by Howard Campbell
NEW JERSEY – Synonymous with New Jersey’s Caribbean life-style scene for over 30 years, Kacy “G Metropolis” Rankine has worn many hats as a consultant of the area’s Diaspora within the Backyard State.
After a seven-year break, the Jamaican returns to the airwaves on Could 1 as head of RoadblockRadio.com. will probably be broadcast as 101.1 FM HD3 on CBS.FM.
Rankine, who’s initially from Kingston, operated the Reggaeroadblock FM Web station for over 10 years. His newest enterprise is a standard radio format below an settlement with Audacy, an organization that gives free entry to Web and radio stations.
With the sale of influential dealer station WVIP 93.5 FM final 12 months, the West Indian neighborhood misplaced a significant supply of commerce and data within the tri-state space. Rankine believes his entity shall be an appropriate successor.
“This can be a huge, huge, huge deal for reggae music, for soca music, and Caribbean music within the Diaspora,” he mentioned. RoadblockRadio.com can have 20 Disc Jockeys who play music “straight throughout the board”, in addition to consultants who give recommendation on immigration, medical and academic points.
Caribbean radio emerged within the tri-state space throughout the Seventies, a interval of regular migration to that area from the Caribbean. West Indians trusted these stations for music and present affairs again dwelling.
Whereas he reached a broad viewers together with his Web station, Rankine is assured much more West Indians will tune into his radio station.
“Individuals can simply activate 101.1 FM and listen to RoadblockRadio…it’s a privilege, it’s a magnificence. Its having the visibility of radio which we grew up on again dwelling,” he mentioned.
Rankine migrated to the USA in his teenagers, shortly after graduating from Ardenne Excessive Faculty in Kingston. Along with working an Web station, he was head of G Metropolis Promotions which staged stay reveals in New Jersey.
That firm promoted occasions that includes marquee acts similar to Beres Hammond, Capleton, Sean Paul, Tarrus Riley, Machel Montano and Alison Hinds.
