The extreme poverty and brutality of the Jamaican ghetto makes reggae's adoption of the gangsta pose feel more authentic than many U.S. rappers, even if it's borrowed. Super Cat's cartoonish toasting style provides a jarring contrast to the casual street violence hinted at in "Ghetto Red Hot," a thematic discordance that runs through much of reggae (I frequently find myself jamming out to upbeat rasta hymns that gleefully damn all "baldheads" to the fires of hell). I'm not going to pretend I know exactly what Mr. Cat is on about in this song, but we can guess it has something to do with girls, guns and grillin' (just like a Dre video!). The music itself is uncut dancehall in its elemental form '' there's arguably no real chorus, just hypnotic rhythm and speedy rap marked by overdubbed voices serving more as noisy texture than vocals. FYI, Super Cat was one of the first people to introduce the Notorious B.I.G. to the world (Biggie's mother, of course, is a first-generation Jamaican immigrant) when he featured the young rapper on the B-side remix of a track that appeared on the same disc as "Ghetto," Don Dada.