Meaning
The selector's move of stopping a hot tune and spinning the record back ('wheeling') to play it from the top again, in response to a rapturous crowd — the reggae/dancehall 'rewind'. 'Wheel an come again!' is shouted by the crowd (or the deejay) demanding a replay of a tune that just 'mash up di place'. A cornerstone of sound-system culture.
Examples
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Di crowd bawl out 'wheel an come again!'
The crowd shouted 'rewind and play it again!'
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Di selecta wheel an come again three time.
The selector rewound and replayed it three times.
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Dat tune deserve a wheel an come again.
That tune deserves a rewind.
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Di tune buss di place — selecta, wheel an come again!
The tune set the place off — selector, rewind and play it again!
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Dat first try never work; wheel an come again.
That first try didn't work; go back and try again.
Origin
From 'wheel' (spin the record back) + 'come again' (play again); the sound-system rewind. See Pull up, Selecta.
How it’s used
The 'rewind' — replaying a hot tune from the top on crowd demand. See Pull up, Selecta, Forward. Shortened to 'wheel up', which the crowd shouts as a mark of high approval.