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Jamaican Reggae star Chronixx says Dancehall artists need to stop putting out embarrassing music, and furthermore, they should stop calling him to appear on their tracks.
In the aftermath of Foota Hype’s berating of Rastafarian artists for failing to frontally condemn the alleged shaving of the locks from 19-year-old Nzinga King’s head by a policewoman last week, Chronixx has responded, pointing out that he had made contact with the youngster’s family the day after the news broke.
Foota Hype on Tuesday afternoon, frontally took on the issue regarding the alleged shaving of the head of a young Rastafarian woman by a female police officer, whilst in the custody of the Clarendon police last week, labeling it, among other things, “a disrespectful, out of order violation”.
American rapper Lil Uzi Vert celebrated his birthday last Saturday with a shower of gifts from his celebrity girlfriend, JT from the rap duo City Girls.
Bounty Killer’s highly cheerful response to questions about what his reception will be “when he arrives in New York”, is perhaps the clearest indication yet, that the Warlord’s US visa just might have been reinstated, 10 years after it was revoked by the US Embassy in Kingston.
Reggae star Sizzla Kalonji has dropped visuals for his Crown On Your Head single, which appears on his On A High album.
Rihanna is the first entertainer from the Caribbean to surpass an estimated net worth of US$1.7b.
Reggae singer Tarrus Riley’s feature on the 2015 single Powerful has earned him a BRIT Certified Silver Award.
Bounty Killer has announced that some of the most iconic Dancehall and Reggae artists, as well as several Hip Hop legends will be featured on his upcoming album King of Kingston.
After Jamaican sprinter Megan Tapper took home the bronze medal in the women’s 100-meter hurdles on Monday at the Tokyo Olympics, she surprisingly opted to show off her rap skills with Nicki Minaj’s Moment 4 Life during a post-game interview that simply took viewers by storm.
The widely regarded King and Queen of Dancehall are both set to release new albums this Friday, August 6 and the buzz for the new releases is already building on the charts.
With Shenseea’s single Run Run playing in her head, Jamaican sprint star Elaine Thompson-Herah blazed through the finish line to win the women’s 200m Olympic race this morning.
King Of The Dancehall Beenie Man has taken umbrage to Dancehall music being repackaged under other titles and by other genres.
Blessed singer Shenseea has attracted her fair share of ‘opps’ since she entered Dancehall music. Now five years later, she’s got a major label deal and high profile management, and her new single Run Run is doing well after she made her debut appearance at one of Hip-Hop’s biggest festivals recently.
Dancehall veteran Bounty Killer is celebrating an iTunes Top 10 track more than half a decade after its original release.
The moment finally arrived last night when the ‘Country Boy’ Charly Black hit the CONCACAF Gold Cup stage to perform the tournament’s official theme song Juega with Colombian Latin Pop music duo, Cali Y El Dandee.
The Girls Dem Sugar Beenie Man has been in the UK for almost two weeks now, and the Dancehall superstar has made it clear that he was “never banned” from travelling there.
No Stress artist and comedian Wally British has taken umbrage at Jamaicans she classified as “band wagonists” whom, she said, have been tearing down the Jamaican Olympians that failed to either medal or make it to the finals of their respective events.
Several of Bounty Killer’s fans are still trying to figure out how the Warlord came to be sending “happy birthday” greetings to Jamaica’s Minister of Entertainment Olivia “Babsy” Grange, on Sunday, August 1, even though her birthday was long gone from April 27.
Dancehall celebrity Popcaan jetted off on a midnight flight to the United Kingdom on Friday and has since been in quarantine.