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Reggae Sumfest executive Skatta Burrell says he is ready to book Marion Hall for the iconic Reggae festival, following her announcement of a return, which comes approximately 14 months after she declared in a Sunday Sermon, that she would “revisit Dancehall to win some souls”.
Reacting to a jab her nemesis Spice made about her infertility issues with which she has been grappling throughout her childbearing years, Minister Marion Hall has reacted forcefully, declaring that she will ‘not turn the other cheek’ as Christ had allegorically stated during his Sermon on the Mount.
The showdown between Minister Marion Hall, formerly Lady Saw, and Spice continued on Sunday after Hall again lashed the Reggae Grammy nominee, who had responded to her now-infamous January Sunday sermon.
Public Enemy’s co-founder and frontman Chuck D has listed Bob Marley & The Wailers’ 1973 hit Get Up, Stand Up and Simmer Down, as among the songs by which he was influenced as a youngster.
A week after Jada Kingdom challenged Minister Marion Hall to a fight for referring to her, among other things, as ‘weak’ and as competing with Spice and others in a desperate “race to hell” during her controversial sermon, the Sycamore Tree artist has replied with some motherly advice.
Reggae icon Marcia Griffiths is lamenting the fact that after 14 years, Reggae month has not grown to become a massive international affair, given the global importance of Jamaican popular music since the 1960s.
Popcaan and his Dancehall compatriots’ recent sojourns to sections of the African continent to headline sold-out concerts have resulted in the resurfacing of suggestions that the Motherland is the “new frontier for the Dancehall genre” and this is where Jamaican artists’ should place their focus.
The Queen of Reggae Marcia Griffiths is pleading with Jamaican musicians to record more positive songs, especially in light of the turbulence Jamaica is undergoing, as music has proven time and time again, to be the only tool capable of uniting the violence-plagued country.
Okuda Hiroko, the Japanese woman who caught Reggaemylitis and created the Casio preset beat that gave rise to the legendary Sleng Teng riddim, believes that it was almost inevitable that the piece of music she composed almost 40 years ago would be embraced by Jamaicans.
Minister of Entertainment and Culture Olivia “Babsy” Grange has called on Jamaica’s artists and songwriters to steer clear of gun lyrics, and instead, use the island’s music to push the positivity for which Dancehall and Reggae have been long-known and embraced globally.
Dancehall artist Pamputtae says the imbroglio between Marion Hall and Queen of Dancehall Spice, will be nothing more than the proverbial Jamaican “nine-day wonder”.
Queen of Dancehall Spice has once again pointed to what she says is the hypocrisy of her male colleagues, who, on one hand, put women engaging in sexual activities with each other in their music videos, yet lash out at the rest of the LGBTQ community.
The Dancehall fraternity might need a day of Truth and Reconciliation, following confessions from Tanya Stephens that she had joined forces with Lady Saw to lyrically disparage Lady G; Spice owning up to her role as a confederate of the Heels On singer to rival Tanya herself, and allegations made by Macka Diamond that Spice and Lady Saw had conspired to derail her career.
The Warring Don from Clarendon, Merciless, one of Jamaica’s greatest lyricists, has regained the spotlight in Dancehall, after he performed a rendition of his When Bad Man Phone Ring, a song which dates back to 2010, at Boom Box Fridays.
During her rebuke of Shenseea and Spice in a three-hour long sermon last Sunday, Minister Marion Hall, at one point, turned the heat on Queen of the Pack Patra, whom she claimed pirated lyrics from her and used them to voice one of her biggest hits, Romantic Call.
“Come kiss out mi bible!” That was part of the braggadocio response from Minister Marion Hall, hours after her former friend Spice responded angrily to her declaration during a sermon that she would “do anything to reach the top”.
Jamaica’s Dancehall Dance Association (DDA) has taken umbrage to non-Jamaicans conducting Dancehall lectures and dance moves classes in exchange for cash on Jamaican soil, to tourists who travel to the island unwittingly believing they are paying for the authentic stuff.
Minister Marion Hall says American rapper Foxy Brown once accused her of wanting to take away her then-lover Dancehall star Spragga Benz.
Minister Marion Hall, formerly Lady Saw, has admonished Spice, Shenseea, Jada Kingdom, and Ishawna to curtail the lewd content in their music, pointing out that all four appear to be competing in a desperate “race to hell”.
Dancehall megastar and Gulf War veteran Shaggy says he is immensely proud of newly-minted Chief of Defence Staff, Rear Admiral Antonette Wemyss Gorman, who is the first woman to head the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF).