LGBTQ And The Divide Of Dancehall Music
Since its inception, Dancehall music has held a very strict and consistent disdain for the gay community.
Since its inception, Dancehall music has held a very strict and consistent disdain for the gay community.
Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries’ Pastor Kevin O. Smith has a seeming penchant for Dancehall and Reggae artists and their genre.
A family feud. That is how Buju Banton’s son Jahazeil Myrie has described the situation which has left his sister Abihail and her father at odds, in what has been a dramatic last 12 hours which has seen Abihail accusing the ‘Til Shiloh artist of trying to strangle her, and in turn, he filing a missing report for her with the Jamaica Constabulary Force.
Grammy-winning reggae star Buju Banton has demonstrated that the moral support he gave to Accompong Maroon chief, Richard Currie during the leadership elections in February, was no fluke.
Buju Banton has been among the Dancehall stars who have had a mouthful to say about the United Independent’s Congress (UIC) president Joseph Patterson’s arrest and upcoming trial, after being charged for breaching the Disaster Risk Management Act.
Buju Banton, on Friday morning, chided members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force for, according to him, allowing themselves to be used as State conduits to oppress the people of Jamaica.
In the aftermath of Vybz Kartel pointing out that most of Jamaica’s entertainers are a set of “dunces,” from whom no health advice should be taken, Buju Banton has seemingly responded, pointing out that he was not among those who are intellectually deficient.
When Damian “Junior Gong” Marley’s representatives contacted Original Bembe selector Jigsy for him to sign off on the artist’s sampling of Buju Banton’s Me & Oonu (Bongo Cart) for the song R.O.A.R.
Abihail Myrie, the daughter of Reggae and Dancehall titan Buju Banton had to swallow her words and apologize to the LGBT community after an inappropriate outburst on Twitter recently.
Dancehall star Shenseea and Reggae legend Buju Banton both made the Billboard Hot 100 chart this week following their features on Kanye West’s Donda album, which was released on August 29, 2021, on West’s GOOD Music label and Def Jam Recordings.
Jamaican athletes aren’t the only ones who’ve continuously scored Gold in this era. In the storied history of Jamaican culture, many of its musical acts have also struck gold — RIAA Gold to be precise.
Buju Banton is on Kanye West’s Donda album after all. Many people were expecting to hear a Buju Banton verse on Donda at the album’s three listening sessions.
Dancehall communities across the world went into a frenzy after Kanye West’s latest album Donda was released earlier today with Shenseea featured on two songs.
Buju Banton squared off with some of his followers again on Instagram, after he posted a statement on his Instagram page aimed at the Jamaican government, which they deemed another of his “conspiracy theories”.
Buju Banton and his compatriot Blvk H3ro mocked Minister of National Security Horace Chang, after learning that he had declared in a radio interview last week, that to his knowledge, “there is no such thing as Maroon lands”.
Spragga Benz and Buju Banton, two of Dancehall’s staunchest critics of Jamaica’s containment measures and global vaccination efforts, have fallen under Instagram’s censorship radar.
People’s National Party (PNP) President Mark Golding, joined the thousands of Jamaicans who are trying to master dancer Tyreek Pennicott’s Dirt Bounce, the dance the Jamaican women’s 4×100 metres relay team did upon being introduced, prior to their spectacular win at the Tokyo Olympic Games.
While most Jamaicans reveled in the excitement that came with celebrating the island’s Independence on August 6, which also coincided with ongoing celebrations for the island’s Track and Field dominance in the ongoing 2021 Tokyo Olympics, Grammy award-winning Reggae artist and icon, Mark Myrie, more popularly known as Buju Banton, was not in as festive a mood.
Anyone expecting to see Buju Banton or any other Jamaican artist featured on Kanye West’s Donda album will be left disappointed.
It seems that Reggae and Dancehall veteran Buju Banton is not a fan of the now popular dance move called the Dirt Bounce, at least not when it is performed by males.