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Claude Mills is a news journalist for DancehallMag based in Jamaica. In 1998, Claude Mills won his first Press Association of Jamaica (PAJ) award for an article he wrote about his experience flying into the eye of Hurricane George in a military plane, alongside scientists measuring the force of the storm as it hit the north coast of Cuba. He won a second PAJ award in 1999 for a series of articles called ‘Hourglass Kids’, about children dying from childhood cancers. He won a third PAJ zaward in 2000 for a series called ‘Daddy’s Little Girls’, comprising interviews with survivors of incest. In 2001, Claude gave a memorable first-hand account of a shoot-out with police that occurred in the Braeton Phase III community in St. Catherine, where he has lived for over 20 years. He placed second in the Caribbean Broilers’ annual Fair Play awards with that account. He won a scholarship to attend Massey College at the University of Toronto where he spent a year hanging out with esteemed Canadian journalists traveling to locations in Finland, Mexico, Russia and the province of Albertha in Cananda. He has also written witty off beat articles for Gleaner supplements, including Youthlink, and the Outlook magazine. He left the Gleaner in 2006 and began working with dancehall artistes such as Beenie Man, Vybz Kartel, Khago, Macka Diamond and a host of other artistes. He continues to write for a variety of online publications.

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Bre Royal Pines About ‘Overseas Love’

Bre Royal is not your typical garden variety dancehall artist. She is as equally adept at belting out steamy love ballads as singjaying witty double entendres and lyrics about modern day romance.

Ijahmar Releases New Song ‘Polo’

Dancehall lyrics have long declared the importance of fashion in the genre. From oversized garments to rasta colours to the co-opting and repurposing of luxury brands, dancehall has always been obsessed with fashion.

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Gussie Clarke Hit With Cease And Desist From Tiger

An attorney-at-law representing Dancehall veteran Norman ‘Tiger’ Jackson has issued a cease and desist order to producer Gussie Clarke of Dubplate Music Publishers to stop acting as the authorized publishing representative of the 64-year-old artist.

Arrow Don Defends The Appeal Of The ‘Voxy’

The link between luxury cars and dancehall artists is inescapable, with young rhyme slingers dropping lines about models like the Toyota Mark X, the Toyota Crown, everyone’s favourite German brand, the BMW, and of course, the Mercedes-Benz GLE 350 SUV, the fabled ‘Beast’.