Jamaicans are featured on three tracks of Kanye West’s 10th studio album Donda which was released on Sunday. Grammy winning artiste Buju Banton leads the Jamaican contingent with vocals on ‘Believe What I Say’. Shenseea shows up on Pure Souls and Ok Ok Part 2.Jamaican producer Matthew “Boi-1da” Samuels, a Grammy-winning […]
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Dancehall artiste Popcaan just loves to kick it with Beres. The Unruly Boss has once again teamed up with legendary reggae crooner Beres Hammond on a new track dubbed A Mother’s Love. The single and official music video were both released last Friday. A Mother’s Love is a collaborative effort […]
Grammy award-winning Jamaican music pioneer, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry is dead. He died on Sunday morning (August 29) at the Noel Holmes Hospital in Lucea, Hanover after he had been battling hypertension for years. Perry was 85 years old. “He had been battling high blood pressure for years. I have been trying to get to […]
Well-known reggae artiste Ijahman Levi has contracted SARS-CoV-2, the virus which causes COVID-19,and his family is asking for prayers from his fans and supporters at this time. He is reportedly under medical supervision, and is convalescing at a facility in France. “Ijahman had performed at the ‘No Logo’ festival in France, and […]
One Drop streaming and audio app curator Norman Williams is confident that his reggae-dancehall focussed app believes that reggae-loving Jamaicans will love his new One Drop app. One of those reasons, he believes, is that it has the slickest, snappiest user interface for Jamaicans looking to stream reggae music. “One Drop […]
There was a dramatic fall off in sales for the reigning King and Queen of Dancehall, Kartel and Spice, as their albums suffered plunging sales this week. After debuting new albums at No. 6 and No. 9 last week, the undisputed Queen of Dancehall Spice and the reputed King Of Dancehall Vybz Kartel […]
Grammy-winning reggae star Koffee earned another major accolade recently when Rapture, the title track off her Grammy Award-winning EP, was certified silver in the United Kingdom for sales of over 200,000 copies. According to the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), Rapture was issued the award on August 6, which is also […]
Reggae star Buju Banton is at it again. The Til Shiloh artiste has emerged as one of the staunchest critics of Jamaica’s containment measures and global vaccination efforts, but he may have gone a bit overboard with his latest posts on social media as one of his posts was flagged as false […]
Bob Marley chased those crazy baldheads out of town once again! This time, the occasion is this week’s Billboard reggae charts as the late King of Reggae effortlessly staved off challenges from the self-proclaimed Queen of Dancehall, Spice and the incarcerated Vybz Kartel, the self-styled King of the Dancehall, as […]
Dancehall singjay Panic feels that he was always destined to do music. After all, his real name is Tom Jones, a nod to the Grammy award winning singer who has sold over 100 million records, with thirty-six Top 40 hits in the United Kingdom and 19 hits in the United […]