Opinion, reviews, interviews, staff lists, rankings, and other long talking about Reggae and Dancehall music and culture.
Spotify is now available in Jamaica and the Caribbean region. At their Stream On launch event, they announced services to over eighty new markets expanding to additional one billion customers.
The atmosphere of music in and from Jamaica has shifted dramatically over the last ten months.
Fans of Dancehall artist Jada Kingdom might have been a tad disappointed after Asian Doll released the official video for Nunnadet Sh*t, which effectively reduced the Jamaican to a mere prop.
Taking the time to sift through the latest Dancehall tracks and videos of the week, we’ve found a few noteworthy recordings to listen to right now.
An all-female Dancehall riddim is in the works, to be released by the newly minted Droptop Records label.
An exciting lineup awaits in the best new dancehall music releases this week. Reggae songbird Lila Iké remixes one of her tracks with Skillibeng to land a surprising yet certified scorcher.
Dancehall starlet Shenseea has been shining all year and she recently shared her story and plans with top entertainment outlet, E!
Our picks for best Dancehall releases this week have given us several captivating love tunes from the likes of Stalk Ashley, Kranium and Stefflon Don, while Teejay and Dexta Daps joined in on the slow jams, they took things a little deeper into pretty lecherous territories.
For a long time Jamaicans have validated, and in so doing spread, the idea that artists native to the country need to break out locally or risk not breaking internationally.
Dancehall nice again! This week there are some exciting new tracks and music videos that will surely reel you in.
Jamaican music is fast-paced primarily because of the audience’s insatiable demand for it, and yet there are those artists who manage a timely balance of their own design.
Today, February 6, 2021, marks 76 years since the birth of the roaring, magnetic Tuff Gong.
Jamaica is a sea of muses, and inspired artists, something which is reflected in both our music and culture.
The Recording, entertainment and cultural industries in Jamaica have been on the back burner long before COVID-19.
As a new week rolls around so has a surge of new music from an exciting list of Dancehall artists.
Dancehall superstar Sean Paul has outlined parts of his vision for Kingston which would help the city to fully capitalize on its status as a UNESCO Creative City of Music, a designation with which it was bestowed, in 2015.
Veteran Dancehall deejay Lady G has revealed the source of inspiration for her 2013 double-entendre song Herbie, noting that it arose from the fact that she became a ‘ganja baby’ after her first trip to the parish of Westmoreland as a youth.
Minister Marion Hall, formerly Lady Saw, has returned with a bang, dropping no fewer than two Dancehall-tinged gospel tracks, Mi Soon Alright and From Mi Born, jointly released on the Hitmatic Records and RP Record labels.
One of Dancehall’s new generation rhyme-slingers Rytikal believes that the savagery demonstrated during a recent surge in the number of murders committed in Jamaica represents a “new low”.
Protoje’s swanky showcase of #squadgoals in his new music video Switch It Up is creating a buzz while climbing the trending list on YouTube Jamaica.