The latest dancehall news, pop culture and stories.
Award-winning Reggae/Dancehall audio engineer and music producer Shane Brown has expressed concern about Jamaican artists who unwittingly compromise the quality of their performances by using their hands to cuff the heads of their microphones.
Former Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta (LHHATL) star Erica Mena has apologized for any damage she may have caused after calling Spice a “blue monkey” during a heated argument that aired on the reality TV show.
Beautiful Day, the Billboard-charting song by Jermaine Edwards that was covered by youngster Rushawn Ewears, was used as the opening song for the Apple Event today, (September 12).
Shenseea came to slay at New York Fashion Week (NYFW) in downtown Manhattan this week. Arriving at the destination vanguard of high fashion, latest trends, and sartorial evolution, the Jamaican singer triggered the shutterbugs rocking statement pieces of her own.
Canadian rapper Kardinal Offishal is celebrating the 15th anniversary of his 2008 Not 4 Sale album, which contains an interpolation of the Paragons’ most commercially successful song, Tide is High, written by late Reggae singer John Holt in 1967.
Popcaan‘s attorney-at-law Bert Samuels says that his team has opted to go the route of mediation in the defamation lawsuit against the Attorney General over a Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) press release addressing the Dancehall star’s immigration issues in the UK.
Beenie Man‘s Simma, his seventeenth studio album, failed to debut on the sales and streaming-driven Billboard Reggae Albums chart in the week following its release on September 1.
Reggae icon Beres Hammond will join Rita Marley and Jimmy Cliff as music legends presented with honorary degrees by the University of the West Indies (UWI) Mona Campus, come November.
Head of the Reggae Studies Unit at the University of the West Indies, Dr. Sonjah Stanley Niaah, has weighed in on the announcement made by a high school principal, that any student who carries knapsacks emblazoned with the word “dunce” will be barred from classes.
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Nicky deejay General B was pushed off the stage and then assaulted by several people after he dissed a man in the crowd at Boom Box Fridays.
Dickmatized singer Jada Kingdom has responded to the speculation that she’s now dating another rapper—Pardison Fontaine, formerly known to be involved with Megan Thee Stallion.
Minister Marion Hall is hosting a concert series titled ‘A Seed of Faith’ to raise funds for her desired church building.
American Reggae band Stick Figure released a cover of Green Day’s bleak 2004 hit Boulevard of Broken Dreams on Thursday (September 7).
Bongos, Cardi B’s second collaboration with Megan Thee Stallion, released on Friday, has been the subject of debate among Jamaican fans over whether it appropriated elements from Bang – a song released over two years ago by Dancehall artist Lincoln 3Dot.
American band 311, known for blending rock with Reggae rhythms and Hip-Hop/Funk breakdowns, earned three new Platinum singles in the United States on Thursday, including their 2004 Reggae-rock cover of The Cure’s Lovesong.
Reggae/Dancehall superstar Capleton says he has never recorded songs written by anyone else, as doing so, according to him, appears inauthentic.
Popcaan and 10Tik appear to have traded subliminal shots on social media following their appearance at the Unruly Boss’ back-to-school event last month.
In a music culture that sometimes disregards the contributions of its founders, Tanya Stephens believes there’s only one veteran spared from the hot and cold adoration of fans: Marcia Griffiths.
VP/Greensleeves Records is celebrating the 40th anniversary of John Holt’s iconic Police in Helicopter LP by sharing a rare 1983 12-inch single mix – informally known as the ‘Sirens Mix’ – to streaming, and previously unreleased photos from the cover shoot by Tim O’Sullivan.