The latest dancehall news, pop culture and stories.
Bounty Killer says his IRAWMA Award for “Outstanding contribution to the Jamaican music industry for over 30 years”, to him is better than the much-sought-after American Grammy Award.
Members of the Dancehall fraternity are celebrating Spice and D’Angel’s burying of the hatchet over the weekend at the IRAWMA awards.
Conjugal Visit, the 2014 hit song by Dancehall stars Spice and Vybz Kartel, surpassed 100 million views on YouTube on Monday (May 8).
Former Island Records boss Chris Blackwell is among three recipients of the 2023 Polar Music Prize, an award deemed one of the most prestigious and unique music prizes in the world.
Dancehall artist Kemar Highcon, whose real name is Kemar Woodfine, was arrested in Florida on Friday (May 5) and slapped with a grand theft auto charge in the third degree.
Dancehall group T.O.K. has announced that Chi Chi Man – arguably its most popular song and for some, a Dancehall anthem – will be expunged from its performances moving forward.
Dancehall artist Spice was officially bestowed with “The Key To The Region” of Florida during a grand ceremony at the Fort Lauderdale Marriott North on Friday.
It was a full circle moment for Dancehall megastar Shaggy, who was captured in a reflective mood while waiting to perform for Marines at Fort Sill – a US Army post in Oklahoma.
Jamaican social media personality and entertainer, LA Lewis, has been locked up after the Jamaica Constabulary Force was alerted to a self-implicating video, in which Lewis breached a toll barrier at the St.
Queen of Dancehall Spice is inviting her interested female artists to be part of a forthcoming riddim that she’s producing.
Nyla Thorbourne, one-half of the duo Brick & Lace, says she’s not a “one-hit wonder.” The 39-year-old took a minute to address the matter in an Instagram reel on Wednesday (May 3), where she noted that she took offense after being placed in that category by a popular blog.
DJ Kool Herc, the Jamaican who has the distinction of being the Father and founder of Hip-Hop, will be officially inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame later this year, and honored with the Musical Influence Award.
Minister Marion Hall has announced that she will no longer preach on social media. “Blessings overflow to all Jesus followers and friends,” she said in a Facebook post yesterday.
Afrobeats superstar Davido recently dished on his unlikely friendship with Dancehall crooner Dexta Daps, revealing that Popcaan actually introduced them months before they would go on to make music together.
Reggae singer Queen Ifrica is back on Instagram after two years and eight months. The outspoken artist broke the dry spell with a throwback post, dated exactly five years ago when she was promoting her single Cease All War.
From Gregory Isaacs’ cocaine fixation to Tiger Woods’ sex addiction, it’s often been said that every celebrity has a crippling vice.
Dancehall singer Tanya Stephens and former Tourism Minister Aloun Ndombet-Assamba have taken Minister of Legal and Constitutional Affairs, Marlene Malahoo Forte to task for giving what they describe as an inadequate response to a question about the job description of Jamaica’s “new president” at a Constitutional Reform forum.
Shenseea was recently in a nostalgic mood, posting a throwback video where she hailed some Dancehall veterans in a freestyle.
Reggae legend Peter Tosh‘s Live and Dangerous: Boston 1976 album has now reached No. 4 on the Billboard Reggae Albums chart, beating its previous peak of No.
With unflinching candor, Cutty Ranks, the prolific Dancehall veteran who rose to prominence in the late 1980s, recently took fans on an exhilarating journey through his checkered past, revealing early run-ins with the law, shocking connections to some of Dancehall and Reggae’s greats, as well as the erratic nature of his rise to stardom.