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Several of Bounty Killer’s fans are still trying to figure out how the Warlord came to be sending “happy birthday” greetings to Jamaica’s Minister of Entertainment Olivia “Babsy” Grange, on Sunday, August 1, even though her birthday was long gone from April 27.
Tanya Stephens and self-proclaimed Dancehall Defender Damion Crawford have condemned the actions of the police, who recently videotaped St.
Veteran Roots Reggae artiste Fred Locks has given his take on the state of Dancehall and Reggae music and based on his musings, he is not particularly pleased with the direction in which both genres are being taken.
Veteran Dancehall deejay Cutty Ranks’ Dame Tu Cosita, a Reggaeton collaboration with Panamanian El Chombo, is nearing the 3.5 billion mark in terms of YouTube views where it stands firm as one of the top 20 most-viewed songs in the history of the video-sharing platform.
Bounty Killer has given another update on his upcoming King of Kingston album. According to the Dancehall star, the Junior Gong executive-produced album is 95.5 percent complete.
Dancehall superstar Cham shed light recently on how he and his mentor, legendary Madhouse producer Dave Kelly came to be a dynamic, dominant producer-artist duo.
An esteemed ethnomusicologist is expressing dismay at the failure of the Jamaican State to factor Reggae/Dancehall and other aspects of the island’s culture into use, as drivers of economic development, and the lack of willpower to fully capitalize on UNESCO’s designation of Kingston as a Creative City of Music.
Dancehall heavyweight Cham says Bounty Killer has the greatest deejay voice in the history of Dancehall, unmatched by any of his predecessors or his contemporaries.
Eight years after he released his 70th album The Messiah, which copped a Grammy nomination, Sizzla Kalonji is On A High, as he edges closer to the 100-album mark with his new 12-track production set for release on Independence day, August 6.
Dancehall artist and newly crowned Jamaica Festival 2021 Song winner Stacious, has responded to comments being made by her Jamaican compatriots that the competition is for amateurs, and that established artists like herself should be forbidden from entering.
In the aftermath of Paramount Pictures’ announcement that it is seeking an actor to play the role of Bob Marley, some Reggae fans are demanding that one of his children or grandchildren, preferably Skip Marley, assume the character of the late Reggae icon.
Three-time Olympian decathlete, Maurice Smith, says his foray into Dancehall and Reggae music as an artist is no fluke, neither is it a hobby.
Medication singer Stephen Marley, Bob and Rita Marley’s second son, has announced the dates for his Babylon by Bus tour a 19-show journey across the United States, named after Bob Marley’s promotional tour for his 1978 Babylon By Bus album.
The Bloomsbury apartment in London where Bob Marley’s first lived in 1972 when he came to England’s capital to launch his career outside of Jamaica, is being sold for £1.65 million, the British media have reported.
Dancehall star Shenseea’s revelation that the favorite part of her Run Run music video were the scenes of her descending to hell whilst sporting Satanic horns, has not gone down well with her fans, who say the ‘satanic’ representations are a part of devil-worshipping.
Dancehall Queen Carlene had some words of wisdom for her musical compatriots, whose overly violent lyrics might be unwittingly serving as fodder for impressionable youths to carry out deviant acts, even though it may not be the artists’ intent.
As the debate regarding the impact of violent lyrics on criminal behavior and Jamaica’s murder rate continues, Kontraband artist Kabaka Pyramid was invited to give his take on the matter on Soundchat Radio with host Chin of the duo Irish and Chin.
When Buju Banton hurled a series of insults at Government Minister Alando Terrelonge on Instagram on Friday, many Dancehall fans were mortified, since the junior Culture, Gender and Entertainment Minister was defending the rights of Jamaican women against sexual harassment.
Dancehall bad gyal Ce’cile says Jamaican Rastafarian Reggae artists should be the ones leading the charge to compel Great Britain to pay Jamaica billions of pounds in Reparations for the TransAtlantic Slave Trade which saw an estimated 600,000 Africans being trafficked to Jamaica.
Bounty Killer and some of his fans had a field day jeering Alkaline about his performance on Friday night at the BRT weekend show in Atlantic City, even as he hailed his Seaview Gardens compatriot Dexta Daps on what he described as an outstanding performance.