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Making Good Music Is Not Enough: How Dancehall Artists Can Boost Music Streams
There are two common cries of Jamaican recording artistes: they don't get enough support from radio and street disc jocks,…
Top Viral Moments In Dancehall In 2020
The year 2020 culminates with a portfolio which proves there was never a dull online moment. With millions of people…
The Six G’s Of Dancehall
Dancehall music is governed by different modes of performance, ritual and spectacle. Music industry insiders often point to the lyrical…
Damage Musiq Has Breakout 2020 With 41 million Streams Of Tommy Lee Sparta’s ‘Blessings’
The year 2020 has been a breakout one for Damage Musiq Recording label and its chief executive officer Dwayne 'Damage…
Skillibeng: ‘The Prodigy’ Skilltape Album Review
The ‘Fresh Prince’ is here with his brain-altering new album, ‘The Prodigy’ Skilltape. The wretched year of the pandemic has…
Slack Songs Of Mento, Ska And Rocksteady
Since its development almost five decades ago, Dancehall has gotten a bad rap for being too sexually explicit. Eighties toasters…
Tommy Lee Sparta Arrested Again: A Timeline Of The Dancehall Star’s Run-Ins With The Law
Dancehall star Tommy Lee Sparta’s myriad of woes with the Constabulary in Jamaica has been well documented over the last…
Do “Gimmicks Artists” Belong?
Dancehall and Reggae both began out of a love for music culture, it wasn’t until later on in the life…
One On One With Slim Knight
DancehallMag: How long have you been in music and how did you start? Slim Knight: At first I started doing music for fun when I was in 11th grade in…
Korexx Gets Positive On ‘Still A Win’
Dancehall deejay Korexx is making a trod on the positive side with his latest single Still a Win. The song, featured on the Black Tears rhythm from Donsome Records, talks…
Agent Sasco On His New EP, The Success Of ‘Hope River’ & Growth Of His Music
As a titan in Reggae and Dancehall music, Agent Sasco is a prime example of the transformation and growth that is possible for the genre’s most raw and gritty. His…
Reggae/Dancehall: Jamaica’s Contemporary Mythology – An Essay
Concerning The Real and True Importance of Stories & Myth Turn the eye of your mind toward the beginning of the human being’s residency on Planet Earth. Before we came…
Garrison Hawk Returns To Roots With ‘The Adrenaline’ Album
After years of experimenting with alternative rock, pop and progressive rock, US-based artiste Garrison Hawk is banking his latest musical efforts on Dream for Life which was released on the Marathon…
Tanya Lawson On Streams, The Future Of Dancehall And How Audiomack Is Helping
Audiomack is moving music forward in Jamaica, we spoke to Tanya Lawson about how. There have been discussions within the Jamaican music space recently, about the validity of a genre…
Young Garvey Pushes ‘Slow Whine’
Recording artiste Young Garvey is shifting gears and appealing even more to his female fan base as gets sensual in his latest single, Slow Whine, produced by Bright Beam Music.…
“Mi Nav Nuh Vagina Fi Waste,” Tifa Talks Celibacy, Dating And New Music
It’s been one year and six months since dancehall artiste Tifa had sex, and since her celibacy hit headlines, her DMs have been rather...eggplanty. “It's the most I’ve received d--k…
