What Is Dub Music? Reggae’s Studio Science Explained
Dub music is one of recorded music's most consequential inventions, and yet it remains one of the least understood. At…
‘Gaza Tussain’ reportedly Killed in Portmore Police
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Shane “Gaza Tussain” Williams was reportedly killed during an alleged confrontation with police in Portmore, St Catherine,…
DEM BOW!!! Shabba Wants His Hits Back: Dancehall Emperor Sues Greensleeves in Copyright Fight
NEW YORK — Shabba Ranks spent decades watching the world dance to his music. Now the Dancehall Emperor wants control…
Mr. Gallimore Raises ‘Hell’ as Gospel Track Rockets to No. 2 on iTunes Worldwide Chart
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Mr. Gallimore is raising hell on the charts—and he insists he is only trying to save souls…
Ramona Samuels Finds Her Voice in Battle to Protect 16-Year-Old Brand, The Voicebox
KINGSTON, Jamaica — A good name can take years to build and moments to borrow. Jamaican creative entrepreneur Ramona Samuels…
‘Truth Is My Defence’: Blogger Milton Wray Fires Back at Legal Threat From Dervan Malcolm’s Widow
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Jamaican blogger Milton Wray is refusing to wave the white flag in a brewing defamation showdown with…
Six Million Ways, One Voice: How Jamaica’s Courtney Undah Privilege Echoed Through Hip-Hop
OAKLAND, California — It lasted only a few seconds, but more than three decades later, the words still refuse to…
40 Dancehall Dance Moves Everyone Should Know
Dancehall dance moves are not mere party tricks. They are a living archive of Jamaican culture, a coded language developed…
Kodak Black Walks Free as Orlando Prosecutors Decline MDMA Trafficking Charge
Prosecutors in Orange County quietly dropped the MDMA trafficking case against Kodak Black, and the reason they gave was pretty…
Lil Yachty and Karrahbooo Clash Over ‘A Safe Place’ Writing Credits
The detail that stands out most here is not that there was a dispute, it is that things apparently got…
OTF Jam Reportedly Faces Life in Prison After Testifying Against Lil Durk
The most striking detail coming out of Lil Durk’s recently concluded murder-for-hire trial may not be about Durk himself. It’s…
NBA Ben10 and OG 3Three Among Six Arrested by FBI Over Houston Shooting
The FBI's Houston office has confirmed the arrest of six individuals connected to a shooting, with rap artists NBA Ben10…
Lil Durk Found Not Guilty in Federal Quando Rondo Plot and Lul Pab Murder Case
The jury did not buy the government's case. After three days of deliberations in U.S. District Judge Michael Fitzgerald's courtroom, Lil Durk walked out of federal court on Friday acquitted…
2 Chainz Turns Another Year Older and Rap Twitter Cannot Agree on His Best Verse
Here is a fun thing to argue about on a Tuesday: which 2 Chainz verse actually goes the hardest. His birthday hit and fans are doing what they do best,…
Grammy Best Reggae Album History: Every Winner, Ranked
The Grammy Best Reggae Album history spans more than four decades, forty-plus trophies, and a staggering cast of musicians who collectively define what reggae means to the world. The Grammy…
Women in Dancehall History: From Sister Nancy to Shenseea
The history of women in dancehall is a story of persistence against structural resistance, of voices that carved space where none was offered, and of a lineage that stretches from…
Ayra Starr Opens Up on Growth, Solitude and Finding Her Voice in 66 GREENE Cover Feature
Ayra Starr has never been the type to ease into things slowly, and her 66 GREENE cover feature proves exactly that. The 24-year-old Afrobeats star shows up on the magazine's…
Lil Durk Beat the Murder-for-Hire Case—But When Is He Coming Home?
A federal jury in Los Angeles just found Lil Durk not guilty on all charges tied to the 2022 shooting that prosecutors claimed was a revenge plot targeting Quando Rondo.…
Dem Bow: How One Dancehall Riddim Built Reggaeton
The dancehall influence on reggaeton is not a matter of stylistic borrowing or vague cultural osmosis. It is the story of a single percussion loop, a two-bar drum pattern born…
Gully vs Gaza: The Feud That Split Dancehall in Two
Few rivalries in the history of popular music have cut as deeply into a nation's social fabric as the gully vs gaza conflict that consumed Jamaican dancehall from roughly 2006…
Shenseea Becomes First Female Dancehall Artist Nominated at Billboard Latin Music Awards
Shenseea just made history in a way nobody saw coming. Her single "Echo" featuring Daddy Yankee has earned her a nomination for Crossover Artist of the Year at the 2026…
Kenneth Petty Produces Accuser’s 1994 Letter in Bid to Dismiss $20M Civil Suit
The most striking detail in Kenneth Petty's latest legal move is not that he filed for dismissal, but what he filed alongside it. A 1994 notarized letter, written by Jennifer…
Kendrick Lamar’s $100M Slavery Comedy Shelved by Paramount
The most surprising thing about Kendrick Lamar's shelved film project is not that it got delayed, it's that Paramount's own head once called the script "one of the funniest and…
DJ Akademiks Says Feds Put His ‘Life in Danger’ After Lil Durk Trial Mention
The detail that caught everyone off guard was not the trial itself, but who got pulled into it. DJ Akademiks went public this week saying that federal prosecutors put his…
