Dub poet Mutabaruka is warning the Government of Jamaica not to take sides with France and the United States, in determining how to pacify the political conflict taking place in Haiti.
Fred Locks‘ Black Star Liner was more than just a catchy roots Reggae tune. It was a potent anthem about the Garveyite yearning for repatriation, which resonated with a new generation of Rastafarian youth in Jamaica and the UK when it was released in 1975.
Reggae singer Queen Ifrica wants Dancehall star Vybz Kartel to be a mentor to youth if he’s released from prison.
Veteran Dancehall artist Mr. Lexx says the year 2000 was the golden era of his 30-year music career, a time when he had multiple hit songs and also found himself juggling fatherhood to a whole bunch of newborns.
YG Marley’s debut single, Praise Jah In The Moonlight, is now certified Silver in the United Kingdom, almost three months after its release.
Call her one of the fewest child stars to be relevant over 40 years after rising to prominence as the winner of the Tastee Talent competition, beating deejay Yellowman.
Dancehall star Vybz Kartel has openly declared his readiness for a potential retrial but is calling on Jamaica’s Court of Appeal to act justly in determining whether there should be one.
Lawyers for Dancehall artists Adidja ‘Vybz Kartel’ Palmer, Shawn ‘Storm’ Campbell, and two other men can now request bail pending the Jamaica Court of Appeal’s decision on a possible retrial.
There’s a psychology of navigating unwanted advances as a woman in the music industry, at least in the school of Marcy Chin.
A bevy of women who were in pursuit of Super Cat’s mentor and fellow deejay Nicodemus served as the key inspiration behind the creative process that led to the Dancehall legend’s 1985 smash hit Boops.
Dancehall artists Adidja ‘Vybz Kartel’ Palmer, Shawn ‘Storm’ Campbell, and two other men had their convictions overturned by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC) in London due to juror misconduct during their trial in Jamaica.
The debut of Nigy Boy’s new Rvssian-produced Judgment Day track on the Payment Plan riddim, has sparked renewed praise of the Continental singer as a potential saviour of the Dancehall genre, which some argue has been waning in the shadow of Trap music’s emergence.
Minister of Finance Dr. Nigel Clarke has made an ambitious promise to Jamaican star Protoje that Reggae music will soon be allowed in the country’s capital all day, every day.
In what he described as a seminal move, reggae artist Nature Ellis has released five music videos in five consecutive days as he aims to garner more attention for conscious roots reggae songs which he claimed are being ignored.
Jamaican-born Jean Francis has been making a name for himself in Hungary, introducing Dancehall to a central European country that is more in tune with Reggae.
Dancehall legend Super Cat narrowly escaped being among the scores of young boys and men who were detained during one of the most-talked-about police raids on a Dancehall event, back in the early 1970s.
Dancehall stars Spice and Shenseea have contradictory stories about what caused the rift between them. In a recent clip from the Zeus Network’s Baddies Caribbean Auditions, where both artists judge talent, they bickered over who initiated the social media unfollow that seemingly marked the public breakdown of their friendship.
There have been calls yet again for Skillibeng to be offered a modeling contract after the Mr.
Rastafarian elder Ras Iyah V is calling for a biopic that honors the uncompromising spirit of Reggae legend Peter Tosh.
Curly Loxx, half of the Twin of Twins duo, is zeroing in on Bob Marley’s sexual discipline following last month’s discourse about his affair with Cindy Breakspeare while married to Rita.