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There have been mixed reactions to an encounter between L.A. Lewis and Jamaican Entertainment Minister Olivia “Babsy” Grange, in which she interrupted an interview that reporters were conducting with the entertainer, and instructed a security officer to remove him from what has been described as a reserved area.
On the day that Beenie Man made international headlines for Jamaicans were not enthusiastic about Prince William and his wife Kate Middleton’s visit, his Trench Town compatriots appear to have proven him wrong.
Beenie Man’s ability to maintain his relevance in Dancehall after four decades came up for discussion recently, after it was spurred by attorney-at-law and broadcast journalist Emily Shields, who is a huge supporter of Reggae and Dancehall.
Two years after Billboard discontinued its Reggae Digital Song Sales chart, the magazine announced yesterday that it has joined forces with the music festival and global Afrobeats brand Afro Nation to launch the first-ever US chart for Afrobeats Songs.
The ‘Shop Buju Banton’ fashion line will debut a new collection at a brunch and fashion show in Miami next month.
Koffee released another new single Shine yesterday (Tuesday, March 22) that will appear on her forthcoming debut album Gifted, due out this Friday.
Dancehall entertainer Silk Boss and his girlfriend, now manager Brii have provided more details surrounding their leaked sex tape, the damming voice note, and their recent falling out with ex-manager and YouTuber Terro Don.
King of the Dancehall Beenie Man has been getting much support on Twitter after he declared during an interview with Good Morning Britain, that he and his Jamaican compatriots do not want the Queen to remain Head of State of the island, and are not enthusiastic about Prince William and his wife Kate Middleton’s visit.
Cure, again! The Reggae star Jah Cure has been sentenced to six years in prison in the Netherlands for attempted manslaughter.
Shenseea‘s Alpha album has debuted on two Billboard charts. Billboard revealed on Tuesday that Alpha opened at No.
Queen of Dancehall Spice’s new track dubbed Love Triangle (Pum Pum) which emerged from her 2017 Reggae Sumfest story-telling performance has piqued the interest of Americans, many of whom initially saw the snippet and found her penmanship and delivery not only intriguing but hilarious.
The music of Dancehall star Popcaan and veteran rocksteady singer, the late Delroy Wilson is featured in the latest season of the Netflix drama Top Boy.
Shenseea’s debut album Alpha will land at No. 2 on the Billboard Reggae Albums chart tomorrow.
On Friday, March 18, the attorneys for Despacito singer Luis Fonsi responded to Dancehall label Steely & Clevie’s Fish Market/Dem Bow copyright infringement lawsuit, pleading that they “have not engaged in any type of infringement,” that “there is no actionable similarity between the works at issue,” and by and large that they “deny knowledge or information sufficient to respond” to the majority of the allegations.
Shenseea has broken her silence on the copyright infringement lawsuit filed against her and Interscope Records over the use of elements from Denise Belfon and Pupa Nas-T’s Work (1999) in her new Megan Thee Stallion collab Lick.
As if he wasn’t under enough pressure from the feud with his ex-artist Silk Boss, Dancehall producer and YouTuber Terro Don seems to have just gained a new enemy in Skillibeng.
Dancehall superstar Sean Paul says he is not in favor of some of the lyrical content in some of Shenseea’s songs, which go against the grain of Jamaican music culture, and has had a dialogue with her on the matter.
Reggae and Dancehall artists Yaksta and BLVK H3RO were lauded by Prime Minister Andrew Holness at last week’s Budget Debate in Parliament.
The highly anticipated album Simma from King of Dancehall, Beenie Man, is expected for release this year.
Dancehall megastar Shaggy got a niggling, unaddressed issue off his chest, music-wise—one so bothersome, that he uncharacteristically uttered the F-bomb, not once, but twice, in his newly-released track dubbed Mi Nuh Know, to the amusement and “shock” of some of his peers.