reggae

The 1967 edition of the Dictionary of Jamaican English lists reggae as "a recently estab. ceriabet88 rtp sp for rege", as in rege-rege, a word that can mean either "rags, ragged clothing" or "a quarrel, a row" Reggae as a musical term first appeared in print with the 1968 rocksteady hit "Do the Reggay" by the Maytals which named the genre