Articles published on Tuesday, May 2, 2023
Afrobeats superstar Davido recently dished on his unlikely friendship with Dancehall crooner Dexta Daps, revealing that Popcaan actually introduced them months before they would go on to make music together.
Reggae singer Queen Ifrica is back on Instagram after two years and eight months. The outspoken artist broke the dry spell with a throwback post, dated exactly five years ago when she was promoting her single Cease All War.
From Gregory Isaacs’ cocaine fixation to Tiger Woods’ sex addiction, it’s often been said that every celebrity has a crippling vice.
Dancehall singer Tanya Stephens and former Tourism Minister Aloun Ndombet-Assamba have taken Minister of Legal and Constitutional Affairs, Marlene Malahoo Forte to task for giving what they describe as an inadequate response to a question about the job description of Jamaica’s “new president” at a Constitutional Reform forum.
Shenseea was recently in a nostalgic mood, posting a throwback video where she hailed some Dancehall veterans in a freestyle.
Reggae legend Peter Tosh‘s Live and Dangerous: Boston 1976 album has now reached No. 4 on the Billboard Reggae Albums chart, beating its previous peak of No.
With unflinching candor, Cutty Ranks, the prolific Dancehall veteran who rose to prominence in the late 1980s, recently took fans on an exhilarating journey through his checkered past, revealing early run-ins with the law, shocking connections to some of Dancehall and Reggae’s greats, as well as the erratic nature of his rise to stardom.
Six months after the Broadcasting Commission of Jamaica (BCJ) announced a ban on songs that promote and/or glorify illegal activities, British filmmakers Freddie Stewart and Gene Kavanagh are adding context to the prohibition through their documentary Strictly Prohibited.
Award-winning singer and actress Janelle Monáe has credited Jamaican food and sex for her stunning fashion statement at the 2023 Met Gala, held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City yesterday.