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Ziggy Marley has reminisced on Head Top, the controversial song whose accompanying music video was released almost 30 years ago, which left tongues wagging in Jamaica and most people reacting with shock.
Shaggy is encouraging Dancehall artists with huge catalogs to continue making new music, as their recordings are the ones that are in demand when compared to their younger compatriots.
Sean Paul has listed American singer Billie Eilish as one of his dream collabs. On a recent episode of The Voice, where Paul serves as a 2022 “Battle Advisor” for Gwen Stefani, the Dancehall superstar described Eilish as brilliant and lauded her brother, Finneas O’Connell, for his production of her music.
Dancehall producer Mario ‘Dunw3ll’ Dunwell has rued the mushrooming of beat-buyers ascribing themselves the title of music producers, pointing out instead that unless they know the rudiments of song production, they are investors, and not producers.
Dancehall music producer Skatta Burrell had a mouthful to say following the surfacing of videos showing students of the Oberlin High School in rural St.
Dancehall star Agent Sasco continues to be heaped with accolades, his latest being his induction in his alma mater Camperdown High School’s “Hall of Flame”.
Mr. Boombastic Shaggy says he will be teaming up with Solid Agency’s Sharon Burke and broadcaster/media manager Judith Bodley to stage a music symposium titled Island Music Conference, next February, which is celebrated as Reggae Month in Jamaica.
Prime Minister Andrew Holness says that his administration will be constructing a school to train upcoming Dancehall and Reggae entertainers, deejays, and musicians.
Queen of the Pack Patra has paid homage to fashion icon, actress, author, film producer and singer Grace Jones, whose iconic song Pull Up to My Bumper, was featured as a remake on her sophomore album Scent of Attraction and landed on the Billboard Hot 100.
Dancehall megastar Shaggy says he has learnt from his mistakes of the past, and is savvier when it comes on to the business of music and seizing existing financial opportunities in the industry.
Local Government and Rural Development Minister Desmond McKenzie has thrown his support behind the Broadcasting Commission of Jamaica’s directive to rid the airwaves of content that promotes and glorifies illegal activities, such as gunslinging, scamming, and “molly popping.”
Dancehall megastar Shaggy has tipped his hat to his compatriot Sean Paul whom he says is way more patient and tolerant in dealing with “music business disrespect” meted out by international singers, who feature in collabs, than he is.
Veteran Reggae singer Leroy Sibbles has taken Tuff Gong to task for being involved in SiriusXM’s relocation of its The Joint channel in favor of “Bob Marley’s Tuff Gong Radio,” an exclusive, year-round channel dedicated to the music of the Reggae icon.
Hits and Jams Entertainment CEO Rawle Ferguson has dismissed statements made by the Guyanese Opposition Leader about Spice and Skillibeng being the “worst of the Dancehall music.”
Pamputtae has made history, as the first hardcore female deejay to score a duet with Bounty Killer.
Pointing out that violent songs, including many of his own, ought not to be played on public radio, Bounty Killer came out in defense of the Broadcasting Commission of Jamaica’s recent directive, aimed at prohibiting wayward radio disc jockeys from continuing to break national broadcast rules.
Cordell Green, the Executive Director of the Broadcasting Commission of Jamaica (BCJ), has issued a stern rebuke to those radio disc jockeys expressing disapproval about the organization’s directive prohibiting the airing of songs that promote/glorify violence, scamming, and use of the drug “Molly.”
Music producer Stephen Di Genius McGregor sparked a flurry of laughter after he expressed dismay and sarcasm at a quarrel between Jamaican Members of Parliament Everald Warmington and Anthony Hylton during a sitting of the Lower House of Parliament on Wednesday.
Angela Lansbury, star of the long-running television series Murder, She Wrote, which sparked the name of the Chacka Demus and Pliers’ legendary Dancehall song about a woman who seemingly committed abortion, has died at the age of 96.
MSNBC’s Ari Melber has described Reggae Legend Peter Tosh’s 1976 classic Legalize It, as “one of the most iconic statements about pot prohibition policies of all time.”