Artist profile
Vybz Kartel is a Jamaican dancehall artist known for his prolific output and distinctive vocal style within the genre. His catalog spans multiple decades of reggae and dancehall production, establishing him as a significant figure in Caribbean music.
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Vybz Kartel is a moderate-energy and a balanced bright/warm production — mostly instrumental artist.
Sits right in the typical Caribbean pocket.
Across 15 analysed tracks, Vybz Kartel averages 49% energy — harder than 80% of individual Caribbean tracks.
Measured against 681 Caribbean tracks on 11 August 2026.
Most tracks sit between 70–154 BPM with a median of 103 · predominantly major keys (33% minor) · most common key: 12B (E Major) with 3 tracks.
How Vybz Kartel’s production has shifted across their catalog. The radar overlays earlier and recent eras as one shape, the year-by-year chart shows every metric move, and the tempo trend tracks the BPM migration against the typical Caribbean tempo.
Across Vybz Kartel's catalog, tempos have eased from ~137 to ~102 BPM; production has darkened; energy has lifted.
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We scored every transition between Vybz Kartel’s 15 analysed tracks and every track by 12,460 other artists. 8 catalogues clear the bar — a transition counts at 80 chemistry or above, the same number you’ll see on any track page. The 8 with the widest margin over chance are below.
Chance is measured, not assumed: 0.573% of transitions between two randomly drawn tracks by different artists in this catalogue reach 80. Listed alphabetically — the set is reproducible, the order inside it is not.
12 of the 180 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 1.0. They come from 6 different Vybz Kartel tracks.
Talk To Me Nuh → Seen It Before · 6B → 6B · −1 BPM · 90 chemistry
11 of the 120 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 0.7. They come from 7 different Vybz Kartel tracks.
12 of the 120 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 0.7. They come from 7 different Vybz Kartel tracks.
Clock Dat → Can't Believe (feat. Ty Dolla $ign & WizKid) · 1B → 12B · −2 BPM · 89 chemistry
13 of the 135 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 0.8. They come from 5 different Vybz Kartel tracks.
Loodi (feat. Vybz Kartel) → La Cabra · 4A → 3A · +3 BPM · 81 chemistry
11 of the 195 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 1.1. They come from 6 different Vybz Kartel tracks.
16 of the 600 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 3.4. They come from 10 different Vybz Kartel tracks.
Panic → Mama Warning · 8B → 9B · −5 BPM · 89 chemistry
13 of the 135 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 0.8. They come from 8 different Vybz Kartel tracks.
Loodi (feat. Vybz Kartel) → No Limit · 4A → 4B · +5 BPM · 90 chemistry
16 of the 195 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 1.1. They come from 8 different Vybz Kartel tracks.
Clock Dat → Send It Up · 1B → 12B · −4 BPM · 85 chemistry
Chemistry weighs harmonic, rhythmic, energy, groove, mood and vocal compatibility. Tempos are as analysed from the recording — where a genre is habitually detected an octave down, this is how we handle it. Different measurement from the audience-overlap list further down the page.
DJs and producers closest to Vybz Kartel by audience overlap — the artists their listeners also play. It’s a taste signal, not a measured key-and-tempo match: good for shortlisting crates when you’re prepping a set around Vybz Kartel, then check the chemistry on the pair you actually mix. Eligible names link to their own page.
Similarity data from Last.fm. BPM, key and energy on this page are measured from the recordings in our catalog.
Vybz Kartel's tracks in our catalog range from 70 to 154 BPM, with a median of 103 BPM. Across 15 tracks, the most common range falls in the 105–110 BPM bucket.
Vybz Kartel's tracks are mostly in major keys (33% minor across 15 tracks). The most common single key is 12B (E Major) with 3 tracks.
We scored every transition between Vybz Kartel's 15 analysed tracks and every track by 12,460 other artists. 8 catalogues clear the bar by more than chance would give, and Busy Signal, Jada Kingdom, Kranium are three of them — listed alphabetically, because the set is reproducible and the order inside it is not. A transition counts at 80 chemistry or above, the same number shown on a track page. One measured example: Talk To Me Nuh into Seen It Before, 6B to 6B, 90 chemistry.
Vybz Kartel sits closest to Mavado, Popcaan, Aidonia in our catalog. That ranking is audience overlap — the artists their listeners also play — rather than a measured key-and-tempo match, so treat it as a shortlist worth digging through, not a promise that any two tracks will beatmatch. The full list, with track counts, is in the Related artists section above.
Our catalog has Vybz Kartel releases spanning 2003 to 2026, with the most tracks from the 2010s.
