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After advantageously incorporating Skeng’s Gvnman Shift into their social media anti-crime initiative in March, the Jamaica Constabulary Force’s Corporate Communications Unit have now turned to Trap artist Malie Don’s Bank, to issue what seemed like a veiled threat, to braggadocious miscreants currently under the security forces’ radar.
Dancehall star Masicka and his compatriot Bounty Killer have come up with some choice words to describe persons who engage in the use of the potentially destructive party drug, “Molly”, among the descriptions: “crackhead” and “duppy dolly”.
Dancehall superstar Sean Paul says Dave Kelly’s Showtime, which spawned hits such as Bounty Killer’s Eagle and the Hawk, Cham’s Gallang Yah Gal and Wayne Wonder’s Searching Dem Searching, is the one juggling riddim on which he really wishes he had been given the opportunity to voice.
Mere weeks after Bounty Killer said that artists who strut about with huge entourages appeared unprofessional and paranoid, iconic American rapper Fat Joe has revealed how the actions of his own unnecessary posse caused him to miss a $2 million endorsement deal with Red Stripe, “The Great Jamaican Beer”.
Attorney-at-law Maxine Stowe has taken issue with some of the content from Chris Blackwell’s upcoming memoir, maintaining that what the Islands Records co-founder described as an ‘unfounded perception of favoritism towards Bob Marley’, was real, and was, according to her, “pre-meditated false marketing” aimed at ‘black erasure’ of Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer.
Radio disc jockey and 12 Nine Records music producer ZJ Sparks has come to the defence of Skeng, who became the subject of memes about being under the influence of Molly, after he, fully clad, jumped wildly into a swimming pool during a performance in Trinidad.
The use of the drug ‘Molly’, which is being glamorized in song by some Jamaican Trap artists, and which has been under the radar of the National Council for Drug Abuse for some time, is again becoming cause for concern, as, among other things, it is being used to initiate the sexual ‘battery’ of unsuspecting women, at parties, according to reports.
Sean Paul is continuing his climate change awareness advocacy to ensure that the Earth maintains the “right temperature”.
Founder of Island Records Chris Blackwell has denied long-held assertions that he sidelined Bunny Wailer and Peter Tosh in favor of Bob Marley because the Gong was half-white.
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 4 out of 5. Shaggy, with his rumbling baritone-range singing voice, covering 10 tracks from Frank Sinatra, one of the biggest names in the history of American music, was a very ambitious task, and one executed with finesse, for his Come Fly Wid Mi album.
Black Chiney producer and songwriter Dwayne “Supa Dups” Chin-Quee is relishing his musical accomplishments across multiple genres.
Having faced a dramatic week—during which he was pepper-sprayed and arrested at the Norman Manley International Airport, and then had his Guyanese show marred by gunshots—Skeng has something to smile about courtesy of the darling of Jamaican track, and one of the greatest sprinters of all time, Shelly-ann Fraser-Pryce.
In the aftermath of the mass killing carried out by 18-year-old Salvador Rolando Ramos at a Texas elementary school, Ziggy Marley, has, among other things, called for US gun manufacturers and the National Rifle Association to pay for the provision of security services at all schools in the country and more judicious gun laws.
Reggae/Dancehall superstar Chronixx says the upcoming free Algorithm Coding Camp which is to be held at the University of the West Indies this summer, under the JamCoders programme which he conceptualised, is just the beginning of good things to come.
Dancehall megastar Shaggy was not only conferred with his honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from Brown University today, but also put on a mini Reggae/Dancehall show to huge cheers from excited students and academic staff, during the institution’s Undergraduate Class of 2020 Commencement Ceremony.
All eyes are on Skillibeng to become Jamaica’s “next top male model” after a portrait photo of him, clad in Trapstar gear, with his hair covered, was reshared by a Twitter user, who expressed awe about his looks.
Dancehall’s Don Dadda Super Cat says he has been training vigorously, ahead of the Reggae Love Fest in New York, on Friday night and a series of other shows, to mark what many have been describing as his “great comeback” to Dancehall, following years of absence.
Buju Banton was in a no-nonsense mood at a recent staging of Weddy Weddy, lashing gunmen whom he says have been posing as Dancehall artists, and the privileged Jamaicans who have infiltrated the music spawned by ‘ghetto youths’, and yet, have been inundating it with debauchery and other repulsive content.
Buju Banton and Junior Reid publicly buried the hatchet a few nights ago at Stone Love’s Weddy Weddy, 14 years after the One Blood singer snubbed the Til Shiloh artist, supposedly for unsavory comments he had made at the Best of the Best show in Miami in 2008.
After initially disobeying police orders and threatening to leave the Pepperseed stage show with his backing band, which was also scheduled to back Sizzla Kalonji, Beenie Man has issued a release blaming the show promoters for the imbroglio which resulted in his expulsion from the stage.