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The seven-star general entertainer and self-proclaimed Maroon chief Horus ‘L.A’ Lewis says he has filed assault charges against Entertainment and Culture Minister Olivia ‘Babsy’ Grange in relation to an incident at a public event for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in Trench Town on Tuesday.
“Chap music”. This is the name Dancehall artist Tu Lox, of Twin of Twins, says is the most suitable, official name that should be designated onto Jamaican Trap music, a sub-genre which is centered on violent and hedonistic criminal lifestyles such as scamming and witchcraft.
There have been mixed reactions to an encounter between L.A. Lewis and Jamaican Entertainment Minister Olivia “Babsy” Grange, in which she interrupted an interview that reporters were conducting with the entertainer, and instructed a security officer to remove him from what has been described as a reserved area.
On the day that Beenie Man made international headlines for Jamaicans were not enthusiastic about Prince William and his wife Kate Middleton’s visit, his Trench Town compatriots appear to have proven him wrong.
Beenie Man’s ability to maintain his relevance in Dancehall after four decades came up for discussion recently, after it was spurred by attorney-at-law and broadcast journalist Emily Shields, who is a huge supporter of Reggae and Dancehall.
Two years after Billboard discontinued its Reggae Digital Song Sales chart, the magazine announced yesterday that it has joined forces with the music festival and global Afrobeats brand Afro Nation to launch the first-ever US chart for Afrobeats Songs.
King of the Dancehall Beenie Man has been getting much support on Twitter after he declared during an interview with Good Morning Britain, that he and his Jamaican compatriots do not want the Queen to remain Head of State of the island, and are not enthusiastic about Prince William and his wife Kate Middleton’s visit.
Queen of Dancehall Spice’s new track dubbed Love Triangle (Pum Pum) which emerged from her 2017 Reggae Sumfest story-telling performance has piqued the interest of Americans, many of whom initially saw the snippet and found her penmanship and delivery not only intriguing but hilarious.
On Friday, March 18, the attorneys for Despacito singer Luis Fonsi responded to Dancehall label Steely & Clevie’s Fish Market/Dem Bow copyright infringement lawsuit, pleading that they “have not engaged in any type of infringement,” that “there is no actionable similarity between the works at issue,” and by and large that they “deny knowledge or information sufficient to respond” to the majority of the allegations.
Dancehall superstar Sean Paul says he is not in favor of some of the lyrical content in some of Shenseea’s songs, which go against the grain of Jamaican music culture, and has had a dialogue with her on the matter.
Dancehall megastar Shaggy got a niggling, unaddressed issue off his chest, music-wise—one so bothersome, that he uncharacteristically uttered the F-bomb, not once, but twice, in his newly-released track dubbed Mi Nuh Know, to the amusement and “shock” of some of his peers.
Dancehall legend Sister Nancy has touched down in Australia for a four-concert series. The series begins tonight at the Red Rattler in Sydney, and sees the Bam Bam singer performing alongside the Legal Shot Sound System from France, at what has been described as a sold-out show by the organizers.
Shenseea and her label Interscope Records are facing a multi-million dollar lawsuit over the use of elements of Denise Belfon’s Soca song Work, in the Jamaican singer’s Lick collaboration with rapper Megan Thee Stallion.
Prime Minister Andrew Holness announced an annual “modern music grant” for Reggae and Dancehall entertainers and musicians, to pursue what he has described as their “professional advancement”.
Romantic Call singer Patra has teamed up with Dancehall producer Ainsley ‘NotNice’ Morris to record tracks, ahead of her official return to music, after a years-long hiatus.
The song Faith, from Skip Marley’s 2020 Grammy-nominated EP Higher Place, is featured in Our Great National Parks, a Netflix docuseries scheduled to commence on April 13.
Sizzla Kalonji has come out in support of attorney-at-law Hugh Small, who, days ago symbolically burnt his old white horsehair wigs, which are a part of the garb worn historically, by lawyers and judges in the criminal courts of Britain and its colonies.
Bounty Killer paused on Tuesday to wish a happy birthday to former Tivoli Gardens strongman, Christopher “Dudus” Coke—his musical association with whom he said resulted in his visa being revoked in 2010.
Big Belly Man deejay Admiral Bailey, says the Dancehall genre is in deep trouble, as, among other things, the majority of the new persons ascribing onto themselves the title of music producers, do not know the basic tenets of music, including the seven-letter Musical Alphabet: “A, B, C, D, E, F, G”.
Veteran Dancehall hitmaker Admiral Bailey has fingered payola by unscrupulous radio disc jockeys as one of the key elements which has, over the years, forced Dancehall music on a downward spiral, and held it down for almost two decades.