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Bob Marley’s Legend album is again creating waves, 37 years after it was released, this time becoming the second album to hit 13 years on the Billboard 200 chart, following in the footsteps of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon, according to Forbes Magazine.
Shaggy, the Grammy Award-winning hitmaker who Dancehall artist Spice credits with being a mediator between herself and VP Records, says all he did was create a win-win situation for the parties involved.
Mr. Lexx has doubled down on his stance that DJ Khaled has been using the wrong methodology to incorporate Dancehall music in his productions, and says what he should do is establish an arm of his We The Best label in Jamaica, or otherwise his bid to get Dancehall hits under his belt will remain an elusive dream.
With his signature pose identifiable globally, Usain Bolt is no stranger to being immortalized in various formats.
Billboard Selector Boom Boom has announced that Vendetta Boss, Alkaline, will be among the stars at the forefront of his next riddim, which he has titled 10:40.
Heads High deejay Mr. Vegas, has rubbished statements made by Senator Damion Crawford that the government was being “allowed to paint a negative image of Dancehall”, arguing to the contrary that artists themselves were already tainting the industry based on the number of superstars that have been convicted for crimes and thrown behind prison bars.
Like many Dancehall hitmakers before them, Mavado and Tommy Lee Sparta’s beef has boiled down to one word – unity.
Sizzla has weighed in on the ongoing Ganja legalization debate with his recently released single titled Free Up.
As told by dancehall deejay Agent Sasco, Reggae artist Buju Banton is the one who taught him how to hold a microphone correctly.
Dancehall producer Romeich Major is in mourning following the recent passing of his older brother, Steve Major.
A street light post in disrepair along the Mandela Highway in the direction of the Portmore exit caught the attention of dancehall artist General Degree.
Pioneering deejay Big Youth, says his acceptance of the Rastafari faith and sporting of dreadlocks in the early 1970s, was what inspired the Reggae musicians of his era, such as The Wailers and Dancehall legend U-Roy to start locking their hair and penning Rasta lyrics.
Amid concerns that Jamaica’s entertainment industry will not bounce back until next year, Billboard Selector Boom Boom says he will be flying to the UK as soon as its borders are fully reopened and will not return to his home country anytime soon.
Sean Paul’s wife Jodi ‘Jinx’ Henriques and her sister Traci Stewart are big fans of Dancehall artist Tanya Stephens.
Dancehall artist Sean Paul says American pop singer Beyoncé owes him a solid, so he may ask her to collaborate with him on another song.
Fresh off the success of their hit Where You Come From, American record producer DJ Khaled shared with Bounty Killer that he should reach out to Jamaica’s Prime Minister to get his Jamaica birth certificate.
Gentleman and Alborosie had a candid conversation that saw them answering questions about Jamaica, reggae music, road rage, and the Grammys earlier today.
Vintage Dancehall icon Big Youth says he had to behave like a “real bad man” in order to get whatever artist royalties were due to him for record sales of his 1972 mega hit S-90 Skank.
Weeks after Dancehall artists jeered Prime Minister Andrew Holness after he promised cash allocations to “entertainers” for COVID-19 lockdown relief, Opposition Senator Damion Crawford, says the leader seems to have only “dangled a carrot” to get the entertainers to stop saying bad things about him, as his assurances of a bailout still remain unfulfilled.
Nigerian singer Burna Boy just scored a coveted Gold certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for his 2018 release, Ye.