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Reggae Sumfest’s Marketing Strategist Skatta Burrell says he was fully aware of Ishawna’s plans for the cardboard cut-out of Bounty Killer at Concert Night One of the festival last weekend, and while he also understands why the Warlord appears disgruntled, the apology issued by Joe Bogdanovich was unnecessary.
The Isiah Laing-led Supreme Promotions has announced a new venue on Jamaica’s North Coast for Sting, which is making its return in 2022, after a seven-year hiatus, on its usual date, Boxing Day, December 26.
“My head nuh good an’ mi very disrespectful enuh,” Ishawna has declared. “Mi aguh tear unuh dung and drag unuh, enuh.
DJ Khaled continues to reveal morsels of what’s within his upcoming album, God Did, and it appears he has taken flight to Toronto to shoot a new music video with Drake and Lil Baby.
After a brilliant performance at the just-concluded Reggae Sumfest, Lawgiver The Kingson is eyeing the October release of his album, Audio Check.
Cop-cum-music-producer Constable Noel Maitland, the boyfriend of missing social media personality Donna-Lee Donaldson, was arrested by detectives from the Counter Terrorism and Organised Crime Investigation Branch on Wednesday in relation to her disappearance.
Popular music producer Linval ‘Shab Don’ Thompson Jr, who is accused of murdering three persons in St James, will have to wait to see if his bail application will be granted as his case was postponed on Tuesday.
Police are now probing the shooting death of Dancehall artist EleganceGad in Russell’s Place, Manchester on Wednesday morning.
The musical evolution of Koffee and other Grammy-winning artists may be influenced by the fact that they took home the Award, a new study suggests.
Bounty Killer and Beenie Man pulled off the stunt of stunts on Tuesday, to drum up support for a show which was being staged by Dancehall Queen Carlene at the Meca Nightclub to raise funds for cancer patients.
Stephen “Fada Axe” Gabbidon, father and manager of Dancehall deejay Intence, has come out lashing Jahshii for what he describes as an attempt by the newcomer to earn stripes off his son’s success and stir up unnecessary strife among rising stars in Dancehall.
Dancehall’s rising star Jahshii says, even though he is not averse to engaging in record-for-record combat with Silk Boss, Intence or any other deejay, trading diss songs right now in the Summer months, would not fit into his plans for the calendar year.
Barack Obama has released his annual Summer Playlist and Jamaican singer Koffee has made the Former US President’s list of curated music for the sixth time.
Jamaican star Shenseea has earned her first nomination for a MTV Video Music Award (VMA) after she was featured as the platform’s “Global PUSH Artist” for the month of March 2022.
VP Records is urging a New York court to grant its request to stay Mr. Vegas’ recent motion for an injunction against them, court records obtained by DancehallMag reveal.
After the uncertainty posed by the pandemic hampered the virtual staging of Sting 2020, the organizers have declared that this year’s staging is guaranteed to be held on Boxing Day, December 26, at its home Jamworld in Portmore, St Catherine, after seven years of absence, an announcement which has excited Code (Ensure) artist Brysco.
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.