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Still Pushing is the title of Randy Valentine\u2019s new album. The 9-track set include potential hit singles like Wake the Town<\/em> and Black Cinderella. Valentine left Jamaica for Great Britain several years ago and is rapidly taking his place among the conscious reggae crew in that country. The album was released in the US on April 10 on the Hemp Higher\/Ariwa Label<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Still Pushing is the title of Randy Valentine\u2019s new album. The 9-track set include potential hit singles like Wake the Town and Black Cinderella. Valentine left Jamaica for Great Britain several years ago and is rapidly taking his place among the conscious reggae crew in that country. The album was…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":113664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[59,191,101,115,203,128,163],"tags":[261,389,472,507,554],"class_list":["post-113657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","category-higherariwa","category-latest-releases","category-new-release","category-new-releases-news","category-reggae","category-world-music","tag-ariwa","tag-higher-hemp","tag-new-release","tag-randy-valentine","tag-still-pushing","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kingston12.net\/2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/randyvalentine_stil-lpushing-1.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":114269,"url":"https:\/\/kingston12.net\/2020\/2017\/01\/06\/kingston12s-top-fifty-50-reggae-songs-for-2016\/","url_meta":{"origin":113657,"position":0},"title":"Kingston12's Top Fifty (50) Reggae Songs for 2016","author":"Sydney","date":"January 6, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Song Title Artist\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Label \u00a0 Rise Up (Ft. 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