Kavelle Anglin-Christie, Staff Reporter

Elephant Man - file

How often do you hear a song that is so zany, it makes you think you too could have a shot at the charts?

Any bet it has happened quite a lot, and just maybe a few of these songs were in the lot: L.O.C.'s Ring Ding Ding (Frog), Hawkeye,'s Twingy Twang and Hoo Haw Haw, Capleton's Or Wha, Red Rat and Taiye's Na Ne Naki Nana, Elephant Man's Shizzle my Nizzle, Log on, Chakka Chakka and Online, QQ's Stookie, Tiger's Yuh Dead Now.

Here's a taste of Ring Ding Ding (Frog):

Intro:

Rrribit ribit

We made a dance and buss de scene

And dis is how we really play it

De girl dem like it when dem see it

And a seh dat dance gon hit unique

Cleose hit it!

Chorus:

Ring ding ding ding di ding ding ding

Ring ding ding ding di ding ding ding

Daaawww ding ding ding daaawww (repeat)

Verse 1:

No way dis a dance aint no tricky tricky

Buss de place clearsh where de ricky ticky?

Doctor leggy a put it to pretty picky

Tell de dance baby chris bombalot de city

Watch de gal dem wid de big backy and sensiticky

Crazy talk buss de place mi have mi friend

Wuk a dweet dem gal seh dem look pretty

Any song any riddim crazy frog fit it...

all hits

What? Though it seems the song required little thought when putting pen to paper, it appears when it comes to your audience, that is besides the point. Like it or not, the song, which was released last year, is contagious and as such landed in the number 58 position on the U.K. charts. It is also important to note that the songs included in the list (which is by no means extensive), were all hits with their audience.

Take a look at the 'Energy God's' list of hit songs: if you listen carefully, you'll have a few questions, but, 'so what?' it makes you groove. For instance, in his song Log On, Ele in order to complete the rhyme sings:

Future a ask Elephant how mi dweet.

Put out yuh right hand and put out yu right feet.

Log on a run di street, street.

Elephant Man spoke of what he was thinking when he wrote some of his songs: "Well some of the words in the songs is just that you don't want to lose the rhyme, so you turn it your way, but it is done in a way that the people will still understand what you are saying. Like when we say 'is' which is just talking about one thing or person and when you say 'are' is more than one, we know that, but is just a slang thing and slang run the ghetto. But is just something that you want the people to get the concept of what you are talking about."

keeping it jiggy

Still, won't people get the wrong impression? He says: "People naw go get the wrong impression. Them understand that is just that we say it in the wrong way. Is about the rhyme and style and to get the people jiggy. Is not that we are trying to lead them astray by talking foolishness, is just the rhyme."

However, rhyme or not, Ele does admit that some artistes take it too far.

"Some man carry it too far. Some just wah see who can rhyme the deepest. Some man just wha rhyme bout black pepper, ackee leaf, ring worm and drink germ, but more time the simpler you keep it, the more the people understand what you trying to say," he said.

Go to school, learn to read, na ne naki nana...

Red Rat told THE STAR how the concept behind Na Ne Naki Nana was born: "Is one day me a work innah me studio and my daughter walk in and hear the rhythm then walk out. When she walk back in she say 'daddy you remember the song name Na Ne Naki Nana and me say 'yes', and you know when pickney a talk you nuh really look and she come up to me and turn me face to hers. So me say 'yes' and she say she have a song so me say sing it."

After singing the song she said: "So yuh naw voice me?" Red Rat says it never occurred to him to ask Taiye the meaning of the catch phrase. "You know pickney have them own things that they say."

Red Rat says the song was loved, especially by the young audience. As such, the song has been added to Tempo's play-list and "right now we are in talks with Nickelodeon to add it to part of their programme."

Obviously, it pays to have a song with catchy rhymes, even if you are left wondering what the artiste means in most cases.