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Popcaan has earned his fifth BRIT Certified silver award. The Dancehall star received the silver certification from the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) today (August 6) for Kisses For Breakfast, a 2014 collab with British singer Melissa Steel.
Rapture, the title track off Koffee’s Grammy Award-winning EP, is now BRIT Certified silver in the United Kingdom for sales of over 200,000 copies.
On the heels of Sean Paul’s musings that the world is yearning for a revival of authentic Dancehall sounds, Bounty Killer is urging Jamaican artists to go fully Dancehall in their upcoming bodies of work, as the genre is on the cusp of a global explosion.
It’s clear that Jamaican track star turned music producer Usain Bolt remains a big fan of Dancehall star Vybz Kartel.
The mystique surrounding the enigmatic Dancehall producer Dave Kelly, was demystified somewhat, on his birthday by one of, if not his biggest aficionados, Ainsley “Notnice” Morris.
Anyone expecting to see Buju Banton or any other Jamaican artist featured on Kanye West’s Donda album will be left disappointed.
Update: Jamaica’s women sprinters Elaine Thompson-Herah, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Shericka Jackson and Briana Williams have won the gold medal in the 4×100 metre race today.
Dancehall artists Kranium and Jada Kingdom have released remixes of what some have called the ‘record of the summer’.
Fans of Dancehall artist Khxos (pronounced “Chaos”) were left stunned on Wednesday (August 4) after the singer shared a series of videos on Instagram, where he waved a gun and said that he was contemplating suicide.
Al Hardwicke Kassi, head of the booking agency Midnight Mango, is expressing regret that a special tribute concert set for September in the UK to honour the late Toots Hibbert will have to be cancelled after the Europe-based booking agency Midnight Mango Ltd received a cease and desist letter from the lawyers for the executors of the Frederick (Toots) Hibbert estate.
Today is Reggae star Fantan Mojah’s birthday, but he is mourning the loss of his mother, Mazelyn Moncrieffe, who passed away on Monday at the age of 68 at the Black River Hospital in St Elizabeth from a prolonged illness.
Jamaican Reggae star Chronixx says Dancehall artists need to stop putting out embarrassing music, and furthermore, they should stop calling him to appear on their tracks.
In the aftermath of Foota Hype’s berating of Rastafarian artists for failing to frontally condemn the alleged shaving of the locks from 19-year-old Nzinga King’s head by a policewoman last week, Chronixx has responded, pointing out that he had made contact with the youngster’s family the day after the news broke.
Foota Hype on Tuesday afternoon, frontally took on the issue regarding the alleged shaving of the head of a young Rastafarian woman by a female police officer, whilst in the custody of the Clarendon police last week, labeling it, among other things, “a disrespectful, out of order violation”.
American rapper Lil Uzi Vert celebrated his birthday last Saturday with a shower of gifts from his celebrity girlfriend, JT from the rap duo City Girls.
Bounty Killer’s highly cheerful response to questions about what his reception will be “when he arrives in New York”, is perhaps the clearest indication yet, that the Warlord’s US visa just might have been reinstated, 10 years after it was revoked by the US Embassy in Kingston.
Reggae star Sizzla Kalonji has dropped visuals for his Crown On Your Head single, which appears on his On A High album.
Rihanna is the first entertainer from the Caribbean to surpass an estimated net worth of US$1.7b.
Reggae singer Tarrus Riley’s feature on the 2015 single Powerful has earned him a BRIT Certified Silver Award.
Bounty Killer has announced that some of the most iconic Dancehall and Reggae artists, as well as several Hip Hop legends will be featured on his upcoming album King of Kingston.