Over the years, the influence of both the Giggy Riddim (created in 1991) and Shabba Ranks’ Ting-a-Ling has spawned a wave of new songs that were inspired as much by Shabba’s delivery as they were by the instrumental itself.
Grammy Award winner Sean Paul has emerged as the Caribbean’s biggest Spotify earner for 2022, according to CertifiedStreams.com.
It was exactly four years ago that Buju Banton was freed from federal prison in the United States.
Veteran music icon Beres Hammond has revealed that he and his long-time collaborator and friend Buju Banton are working on a joint album, which is midway through completion.
Buju Banton’s Grammy-nominated album Inna Heights marked its silver anniversary yesterday, (November 25). Inna Heights, which is the Gargamel’s fifth studio album, was originally released on November 25, 1997.
Buju Banton skillfully evaded the question on whether he, like many other international artists, has ever considered selling his music catalog.
Dancehall icon Buju Banton has declared that Jamaican music is in a state of regression, and more love songs need to be recorded in order to activate its redemption.
Reggae/Dancehall star Sizzla sought to revive Buju Banton’s three-decade-old song Boom Bye Bye at Saturday’s staging of the retro party “Good Times”, in Kingston.
DJ Khaled has released the official visuals for These Streets Knows My Name—the Dancehall track on the American producer’s 13th studio album God Did.
Jamaican stars Skillibeng, Buju Banton, Capleton, Bounty Killer, and Sizzla will all be featured on These Streets Know My Name, which is track No.
American producer DJ Khaled says he’s no longer interested in generic sound clashes or even a Verzuz battle, because these days his singles and albums are doing the work.
Well-known for his affinity for Jamaican music, DJ Khaled says he has a “monumental” Dancehall record on his upcoming album, God Did, which is due out on August 26.
DJ Khaled continues to reveal morsels of what’s within his upcoming album, God Did, and it appears he has taken flight to Toronto to shoot a new music video with Drake and Lil Baby.
Snow, the Canadian Reggae fusion rapper from the early 90s, has shared that despite his initial success with the Billboard chart-topper Informer, he only came to be respected in Dancehall after the release of his feature-heavy 1995 hit song, Anything For You.
Music mogul and producer DJ Khaled is back in “Album Mode” and has once again touched down on Jamaican soil to add that to add to his upcoming project.
June was an interesting month for Jamaican music but as always, the variety in reggae dancehall was inspiring.
The Dancehall vets were out in their numbers this week, including Buju Banton, Beenie Man, Bounty Killer who dropped new songs on traditional Dancehall-sounding beats.
Buju Banton was in a no-nonsense mood at a recent staging of Weddy Weddy, lashing gunmen whom he says have been posing as Dancehall artists, and the privileged Jamaicans who have infiltrated the music spawned by ‘ghetto youths’, and yet, have been inundating it with debauchery and other repulsive content.
Buju Banton and Junior Reid publicly buried the hatchet a few nights ago at Stone Love’s Weddy Weddy, 14 years after the One Blood singer snubbed the Til Shiloh artist, supposedly for unsavory comments he had made at the Best of the Best show in Miami in 2008.
There have been mixed reactions to reports that Buju Banton was barred by soldiers and police from entering the Moore Town Maroon settlement in Portland on Sunday, en route to casting his ballot in favour of Lomora “Hope” Dillon in the Maroon elections.