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Cordell Green, the Executive Director of the Broadcasting Commission of Jamaica (BCJ), has issued a stern rebuke to those radio disc jockeys expressing disapproval about the organization’s directive prohibiting the airing of songs that promote/glorify violence, scamming, and use of the drug “Molly.”
Music producer Stephen Di Genius McGregor sparked a flurry of laughter after he expressed dismay and sarcasm at a quarrel between Jamaican Members of Parliament Everald Warmington and Anthony Hylton during a sitting of the Lower House of Parliament on Wednesday.
Jamaican artist Shenseea has been nominated for the Best Push Act at the 2022 MTV Europe Music Awards (EMAs).
Shaggy’s Best of Shaggy: The Boombastic Collection, a greatest hits compilation released in 2008, was certified gold in the United Kingdom (UK) on Friday, October 14.
Bob Marley & The Wailers’ One Love/People Get Ready was certified platinum in the United Kingdom (UK) on Friday, October 14.
Angela Lansbury, star of the long-running television series Murder, She Wrote, which sparked the name of the Chacka Demus and Pliers’ legendary Dancehall song about a woman who seemingly committed abortion, has died at the age of 96.
MSNBC’s Ari Melber has described Reggae Legend Peter Tosh’s 1976 classic Legalize It, as “one of the most iconic statements about pot prohibition policies of all time.”
The Guyanese Government and the Opposition are engaged in a quarrel over concerts headlined by Queen Of Dancehall Spice and Whap Whap deejay Skillibeng, which were paid for with State funds.
In recent months, the Jamaican duo Brick & Lace has been figuring out how to handle their sudden popularity boom.
New albums by Dancehall artist Vybz Kartel and Reggae singer Kabaka Pyramid failed to debut on the Billboard Reggae Albums chart after their first sales tracking week.
Thirteen years after the Broadcasting Commission of Jamaica (BCJ) ordered radio stations to stop playing violent musical content on the national airwaves, the State agency has issued another similar directive, this time adding the prohibition of the party drug “molly” and lotto scamming to the mix.
Dancehall artist Skeng has earned his first entries on the US Billboard charts with the Likke Miss (Remix), a collaboration with rapper Nicki Minaj.
There was a brouhaha over the weekend between Dovey Magnum and Spice in the wake of rap megastar Nicki Minaj releasing a new remix of Skeng’s Likkle Miss on Thursday, October 6 dubbed the ‘Fine Nine Remix’.
Dancehall star Mr. Lexx disagrees with the recent statements made by Ghanaian artist Stonebwoy, who claimed that Reggae music “belongs to Africa” and that “it doesn’t belong to any Caribbean society from its core.”
This year marks the 25th anniversary of Sizzla’s Black Woman & Child and the 20th anniversary of Da Real Thing, both produced by Robert “Bobby Digital” Dixon, who died in 2020.
Dancehall artist Jim Kelly is raising eyebrows in the dancehall arena for his steamy collaborative effort Bedroom featuring Bad Gyal Jade.
Reggae star Skip Marley was forced to postpone the last few legs of his Change Tour after testing positive for the coronavirus.
Dancehall star Beenie Man has shared that Masicka, Jahshii, Agent Sasco and Yaksta are among some of his favorite artists he listens to while driving.
Queen Ifrica has rebuked Sean Paul and Stonebwoy for re-affirming comments on Sunday, that Reggae and Dancehall belongs to Africans and not Jamaica, and that Jamaicans are all Africans due to the slave trade.
The man who had conned Queen of Reggae Marcia Griffiths of J$4.5 million, had told her that the money would have been for the “construction of a museum in her honor,” it has been revealed.