Life/Style
Fashion and lifestyle news from Dancehall celebs and entertainers.
Cardi B bows out, leaving BZR WKND fans in limbo
With Cardi B ditching the BZK WKND, thousands of ticket-holding patrons are now left in limbo. However, BZR WKND organisers…
The 12 Best Sizzla Songs, Ranked
Few voices in Jamaican music burn like Sizzla Kalonji's. Born Miguel Orlando Collins in 1976 and raised on the August…
The 12 Best Bob Marley Songs, Ranked
Picking the best Bob Marley songs is like choosing a favourite room in the house you grew up in. Every…
Cardi B Pulls Out of BZR WKND Jamaica Headline Performance
Rap superstar Cardi B’s planned Kingston takeover is off. The rap superstar will no longer headline BZR WKND Jamaica on…
Southside Crip Dirt Rock Opens Up About Cooperating Against Keefe D in Tupac Murder Case
In a street culture where cooperating with law enforcement can cost you everything, Devonte "Dirt Rock" Lee is talking openly…
The 12 Best Dancehall Songs of the 2000s
The 2000s were the decade dancehall stopped knocking on the door of global pop and simply walked in. Riddims built…
The 12 Best Reggae Songs of All Time
Ask ten selectors to name the best reggae songs of all time and you will get ten different answers, a…
The 12 Best Dancehall Songs of the ’90s
The 1990s were the decade when dancehall became digital, more international and impossible to ignore. Jamaican sound systems remained at…
Ting-A-Ling Meaning: Shabba Ranks’s Dancehall Classic, Lyrics and Story Explained
The meaning of "Ting-A-Ling" is fairly simple. Shabba Ranks uses the song to celebrate dancehall and to boast about his place in it. The title copies the sound of a…
The Meaning Behind Shabba Ranks’s “Mr. Loverman”: Lyrics and Story Explained
The meaning of "Mr. Loverman" is simple. Shabba Ranks presents himself as the ultimate ladies' man. He tells a woman looking for love that she has found the right man,…
The Meaning Behind Cutty Ranks’s “Limb by Limb”: Lyrics and Story Explained
The meaning of "Limb by Limb" comes straight from the hardcore dancehall of the early 1990s. Cutty Ranks's song is a gun lyric about crushing rivals: the narrator swears to…
The Meaning Behind Terror Fabulous’s “Action”: Lyrics & Story Explained
The meaning of "Action" is simple. Terror Fabulous and Nadine Sutherland trade lines about desire, and the woman tells the man she wants results, not talk. This guide covers what…
The Meaning Behind Red Rat’s “Tight Up Skirt”: Lyrics & Story Explained
The meaning of "Tight Up Skirt" is simple. On his 1997 dancehall hit, Red Rat talks to a woman whose figure-hugging clothes overwhelm him, and he plays his reaction for…
The Meaning Behind Barrington Levy’s “Here I Come”: Lyrics & Story Explained
The meaning of "Here I Come" surprises many listeners. Barrington Levy's dancehall classic, often called "Broader Than Broadway," tells a story about a young mother who doesn't want the duties…
The Meaning Behind Barrington Levy’s “Murderer”: Lyrics and Story Explained
If you've searched for the meaning of "Murderer," the short answer is that Barrington Levy's 1984 dancehall song warns listeners about violent people who pass themselves off as respectable. Throughout…
The Meaning Behind Eek-A-Mouse’s “Wa-Do-Dem”: Lyrics and Story Explained
"Wa-Do-Dem" is a Jamaican Patois phrase. Eek-A-Mouse gave his own translation in a 1982 interview with the UK music paper Sounds. He called the phrase patois "saying 'what's the matter…
