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Dancehall deejay Fully Bad has released a new diss track titled Nuh Unruly, aimed directly at Popcaan and his Unruly Camp, in furtherance of their Instagram squabble.
It was National Worl’ Boss Day for the Gaza Nation as Vybz Kartel celebrated his 45th birthday, albeit behind bars, on January 7.
Self-proclaimed Viral King Foota Hype, says Macka Diamond’s claims of godly redemption is only a big exaggeration and an attempt to go viral, and that he cannot be fooled by her antics.
Spragga Benz, one of the artistes who was proudly ranked and praised by Foota Hype in October 2019 as one of Dancehall’s top womanizers, says he now realizes that he was tricked into becoming a ‘gyallis’.
Macka Diamond’s decision to engage in two weeks of prayer and fasting to fix what she says is the crisis amongst the females in Dancehall music, is not going down well with some ‘followers of Christ’ who are tracking her on Instagram.
Dancehall megastar Shaggy and artiste manager Julian Jones-Griffith have paid tribute to the legendary Jamaican hotelier, Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart, the man who once lent them his brand new private jet in 2005 so they could take an emergency flight to Barbados to ‘shell down’ a stage show and fly back home.
After taking a seven-month break from Instagram, Damian “Junior Gong” Marley has emerged from below the radar to announce the release of his new single dubbed Life is a Circle, which featured on his Ghetto Youths International label’s new compilation album.
American basketball legend Shaquille O’Neal, showed off his ‘Jamaicanness’ on the weekend to welcome the New Year, doing the Bogle, Willie Bounce and Butterfly dance moves to Dancehall star Popcaan’s Be Like Me song, in a video on his Instagram page.
Music producer Izy Beats has revealed that he did not use expensive equipment or an elaborate studio to create the rhythm for Koffee’s mega-hit Toast.
Dancehall group T.O.K.’s controversial classic Chi Chi Man, remained an ‘iron balloon’ for three years, rejected by numerous sound system selectors, before becoming a monster hit in Jamaica, making the group into a household name.
American music producer Dre Skull, popularly known for being the man behind the production of Vybz Kartel’s Kingston Story and Popcaan‘s debut album Where We Come From, recently bought a $7 Million home in the upscale community of Los Feliz in Los Angeles, California.
Jamaican megastar Shaggy has made another historic feat, this time all the way in India. The Dancehall legend has teamed up with 94.3 Radio One India and will serve as mentor of the media house’s upcoming project titled International Icon, the first time in history that an International artist and Grammy Award winner will play that role on an Indian singing talent show.
Ziggy Marley paid a heartfelt tribute to his wife and president of Tuff Gong Worldwide, Orly, on his social media pages on her 50th birthday on Tuesday, which was also the day of the couple’s 16th wedding anniversary.
In the aftermath of the outcry by some Dancehall artistes about what they deem the snubbing of the genre by the Grammy Awards, Dancehall megastar Shaggy, has reiterated his call for qualified entertainers to become members of the Recording Academy.
Reggae superstar Buju Banton has announced that he has re-mastered and re-issued in HD, all the music videos which were recorded for tracks on his 25 year old Til Shiloh album, which was officially re-released last Friday.
On the heels of the release of his latest single Guns of Navarone last Friday, which features Reggae singer Jesse Royal and Mutabaruka, Dancehall superstar Sean Paul has paid a heartfelt tribute to veteran dub poet, whom he said was influential in his rise to stardom.
Dancehall megastar Shaggy, has called for the implementation of a quota system by the Jamaican Government, to ensure that the majority of music played on Jamaican radio stations is from the island, as opposed to overseas.
Some members of the Dancehall fraternity have thrown their full support behind Mayor of May Pen Winston Maragh, who has recommended that Jamaica take a wait-and-see stance toward the COVID-19 vaccine, before any decision is taken to introduce it into the island.
Weeks after Reggae singer Jesse Royal was raked over the coals for engaging in a Christmas advertisement featuring Santa Claus, another musician, this time saxophonist Dean Fraser is being criticized by Rastafarians and even non-Rastas, for what they deem to be an even more preposterous gaffe.
Reggae music icon Lee Scratch Perry says he has a huge sustainable development plan for Jamaica, which includes the creation of an off-the-grid community, to enable him to get away from what he has described as “this Babylon Madness”.