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'''Clappers''' '''Records''' was a record label formed by Lister Hewan-Lowe, a former vice president at Island Records in charge of reggae.<ref>{{Cite news |lastlast1=George |firstfirst1=Nelson |last2=Fergusson |first2=Isaac |date=May 1983 |title=Jamming In Jamaica: Reggae music has helped rekindle Jamaica's soft economy and sparked interest among American entrepreneurs |work=Black Enterprise |pages=62}}</ref> a former staff member at [[Island Records]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lichtman |first=Irv |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sAsEAAAAMBAJ&dq=Lister+Hewan-Lowe&pg=PA132 |title=Billboard |date=1995-02-04 |publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc. |pages=132 |language=en}}</ref>

The label released music by artists suchincluding asAdisa Andwele,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Best |first=Curwen |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ebOh2_lIfVYC&dq=Clappers+Records&pg=PA108 |title=The Popular Music and Entertainment Culture of Barbados: Pathways to Digital Culture |date=2012-03-15 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-7750-4 |language=en}}</ref> [[Yabby You]], [[General Plow]], [[Jah Malla]], [[Nicodemus]] and [[Jack Ruby (record producer)|Jack Ruby]]. Many of the albums from the Clappers label are today sought after by many reggae collectors.

The Clappers labelRecords also released the first political [[hip hop music|hip hop]] song in 1980 with Brother D's ''[[How We Gonna Make the Black Nation Rise?]]'' 12".