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Chairman of Downsound Entertainment Joe Bogdanovich has described Ishawna’s conduct on night one of Reggae Sumfest Concert Night One, in which she mimicked a taboo sex act involving a cardboard cut-out of Bounty Killer as “disrespectful and inexcuseable”.
Reggae and Dancehall singjays Yaksta and Nation Boss, like the young males from their generation who performed on Night One, dealt with the Reggae Sumfest stage like seasoned veterans, connecting within seconds of gracing the stage, on Night Two of the festival.
“Y’ll sat there laughing how a little fly b-tty, pissen tail, Dancehall mattress witch styled me…” Those were among the phrases Bounty Killer used to ruthlessly describe Ishawna, as he rebuked those Dancehall fans, who cheered her along when she, in her performance at Reggae Sumfest 2022, mimicked what he regards as a taboo sex act, involving a cardboard cut-out of his likeness.
Montego Bay native Shaneil Muir proved that she was truly Dancehall’s Top Gyal, in front of her home crowd on Concert Night II of Reggae Sumfest 2022, in an impeccable, classy performance, which while it had some suggestive lyrics, was devoid of gimmicks, props, crassness or crudeness.
Dancehall singer Ishawna singer has proven time and time again that she is the queen of controversy—case in point, her recent Reggae Sumfest 2022 performance involving life-size cardboard cutouts of some prominent Jamaican figures including Bounty Killer, whose face she imagined was a chair.
Reggae star Sizzla Kalonji closed out night two of Reggae Sumfest, despite the rainfall that came down suddenly at the Catherine Hall venue, sending many patrons scurring out.
From the sounds of Bounty Killer and Cham rinsing out the Jamaican invective “blood claat”, to the man of the moment Dave Kelly maintaining his mystique by shying away from the stage, to say the Reggae Sumfest’s Madhouse Tribute to Dave Kelly, was explosive would be an understatement.
Popcaan has returned to Jamaica and is in a celebratory mood as he checked in with his lawyer Bert Samuels, who had filed a defamation lawsuit against the Attorney General and Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) on the Risky deejay’s behalf while he was away in the UK.
If you ask Shaggy, his biggest hit It Wasn’t Me wouldn’t have existed if it weren’t for Eddie Murphy—in fact, the comedian once joked that the Jamaican superstar owed him royalties.
Nigerian singer Tems has joined the ranks of over 70 artists who have covered Bob Marley’s No Woman, No Cry (1974).
Pon Di C-cky deejay Aidonia had a romantic moment with wife Kimberly Megan during his set at Reggae Sumfest 2022 on Saturday morning.
Jamaican singer Shenseea brought out rising Dancehall star 1Biggs Don during her performance at Reggae Sumfest 2022 early this morning, in what some are calling one of her best presentations to date.
Midway his performance at dawn at Reggae Sumfest Night One on Saturday morning, Masicka declared himself Dancehall’s baddest and compared his musical arch-rivals to timid rodents, who were too afraid to confront him lyrically.
Jamaica’s youngest generation of artists rose to the occasion at Reggae Sumfest on Friday night, displaying class and surpassing the expectations of many, while showing the nation that they are also solid Dancehall artists and not just “kids recording Trap”.
‘Dancehall Cinderalla’ Ishawna brought her usual controversial style during her set at Reggae Sumfest 2022, this time involving the Warlord Bounty Killer with her ‘Equal Rights’ campaign.
Constable Noel Maitland, who is also known as the music producer Noel Onetime, has been named as a person of interest in the disappearance of social media personality Donna-Lee Donaldson.
Spice is no longer a self-proclaimed Queen of Dancehall. In the wee hours of Saturday, July 23, 2022–at Reggae Sumfest’s Festival Night One—she was crowned Queen of the genre by DownSound CEO Josef Bogdanovich, after she announced that her sophomore album will be released next month.
Dancehall entertainer Mavado’s multi-million dollar fraud case brought against disbarred attorney, Jennifer Messado was again delayed on Thursday when the matter was called up in the St.
London, a song by Dancehall artist Skeng, has been recommended by the music critics over at The Guardian as one of their Songs Of The Summer 2022.
Queen Bey is returning to take center stage with her upcoming album Renaissance that’s slated to finally arrive on July 29—her first album in six years.