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Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr, after meeting with Afrobeats creators in Ghana, says the Grammys were considering adding an award category for Afrobeats and that he “had been meeting with players in the genre to explore the possibility.”
Ziggy Marley has joined the call for teenagers to, at all costs, avoid being addicted to their smartphones, a problem which has mushroomed globally, over least the last decade.
Ghananian Reggae/Dancehall artist Stonebwoy is being taken to task, mainly by Nigerians, after he claimed in an interview that Reggae music “belongs to Africans” and not Jamaica, and that Afrobeats came out of Ghananian Highlife music.
Sweden-based Jamaican dancehall artist Short Ghad is relishing his new-found role as a trailblazer on the dancehall scene in the European country.
Foota Hype has expressed delight at Sizzla Kalonji’s performance at the “Good Times” retro party at Mas Camp on Saturday night, in which the firebrand Reggae/Dancehall artiste denounced homosexual acts and reaffirmed that he will never apologize to the LGBTQ community.
Dye Dye singer Macka Diamond believes that rival interests in the world of dancehall are perpetrating a malicious campaign of leaking her OnlyFans videos online.
Skeng’s onstage stunt, in which he took a guitar from a musician during a performance in Trinidad and smashed it Jimi Hendrix-style, has left tongues wagging.
Platinum-selling music producer Jon FX has attributed his successes, including his net worth, to the techniques he learned as a youngster from Jamaican music producers, whom he describes as “the masters.”
Drawing for Peter Tosh’s hit song Burial, from the Reggae icon’s 1976 album Legalize It, Bounty Killer insisted that he would not be intimidated by persons who are still berating him for not attending Merciless’ funeral and for the “drug addict” comments he made about the late deejay.
Vybz Kartel, the King of Dancehall who is serving a life sentence for murdering an associate, is engaged to Turkish social worker Sidem Ozturk.
Award-winning music producer JonFX says new-day Jamaican Dancehall songs are failing to rack up numbers on streaming platforms such as Spotify, as the majority are improperly produced, and lack “the basic rudiments of music structure”, particularly melodies.
Before Lenoi Bentley would produce songs for Masicka’s Billboard-charting 438 album, he played music in church as the band’s drummer and made beats as a hobby to entertain schoolmates.
Reggae Revival artist Protoje says even though ganja-smoking helps in the creative process for his music, he tries not to be totally dependent on the herb, nor be “high all the time.”
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.
Nicki Minaj has slammed YouTube after the platform placed an age-restriction on the video for her Likkle Miss Remix with Dancehall star Skeng.
Dancehall Professor Donna P. Hope has weighed in on the series of incidences that have led to Montego Bay’s Silk Boss becoming a household name in Jamaica and his latest song, Sorry, now YouTube’s most streamed video in Jamaica over the last three weeks.
The Universe Boss Chris Gayle is insisting that it is music, which will be his number one priority going forward, seemingly not cricket as many expected.
Shane O has weighed in on his reputation as one of the most underrated Dancehall artists in Jamaica.
Beenie Man is among several artists who will be voicing Dancehall songs about Mathematics, aimed at helping primary school students to master their multiplication tables.
Mavado gave new-gen artist Skeng the stamp of approval when they met up in Trinidad over the weekend for their performances at the Life the Concert.