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The self-titled Gyal Dem Gizzada Merciless has again vowed that he will be putting out an album this year, four years after he promised his fans a 12-track album titled Warhead Is Back, which failed to come to fruition.
Beatmaker for Koffee’s Toast hit song, IzyBeats, says he now has Dancehall deejay Skillibeng on his radar, and would love for the E-Syde artiste to feature on his plethora of future projects.
Dancehall deejay Dovey Magnum revealed on Wednesday, that she was paid US$1000 (J$140,000) for the Bawl Out dubplate that appeared on the campaign playlist of then President of the People’s National Party (PNP) Dr.
Dancehall artists and their other entertainment colleagues have been having yet another grand time jeering Prime Minister Andrew Holness this after news began circulating of statements he made about the sector on Tuesday, in the Lower House of Parliament.
It appears to be for real. The Uptop Boss Teejay has moved over to acclaimed “Mother of Dancehall” Sharon Burke and her Solid Agency, having parted ways with the Romeich Major-led Romeich Entertainment outfit, according to Zip FM.
In what appears to be a tongue-in-cheek comment, Dancehall artist Devin di Dakta has provided Prime Minister Andrew Holness with a “pre-transgression” apology in which he indicated that he will be breaching Jamaica’s Disaster Risk Management Act (DRMA).
Irish pop singer, Sinead O’Connor, a woman known for being highly controversial, has tweeted an apology for any offence she might have caused by stereotyping when she compared herself to Jamaican men for deliberately having four children by four different husbands.
Track icon Usain Bolt has revealed that he had reached out to Popcaan to record a song on one of his A-Team Lifestyle riddims.
Some of Skillibeng’s fans are up in arms after Honey Milan, the US-based artiste with whom he collaborated to voice the controversial song Chappa Gyal, said in an interview on Onstage, that the song would have done well without the Crocodile Teeth artiste’s vocals.
Music producer Skatta Burrell, who is a self-declared atheist, well-known for making daily iconoclastic statements on Instagram about God, Jesus and other deities, is among the members of the Dancehall fraternity sending well-wishes to Role Model artiste Jahmiel, on his recent baptism.
International Dancehall artist Cham says Dancehall heavyweight Dave Kelly, the producer behind some of the genre’s most iconic riddims and Cham’s biggest hit songs, will be working on musical productions with Usain Bolt and his A-Team Lifestyle label.
Bounty Killer took to Instagram on Wednesday to make it clear that he has no regrets, but instead delights in the fact that he has lived up to his name Warlord, by engaging in a long string of high-profile lyrical and personal feuds with his own mentees, rival artistes, former friends, collaborators, and even his mentors.
Spain Town Badness artist Roze Don has affirmed that the old Spanish capital where he grew up, is one of the most violent places in Jamaica, and as a consequence, is depicted as such in the gritty track and its accompanying music video.
Even as he launched another broadside against Bounty Killer for “tearing down” Alkaline, Mr. Vegas was taken to task on Wednesday, by some of his Instagram followers, for his role in similarly belittling and engaging in feuds with a slew of other younger Dancehall artists over the years.
Two months after declaring that he would be suing a slew of Dancehall music producers in his second round of copyrights litigation, Khago has had somewhat of a change of heart, and now says he will be only suing the “facety” ones.
If Dancehall fans, or even detractors of the genre, were expecting Gage’s response in his verse on the Eye for an Eye track to be about joining up with Devin Di Dakta to go on a vengeful shooting rampage, they had a next guess coming.
Bounty Killer crossed swords with Vendetta Fans again on his Instagram page on Sunday morning, even as he implicitly trash-talked Mr.
Over the weekend and admittedly after having had too much to drink, Full Hundred Dancehall artist Mr. Lexx called out a publishing deal he signed with VP Records more than 20 years ago, which gave the company full ownership of his masters.
New York-based Dancehall music selector and Vybz Kartel proponent, DJ Lava, was pleasantly surprised on Friday when he learned that Nicki Minaj had been inconspicuously following him and his Chat and Laugh show on Instagram for some time.
Dancehall star Agent Sasco has released a father-daughter musical collab with eight-year-old Lauren “LC” Campbell. The heartwarming, inspirational track titled If Caterpillars Can Fly So Can I and its accompanying lyric video, was released on Friday, which was celebrated as Children’s Day in Jamaica and, so far Agent Sasco’s fans are not only loving it, but pointing out that it would be perfect for a Disney Children’s movie soundtrack and an ideal children’s graduation song.