''As Raw As Ever'' is a studio album released by

Shabba Ranks Shabba Ranks (born Rexton Rawlston Fernando Gordon; 17 January 1966) is a Jamaican dancehall musician. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, he was one of the most popular Jamaican musicians in the world. Throughout his prominence in his home cou ...

, his first to be well received by critics and the public.

Track listing

*All Songs Published By Aunt Hilda Music. # Trailor Load a Girls - 3:58 (Cleveland "Clevie" Browne, Wycliffe Johnson, Greville Gordon) # Where Does Slackness Come From - 3:48 (Gordon) # Woman Tangle - 3:48 (Gordon, Clifton Dillon) # Gun Pon Me - 3:53 (Leopold Hartley, Shabba Ranks) # Gone Up - 3:55 (Gordon) # Housecall (featuring

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) - 3:39 (Dillon, Brian Thompson, Maxi Priest, Mike Bennett, Ranks) # Flesh Axe - 4:10 (Browne, Dillon, Johnson) # A Mi Di Girls Dem Love - 3:29 (Gordon, Ranks) # Fist-A-Ris - 3:33 (Gordon, Ranks) # The Jam (featuring

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) - 3:22 (KRS-One, Dillon, Joseph Longo, Lawrence Krisna Parker,

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) # Ambi Get Scarce - 3:52 (Hartley, Ranks) # Park Yu Benz - 3:26 (Gordon, Ranks)

Personnel

*Shabba Ranks: Vocal *Mikey Bennett, Paul "Wrong Move" Crossdale, Michael Fletcher, Handel Tucker: Keyboards * Earl Smith: Guitars *Stephen "Cat" Coore: Guitars, Vocals *Danny Dennis, Wycliffe "Steely" Johnson: Bass, Keyboards *Cleveland "Clevie" Browne,

Sly Dunbar Lowell Fillmore "Sly" Dunbar (born 10 May 1952, Kingston, Jamaica) is a drummer, best known as one half of the prolific Jamaican rhythm section and reggae production duo Sly and Robbie. Biography Dunbar began playing at 15 in a band called ...

, George "Dusty" Miller: Drums, Percussion *Danny Browne: Keyboards, Bass, Drums, Percussion *Chevelle Franklin, Brian & Tony Gold, Dorothy Smith: Backing Vocals

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