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Queen Ifrica has revealed that Tony Rebel had originally written her hit Lioness On The Rise for his Penthouse Records stablemate and Queen of Reggae, Marcia Griffiths.
Bob Marley and The Wailers’ 1977 song, Waiting In Vain, is now certified Gold in the UK, the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) announced on Friday (September 1).
Kranium‘s Gal Policy is now certified Silver in the United Kingdom, three years after its release. According to the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), the song was issued a BRIT Certified Silver award today (September 1) after it sold over 200,000 units in the UK, as measured by The Official Charts Company.
The first annual Caribbean Music Awards was held on Thursday at King’s Theatre in Flatbush, Brooklyn, the neighborhood known as New York’s “Little Caribbean.”
Bounty Killer will headline Saturday night’s birthday bash for Senator Matthew Samuda, co-founder of Dream Weekend, aspirant for the North East St.
Fresh off R&B singer Chris Brown’s crowd-flocking concert at the National Stadium on Sunday, Dancehall artist Mr. Vegas has been thinking about Jamaican acts who could independently fill out the venue. His top picks: Minister Marion Hall, reverting to Lady Saw, and Vybz Kartel if he’s released from prison.
Valiant, via his sexually explicit Mad Out song in particular, has earned the ire of Queen Ifrica, who has expressed dismay that it is being played in various settings in earshot of children in the inner-city, who haplessly sing along to the lyrics.
Grammy award-winning artist Shaggy was nothing short of a treat at the Notting Hill Carnival in the United Kingdom on Sunday (August 27).
Jamaican-Canadian supermodel Winnie Harlow recently shared a clip of herself turning up to Lady Saw’s If Him Lef.
Dancehall artists Yellostone and 1Mr Smooth say they have an undeniable amount of synergy with their single, Cut Me Open, which has racked up over 113,000 views on Youtube.
Likening Chris Brown’s performance on Sunday night to that of disgraced French/German pop duo Milli Vanilli, who were at the epicenter of the most infamous lip-syncing scandal in Pop music history, Dancehall artist Khago has blasted Jamaicans who cheered him along, whilst spurning local artists.
Love & Hip-Hop: Atlanta star Erica Mena flipped a table on Tables Turn singer Spice, wished her death, and used a racially derogatory slur after the Queen of Dancehall triggered her with a comment about her son.
Gyalis rapper Capella Grey was ready to perform at the Chris Brown and Friends concert at the National Stadium in Kingston, Jamaica on Sunday night.
Declaring today ‘Queen Ifrica Day,’ Dancehall selector Foota Hype is encouraging people to post the Reggae artist on social media with uplifting messages following her rape allegation against her father, ska singer Derrick Morgan.
Booking agent and social media influencer Shelly Ann Curran has made an impassioned appeal to the entertainment fraternity to drum up support for quick intervention in the missing person case of emerging Dancehall artist Medikk.
London-based social media sensation Queen Ladi Gangsta aka Queenie is presently receiving treatment at the University Hospital of the West Indies for an abscess on her face.
Bob Marley & The Wailers’ 1977 song Natural Mystic is the legendary Reggae band’s 13th song to surpass 100 million plays on Spotify.
It’s been near impossible to scroll through Caribbean TikTok over the last three weeks without hearing Vybz Kartel and Sheba’s 2010 hit Gaza Man Mi Name.
Lee Scratch Perry’s legendary Black Ark Recording Studio, which he admitted to burning to the ground back in 1979, is to be celebrated in art, in the cottages being constructed at the late singer/producer’s new off-the-grid community in his native Hanover.
Minister Marion Hall is not interested in a war of words with rap artist Nicki Minaj concerning TikTok sensation Brittany ‘Brit’ Goffe.