Stone Love

noun STONE LOVE stoːn lʌv

Also spelled stone-love, stone love movement

One of the most famous and longest-running sound systems in the world — the 'Stone Love Movement', founded in Kingston in the 1970s and a giant of dancehall sound-system culture. Its selectors, its dubplates, and its dances are legendary, and to say a dance is 'kept by Stone Love' is a mark of the real thing. It stands as a byword for the might and prestige of a top sound.

  • Stone Love a keep di dance tonight.

    Stone Love is running the dance tonight.

  • Stone Love have di baddest dubplate.

    Stone Love has the best dubplates.

  • Stone Love run tings from di seventies.

    Stone Love has been dominant since the seventies.

The Stone Love Movement sound system (Kingston, 1970s onward). See [[sound-system]], [[selecta]].

A world-famous, long-running Jamaican sound system. See [[sound-system]], [[soundclash]].