC radio producer, for the Huffington Post in 2011.

2011 年，英国广播公司电台制作人克里斯·普莱斯在《赫芬顿邮报》上写道：“如果你在日间广播 1 台听到天堂军刀的闹鬼舞厅（苗圃混音），打开电视。”

He has more than made his mark and been a paragon of success for any music genre, to be honest with you, especially as a Jamaican artist, and especially for dancehall.

他不仅取得了成功， 而且成为任何音乐流派的成功典范， - 老实说，尤其是作为牙买加艺术家， 尤其是在舞厅方面。

When " Gimme the Light" was blowing up, I started to get a vision of a bigger picture than just my diaspora and the dancehall genre circles, which is huge, but this was gonna be more.

-当“Gimme the Light” 大放异彩时，我开始有了一个更大的愿景， 而不仅仅是我的侨民和舞厅流派圈子，这是巨大的， 但这会更多。

By this time, we'd done " Gimme the Light" and had success with Little X, and he was the only one that kind of got our vision of being a more modernistic - looking dancehall act.

-到这个时候， 我们已经完成了“Gimme the Light” 并在 Little X 上取得了成功，他是唯一一个让我们的愿景成为更具现代主义风格的舞厅表演的人。

It's right after that, Sean Paul came with " Dutty Rock." All of a sudden, from major labels, they were like, " Oh, this thing can really sell." It was that important to the genre of dancehall.

就在那之后， 肖恩保罗带来了“Dutty Rock” 。突然间，来自主要品牌的他们说， “哦，这东西真的很畅销。 ” 这对舞厅类型来说很重要。