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Wontstop Record

English record label

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 1, 2021
Entity authorityQ85816114
Source-derived summary

Wontstop Record is an independent record label founded in 1998 by Emmanuel Anebsa in Bristol, United Kingdom. The label has produced and released 37 albums and 30 singles, including singles such as Junior Kelly's "Jah Know", Anthony B's "Make My Money" and Anebsa's "Change My Life". In 2016, the label released a compilation album featuring the work of Anebsa, Doniki, Junior Kelly, Determine, Jah Mason and Turbulance.

According to a report in The Gleaner, the label has "built a reputation for hard-hitting dub and roots reggae music that elevates black consciousness".

Selected discography

Albums

Emmanuel Anebsa – To Be Humble

Emmanuel Anebsa – Smiling

Emmanuel Anebsa – We Got Problems

Emmanuel Anebsa – Ghetto Beats

Emmanuel Anebsa – Conscious Voices

Emmanuel Anebsa – St. Paul's Ghetto

Emmanuel Anebsa – Action Now

Emmanuel Anebsa – If You

Emmanuel Anebsa – Mr. Nobody

Singles

Junior Kelly – "Jah Know"

Anthony B – "Make My Money"

Emmanuel Anebsa ft. Turbulance – "We Wear It Well"

Emmanuel Anebsa ft. Doniki – “Fly to Zion"

Emmanuel Anebsa ft.

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“Wontstop Record” enters the record as english record label. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Wontstop, English and label can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1998, 2016—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1998. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Wontstop, English and label.
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“Wontstop Record” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Wontstop, English and label provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 1, 2021. The linked authority identifier is Q85816114. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1998 and 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from Wontstop Record” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.