The latest dancehall news, pop culture and stories.
As promised weeks ago, Billboard selector Boom Boom has jetted off to the United Kingdom, for his 16-show series, this amid a decision taken by the British Government to extend the COVID restrictions beyond its initial June 21 end date, to July 19.
Jamaican sprint legend Usain Bolt revealed that he and partner Kasi Bennett are now parents to twins, Saint Leo Bolt and Thunder Bolt.
The acting president of the Musicians Union of Ghana (MUSIGA), Bessa Simons, stirred up a hornet’s nest in the West African nation recently, when he said in a radio interview, that Ghanaian artists were copycatting Jamaicans and passing off Highlife music as Reggae and Dancehall.
Queen of Dancehall and Love & Hip-Hop: Atlanta star Spice says she loves Chet Hanks and had plans to remix his controversial White Boy Summer song.
Agent Sasco, Tanya Stephens, Jesse Royal, and Tifa, will again join composer and multi-instrumentalist Mikie Bennett as ambassadors and judges, for the fourth staging of the Dancehall-centric Science Genius Jamaica competition for high schools.
Controversial Opposition Senator and former Minister of Entertainment, Damion Crawford, has branded Prime Minister Andrew Holness, as a “hypocrite” for suggesting that Dancehall artists were contributing to the country’s crime rate through their lyrics which often glorify violence when Holness himself used the lyrics of the said artists to make dubplates during the last general election campaign.
UFC Fighter Leon Edwards brought the winning package to the ring in his most recent match from the moment he set foot in the arena.
Dancehall Queen Spice has made it clear that she will continue to use her platform to speak out about colorism.
Jamaican Dancehall hitmakers Spice, Shaggy, and Sean Paul appeared in arguably their best Go Down Deh performance yet after a flawless appearance on the Wendy Williams Show this morning.
Italian international footballer Moise Kean has been having a grand ‘Dancehall time’ vacationing in Jamaica, where he has from all indications immersed himself in the culture and met up with at least one of his Dancehall heroes.
Jamaican sprint sensation turned Dancehall music producer Usain Bolt has signed a lifetime partnership deal with Puma.
After Dancehall star Popcaan made his surprise cameo in the music video for Why Not by rap trio, Migos on Monday, the group interviewed with The Breakfast Club today to talk on a few topics and their link up with the Unruly Boss.
Bounty Killer and Mr. Vegas’ recent assertions that criminals had infiltrated Dancehall music, assumed roles as artists, and were giving the genre a bad name, have been buttressed by Government Senator Charles Sinclair.
Sean Paul’s wife Jodi “Jinx” Henriques, was again taken to task for making a comment which some Jamaicans on Instagram deemed as “looking down her nose at others”, a few days ago, six years after an almost-similar situation arose with Usain Bolt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z-tnHKp_Tk Jamaica’s dynamic trio, the Big S’s with Spice, Shaggy, and Sean Paul did it again, after appearing for another top-notch performance on Jimmy Kimmel Live last night.
Dancehall deejay Jahvillani today revealed the upcoming release of his debut album Dirt to Bentley. The 13-track project will be released July 9, 2021 and is a “triumphant expression of Jamaica’s youth-driven Dancehall”, according to a release from label VP Records.
Pop-dancehall recording artist Lil Hanky Panky is ecstatic that a clip of a video shoot with an unscripted cameo by a homeless man dubbed ‘Stamma’ has gone viral in only a few days.
Reggae-dancehall artist LawGiver the Kingson is feeling pumped about the early feedback to his album, Kingson from Kingston, which was released in January of this year.
Dancehall artist Vybz Kartel’s cellphone, which contained damning text and voice messages linking him to the murder of Clive ‘Lizard’ Williams, is currently being analysed by an expert for possible signs of tampering.
Isat Buchanan, the Attorney-at-law representing Vybz Kartel, has dismissed recent rumors regarding the Dancehall deejay’s supposed Christian conversion and baptism.