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Dexta Daps paid tribute to veteran deejay, Louie Culture inviting him onstage for a surprise performance at an event in Brooklyn New York, on Saturday night, and his fans, from all indications, loved every single moment of it.
Reggae singer Keznamdi has joined Foota Hype in calling out fellow Rastafarian artists for remaining silent on the alleged trimming of the locks of 19-year-old Nzinga King, by a policewoman whilst in the custody of the Four Paths police in Clarendon.
Music producer Johnny Wonder, has mercilessly lashed Shenseea after the Run Run artist failed to acknowledge Skillibeng as being the creator of Crocodile Teeth, when she instead gave credit to Nicki Minaj for the associated riddim, during a Hot 97 interview.
Spragga Benz and Buju Banton, two of Dancehall’s staunchest critics of Jamaica’s containment measures and global vaccination efforts, have fallen under Instagram’s censorship radar.
Clockwork producer Usain Bolt has concerns about corporate entities exploiting the image rights of athletes who competed at the Olympic Games.
Sizzla has rebuked Reggae artists, who have declared themselves Rastafarians, yet have never visited any Rastafarian tabernacle in their lives, have no clue about Rastafarian religious rites, and are even failing to observe Haile Selassie’s birthday in the prescribed manner.
In the aftermath of the official release of Spice’s 10 album, Dancehall megastar Shaggy, has predicted that some of the songs on the 15-track production for which he served as executive Producer, were going to be classics.
It seems as if Bounty Killer will not stop jeering Alkaline about the performance and quality of his Top Prize album any time soon.
Dancehall superstar Popcaan has indicated that he is now working on his fifth studio album. On Sunday, the Unruly Boss posted several photos, among them one of himself getting his hair braided, his eyes shut, and a spliff in one of his hands.
Thirty-three years after Major Mackerel released his monster hit Dutty Bungle, effectively embedding the term in the Jamaican lexicon, A’mari DJ Mona Lisa might just be following in his footsteps with the release of her infectious, though bizarre single, (Rise) Dutty Bungle.
People’s National Party (PNP) President Mark Golding, joined the thousands of Jamaicans who are trying to master dancer Tyreek Pennicott’s Dirt Bounce, the dance the Jamaican women’s 4×100 metres relay team did upon being introduced, prior to their spectacular win at the Tokyo Olympic Games.
Controversy continues to plague Dancehall artist Intence’s recent trip to the Cayman Islands for a performance, even weeks after he left the British overseas territory.
Bounty Killer has ended the speculation surrounding the release time for his upcoming King of Kingston album.
Dancehall veteran Lieutenant Stitchie is among four members of Jamaica’s music industry who will be bestowed with national honours on National Heroes Day in October.
Italian Reggae artist Alborosie took on ZJ Sparks and some of her Instagram followers after spotting a news item published in The Times which was shared by her, regarding 100-metre Olympic champion Marcell Jacobs, which he regarded as undesirable.
On the heels of Sean Paul’s musings that the world is yearning for a revival of authentic Dancehall sounds, Bounty Killer is urging Jamaican artists to go fully Dancehall in their upcoming bodies of work, as the genre is on the cusp of a global explosion.
The mystique surrounding the enigmatic Dancehall producer Dave Kelly, was demystified somewhat, on his birthday by one of, if not his biggest aficionados, Ainsley “Notnice” Morris.
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 4 out of 5. The remarkable quality of Spice’s long-awaited maiden album, 10 comes as no surprise.
In the aftermath of Foota Hype’s berating of Rastafarian artists for failing to frontally condemn the alleged shaving of the locks from 19-year-old Nzinga King’s head by a policewoman last week, Chronixx has responded, pointing out that he had made contact with the youngster’s family the day after the news broke.
Foota Hype on Tuesday afternoon, frontally took on the issue regarding the alleged shaving of the head of a young Rastafarian woman by a female police officer, whilst in the custody of the Clarendon police last week, labeling it, among other things, “a disrespectful, out of order violation”.