Creative Titans set about the business of music with one very specific purpose in mind, to gain global traction for artists who exist within markets that are at times mismanaged, overlooked, or treated as insignificant by the industry.
Minister of Entertainment and Culture Olivia “Babsy” Grange has called on Jamaica’s artists and songwriters to steer clear of gun lyrics, and instead, use the island’s music to push the positivity for which Dancehall and Reggae have been long-known and embraced globally.
The once-in-a-blue-moon treat of grimy dancehall artists giving their fans inspiring and uplifting music comes like a flower that rarely blooms.
Bounty Killer’s threats to sue an Australian sex toy company, which designed one of their products in the likeness of a hammer left his fellow Dancehall artists in a tizzy after he posted an image of the toy, described as “The Ultimate Vibrator” on Instagram.
Dancehall stars Beenie Man, Bounty Killer, and Konshens are among those reacting to the barbaric murder of a nine-year-old autistic child, Gabriel King, who was killed during an ill-fated carjacking in St.
What would you do if you were overlooked by one of your friends or colleagues after calling to them confidently in public?
Bounty Killer has hailed the late Dancehall singer/producer Wayne Smith as the man who displayed confidence in him as an artist by producing his first song Top Secret, back in 1990.
The year 2021 was a busy period in Dancehall, as with less touring and stage shows numbering almost zero in Jamaica, artists buckled down and took to the studio.
The Dancehall fraternity celebrates the earth strong of an icon today. The Worl’ Boss – Vybz Kartel turned 46 this Friday, January 7.
Bounty Killer is delighting in Archbishop of Kingston Father Kenneth Richard’s new “dubplate” in which the clergyman interpolated the Warlord’s gun-slinging 1995 hit song Miss Ivy Last Son and sang it like a “Great Christian Hymn of our times” during the National Prayer Breakfast on Wednesday morning.
One General Bounty Killer has projected that his retirement date from Dancehall, will be at the end of the year 2031, on the cusp of age 60.
The year 2021 came with a lot of hardships for many but as we come to a close this Christmas season, Dancehall entertainers have come out in their numbers to give back to their communities and share some holiday cheer in these dire times.
While Bounty Killer’s King of Kingston album seems not destined to be a Christmas album as promised, he has given his fans a replacement Yuletide present of sorts, by living up to Jahshii’s expectations, teaming up with the 21-year-old musically, for a new ‘rude boy’ track titled When we a Step.
Bounty Killer, on Monday, recalled a momentous occasion at the now-defunct annual Sting stage show back in 1993.
Six hours after Bounty Killer ordered Charles ‘Zanadu’ Ennis to apologise for disparaging statements he made against Cream of the Crop deejay Jahshii, and the entire Jamaican nation, Ennis has complied, partially.
Cream of the Crop artist Jahshii, while paying homage to Bounty Killer for using his influence to give opportunities to musically-inclined inner-city youths, brushed aside the likes of Shabba Ranks, as being among a slew of superstar émigrés who have not supported their younger compatriots back in Jamaica.
Two of Dancehall’s biggest giants Bounty Killer and Shaggy are among the scores of musicians who have paid tribute to late legendary bass guitarist Robbie Shakespeare, for the indelible contribution they said he made in their music careers.
Dancehall artist Bounty Killer through his Bounty Killer Foundation has made a generous donation of $400,000 JMD (approximately $2,560 USD) to Dancehall veteran Tiger, who recently suffered a stroke and is in need of financial assistance.
Bounty Killer has admonished both the police and Prime Minister Andrew Holness, after rank and file members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) descended on the Supreme Court in Downtown Kingston, to protest what they said were delays in the payment of their overtime claims.
English singer Ed Sheeran continues to come in for high praises among the Dancehall fraternity. After the outpouring of admiration from Ishawna earlier this month, the latest salute has come today from the Warlord Bounty Killer.