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Cedella Marley has promised ‘authenticity with significant Jamaican participation’, as a casting call has been made for supporting actors from the island to audition for Paramount Pictures’ Bob Marley biopic.
Almost a week after American rapper Bobby Shmurda jokingly said Shenseea wasn’t freaky enough for him, she clapped back by saying the Hot N*gga rapper was “all talk”.
King of the Dancehall Beenie Man has so far been booked for two major festivals in the United States this summer.
Protesters in the British Virgin Islands have drawn for Redemption Song, one of Bob Marley’s biggest political songs and Tony Rebel’s If Jah, to solidify their opposition to plans by the UK to impose direct rule on the territory, following the arrest of their elected leader Premier Andrew Alturo Fahie, on cocaine smuggling charges.
Amid a myriad of criticisms raised by Rastafarians and Reggae fans that British actor Kingsley Ben-Adir, was unbefitting to play Bob Marley in an upcoming Paramount biopic, and the role should be given to either his sons or grandsons, who already resemble him, and are Patois-speakers and musicians, film director Reinaldo Marcus Green, says the Brits ability to act is all that matters.
Residents of Bedward Gardens in August Town are greatly saddened by the deaths of three young men, one of whom is the son of prominent reggae singer Sanchez, whose mother was laid to rest in Canada this morning.
Jamaican singer Shenseea has been added to the Pride Island lineup, being spearheaded by NYC Pride for June 25.
Beenie Man, Bounty Killer, Cham, Wayne Wonder, and Spragga Benz, will headline Reggae Sumfest’s Madhouse Tribute to Dave Kelly on Saturday, July 23, in honour of the iconic, but reclusive Dancehall music producer/songwriter, who created a slew of seminal beats in the 1990s, including Pepperseed, Showtime, Joy Ride, Stink and Dugu Dugu.
Dancehall Governor Lieutenant Stitchie says he is being very fastidious in the creation of his 23rd album, and is treating the process akin to how a goldsmith smelts gold ore to perfection.
American actor Johnny Depp appears to be a fan of Bob Marley, after turning up to court on Wednesday blaring the Reggae King’s 1977 hit Exodus from his black SUV.
According to Sean Paul, a Verzuz battle against Shaggy would be “unfair” because he has had 19 songs on the Billboard Hot 100, while the Bombastic singer has only 3 but with over 15 million copies.
Cyndi Davila, a well-known artist manager and publicist, of Davila Management, will be buried tomorrow at a private ceremony in Texas, USA.
Acclaimed Montego Bay disc jockey and music producer DJ Crazy Neil says Nicki Minaj ought to disabuse herself of any thoughts she might have that her doing a remix of Skeng and Tommy Lee Sparta’s song Protocol, is a good idea.
Even if others might have forgot, the Warlord Bounty Killer remembered his first manager, Minister of Culture Olivia “Babsy” Grange on her 76th birthday on Wednesday, expressing his love, as he heaped accolades on the former Specs/Shang executive.
A day after Professor Carolyn Cooper published an article titled Jamaicans do not own Reggae, in which she rebuked citizens of the country whom she described as “nyamming up themselves on social media” because SOJA won the Best Reggae Album Grammy, a 2006 video of Buju Banton expressing concern that the music was under threat of being fully expropriated, has resurfaced.
When Jamaican reggae artist Zzambo realized that he could never obtain copyrights for his former stage monicker, ‘Tafari’, the first name of Haile Selassie I, a former emperor of Ethiopia, he realized he was facing a conundrum.
Dancehall artist Pamputtae says her debut gospel song God and Time, a collab with Minister Taneisha Shaw, is gaining momentum and is a hit at dances, especially in her home city, Kingston.
Super Bass rapper Nicki Minaj has hailed Skeng and Tommy Lee Sparta’s Protocol as the “baddest” song to be released in years.
Dancehall superstar Sean Paul was at pains to explain that Dancehall music is not restricted to happy, sing-along, dancing tracks reserved for the summertime, as some North Americans tend to believe, during his recent interview on The Breakfast Club on Power 105.1 FM.
Dancehall legend Lieutenant Stitchie went back into schoolteacher mode on Tuesday, as he reeled out open instructions on the fundamentals of Dancehall deejaying to his fans, even using formal terminologies embedded in the glossary of singing.