General Manager of the Jamaica Music Society (JAMMS) Evon Mullings, says the international market is not buying into the new-era (Trap, Hip-Hop, Island Pop) music coming out of Jamaica, based on royalty payments he has seen coming into the country, since deepening collection ties with UK-based Performance Rights Organization Phonographic Performance Limited (PPL) late last year.
The fizzling out of the Montego Bay-based 6IX was a topic of debate recently, on the Let’s Be Honest Podcast, among the likely reasons being whether Alkaline had “written off” their careers; they lost the Gaza fans who had aligned themselves with them, or their novelty had worn off.
Our picks for best Dancehall releases this week have given us several captivating love tunes from the likes of Stalk Ashley, Kranium and Stefflon Don, while Teejay and Dexta Daps joined in on the slow jams, they took things a little deeper into pretty lecherous territories.
The tracklisting for Sean Paul’s new album Live N Livin has been revealed and there is an interesting feature; 10 of the 16 songs bear similar titles to action/war movies.
Jamaican superstar Sean Paul is gearing up to release the first of two new Dancehall albums this year, Live and Living, on March 12.
Dancehall and Reggae artistes in Jamaica, as well as their compatriots domiciled overseas, were on a creative streak in 2020 leading into 2021, with a plethora of albums set to be dropped this year by some of the industry’s biggest names.
The music production houses have been working overtime the last couple of days, churning out hot new releases from a long list of Dancehall acts and we have 18 picks this week.
Dancehall superstar Sean Paul will be releasing two new albums this year, Live and Living and Scorcher, within a matter of months.
Feelings are running high in Dancehall this week, the Gully Gad, Mavado in an unexpected admission, says he’s by no means a perfect man with a heartfelt new track, while Chronic Law is tired of failing at love.
Jamaican YouTube vlogger Tash Fierce decided to ‘shoot her shot’ yesterday by sending direct messages to a whopping 50 Dancehall deejays via Instagram just to see who would reply.
Dancehall artistes Vybz Kartel, Chronic Law, and Squash jump on the beat once again, delivering another scorcher to close out 2020.
The 6ix Boss, Squash is an unstoppable force, as he hits YouTube Trending yet again among Jamaican listeners.
6ix boss Squash’s latest hit POTUS just got major cosign from R&B crooner Omarion. The former B2K frontman and his younger brother ORyan were seen vibing to the catchy track on Instagram stories this week.
An exciting line-up awaits on this week’s best new Dancehall music, Popcaan ventured into foreign territories to collaborate with British R&B singer, Jorja Smith on a sexy pop and dancehall infused track.
As incarcerated Dancehall hitmaker Vybz Kartel readies his case for appeal at UK’s Privy Council, several industry players have rallied with support for the artist.
Another week in Dancehall has brought us a terrific line-up of tracks with some old and unexpected appearances.
The Dancehall arena this week had a burst of cool riddims and flows from some pretty popular talents in the game.
The lines that split the Dancehall landscape into two during the Gully vs Gaza feud years ago are still prominent today.
The 6ix boss himself Squash today released visuals for his remix of Skillful, with incarcerated Dancehall artiste Vybz Kartel.
Reports are surfacing that the malice between veteran dancehall artiste Beenie Man and the 6ix’s Daddy1 seems to have escalated into a physical confrontation after a member of Beenie’s team allegedly ‘boxed down’ (slapped) the young dancehall artiste.