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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.
There’s a large number of Reggae and Dancehall albums set to drop just in time for summer.
Led by the Bad Boys of Reggae, Inner Circle, tributes have been pouring out from Reggae lovers across the world in memory of late Reggae legend Jacob “Killer” Miller, on what would have been his 69th birthday today.
Dancehall Queen Carlene Smith celebrated her birthday over the weekend. Smith, who turned 48-years-old on Saturday (May 1) was treated to a surprise birthday dinner organized by her daughter Crystal Davis.
Numbers don’t lie and that’s something Dancehall artist Bounty Killer understands and appreciates, as he showed off the impressive YouTube views his Where You Come From collab raked-in, in the space of just two days.
Dancehall producer Rohan ‘Jah Snowcone’ Fuller, who scored a number one Billboard Top 100 hit with Sean Paul’s Temperature, believes that censorship is not the answer.
Reggae singer Gyptian and his 2010 hit song Hold You are the subject of an incredibly weird TikTok challenge.
Billboard selector Boom Boom says the issue of Dancehall artists refusing to voice for certain producers and vice-versa, has worsened with time.
“Billboard Selector” Boom Boom says that while in his estimation Skillibeng is the “big name in Jamaica right now”, he is recommending, among other things, that the Crocodile Teeth deejay avoid voicing songs using the same flows over and over.
People’s National Party (PNP) Senator Damion Crawford came out in staunch defence of violent Dancehall lyrics, during an interview with Onstage host Winford Williams on Saturday night.
The Queen of Dancehall Spice celebrated her hypnotic new single, Go Down Deh featuring Reggae/Dancehall legends Sean Paul and Shaggy, with an epic Egyptian themed release party.
Amid criticism of her recent weight loss, Dancehall artist Jada Kingdom says she’s been living with bipolar depression.
Dancehall superstar Sean Paul says he has never been bothered by sentiments expressed by many Jamaicans over the decades that he was a boring stage performer, unlike his Dancehall colleagues who are known for igniting crowds with energetic dancing, prancing, and jumping.